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myfirstkitchen plugged the first part a couple of weeks ago, and sure it was good, but this week's closer was even better. The villain was basically the Black Guardian done right, the moral was 'hey kids, your best friend? They'll screw you over if the price is right, you know', and even the slightly bolted-on parents of SJ's kid sidekick got to do something vaguely interesting for once. And all this in a kids' show whose budget looks to be more like oldskool Who's than the new series'!
In other geek TV news: is everyone aware of the forthcoming Joss Whedon/Eliza Dusku reunion? On a show whose concept sounds distinctly Grant Morrison? Of course, it'll have to wait until the US writers' strike is done. Now, I've been thinking about this strike. There's already been discussion on the comics sites of whether it will lead to more film and TV writers adding a comics string to their bow (consensus: probably not). But given the dollar's current status as the nancy boy of international currencies, wouldn't it make more sense for the writers to get work overseas? Right now, doing one Pot Noodle ad would probably make you a dollar millionaire. So get an episode on a big British TV show, and you're laughing. Now, consider how many British TV shows are run by people who've come up in the shadow of USTV - and it's an understandable attitude, even if I don't always agree with their choice of shows to idolise. They'd feel they were getting bargains, wouldn't they?
I'm ambivalent about whether this would be a good thing - it could be a real kick in the face for a lot of British writers who are just getting a foot in the door, like the better Who contributors. But is there any particular reason for it not to happen?
(Of course, I'm also ambivalent about the whole dollar situation. Yes, obviously there are many major ways in which it is a bad thing that an appalling president and an uncontrolled corporate class have beggared the US and according to the IMF, left bloody China as the main stabilizing force in international economics, thus ending the centuries in which economic power and social liberty have tended to advance hand in hand. But, on the other hand - cheap stuff! The exchange rate makes the new Jason Webley album a bargain. And when I found that Gosh can't get League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier after all (as a result of DC political p1ssing contests of which Alan Moore himself said "it could be an almost unbelievable pettiness and malice that was behind this, or it could be an equally unbelievable incompetence. Or it could be some heady and dizzying blend of the two") - well, it turns out that even with shipping it's cheaper to go via US Amazon anyway, so I can't be too irate.
myfirstkitchen plugged the first part a couple of weeks ago, and sure it was good, but this week's closer was even better. The villain was basically the Black Guardian done right, the moral was 'hey kids, your best friend? They'll screw you over if the price is right, you know', and even the slightly bolted-on parents of SJ's kid sidekick got to do something vaguely interesting for once. And all this in a kids' show whose budget looks to be more like oldskool Who's than the new series'! In other geek TV news: is everyone aware of the forthcoming Joss Whedon/Eliza Dusku reunion? On a show whose concept sounds distinctly Grant Morrison? Of course, it'll have to wait until the US writers' strike is done. Now, I've been thinking about this strike. There's already been discussion on the comics sites of whether it will lead to more film and TV writers adding a comics string to their bow (consensus: probably not). But given the dollar's current status as the nancy boy of international currencies, wouldn't it make more sense for the writers to get work overseas? Right now, doing one Pot Noodle ad would probably make you a dollar millionaire. So get an episode on a big British TV show, and you're laughing. Now, consider how many British TV shows are run by people who've come up in the shadow of USTV - and it's an understandable attitude, even if I don't always agree with their choice of shows to idolise. They'd feel they were getting bargains, wouldn't they?
I'm ambivalent about whether this would be a good thing - it could be a real kick in the face for a lot of British writers who are just getting a foot in the door, like the better Who contributors. But is there any particular reason for it not to happen?
(Of course, I'm also ambivalent about the whole dollar situation. Yes, obviously there are many major ways in which it is a bad thing that an appalling president and an uncontrolled corporate class have beggared the US and according to the IMF, left bloody China as the main stabilizing force in international economics, thus ending the centuries in which economic power and social liberty have tended to advance hand in hand. But, on the other hand - cheap stuff! The exchange rate makes the new Jason Webley album a bargain. And when I found that Gosh can't get League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier after all (as a result of DC political p1ssing contests of which Alan Moore himself said "it could be an almost unbelievable pettiness and malice that was behind this, or it could be an equally unbelievable incompetence. Or it could be some heady and dizzying blend of the two") - well, it turns out that even with shipping it's cheaper to go via US Amazon anyway, so I can't be too irate.
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Date: 2007-11-16 08:04 am (UTC)Would you care to share the reasoning behind your capital move? Or was the sterling/dollar aspect of it incidental to whatever it was you were actually doing?
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Date: 2007-11-16 08:06 am (UTC)Media Guardian coverage suggests that, not so much with successes like Heroes but with the new season's underperforming launches, the studios will welcome this opportunity to axe a load of shows that failed to live up to the hype, no questions asked.
I'm only two episodes in to Heroes s2; I do want to watch the rest, clearly, but fear that my hopes for Maya to die real soon will be frustrated. I'm sure it's one show which will be back post-strike, though.
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Date: 2007-11-15 05:28 pm (UTC)Have you actually asked any shop staff in a "hush hush whisper whisper Lost Girls" kind of way? Or are you happy to go the Amazon route anyway? Rachel just went to Dave's in Brighton to ask about it, and was initially told "Oh, no, UK shops can't sell it". But she persisted with "Yeah, but I've heard that some shops might be selling it anyway", at which point she was told to give her name and address at the counter (so she just added it to my usual standing order)...
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Date: 2007-11-16 08:11 am (UTC)"unfortunately, that we will not be selling League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier in any capacity, our sincere apologies to those of you to whom we indicated otherwise."
And I'd heard from a friend at another shop that circumventing the ban was proving much harder than anticipated.
Given the weak dollar, I'm not that annoyed at the idea of going via amazon.com - of course, if they cancel my order, as they did with Lost Girls, I may change my tune and start heading around the London shops asking for 'the special stuff'.
(I don't actually have Lost Girls yet - I'm waiting for the promised UK edition in January, so it'd better bloody happen)
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