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Did you discover the books because of the TV Show?
Mira:
--- Quote from: Tribblechomper on August 17, 2007, 02:16:25 AM ---This is, of course, par for the course regarding Sci-Fi's mind-numbing skill in defecating on its own dinner plate.
If something works, it has (if they're lucky) one half-season in which to be judged as worth keeping...sometimes, they have a show that inspires loyalty of a size not seen since Trek (Farscape/Stargate SG-1, anyone?), and they STILL cancel it!!!
Why? Because several sources have said that Sci-Fi's CEO positively HATES science-fiction; the decision to put wrestling on the Sci-Fi Channel was ranking right up there with offering Roseanne Barr a singing gig! Wrestling and Sci-Fi go together like a peanut-butter and battery-acid sandwich; truly, the demented vision of someone who hasn't the intellect of a lobotomized coconut!
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I had heard that too, may I ask what in the hell is a CEO who hates science fiction doing running a scifi channe? Or was it part of some packaged deal?
Tribblechomper:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 17, 2007, 02:55:37 AM --- I had heard that too, may I ask what in the hell is a CEO who hates science fiction doing running a scifi channe? Or was it part of some packaged deal?
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Ever hear of power being a time-tested intoxicant?
When you have a chance to be king of the hill, does it really matter where your hill is?
Besides, the CEO is some woman named Hammer, I believe; maybe her heart was broken by some nerd-stereotype, and this is revenge?
Orissa:
I saw the show first. I don't even think I caught the first episodes. But I liked it right away. So, of course, I wasn't surprised when Sci-Fi canceled it. Networks always seem to cancel the shows I immediately like. Never fails. *sigh*
Are you serious about the CEO hating science fiction?! How stupid is that?!?! Sounds like a recipie for disaster to me.
The books are different. Sometimes that doesn't work too well, but this seem to fit in either setting. I do get crossed up sometimes when I'm reading and it isn't the same as the tv show. But that's getting easier. :)
Wicked Spell:
--- Quote from: fivestyle on August 06, 2007, 08:59:22 PM ---I mentioned this to a friend of mine who is a big Buffy fanatic and he went out and bought hte audio book to Storm Front and let me listen to it. I liked it so much that I started buying the books to read 2 at a time
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...and I, I was that friend. And hey, I'm not a Buffy fanatic, that implies like cons, and cosplay, and stalking the actresses at said cons. I'm a Willow fanatic. That's an entirely DIFFERENT kind'a stalkin'. ;)
And I never got into the show, I read Storm Front and the next 2 right before the series premired - the series was a bit of a let down. Bob was the only change I enjoyed.
Richelle Mead:
I MUST have told this story, but it's been a while. When I started writing urban fantasy, I had no clue it was a flourishing genre. The only person I knew about was LKH. I was at a writing con one summer, and this editor said, "You've got to know your audience. Maybe you think you're writing like LKH, but really, you're writing like Jim Butcher."
I went home and wondered, "Who is this guy?" So I looked him up and was like, "Holy crap! What have I been missing?" The punchline is that when I wrote the query that got my agent, I had a line like, "This will appeal to fans of Jim Butcher..." :P
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