Keeping the young(er) people happy is a perfectly valid reason for a migration - because a maintenance skills shortage can kill a perfectly reasonable application. We migrated an old app to Oracle Forms, and one of the cost justifications is that kids learn Forms in college so (a) come ready trainied and (b) actually want to do it so don't leave as quickly.
Obviously then you tell them to document their work and they get all sulky on you, but hey - that's kids, whatyagonado with them!
The phrase "The series was completely emotionless" seems to hit it on the head for me - I'm sure the series was made by some very nice and earnest people but it felt like a toned down version. Little of the passion of the books. My assumption is that the money for a mini-series is very tight, and this needed most for the special effects, so quality rehersal time went out the window.
I also had the misfortune of watching the 'TV version' of the Lynch movie OMG There was one part when a baddy spaceship flies over a goody city and there are a number of large explosions as a result. In the original movie this is a tragic moment - on the TV version it was assumed the connection between the spacecraft and the explosions was rather complicated for the average viewer to deduce, so a badly done voiceover of "release the bombs, release the bombs" was required. *sigh*
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Obviously then you tell them to document their work and they get all sulky on you, but hey - that's kids, whatyagonado with them!
I also had the misfortune of watching the 'TV version' of the Lynch movie OMG There was one part when a baddy spaceship flies over a goody city and there are a number of large explosions as a result. In the original movie this is a tragic moment - on the TV version it was assumed the connection between the spacecraft and the explosions was rather complicated for the average viewer to deduce, so a badly done voiceover of "release the bombs, release the bombs" was required. *sigh*