Middle Week
Mar. 1st, 2006 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsallovernowThe interview went well, I think. I'm sure I sounded a little dorky (especially when I was making the squelching sounds of an esophagus being burned), but mostly I think I was articulate. It was interesting to put on my analysis/writer/fan hat for a specific subject, to coax open both aspects. It's not that I'm a CSI fan in the way that we define fannishness (no fic reading, no devotion to actors and characters), but I do enjoy it and I have spent A LOT of time thinking about it over the last year due to SMRT-TV. (And Liz, I didn't get a chance to really mention the website!! They promised to plug it though!! I was running late and we just stepped right into talking about the show!!) I'm trained in analysis - literary and textual, so it was fun to get to use those skills in response to someone else's questions. I'm not sure I could have been that analytical (verbally) about a show I was enamoured with. There's something about the distance that helps with sounding reasonable. Although, who knows how it'll come across.
Anyway, the show's called High Definition hosted by Don McKellar and according to the CBC website, it'll air on Saturday morning at 11:30 a.m. (I'm guessing that the segment on CSI will be a short component of the whole thing). I'm hoping they stream it so I can hear myself sound dorky:)
He asked about the violence, unsurprisingly, and whether the interest in this sort of show reflects our post 9/11 sensibilities, asked about character development, and it's all the stuff we talk about here reflected back.
I found many of the responses here to be interesting, actually. For one, I got several responses from people bothered by the franchising of the show (and I won't mention the SG-1/SGA thing or the Buffy/Angel thing. And yes, I know they're genre shows, but it's the same concept folks). I also had one person say they didn't think the writing and acting were very good. I'd beg to differ on that (at least for the original flavor. You can say all the negative things about CSI:Miami you'd like:). I do think the acting and the writing are well done. But it's a different kind of show with a different purpose and sensibility, and I think a big part of it's appeal is the way it allows us to leave it at the door once the hour is up.
Thank you all for responding though!! It was much appreciated and gave me something to bring with me in my brain to keep it thinking about the subject matter.
Anyway, the show's called High Definition hosted by Don McKellar and according to the CBC website, it'll air on Saturday morning at 11:30 a.m. (I'm guessing that the segment on CSI will be a short component of the whole thing). I'm hoping they stream it so I can hear myself sound dorky:)
He asked about the violence, unsurprisingly, and whether the interest in this sort of show reflects our post 9/11 sensibilities, asked about character development, and it's all the stuff we talk about here reflected back.
I found many of the responses here to be interesting, actually. For one, I got several responses from people bothered by the franchising of the show (and I won't mention the SG-1/SGA thing or the Buffy/Angel thing. And yes, I know they're genre shows, but it's the same concept folks). I also had one person say they didn't think the writing and acting were very good. I'd beg to differ on that (at least for the original flavor. You can say all the negative things about CSI:Miami you'd like:). I do think the acting and the writing are well done. But it's a different kind of show with a different purpose and sensibility, and I think a big part of it's appeal is the way it allows us to leave it at the door once the hour is up.
Thank you all for responding though!! It was much appreciated and gave me something to bring with me in my brain to keep it thinking about the subject matter.
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Date: 2006-03-01 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-01 09:16 pm (UTC)Btw, totally off-topic - someone's finally started a
*nudges you to sign up*
I'm pretty much caught up with SG-1 canon now, so I can even offer to beta/canon-pick, if that would encourage you.
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Date: 2006-03-01 10:04 pm (UTC)And eek with the nudging. Let me look at the deadline! Because oh so tempting!
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Date: 2006-03-02 07:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 09:55 pm (UTC)And yay for it going well! I'm really excited to hear this!
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Date: 2006-03-01 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-01 10:18 pm (UTC)RE: the social saturation. An example: the History Network up here has been airing China Beach at 11PM weeknights. I was watching it the other night, and there was a Marg Helgenburger scene. And I thought to myself "I BET I could compare young Marg to older Marg - CSI just HAS to be on at least one channel right now. And, of course, it was....
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Date: 2006-03-01 10:56 pm (UTC)And yeah, there's the major difference of being interested in one show and not the other:)
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:09 pm (UTC)ps
Date: 2006-03-01 11:11 pm (UTC)i meant to add that that's interesting about the frachising. and being able to leave something at the end of the hour is intriguing. says something about how much emotional energy the audience might have left over to invest in the show, stories, and characters?