Well people at work don’t tend to do things at lunchtime as a team. So on my wanderings I managed to find Farnham Library and was pleased to find they had quite a large graphic novel selection. Perfect lunchtime distraction! And free! Between going there on rainy days and reading in the park on the sunny days, I should be fine. And I should be able to keep up with my reading now that my commute time is a grand total of 12 minutes per day. That’s barely enough time to start a sudoku!
I watched the Global Frequency pilot last night and I must say it was very, very good. And very, very disappointing that it’ll probably never be shown on TV. Not just for the reason it was canned in the first place, i.e. change of studio exec, but also due to the nature of the public support it’s currently getting. Sure, there are thousands of fanboys jumping up and down on the internet saying they’ve downloaded it, watched it, loved it and are campaigning for it’s release. However that’s part of the problem. Can you imagine a big TV studio going public with “Tell you what, so many people who have infringed our copyright want us to release the pilot and continue making episodes. So we said yeah! We love our pirate movie downloading demographic and they ought to get a show they love!” It’s just not going to happen, which is a real shame. In the meantime, let me know if anyone wants to see it and I’m sure someone, somewhere, entirely unconnected to me will burn a VCD (or whatever your preference) of it.
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I wouldn’t count GF out just yet– there’s more to it for the WB than they “infringed our copyright” crybabying.
After all, since the WB consigned the pilot to the proverbial circular file and never intended to profit from it, the BitTorrenting of the pilot is more akin to going through someone’s garbage than pirating a movie.
But yeah, it’ll be quite a struggle to wrestle the WB to the ground on this one. That’s why this process is so revolutionary– for once, we tell TV execs what we want instead of them deciding for us. And if you know any tv execs, you know that’s probably a very, very good thing.
The problem isn’t the fanboys. The fanboys are driving profits [especially the foreign ones who are flocking to GF]. The problem is the fanboys have outgrown the distribution system that feeds them crap like ’7th Heaven’.
But I’m glad to see that another highly-intelligent pop-culture savant is on the GF.
Regards,
Assistant/Atlas
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