Did anyone else even know this had been thought of?
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Apparently, the network gave the demo version the thumbs down. With the one caveat (everyone here knows by now that the ingenue falling in love with the tortured, dreamy vampire is my least favorite part of the genre) I was a big Buffy fan. I thought it was an interesting show with real ideas in it. I would have watched this, just like I watch The Clone Wars now. C’mon, I know I’m not the only nerd here. My only quibble is I felt they kind of went overboard on the magical solutions near the end of the series run. In the director’s commentary of Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson talks about how he never particularly cared for the way magic is handled in the movies, and I think we sort of park our cars in the same garage on that one, because to me it’s often a lot of Deus ex machina to tie up loose ends in the narratives. Telepathy in especial sets off a warning bell in my head; this is where the writing team is going to openly propagandize. That being said, I thought "Earshot" was one of the best episodes. I remember really disliking Counselor Troi when Star Trek TNG debuted. I warmed to her later, but in the beginning I only thought about how much dramatic potential this empath was killing by her very presence. Why develop any investigative skills at all when you have someone there who knows exactly what the alien life form is thinking? Mr. Spock had a limited telepathic ability, but in order to use it, he generally had to make physical contact, and risk whatever being he was mind-melding taking over the link, or just pushing him out of his mode with a flood of wet emotions. I don’t like too much unearned power, even in fantasy epics. Even a character like Harry Potter, who was born with magical aptitude, had to work to develop the discipline.
JAMES
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Apparently, the network gave the demo version the thumbs down. With the one caveat (everyone here knows by now that the ingenue falling in love with the tortured, dreamy vampire is my least favorite part of the genre) I was a big Buffy fan. I thought it was an interesting show with real ideas in it. I would have watched this, just like I watch The Clone Wars now. C’mon, I know I’m not the only nerd here. My only quibble is I felt they kind of went overboard on the magical solutions near the end of the series run. In the director’s commentary of Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson talks about how he never particularly cared for the way magic is handled in the movies, and I think we sort of park our cars in the same garage on that one, because to me it’s often a lot of Deus ex machina to tie up loose ends in the narratives. Telepathy in especial sets off a warning bell in my head; this is where the writing team is going to openly propagandize. That being said, I thought "Earshot" was one of the best episodes. I remember really disliking Counselor Troi when Star Trek TNG debuted. I warmed to her later, but in the beginning I only thought about how much dramatic potential this empath was killing by her very presence. Why develop any investigative skills at all when you have someone there who knows exactly what the alien life form is thinking? Mr. Spock had a limited telepathic ability, but in order to use it, he generally had to make physical contact, and risk whatever being he was mind-melding taking over the link, or just pushing him out of his mode with a flood of wet emotions. I don’t like too much unearned power, even in fantasy epics. Even a character like Harry Potter, who was born with magical aptitude, had to work to develop the discipline.
JAMES
