KoshN you just contradict yourself all over the place dont you.
Everything I have read from you, you are stating how utterly incompotent Network Executives are.
That's an overgeneralization. Perhaps, you haven't read everything.
Now you are saying you have a hard time believing that they could be that incompotent?
??? It depends on which network you're talking about and what their
motivations are.
W.R.T TNT-Atlanta, yeah they're incompetent.
W.R.T. Sci-Fi Channel, if they've given up on doing decent sci-fi series, and now just want to go for any old thing that might generate an acceptable profit (e.g. their twenty-two $2 million dollar TV movies, Scare Tactics, etc.), fine, they might achieve that goal. That would make them competent, at achieving a lower goal.
I also think your "reverse psychology" conspiracy theory is ludicrous. I mean come on, when is it gonna end? Do you REALLY think Edward James Olmos cooked this scheme up to get B-Star fans to watch it? Hell a lot of them were probably going to watch it ANYWAY?
? Did you even read what I wrote, or did you read things in between the lines that I didn't write? Where did I say that
Olmos cooked up the idea? Where did I say that it was a scheme to get
BG Fans to watch it? If it was anybody's idea, it was probably Hammer's (or one of her advisors). And the ploy would be to get people who were
NOT BG fans to watch it, i.e. those who were
NOT happy with the previous BG incarnations. The idea is to generate a buzz and bring in those people, which is probably a lot larger a group than the diehard BG fans. Remember, the goal is ratings, not in satisfying a small group of diehard BG fans who Sci-Fi really couldn't care less about. After all, if Sci-Fi cared about the diehard BG fans, they would have stayed closer to the original story.
Before you start going off on me, how about actually thinking about what you're saying?
No, I think the real "ulterior motive" is far more simple. Edward James Olmos was SICK AND TIRED of all the hate mail he was getting about a miniseries he was going to be participating. People flaming him as if he had anything to do with the creative process. He was an actor and a well respected one, and I think he just got fed up and decided to tell the fans what really to expect.
So, he would shoot himself in the foot, right there in front of the ones who are paying his salary? So, he wouldn't have let on to anybody at Sci-Fi that this was happening (the hate mail he was supposedly getting) and what he intended to say? He's that much of a loose cannon, huh? Well, maybe he doesn't want to be in any series that might come out of this. Maybe that was his way of ending his involvement with it. Still, it's burning a bridge, and that could affect his future work elsewhere.
obsessive fans can do that to people sometimes.
But you wouldnt know anything about that would you KoshN.
*cough*crusadefanatic*cough*
Oh, come on, put your real emoticon, not this wiseass, pseudo smiley one.
I have never sent hate mail (snail or e), to an actor, writer, producer, director, or anybody at a network/channel. I may have told certain people at TNT and Sci-Fi where I thought what they did was wrong and the reasons why, but I've never sent them hate mail. In fact, I've actually discouraged "hate posts" that have cropped up on the usenet (e.g. from "Grannie Gillespie" on alt.tv.scifi.channel and rec.arts.sf.tv).
If me wanting to see a story that was already started,
finished, makes me a Crusade "fanatic," so be it. I'd rather see one thing started and finished than a hundred started and left hanging.
