I guess I'll never understand the TV executives if they'll green light endless CSI and Law & Order clones but pass on something that isn't like everything else on our screens.
I know! TV just really hates anything that's new (or they decide what the hot 'new' thing is and then clone it so that like 5 different shows have the same premise). Then again, from reading the TWoP boards (and one persons pilot 'fix it' which basically wanted to erase everything that I loved about the show - a fish-out-of-water police officer from our own non-magical world somehow getting transported to the magic world - makes me think that some audience members don't want anything new either because that fish-out-of-water cliche is like mold for EVERY protagonist on every show *sigh*)
I would have thought they'd have some kind of truth reveal magic, though, to force confessions and reveal guilt.
Yeah. They need Kahlan Amnell! The show probably would have added in there some kind of thing about 'truth-telling' magic is dark and/or can be manipulated/abused and therefore can't be trusted in court or something.
If they cut out all the reality TV crap, maybe we'd stand more of a chance at getting interesting new drama passed the idiots in suits.
So true! I get madder and madder about reality TV every year, but it's cheap and appeals to the masses which means its going nowhere despite the fact that it's keeping us from actually getting to watch interesting things *sigh*
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Date: 2012-01-26 11:13 pm (UTC)I know! TV just really hates anything that's new (or they decide what the hot 'new' thing is and then clone it so that like 5 different shows have the same premise). Then again, from reading the TWoP boards (and one persons pilot 'fix it' which basically wanted to erase everything that I loved about the show - a fish-out-of-water police officer from our own non-magical world somehow getting transported to the magic world - makes me think that some audience members don't want anything new either because that fish-out-of-water cliche is like mold for EVERY protagonist on every show *sigh*)
I would have thought they'd have some kind of truth reveal magic, though, to force confessions and reveal guilt.
Yeah. They need Kahlan Amnell! The show probably would have added in there some kind of thing about 'truth-telling' magic is dark and/or can be manipulated/abused and therefore can't be trusted in court or something.
If they cut out all the reality TV crap, maybe we'd stand more of a chance at getting interesting new drama passed the idiots in suits.
So true! I get madder and madder about reality TV every year, but it's cheap and appeals to the masses which means its going nowhere despite the fact that it's keeping us from actually getting to watch interesting things *sigh*