Wonderfalls - Second Season conundrum
POSTED BY: Zoot
UPDATED: Thursday, September 29, 2005 18:24
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Originally posted by Zoot:
Ok so it’s not really a sci-fi series unless talking animals counts (and Tim Minear), but following a recommendation from someone on this site (possibly the voracious Chrisisall), I bought the first season on R1 DVD …
I watched it over the last couple of weeks.
I thought it started slowly, but was totally hooked by midseason and loved the ending (including our own Ms Staite playing an evil bitch with a heart) and now, due to my horrendously addictive personality – I WANT MORE!!
Slow start? Really? I think the pilot for Wonderfalls may be one of the best pilots I have ever seen. Glad you enjoyed the show though. It's one of my favorites.
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I LOVED Wonderfalls when it was on. I made everyone I knew watch it. Then Fox killed it, and I gotta say I wasn't surprised. I wasn't happy, but i wasn't surprised. It would have been best teamed up with something like Arrested Development. Tru Calling was a crap lead in for it. And then they moved it to the Friday night death slot and it was over.
I read a Tim Minear interview where he revealed some of the stuff that was going to happen in season 2, like the virgin conception of Jaye's sister (the lesbian). It actually sounded like they had big plans for this show, and so I'm even more crushed about it's death.
If you like Wonderfalls you'd probably love Dead Like Me, which is done by one half of the Wonderfalls team (the half that isn't Tim). But it only got 2 seasons, which is not nearly enough either.
The American ratings and TV system is in big trouble. They are always looking for the next friends, when in all reality it'll be damn hard to attract that sort of wide-ranging audience to anything these days. If you think about it, Buffy only got a chance cos it was on a struggling network, much in the way that Veronic Mars is on UPN now. Had the WB been Fox Buffy wouldn't have made it to half-way through season 1. And imagine that, a world without Buffy...
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Inara: "Do aliens live among us?"
Kaylee: "Yes. One of them's a doctor."
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Originally posted by BlackEyedGirl:
I LOVED Wonderfalls when it was on. I made everyone I knew watch it. Then Fox killed it, and I gotta say I wasn't surprised. I wasn't happy, but i wasn't surprised. It would have been best teamed up with something like Arrested Development. Tru Calling was a crap lead in for it. And then they moved it to the Friday night death slot and it was over.
I read a Tim Minear interview where he revealed some of the stuff that was going to happen in season 2, like the virgin conception of Jaye's sister (the lesbian). It actually sounded like they had big plans for this show, and so I'm even more crushed about it's death.
If you like Wonderfalls you'd probably love Dead Like Me, which is done by one half of the Wonderfalls team (the half that isn't Tim). But it only got 2 seasons, which is not nearly enough either.
The American ratings and TV system is in big trouble. They are always looking for the next friends, when in all reality it'll be damn hard to attract that sort of wide-ranging audience to anything these days. If you think about it, Buffy only got a chance cos it was on a struggling network, much in the way that Veronic Mars is on UPN now. Had the WB been Fox Buffy wouldn't have made it to half-way through season 1. And imagine that, a world without Buffy...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Inara: "Do aliens live among us?"
Kaylee: "Yes. One of them's a doctor."
Just FYI, you have it backwards. Wonderfalls started out in the friday death slot. They aired 3 eps and then moved it the next week to thursday, aired one ep and gave it the ax. Not fair treatment for such an original and funny show.
Also Bryan Fuller created Dead Like Me. It was a good show. I still have not seen the last few eps of the second and last season though. And I think he and showtime parted ways shortly after the show aired, creative differences or something. Todd Holland created Malcolm In The Middle. I like Todd but I never got into that show.
I'll be interested to see what Tim does next since his last three series have been dumped prematurely by fox.
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I've never seen wonderfalls, I am, however, guessing its good.
Is it the show that started on Sky One recently about a girl who can talk to inanimate objects?
Cause there was a show like that that I wanted to see recently, but, erm, didn't...
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Hey- thanks! Shall send that onto my brother.
1981 - gulp!
hehehe, Fray, that was the year i was born...
Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.
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Sean, salting the wound there!
Yup, Wonderfalls is the one you've missed although I'm sure Sky will repeat between endless programmes of the world's blankest blank.
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I know, couldn't resist...
I'm a bad bad man!
But I liked the worlds plainest blanket, enjoyed it nearly as much as C4's 100 greatest paints to watch dry...
Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.
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Hi
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
was a pilot program filmed by Euston Films the same people who shot "Minder" but they deceided not to go ahead with series shame because it was fun to work on.
Don Brown (Sound Mixer)
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Am I reading this right? You actually worked on Stainless Steel & The Star Spies?
That programme has been stuck in the memories of me & my brother for, well, more years than I care to remember! Shame I can't actually remember any specific details!
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Hi
Yes we filmed it a disused warehouse in Putney London in 1981 the people who built the puppets made the original Cadburys Smash Martians
The cameraman was the Oscar winning Freddie Young
"Lawrence of Arabia" and Doctor Zhivago"
Don
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That's spooky! I only have vague recollections of it (remember the title more than anything) but was thinking how they reminded me of the Smash Martians.
Thanks so much for posting! Nothing beats a bit of nostalgia!
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