“What are we doing?”
–> You are creating worlds.

blah blah writer’s rant
–> I think in Sci-Fi’s case it’s that the producers are far more interested in making a quick buck of a popular name/idea than anything else. They like to put a lot of random sex into things that otherwise wouldn’t have any because it really sells to their demographic, and to seriously change around a story. Sometimes, this works – look at the new Battlestar Galactica, which is a really fantastic series, much better than the original, with tight, edgy storylines, great writing, and engaging characters.

Other times, the producers just throw some hack writer who essentially writes bad fanfiction who also knows jack about the source material at a project and says “Hey can you just throw something together so we can make a quick few bucks off it?”

As a longtime watcher of the SciFi channel, that script doesn’t surprise me at all. Just look at what they did to Earthsea – if you know anything about the source material, it’s obvious that they murdered it in the face and ruined everything the original books were about. The worst bit about that is that Hayao Miyazaki’s equally inaccurate but far better written and produced version of Earthsea cannot come to the US becuase SciFi now owns the rights because of that piece of garbage.

… sorry. rambling. about nothing. again. oops. >>;

I end with a quote. which while not necessarily relevant to this particularly, seems… relevant otherwise…?

“You wish for something, you’ve wanted it for years, and you’re sure you want it, as long as you know you can’t have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.” ~ Michael Ende.

Dunno. Read it the other day while looking for something else and thought of this project. I uh… am sorry for the random irrelevant rambliness. which is probably inaccurate on a number of points…?

Razor was brilliance. So much brilliance ^___^ and now I’m all twitching about season four. It needs to hurry up and get here I MUST KNOW WHO THE LAST CYLON IS arrgh.

(it’s actually Atrus! and that will be the plot twist ending at the end of the Myst film.)

No, it definetly has some problems with cohesive direction, mostly becuase unlike, say, Babylon 5 (also an excellent show) the outline for the plot arc was not written in advance and rather made up as they went along (other than the “Well Earth is there, somewhere… and also robots!”) This means that there’s some very strange things that go on which are never resolved as they go “Actually that uh, didn’t happen” and other times they do some massive shark-vaulting – Tigh, anyone? *

And I derail the topic again. Yay!

*seriously, for those who know what I’m talking about without spoiling anything, where DID that come from?

yea, i heart rumors of a Myst series on sci-fi. and at the same moment, my dreams were crushed on hearing the news that it was canceled. after hearing news of these…monkeys… lets just say i feel better now. But all you guys need to remember is that they didn’t get a letter from Atrus! Oh yea, brownie points!!!

yea, i don’t think Atrus would want strange mutant monkeys running around his ages!