Monday 23 November 2009
V (2009)
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Posted by
Vicente
When I first heard of a remake of V, unlike when I heard about BSG, I didn't had many feelings against it, since while the first miniseries was fine, but the rest of the series was quite bad; I was all for it.
The first episode was quite frankly, a deception, too short, too direct and paradoxically too indirect as well, the same applied to the second. Many of the characters are a gender reversal of the original ones, and that while that might be interesting on others is just too evident...
The third one is when things really start to happen, and I enjoyed it very much but it makes me thing if the broadcaster really wants this series to be a success or not: after all there's only going to be another episode more this year and the rest, maybe, next. I fear that the 4th will be too rushed, to unnatural in its intent to give a "hold your breath" moment in an hour intense enough to make you wait till next year... much like the rushed, crappy, unnatural finale of BSG.
Only time will tell...
A song I wrote ...
This is a song I wrote many many years ago, if anyone wants to put music, feel free to do so, just drop me a note with the results :)
I was
-------
There was a time,
when I dreamt of you,
all night long,
and I wished that,
someday I'd be yours.
I was the dreamer,
of the passion and love,
I was the dreamer,
I who dared dream of you.
Dreams may come truth,
or may not, hmm hmm
dreams are dreams of you,
that's for sure.
I felt your heart,
next to me,
your arms around me
night ends and dreams are gone
the dream is over.
Kissing your cheek,
I wake up everyday,
the dream was over,
you weren't by me.
Dreams may come truth,
or may not, hmm hmm
dreams are dreams of you,
that's for sure.
Every time I see you,
my heart beats again,
my minds lost it's reason,
you just make me crazy girl.
I was the unloved one,
who dared to love you,
who liked to reach the skies,
who dared dream of you.
I was the dreamer,
of the passion and love,
I was the dreamer,
I who dared dream of you.
Every hour I was awake
it was full of you,
in my heart,my soul,
you are always here
Every hour I was awake
it was full of you,
in my heart,my soul,
you.
I was
-------
There was a time,
when I dreamt of you,
all night long,
and I wished that,
someday I'd be yours.
I was the dreamer,
of the passion and love,
I was the dreamer,
I who dared dream of you.
Dreams may come truth,
or may not, hmm hmm
dreams are dreams of you,
that's for sure.
I felt your heart,
next to me,
your arms around me
night ends and dreams are gone
the dream is over.
Kissing your cheek,
I wake up everyday,
the dream was over,
you weren't by me.
Dreams may come truth,
or may not, hmm hmm
dreams are dreams of you,
that's for sure.
Every time I see you,
my heart beats again,
my minds lost it's reason,
you just make me crazy girl.
I was the unloved one,
who dared to love you,
who liked to reach the skies,
who dared dream of you.
I was the dreamer,
of the passion and love,
I was the dreamer,
I who dared dream of you.
Every hour I was awake
it was full of you,
in my heart,my soul,
you are always here
Every hour I was awake
it was full of you,
in my heart,my soul,
you.
Friday 13 November 2009
About the decreasing quality of SciFi on TV...
I think that's pretty evident for all scifiers around the globe that after BSG, sci fi shows have decreased in quality exponentially -well, I will add the BSG is also the start of the downslide by ending the show in such a stupid way-.
I think that the very first issue is that most screen writers are not really into SciFi, don't understand the genre and its mechanics and that shows off on the storylines. If you really want to make a successful show, you've to understand that Sci Fi is not synonym of aliens, spaceships, lasers, conspiracies even though it can comprise them: it's all about the conflicts, situations, issues of all kinds posed when some scientific or technological situation is done: a series that explores the storyline of a greek empire in which blips and balloons have been discovered and become common is as much as SciFi as I,Robot from Asimov -even if there're no aliens, robots and the technologies involved seem retarded-.
Another problem is that while interpersonal conflict is an important part of SciFi, it usually has to go along with the situation, is not the main engine of the story unlike films like StarGate Universe (basically its very similar to Lost, without the weird stuff) in which the SciFi elements are just accessories to the personal conflict storyline.
Lack of originality has also to do with the fact that most screenwriters are blatantly ignorant about SciFi and only see SciFi as Space Opera, repeating the formulas on and on and on...
So screenwritters, get some decent SciFi background: Clark, Asimov, McDevitt, Verne, Zindell, Zettel, Heinlein read about a hundred books of the genre before even trying to write a single line, make sure you do understand the genre, its mechanics, etc... before writting anything. That's the way to create decent SciFi shows
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