Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 16:42:39 -0500 (CDT) From: <samlubell at verizon.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: How's the blood preassure...? To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> >From: Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> >Date: Tue May 03 16:37:02 CDT 2005 >To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org >Subject: [WSFA] How's the blood preassure...? >"Suneel Ratan of Wired knows where to find true sf innovation: >`While most sci-fi -- whether on TV, in movies or books -- remains >aimed toward science geeks or overgrown adolescents, producer >Ronald Moore and the Sci-Fi Channel have essentially reinvented >the genre by giving it an edgy, current, broad-based appeal.' " Sounds like a journalist recycling a press release written by someone with no experience with science fiction. That's the sort of thing that pr writers write, not journalists. (And I'm speaking as a pr writer) And there's no way you can "reinvent the genre" simply by remaking an old tv show, however appealing you make it.