On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:39:03 -0500, "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>That's modern storytelling for you. Everything has gotten darker and
>grimmer than the original:
>Battlestar Galactica
>Bionic Woman
>Lost in Space
>Hollywood seems to have some pretty grim, dismal, depressed writers
>these days. In their stories, it's all darkness, evil conspiracies,
>paranoia, corruption, dysfunctional families.
>Even the latest Superman movie, "Superman Returns," was grimmer and
>joyless, compared to the ones that Christopher Reeve had starred in.
And, the irony is, with the possible exception of Galactica, what the
creators thought was a better treatment was, in fact, worse .. I liked the
new Bionic Woman character, and the actress who played her was good, but
everything about the milieu in which she lived and functioned just sucked
..
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