Re: How about "The door un-dilated" moments?

"John Schilling" <schillin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:35:03 GMT, djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt)
wrote:



Compare the (radio? TV? Heinlein doesn't specify) serial _Scourge
of the Spaceways,_ which Roger Stone has been writing (all by
himself) for years and e-mailing each episode off to New York to be
produced. He gets tired of it; Hazel offers to take it over and
kill the hero off; she kills off the hero in four or five
episodes, coinciding with the end of the contract. Then later on
she is asked why she picked it up again: "Because they waved too
much money under my nose." And when she catches an episode on
Martian TV, months later, she notes that they've rewritten
everything as usual but she can still recognize most of the plot
and some of the dialogue.

Really. *One* scriptwriter, sending in episodes from another
planet, to be rewritten by the staffers in New York? Why did the
network offer Hazel a new contract; why didn't they just fire her
and write it themselves?

Because the Stone name has value to the target audience for a
_Scourge of the Spaceways_ revival, I suspect. Rather like, e.g.,
Arthur C Clarke's name has value to the target audience for a
"Rama" sequel, even if it's cheaper to just buy the IP and hire
Gentry Lee alone to write the damn thing.

In that case there's no need for any Stones to write the thing; they just
need to be paid for the use of their name. Sort of like the Rama sequels,
actually.


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