Fannish Items of Interest

[calliopes_pen]

Here’s the trailer for the new adaptation of Riverworld. Peter Wingfield is in there somewhere.

14 Reasons Why TV And Superheroes Don’t Mix. The tv movies for Generation X, as well as Justice League of America (the live action version) get mentioned. Lois and Clark is mentioned--I had forgotten the clone Lois marrying Clark, and needing to eat frogs to survive storyline until now. Wow, that was awful.

Primeval has been uncancelled.

I’m still working on the fanfic for the Support Stacie Auction. As of this moment, it’s at 4386 words, and still growing. Also, I want to thank everyone that voted in the title poll. A Slap Is Worth A Thousand Words won. I’ll probably post a small excerpt of it tomorrow, too. Once I finish up one last section, I should be done.

By the way, at what number of words is a fanfic too long for one LJ post? Just curious.

A cat update: Rather than sleeping more, she’s gradually been more and more alert as the days go on. There’s a towel on the back of a brown chair we have. When Mom and Dad were trying to give her medicine, she reached over, sunk her claws in, and was strong enough to tear the thing off. Oh, and Mom has a few holes in her arm, too. When Mom looked at her, just thinking that it was time for her medicine, the cat laid down on the floor--face down--and put one paw over her head, as though she was thinking ‘not again!’ I’ve never seen a cat do that before.

Comments

[papilio-luna.livejournal.com]

at what number of words is a fanfic too long for one LJ post?

I think it's not words but characters that LJ goes by. My recent 10K word fic was too long, though not by all that much. I think the cut-off may be 50,000 characters?

[ladymako71.livejournal.com]

The Generation X movie hurt...baaaaaaaaaadddddd. I had been waiting with baited breath for that one only to be royally disappointed. Not the least of which, because they had no Chamber. The quintessential Gen X character IMO.

[calliopes_pen]

At the time it aired on Fox, I have to admit that I loved it. I bought it off of Ebay a few years back, and realized just how awful it really was. I don't know why, but I still have it.

Apparently, they just couldn't afford Chamber or Husk. And yet, they were able to have a Cyclops/Billy Idol rip-off, if I'm remembering right.

[ladymako71.livejournal.com]

Yup, and they did a fair job with Jubilee and the fireworks...but noooooooo Chamber, who wears a scarf to cover up his namesake most of the time, was too much to afford. =p Whatever. And Skin? Oh god don't get me started on that character massacre!

[silvercobwebs.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing the news about Primeval - I'm almost surprised at how happy I am to hear it! :D

[ausmac.livejournal.com]

Is there a release date for the Riverworld series yet?

[calliopes_pen]

All I know right now is that it should be sometime in 2010. At least, that's what Wikipedia says. It's listed as 2009 on IMDB, but says on a linked article that it's 2010.

[wackinessensues.livejournal.com]

I know I'm mock-worthy, but I love Primeval, lol. So excited it's back!

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Feh, poorly named article. None of those are reason TV and Superheros don't mix. They're just examples.

And most of the failures are due to one of three things:

1) low budget, so nothing looks decent.
2) slavish adherence to the tropes of superheroes that don't work in a live action medium (costumes being the primary one)

or 3) just plain poor writing.

3) can happen to any show at any time. The only reason it's a bigger danger for superhero shows is that people creating them often go into it thinking that the superhero concept is enough.
The other two problems can often be worked around - either by abandoning the costumes and such, or increasing the budget (the two are somewhat connected, costumes on a low budget show look much worse than a high budget one, which can SOMETIMES get away with it). And for effects, budget's not as much of a killer as it used to be- you can get decent effects for not too much nowadays

Heroes avoided most of the problems at first and then fell down on #3 (and stumbled a bit on the other two). Smallville mostly avoided the first two but seriously screwed up on #3, at least IMHO.

I still think that Marvel could, if it wanted to (and, more importantly, had the rights - I think FOX still has both TV and movie rights to the mutant universe), make a kickass 'Mutant High' tv series. You don't have to use established characters (although I think it'd be cool if you did, you'd probably have to use a mix of different eras of 'young teams' rather than any complete cast). No costumes. I noodled around with some ideas of how one might work (http://newnumber6.livejournal.com/68138.html) quite some time ago, but I think it's clear there are lots of ways it could be done and done well.

I could also see a "Gotham Central" show working really well. That was a short-lived comic focusing on the police department of Gotham, Batman usually only being glimpsed briefly in the background, because there are a lot of freaks in the city and the police still have jobs to do.

I could see Runaways working as a TV series if it wasn't already being planned as a movie. CGI Dinosaur would be the toughest part though.

[sandy-s.livejournal.com]

LOL...glad that kitty is being feisty again! :o) My vet says that's a good sign. :o) And Meagan runs from me when I give her her meds...but she's kind of given up because she runs and then stops in defeat. lol

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

The cut off limit is characters, not words, and it's 52000 - including headers and any HTML tags you might use.

Glad the cat's mending...