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I couldn't help but smile, as I was reading my USA Today (in bed of all places), to find TV critic Robert Blanco blaming Comic-Con International: San Diego attendees for bad TV. Take, for example, Blanco's take on Wednesday night's Bionic Woman redux that drew almost as many viewers as the Grey's Anatomy spinoff, Private Practice, by the way:"None of this means the show won't draw a crowd, at least initially. The ads are terrific (far better than the show they're promoting), and there is a fan base that likes its fantasies somber and its heroines pouty. Which may be why Bionic plays like it was created, not so much to run on TV, but to provide panels for comic book conventions." OUCH!!!
Some of us at the Comics Alliance corral feel far differently about the results of mixing superheroes and TV at comics/pop culture conventions, however.
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Friday 28 September
By Christian
Crappy, dead, grossly expository dialog...check. Ridiculously ill-defined yet can potentially do anything EVAR science that will act as deus ex machina more often than not, thus substituting for the need of intelligent plots...check. Insane characterization of a 23 year old bartender taking care of her abandoned teen sister going gung-ho to work with a secret organization that has almost gotten her killed...check! (BTW, bitches...SARAH CORVUS SAYS HELLO!!!)
All that blew in the series premiere alone, and the guy who's supposed to be the "creative genius" behind it is leaving after the fifth episode. Woot!
Sure, it looks good. But good production values do not a decent show make when everything else sucks. Just look at Heroes.
I have to agree with the whole comic-con/tv point, even if it does come from the Top Cow of newspapers. Far too much utter crap in tv and film now that people of a certain age-bracket will justify as good no matter what just because it's somehow superhero (or other comics) related.
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