Re: February sweeps and the continuing ghettoization of scifi

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From: shawn
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:15

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On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:33:24 -0600, Jim G.
<jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:

>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.

See "Revolution" as an example.

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