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Warren Ellis's Global Frequency May Not Air
ajs writes "According to Ain't It Cool News, the WB network has cancelled Warren Ellis's Global Frequency, a wonderfully twisted modern-day SF TV series which may yet air, but the company that owns the series will now have to shop it around to other networks. If you're a fan of the comic series or you have just been starving for good non-space SF since the X-Files went away, you might want to send words of support to your favorite non-WB network. Slashdot has previously interviewed Ellis."
Perhaps you should read the comic book before you bash it instead of reading just the show summary.
Sure, the show summary sounds like more of the same, but the book dealt with issues like bioterror weapons in a large populated city, memetic viruses (ideas that reproduce and self propogate in a malignant way), and the terror organizations who carry out mass bombings.
But then again, you don't seem to be one of those people who'd actually read instead of reading a blurb.
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As soneone summarized one of my other posts: Sturgen's Law.
Specficially, you are looking at everything that is on television today and comparing it only to the television that you remember because it was good enough to maintain a niche in our culture. Go look at Knight Rider and consider that for the time it came out it was reasonably well filmed television and slightly above average SF. It hurts just to say that, but it's true.
Reality TV got you down? Go watch some Candid Camera or America's Funniest Home Videos. It really has been this bad for decades. Some of the things that have graced the small screen over the years would turn your stomach.
Today, shows like The West Wing (yes, even post-Sorkin, though it's gone a long way down-hill), Lost, Veronica Mars, The Daily Show and South Park are orders of magnitude better than the crap I was watching on prime-time television while growing up. These shows are still not nearly as good as they could be, but I take heart in the state of the art. Nova isn't what it once was, but it's still good. Brittish TV is starting to invade again. Inside the Actor's Studio is often more enlightening in an hour than any 30 hours of E! and Tech TV is occasionally useful.
So what's to complain? Set up your TiVo and record what you like. Of course, you should ignore the crap. That's what a TiVo is for!