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mapsedgeSomeday, the Sci-Fi channel will surprise me. No, someday they'll shock me and produce an original movie that doesn't suck gallons of sewer water from the first frame.
Plenty of nerve, but no heart and no brain. A few yellow bricks short of a road. A few munchkins short*. Dialog a mauseating mix of modern corporate jargon ("we were tasked with...") and archaic cliché ("I know not.")...often in the same sentence.**
Flying monkey tits...or whatever they were...puh-lease.
Sci-Fi producers: STOP HIRING YOUR WRITERS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE NINTH GRADE.
* Double points for that one. Hee.
** "Merlin" suffered from that, too. It also suffered from Miranda Richardson, who was absent from "Tin Man", the mini-series' only saving grace.
Plenty of nerve, but no heart and no brain. A few yellow bricks short of a road. A few munchkins short*. Dialog a mauseating mix of modern corporate jargon ("we were tasked with...") and archaic cliché ("I know not.")...often in the same sentence.**
Flying monkey tits...or whatever they were...puh-lease.
Sci-Fi producers: STOP HIRING YOUR WRITERS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE NINTH GRADE.
* Double points for that one. Hee.
** "Merlin" suffered from that, too. It also suffered from Miranda Richardson, who was absent from "Tin Man", the mini-series' only saving grace.
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Date: 2007-12-04 01:21 (UTC)I did see "Merlin", way back...we rented it, figuring it had potential (hey, the last made-for-TV fantasy flick I'd seen was "Mists of Avalon", which I actually enjoyed)...oh, how wrong we were. I think the only moment of satisfaction I got from "Merlin" was when I figured out where I'd seen the fellow who played young Merlin, before. (He was Sam in "Shakespeare in Love" -- the actor with ill-timed puberty.) It drives me nuts when I recognize a face and can't figure out why.