Re: MOONLIGHT - pilot encore 12/21

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:36:33 -0500, pkj0891@xxxxxxx wrote:

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:23:54 -0500, Merrick Baldelli
<mbaldelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:55:20 -0600, "Ken from Chicago"
<kwicker1b_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <476dbf7d$0$47119$892e7fe2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ANIM8Rfsk@xxxxxxx wrote:

For some reason this got flagged as 'new' so there was a Moonlight
waiting for me this morning.

'twas the pilot.

Boy howdy, I'd forgotten how truly dreadful this was. Why exactly did
we bother to watch episode 2?

Glutton for punishment?

see: Bionic Woman

--
R.I.P. Bionic Woman:
The latest reason the WGA should revoke Laeta Kalogridis's union card,
or shut their doors in shame.

See ANDROMEDA--including the horrid, even by the series' own standard, 5th
season.

See Earth: Final Conflict if you want to see something that
truly made all its *** up as it went along.

I'm glad someone else said this. It was the first show I thought of,
but I didn't want to bring it up for zillionth time. I figured I was
the only one who still remembered.

ITA. Also, in Andromeda's defense, the deal between all of its
Canadian funders (the Can-West/Fireworks/Global mess) was in the
process of collapsing during the fourth season, leaving US partner
Tribune and the creative team in the lurch. Consequently, the
showrunners tried to tie everything up waaaaaay too fast at the end of
s4 *because* they didn't know if they were going to have an s5 -- and
then to come up with some way to explain the too-neat deus ex machina
that they came up with at the end of s4 once they finally got s5.

The showrunners on EFC clearly didn't know what the *** they were
doing -- five years, five incompatible premises, with only the first
one not sucking (and that's only because they plagiarized "V" for the
first year). Andromeda, even with all of the creative turmoil
surrounding first the departure of original showrunner Robert Hewitt
Wolfe and then the departure of actor Brent Staite, who couldn't
handle the makeup anymore, then actor Keith Hamilton Cobb (bad actor,
important character, character importance trumps actor badness) when
his head got too big for his ass, it clearly stayed with something
approximating the original story premise (ie: Buck Rogers in the 47th
Century goes to the 50th Century and, oh yeah, Twiki is his ship and
in her humanoid form she looks like a hot Filipino chick.)

Oh yeah, and then in s5, the show had to cope with its title character
inarguably justified choice to go on her maternity leave for
two-thirds of the season, necessitating spending story time on
establishing the new character, Doyle.

Add all that up and *then* if you read RHW's short-story expression of
what he had had planned as the original story points for the series
and, y'know, I think the show got as close to RHW's vision as they
could under all of the circumstances, the *least* damaging of which,
in retrospect, was the departure of RHW himself. The writers that
remained from his stable in s4 and s5 were clearly steering the show
in as close a direction to his playbook as they possibly could under
the studio's desire to have more self-contained, action-oriented
stories, but heck, Wolfe's endgame concept was sooooo Meta that it's a
freakin' accomplishment that the show got as close as they did while
having to deal with so many cast issues, which, ironically, forced
them to be far more serialized after RHW left than I think the studio
wanted it to be.

Anyway, IMO, you've got apples and oranges comparing Andromeda and
Flash on the one hand -- the former a decent but not great apple and
the latter a rancid apple -- with Earth: Final Conflict, an orange so
dead, so moldly, so disgusting that not even Pushing Daisies' Ned
would ever have been able to bring it back to life.

-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
.

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