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Well, aside from a few clumsy lines (both written and delivered) in the pilot episode, I am quite intrigued by new fantasy/sci fi television drama entrant Lost Girl, made by Canadian producers Showcase. I found it endearing, interesting, and one more show in a long line of 2010 shows to feature supes. It had some great, immediate accessibility in character Kenzi, and some very cute lines.
Considering I turned off Hellcats in less than 10 minutes (hey, Gale Harold is going to be in it later, I still might download those episodes just for him), it's nice to find a new show which looks interesting (though this season's line up? There's some others I'm looking forward to as well). Also, Dark Fae? Light Fae? A main character who's a succubus? Two female leads? Bring it on, bitches. Works for me.
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Geez, Australian media sucks when compared even to Canada's media, and that's just sad, since we get similar funding and support in both nations for our film and television production units. Also, Australia has the tech - has always had the tech, especially since the first Matrix - to really do wild things with supernatural themes. Even more so than Canada. Does it? Pfft. No.
We are like the most unimaginative country ever. You couldn't even pitch a supe-drama here, even though they are selling like hot-cakes everywhere else. It just disappoints me, after all this time. It's hard to support a lacklustre industry. And a lot of it isn't lack of funding. Some of it is just lack of imagination, Australia's culture of media insecurity seeping into film-making in particular (it works well in literature, if you can handle the similarities in tone between writers like Carey and Winton). But then, it's unsurprising. We have one of the worst rates of media censorship in the Western world ever. We still ban films like Salo (unbanned it, changed our minds, too sensitive for our sheltered viewers, sorry!).
It is a deeply, deeply oppressive environment for any media show to get made (yes, there are more oppressive environments, but not many to be found in the Western world). Those who do stick to fairly basic (but not always bad) affair, usually involving some kind of formulaic procedural (Blue Heelers, McCleod's Daughters (which did crazy insane in the ratings when it was shipped off to North Asia), White Collar Blue, All Saints, Water Rats, Wildside immediately come to mind). Maybe it's just me, but I want something way more imaginative. Or at least the choice.
Anyway, didn't expect to be writing about this at 9.00am!
Considering I turned off Hellcats in less than 10 minutes (hey, Gale Harold is going to be in it later, I still might download those episodes just for him), it's nice to find a new show which looks interesting (though this season's line up? There's some others I'm looking forward to as well). Also, Dark Fae? Light Fae? A main character who's a succubus? Two female leads? Bring it on, bitches. Works for me.
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Geez, Australian media sucks when compared even to Canada's media, and that's just sad, since we get similar funding and support in both nations for our film and television production units. Also, Australia has the tech - has always had the tech, especially since the first Matrix - to really do wild things with supernatural themes. Even more so than Canada. Does it? Pfft. No.
We are like the most unimaginative country ever. You couldn't even pitch a supe-drama here, even though they are selling like hot-cakes everywhere else. It just disappoints me, after all this time. It's hard to support a lacklustre industry. And a lot of it isn't lack of funding. Some of it is just lack of imagination, Australia's culture of media insecurity seeping into film-making in particular (it works well in literature, if you can handle the similarities in tone between writers like Carey and Winton). But then, it's unsurprising. We have one of the worst rates of media censorship in the Western world ever. We still ban films like Salo (unbanned it, changed our minds, too sensitive for our sheltered viewers, sorry!).
It is a deeply, deeply oppressive environment for any media show to get made (yes, there are more oppressive environments, but not many to be found in the Western world). Those who do stick to fairly basic (but not always bad) affair, usually involving some kind of formulaic procedural (Blue Heelers, McCleod's Daughters (which did crazy insane in the ratings when it was shipped off to North Asia), White Collar Blue, All Saints, Water Rats, Wildside immediately come to mind). Maybe it's just me, but I want something way more imaginative. Or at least the choice.
Anyway, didn't expect to be writing about this at 9.00am!
