Tube Bits For 08/16/07
By JP Frantz |
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 at
12:03 am
- In a move surprising to no one, Painkiller Jane received the axe from Sci Fi. I was never interested in it, did anyone else watch it?
- Phantom Reflections suggests the reason The Dresden Files and Painkiller Jane failed was because they were adaptations of books, and doomed to disappoint the built-in fans, thus leading to poor ratings. He also suggests that there can never be a successful adaptation of a book to TV/film. I’m not ready to go that far, as The Lord Of The Rings shows it can be done for film. But I’m not ready to trust the wizards at Sci Fi with any adaptations. You have to actually like SF to be able to adapt properly.
- The Daily POP has a nice article on Dr. Who, reminiscing about the good Doctor’s 45 year run(!) on TV. And for good measure, he as four YouTube links to a 1992 documentary of Dr. Who, called Resistance is Useless.
- There’s a new Video On Demand channel on the block, and its all about SF&F. Called Illusion, it debuts in October and promises to have over 300 programming hours of TV when launched. I’ll be interested to see the lineup and if Comcast will carry it.
- From SFX, Brannon Braga finally admits the last episode of Enterprise sucked rocks. Well, it didn’t fit ‘creatively’ with the rest of the season. I think the whole show didn’t fit ‘creatively’ with the rest of Trek, but that’s just me.
- And finally, a little Cpt. Picard humor for you, from YouTube. Feast your eyes on the awesomeness that is The Picard Video. Who knew he could dance?
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I don’t know about Painkiller Jane, but Sci-fi changed too many elements from the Dresden books. Then they stupidly ran the episodes out of order.
Painkiller Jane sucked a little bit less once you got over the horrible pilot. Then again, sucking less than the pilot is still far from being a compliment.
Cross777, for The Dresden Files there were only two episodes that were similar to the books, so it’s hard to say they ran the whole series out of order. They only ran one episode out of order. Problem was, it was the pilot, which they decided to stick somewhere mid-season.
They also, which was worse, didn’t bother changing any of the various thing they changed between the pilot and the rest of the series, so watching the pilot episode was a partially surreal experience, and I kept expecting for a reveal about how Dresden was moved to some parallel universe, or it’s a dream, or whatever. Terrible move on their part.
I don’t fault them for changing the series a lot from the books, though. I believe the TV version of Bob was more fitting for a TV adaptation. And in the books there are about two large intertwined plot lines per book, something that’s very hard to do in a 40 minutes show.
What they did with Bianca, though, that was just creepy.
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