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Still coughing up mucous. Played video games all day to compensate. For a while, had everyone in the house involved in Beatles Rock Band, which included Dad joining in on three part harmonies, which he never does. (Dad plays video games; Dad does not perform music.) He just likes the Beatles enough to feel confident about it.
Watched the last episode of Caprica. It's a show that ended before its time. The writers did a heroic job of tying the ends up, but it was a wasted opportunity, and further evidence that the SyFy channel is being run incompetently. Leaving aside the wisdom of pulling a show before you run out of commissioned episodes when you don't have a replacement for the timeslot, or the questionable timing of cancelling a series just before its first DVD set comes out (which could get a new audience up to speed and give you a clear picture of whether the show will make money on, for instance, DVD sales), it's the kind of program you keep around even if it loses money on paper because it gives your network an identity, which attracts audiences and advertizers to your other programs. This is basic stuff. It's the equivalent of your network nightly news program.
I hate to see bad management. What makes it worse is I suspect the show would have been an unqualified success, or at least nursed along, if they'd flipped gender on all the female characters. The ongoing misogyny of science fiction audiences and publishers is one of the great disappointments of my life. They're supposed to be rational futurists. That was the dream. Instead, it's all backward-looking strongman fantasies plus metal surfaces.
Watched the last episode of Caprica. It's a show that ended before its time. The writers did a heroic job of tying the ends up, but it was a wasted opportunity, and further evidence that the SyFy channel is being run incompetently. Leaving aside the wisdom of pulling a show before you run out of commissioned episodes when you don't have a replacement for the timeslot, or the questionable timing of cancelling a series just before its first DVD set comes out (which could get a new audience up to speed and give you a clear picture of whether the show will make money on, for instance, DVD sales), it's the kind of program you keep around even if it loses money on paper because it gives your network an identity, which attracts audiences and advertizers to your other programs. This is basic stuff. It's the equivalent of your network nightly news program.
I hate to see bad management. What makes it worse is I suspect the show would have been an unqualified success, or at least nursed along, if they'd flipped gender on all the female characters. The ongoing misogyny of science fiction audiences and publishers is one of the great disappointments of my life. They're supposed to be rational futurists. That was the dream. Instead, it's all backward-looking strongman fantasies plus metal surfaces.
