Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 10:29:53 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How's the blood preassure...?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> twhite8 at cox.net 5/3/2005 6:55:10 PM >>>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <samlubell at verizon.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:42 PM
>> >From: Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>> >"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.
>
>What Mike left out was the heading for that little squib: "As Others
See
>Us."

True enough.  Should have used it as the subjectline.  But I'm sure
everyone saw it when checking out the Ansible link.  Where else can one
read the gems presented in Thog's Masterclass?

mjw