Article View: aus.sf
Article #2143Re: February sweeps and the continuing ghettoization of scifi
From: Jim G.
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:33
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:33
15 lines
2920 bytes
2920 bytes
Jonathan Wilson sent the following on Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:05:12 +0800: > > care either way. Just be done with it and move on to the non-soapy > > stuff. Ideally, I'd like to see Juliet in on the secret once and for > I have seen far too many potentially good TV series ruined when the > producers started adding too much "soap" and not enough hard drama or > action (Jericho being one example I can think of) Soap is easy. Soap is padding. Soap is easy padding. Anyone who can string together nouns and verbs can write soap. That's why it's so common. But common isn't necessarily good, and padding is almost always bad. -- Jim G. | A fan of the good and the bad, but not the mediocre "Good evening. I'm a lizard woman from the dawn of time, and this is my wife." -- Madame Vastra, DOCTOR WHO
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<68s9j8tsirjrmk2v40f9h30ovjh4b6d03h@4ax.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g1ni60692wig.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.103.MISMATCH!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.108.MISMATCH!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.130.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<kg9bnk$3p2$1@news.mixmin.net> <barmar-948DB1.00000823022013@news.eternal-september.org> <drache-8325C2.12581423022013@news.eternal-september.org> <t68ni8hsajimogggqr43hnvrq0sskej3sd@4ax.com> <nbnni81f91f3f5ba5hh2h3aut1pul0paal@4ax.com> <taesi8dmaqeig8cl7rkn2r6lcq9d1n2o13@4ax.com> <rd6ti85c81ooru46tdjslns3858b79ejvb@4ax.com> <8h7vi85mqef351o2v3dfak0gmp93h1solh@4ax.com> <51300cdc$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 9461a05b3c,9fe389e942966c53
X-Google-Attributes: gid9461a05b3c,public,usenet
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Received: by 10.180.98.102 with SMTP id eh6mr3023471wib.7.1363060466525;
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:54:26 -0700 (PDT)
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g1ni60692wig.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.103.MISMATCH!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.108.MISMATCH!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.130.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Jim G. <jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid>
Newsgroups: aus.sf,rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: February sweeps and the continuing ghettoization of scifi
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:33:24 -0600
Organization: Good in theory, but not in practice
Lines: 15
Message-ID: <68s9j8tsirjrmk2v40f9h30ovjh4b6d03h@4ax.com>
References: <kg9bnk$3p2$1@news.mixmin.net> <barmar-948DB1.00000823022013@news.eternal-september.org> <drache-8325C2.12581423022013@news.eternal-september.org> <t68ni8hsajimogggqr43hnvrq0sskej3sd@4ax.com> <nbnni81f91f3f5ba5hh2h3aut1pul0paal@4ax.com> <taesi8dmaqeig8cl7rkn2r6lcq9d1n2o13@4ax.com> <rd6ti85c81ooru46tdjslns3858b79ejvb@4ax.com> <8h7vi85mqef351o2v3dfak0gmp93h1solh@4ax.com> <51300cdc$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: news.albasani.net Fmt4K/nWWRF92MKu98Plr2xDcF2L53HkD02VRN2QkDTf0gTXB/1kxwi3JN1scN8VRd0QO/aEyikJ7plhhvdXNoKXtyYzzTAd922Rxr8vkZO3lUN44OEIPI+Xu5Wa2zMj
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 20:33:36 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="nAlNgTc0Szszr5mZl3MJiFZFSx1/jf1a7Nxu/hPeA6kajPvBvJQKn8mYy8TkPgi8F0WRQY8cYvJuSsEp0GDUJmhMVg3VDE02L0Q3wg/kRFkqg8vHKk80crIUb+7PJML+"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net"
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130303-0, 03/03/2013), Outbound message
Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kje5jHrh6wATDfg8bOzAwqPcrzI=
Bytes: 2479
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit