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Dark Skies Finally Coming to DVD
Monday, August 9, 2010 8:55 PM
CLJOHNSTON108
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:52 AM
ECGORDON
There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:28 AM
LWAVES
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:27 PM
Quote:Originally posted by lwaves: It had a great premise that mixed fact and fiction. I liked the show too and it definitely should have gone on longer, but they made the first season too long. They should have kept it at the original 13 episodes instead of padding it out later with filler.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:21 PM
CHRISISALL
Quote:Originally posted by ecgordon: I wouldn't consider the last half of the season to be filler, but rather a buildup of momentum towards the (unfortunately) unresolved season-ending cliffhanger.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 1:07 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by ecgordon: I wouldn't consider the last half of the season to be filler, but rather a buildup of momentum towards the (unfortunately) unresolved season-ending cliffhanger. Can one watch just the 13 eps so as not to be confusticated?
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:42 AM
Quote:Originally posted by ecgordon: Quote:Originally posted by lwaves: It had a great premise that mixed fact and fiction. I liked the show too and it definitely should have gone on longer, but they made the first season too long. They should have kept it at the original 13 episodes instead of padding it out later with filler. It was actually shorter than the traditional US season, just twenty episodes rather than twenty-two (or nineteen if you count the two-hour pilot as one). It was NBC that authorized the episodes beyond the original order of thirteen, which is also the typical initial order for most American series. It is mainly on cable netlets (and in UK and other foreign markets) that full seasons are thirteen eps or less. I wouldn't consider the last half of the season to be filler, but rather a buildup of momentum towards the (unfortunately) unresolved season-ending cliffhanger.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:06 AM
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:01 PM
Thursday, August 12, 2010 1:50 AM
Quote:Originally posted by ecgordon: Lwaves, correct me if I'm wrong, but you are in the UK, right? In the US, the standard procedure for a network green lighting a series is to order 13 episodes. If they like the show and the ratings justify it, they give the order for the "Back 9." That produces the typical 22 episode season that almost all network series get, and that has been the case for around 20 years. Before that, it was common for popular series to have between 24-30 eps per year. It is the writer/producer's job to do well enough that they get that "Back 9." With the advent of original series on cable, those shows can range from 10-13 eps on average, up to 20 as was the case with BSG. IMO, there needs to be some middle ground for the networks, and the past few years has seen a few shows premiering in the spring or summer that have abbreviated runs like that too. But for most shows that start in the fall, it is almost universally accepted that if they are successful they will get 22 ep seasons. Why Dark Skies only got 20 I'm not sure, and I'm also not sure why Megan Ward's character was marginalized in the back half of the season. Perhaps she requested a lighter work load, maybe the producers weren't happy with her work, who knows? All I do know is that I will be buying the series whenever it is released to DVD.
Thursday, August 12, 2010 3:33 PM
Friday, August 13, 2010 10:57 AM
IMNOTHERE
Quote:Originally posted by lwaves: It's my opinion that some shows of 22 episodes may have been better if they had been made as 13 episodes (much like the HBO style shows).
Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:42 AM
Quote:Originally posted by ImNotHere: The other nice thing about the UK system of 6-13 episode series is that the whole series is usually in the can (if not through post-production) before it airs, so there's no opportunity for mid-season meddling, and the renewal decision doesn't have to be made until the full series has been shown. Shows have to be quite offensively bad to be canned mid-run. Then, quite frankly, for some shows one 6-13 episode run is enough: great show, story told, the end: Dollhouse & Sarah Connor spring to mind. I enjoyed Pushing Daises but couldn't have taken 100 episodes of it (you'd have got toothache in your eyeballs). It always amuses me that the UK and US versions of "Life on Mars" ran for about the same number of episodes, but one was hailed as a triumph and the other was a canceled flop.
Saturday, August 14, 2010 3:28 AM
Thursday, October 7, 2010 11:18 AM
Thursday, October 7, 2010 11:28 AM
Thursday, October 7, 2010 11:43 AM
Thursday, October 7, 2010 11:46 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: If you like it CL, that's enough for me. I'm in.
Thursday, October 7, 2010 11:49 AM
Thursday, October 7, 2010 11:55 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Where are Straker & SHADOW when you need them?
Thursday, October 7, 2010 11:57 AM
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