Originally posted by Silverwings
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Senate hearings about baseball? And what's even more amazing was that the senators in those hearings were asking tougher questions and were tougher than the senators at the hearings about more important topics like Iraq...
I also find it amusing, and very sad in a way, that a lot of politicians think they know more about a topic than people who studied it (The same goes for most of the celebrities as well).
Originally posted by smurf
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[quote[An interesting concept to me is not always an interesting concept to other people, and vice versa. Otherwise there would be no rhyme nor reason for the existence of "Sex and the City".[/quote]
That's true and you already answered my question in the quoted part below:
Which is why most films and tv shows which have been heavily audience researched before release are not very good.
Or in other words: The best shows tend to have been risks on part of the networks, because they aren't the same old shows with re-used concepts but because they're shows with new, daring and interesting concepts which suck the audience in (Firefly is an example, as is Stargate, Heroes, Lost, Doctor Who, Torchwood, etc...).
Of course that said, when looking at a much narrower sample like the sci-fi community it would do a company good to do a little bit of research. You can make more money by not ignorantly putting off a large portion of your possible clientèle.
Anyway, the Shep & McKay comedy duo. They're becoming annoying due to being overused as I've heard their banter a thousand times. The same goes for the Shep or Shep & McKay on a (solo) mission (He's their CMO, why is he allowed to go on those missions, he should stay in Atlantis and coordinate things...). Been there, done that.
The episodes that I found were interesting last season on Atlantis were the ones where things were different from what they normally are (Missing, Quarantine, Trio).
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