Happy Friday!

[danceswithwords]

Stuff, in no particular order:

* laurashapiro has a non-spoilery review of the first Buffy Season 8 comic.

* I am totally getting The Physics of Superheroes for my dad for Christmas.

* Today's daily puppy is particularly adorable. AWWWW. (Yes, I totally have vicarious dog issues.)

* WTF, Rob Thomas? I am liking the current fandom conventional wisdom on

Comments

[asta77]

I saw the VM news at lunch and was waiting for reactions. I don't even watch the show and I was WTF? Did Rob not learn anything from JJ and Ron? And isn't an important part of the show watching Veronica transition from teenager to adult?

and thinking their motivations for at least withholding it from Molly made sense.

Yeah, that really helped me accept the twist better. They needed her to catch the guy and I also don't think she would have been able to accept the information at all when they first met her. Sam's little talk about spirits being tied to this earth because they can't let go and her seeing what her victim had become enabled her to see that for her sake, for her husbands, she had to let go.

YAY! to the bathroom being done! And it's Friday!

[danceswithwords]

I don't even watch the show and I was WTF? Did Rob not learn anything from JJ and Ron?

These things never end well--99% of the time, when a show retools, it loses its original audience and isn't able to pick up a new one and dies an ignoble death. So I don't know what the hell they're thinking.

Re: .02

[danceswithwords]

Oh, I have no doubt someone at the CW wants to see it. I also have very little doubt they're not going to pick it up. The whiff of desperation hangs heavily over this idea, and I don't see how they'd escape a drubbing for transforming the show into something unrecognizable as opposed to cancelling it outright. They're in for a drubbing no matter what they do, but if they cancel the show, at least they can point to this and say they gave Rob Thomas a chance.

Re: .02

[swsa]

Exactly. And plus, I don't think it's really costing them much. It's not like they're paying RT or KB for their time. Everyone involved in the pitch is already on the CW payroll, and they're essentially using VM's existing budget to do this. And really, I'm sure the CW does value RT and doesn't want to burn that bridge. Still can't believe they'd ever pick up a show that will most likely alienate a good portion of existing viewers and fail to pick up any new ones though. At this point, a new series is actually a safer bet.

Re: .02

[danceswithwords]

Still can't believe they'd ever pick up a show that will most likely alienate a good portion of existing viewers and fail to pick up any new ones though. At this point, a new series is actually a safer bet.

I would think so. Adding to the WTF, procedurals tend to have older audiences, which makes sense for a CBS or an NBC but not so much for the CW, which seems to be heavily invested in soapy melodrama and has a very young target demographic. I don't see how this isn't doomed from the start.

[cofax7]

does this show actually use color? Or, like, lighting?

Oh, god, not really. It's the one cinematography choice that makes me really cranky--everything's washed out and brown/grey all the time. Makes for very dark vids, as well.

And you were very smart to pick up on the parallels between Molly's situation and Sam & Dean's. Much of what she was talking about relates quite closely to Sam--in particular, the business about being forced to become something you would not choose to, through forces outside your control. Also the fixation on one thing, that warps your perspective/life, the way that John Winchester's obsession did his family--and Dean's fixation on his family affected his own life.

[danceswithwords]

It's the one cinematography choice that makes me really cranky--everything's washed out and brown/grey all the time.

It was teetering on the edge of serious monotony for me. Although it does make faces stand out a lot.

And I'm glad I was making sense to people who watch the show regularly. Those parallels were the only thing that kept me from being really cranky about that reveal.

[dtissagirl]

does this show actually use color? Or, like, lighting?

No. It's dark and it has no light depth whatsoever and it's ALWAYS either gray or brown, which makes me SO SAD because it could be SO PRETTY. And yet. We get the color of poo every week.

[danceswithwords]

It was actually a little hard to tell what was going on in a couple of scenes, which is the point where I think you cross over into the ridiculous with a stylistic choice like that.

[willowgreen]

I only caught the end of Supernatural last night (my husband watches it; I can't stand it), right before they told her the Big Secret. And when she said, "What do I do now," I was all, "Call Melinda from Ghost Whisperer! (He watches that one too.) And then, what do you know--she went into the Light! No Melinda needed.

Anyway, Tricia Helfer was really good, and it was fun to see her not being a Cylon. Still, it seems as if every time I catch a minute of Supernatural the boys are rescuing some sobbing, helpless female, and I start finding that tiresome pretty quickly.

[danceswithwords]

I think Tricia Helfer is a fabulous actor and I'm glad to see her getting more work. And I hear through the grapevine that Supernatural is an equal opportunity sobbing, helpless victim-of-the-week-rescuing kind of show, so there is that.