Color me utterly gobsmacked
From maechi, apparently Sci-Fi Channel has picked up Charlie Jade.
I just. I don't. WHAT.
They rejected it before, at least once, possibly multiple times. Enough time has passed that there's really not a second series in the picture at all, largely because the showrunners couldn't get funding, and Sci-Fi's support would have helped obtain that. But noooooo. It was too complicated. Too smart. Not appropriate for their Mansquito loving audience.
Why now? I feel like I should be excited, because maybe there will be more fans for me to play with, but... I don't know that their audience is going to embrace it, since they seem to be doing this as an afterthought. And it will be butchered -- of the language, of the violence, and the stories cut down to fit more advertising in, making them even less comprehensible than they are now. By toning down the sexuality, they'll remove a lot of what makes 01 Boxer interesting in his freaky way.
I really don't know what to think.
I just. I don't. WHAT.
They rejected it before, at least once, possibly multiple times. Enough time has passed that there's really not a second series in the picture at all, largely because the showrunners couldn't get funding, and Sci-Fi's support would have helped obtain that. But noooooo. It was too complicated. Too smart. Not appropriate for their Mansquito loving audience.
Why now? I feel like I should be excited, because maybe there will be more fans for me to play with, but... I don't know that their audience is going to embrace it, since they seem to be doing this as an afterthought. And it will be butchered -- of the language, of the violence, and the stories cut down to fit more advertising in, making them even less comprehensible than they are now. By toning down the sexuality, they'll remove a lot of what makes 01 Boxer interesting in his freaky way.
I really don't know what to think.