TV: I like simple answers and I have an elevated capacity for violence
Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of one of your favorite shows
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of one of your favorite TV shows
Day 08 - A show that's had a significant effect on who you are today
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
"If you are the best at what you do, no matter how strange or obscure or mundane, one day Miranda Zero appears on your door and hands you the phone. That means that what you do will save lives. You are needed. I'm needed."
There's a network of 1,001 agents across the world. Each of them carries a beyond-the-state-of-the-art cellphone. They pray it never goes off. If it does, it means that they are needed to prevent, at best, thousands of deaths or, at worst, the end of the world. It's an X-Files flash mob. It's the Global Frequency.
Global Frequency was birthday boy warren_ellis's 12-issue limited series with each issue being a self-contained, stand-alone story involving its founder and director (the ruthless Miranda Zero), its tactical coordinator (the uber-resourceful Aleph) and any number of field agents, each experts in their respective fields, often contributing from afar, often putting the agents in mortal peril. It was an impressive, intense, brutal little series. And someone got the idea of making it into a TV pilot with a relatively faithful adaptation of the series' first issue.
The pilot found its way onto the Internet and, buoyed by P2P distribution, a very receptive audience. But according to Ellis, this pissed off Warner Brothers enough that they decided to kibosh any further work on the show [note: see glumpish below for timeline clarification that eluded yours truly]. Tell me that makes a lick of sense. A viewership goes out of its way to "circulate the tapes," if you will, of a show they want to watch, and instead of catering to that demographic, WB chooses to spite it. It's not a perfect pilot, but there's so much potential here that smothering it in its sleep just seems criminal.
So you tell me. Would you watch this every week? Two more words to sell you on it: Michelle Forbes.
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of one of your favorite shows
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of one of your favorite TV shows
Day 08 - A show that's had a significant effect on who you are today
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
"If you are the best at what you do, no matter how strange or obscure or mundane, one day Miranda Zero appears on your door and hands you the phone. That means that what you do will save lives. You are needed. I'm needed."
There's a network of 1,001 agents across the world. Each of them carries a beyond-the-state-of-the-art cellphone. They pray it never goes off. If it does, it means that they are needed to prevent, at best, thousands of deaths or, at worst, the end of the world. It's an X-Files flash mob. It's the Global Frequency.
Global Frequency was birthday boy warren_ellis's 12-issue limited series with each issue being a self-contained, stand-alone story involving its founder and director (the ruthless Miranda Zero), its tactical coordinator (the uber-resourceful Aleph) and any number of field agents, each experts in their respective fields, often contributing from afar, often putting the agents in mortal peril. It was an impressive, intense, brutal little series. And someone got the idea of making it into a TV pilot with a relatively faithful adaptation of the series' first issue.
The pilot found its way onto the Internet and, buoyed by P2P distribution, a very receptive audience. But according to Ellis, this pissed off Warner Brothers enough that they decided to kibosh any further work on the show [note: see glumpish below for timeline clarification that eluded yours truly]. Tell me that makes a lick of sense. A viewership goes out of its way to "circulate the tapes," if you will, of a show they want to watch, and instead of catering to that demographic, WB chooses to spite it. It's not a perfect pilot, but there's so much potential here that smothering it in its sleep just seems criminal.
So you tell me. Would you watch this every week? Two more words to sell you on it: Michelle Forbes.