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Mar. 19th, 2003 06:59 pmCan I just say how irked I was Monday night, when I was trying to only sort-of watch the news -- thirty seconds of news, five minutes of channel surfing, thirty seconds of news -- that the scifi channel had preempted the standard Monday night that is all Stargate SG-1, all the time, for friggin' Children of Dune?
I mean, please. Why do people think epic novels must of necessity be made into 27-hour long tv movies? And whose brilliant idea was it to do yet another version of a Dune novel? Because I really needed to channel surf past what looked like the same scene every five minutes, with people standing in the desert and looking intense. Whee.
I read the Dune novels in high school. They were kinda fun, but they didn't make me want to suddenly buy them all and see them on the big screen. I was all "Worms. Spice. Pain. Death. Bene Gesserit. Gotcha. Now, where's my next set of short stories by Ursula K. LeGuin?"
Also, I like Stargate, and I didn't get to see it much in its original run, because in my area it was in syndication at what seemed like a different time each weekend. Pfui.
I mean, please. Why do people think epic novels must of necessity be made into 27-hour long tv movies? And whose brilliant idea was it to do yet another version of a Dune novel? Because I really needed to channel surf past what looked like the same scene every five minutes, with people standing in the desert and looking intense. Whee.
I read the Dune novels in high school. They were kinda fun, but they didn't make me want to suddenly buy them all and see them on the big screen. I was all "Worms. Spice. Pain. Death. Bene Gesserit. Gotcha. Now, where's my next set of short stories by Ursula K. LeGuin?"
Also, I like Stargate, and I didn't get to see it much in its original run, because in my area it was in syndication at what seemed like a different time each weekend. Pfui.
