Comments on: Duh!

By: MarkC

MarkC — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:46:13 +0000

I agree, Lou, but I don’t think we should allow them to get away with it!

And particularly because their thinking is based on two false premises – that SF is somehow intellectually inferior, and that it cannot command large audiences.

By: Lou Anders

Lou Anders — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:06:09 +0000

None of these people are stupid. They simply have chosen, or have been coached or ordered, to deny that they are genre in the interest of greater audience share or greater sales. This is why Ron Moore would describe Battlestar Galactica as “not really a scifi show” when talking to Entertainment Weekly, but come to the Nebula Awards banquet in person.

By: disrepdog

disrepdog — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:06:56 +0000

She’s doing a sterling job for the reputation of blondes.

That quote haunt her…

By: MattC

MattC — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:22:47 +0000

“Then I read the script and realised it wasn’t. It’s about police officers trying to work out whether there is a worm hole between two time zones.”

‘cos wormholes makes it gritty realism…

She can’t really be that stupid, surely?! I thought it was just her character that was a little bit mentally challenged…

Mind you, I have to say that the series managed to make me loathe all of the main characters within the first ten minutes of episode 1. Something that didn’t even happen with Bonekickers.

By: Dawfydd

Dawfydd — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:53:03 +0000

Who, Outhwaite or Rowling?
;p

By: Sam Beaven

Sam Beaven — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:11:12 +0000

She’s like a stupider Margaret Atwood.

By: MarkC

MarkC — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:55:00 +0000

…and a public school where you don’t get buggered in the shower.

By: Lee Harris

Lee Harris — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:51:51 +0000

Akin to J K Rowling not realising that her Harry Potter books were fantasy, despite the presence of wizards, magic and dragons…