Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:07:45 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Riverworld
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 4/21/2010 8:06 PM >>>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>> Anyone have the misfortune of watching the latest SyFy extrusion?
>
>I saw parts of it years ago - this is a rerun. *eh*.

Nope.  it was an all *new* production.

Annalee Newitz of io9.com described it thus:
"one giant blob of cheesy WTF"
http://io9.com/5520436/riverworld-explains-the-afterlifes-english+only-poli=
cy

And over at Tor.com:
"nitpicking a plot does no good if the basic themes are flawed, and oh, =
are they."
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=59132

Nonetheless, for all of the awfulness of this production, still reigning =
at numero uno for Bad is "Battlefield Earth".

I do like the phrase "cheesy WTF."

mjw