It's the only one you're getting...
Warren Ellis sent out the baddest of Bad Signals yesterday:
I haven't seen it, and I'm not going to see it, okay? Quit
sending me torrent links and asking.
Why? Fuck you, that's why.
The end.
He was talking about the unbroadcast pilot episode of Global Frequency which recently surfaced.
Fuck you seems a very valid response.
I remember an old Clive Barker themed comic book that I used to read called Tapping the Vein. For the most part it was forgettable, but one story has never left me. In it a writer takes his latest idea and pitches it to a suit. This being a horror comic the idea takes the form of an actual infant - his 'baby'. The suit says he LOVES it but there'll have to be a few slight changes. This will have to go he says and rips off an arm. Oh and this will never do he says and off comes a leg. This needs adjusting and out comes an eyeball. Oh and this will never do and off come the genitals. The writer and the suit look at the (still smiling) maimed infant - one of them is happy with the result and the other is horrified. Then the suit notices one more thing that needs to come out and in one last cruel movement he rips out the heart.
Now that's fucking horror.
Seeing the Global Frequency pilot is actually worse because Warren Ellis created something truly awesome and by some stroke of luck the people involved in bringing that creation to television actually cared about what they were dealing with. Sure it's been tweaked somewhat for the medium, but it wasn't maimed. It's still got all it's limbs and Warren's own dark heart is beating in the thing because for 42 minutes or so you believe in those people. And better still you feel for them.
I love the Global Frequency comic books - if you don't own them I think less of you - and while Jess and I can sit side by side reading them (and we do) it's a different thing to see something from those pages come alive while curled up together in the same chair. When the show made me wipe the constant smile off my face with a wide grin I'd turn to Jess and she's grinning too. We both tensed when a trigger was pulled and we both shivered slightly with the line "You would have missed..."
Once it was over she said "Well, that was fucking awesome. How could they NOT pick this up?"
Seeing as John Rogers has gone into more detail about that than I have a right to all I could think of to say was "It's the only one you're getting..."
If I had any reservations that anyone could bring Miranda Zero to life then they fell away as soon as Michelle Forbes walked on screen. That character never even got a fucking chance to live and I'm already quoting her.
Fuck us then. Fuck us for putting up with the utter shit that spills from the TV set every single second and not DEMANDING better. Because fuck us if we don't realise there are people out there willing to give it.
So what's worse than having your baby mutilated and killed before your eyes?
How about having it dug up and slapped down in front of you and every fucker with your address turning up to say how much potential it had? Pointing at the corpse and reminding you that 'this' could have happened and how great it would have been if things had been different and how fucking ridiculous it is that it was killed...
People. Warren already knows that. Let him mourn.
Mike is writing to Big Black
Warren Ellis sent out the baddest of Bad Signals yesterday:
I haven't seen it, and I'm not going to see it, okay? Quit
sending me torrent links and asking.
Why? Fuck you, that's why.
The end.
He was talking about the unbroadcast pilot episode of Global Frequency which recently surfaced.
Fuck you seems a very valid response.
I remember an old Clive Barker themed comic book that I used to read called Tapping the Vein. For the most part it was forgettable, but one story has never left me. In it a writer takes his latest idea and pitches it to a suit. This being a horror comic the idea takes the form of an actual infant - his 'baby'. The suit says he LOVES it but there'll have to be a few slight changes. This will have to go he says and rips off an arm. Oh and this will never do he says and off comes a leg. This needs adjusting and out comes an eyeball. Oh and this will never do and off come the genitals. The writer and the suit look at the (still smiling) maimed infant - one of them is happy with the result and the other is horrified. Then the suit notices one more thing that needs to come out and in one last cruel movement he rips out the heart.
Now that's fucking horror.
Seeing the Global Frequency pilot is actually worse because Warren Ellis created something truly awesome and by some stroke of luck the people involved in bringing that creation to television actually cared about what they were dealing with. Sure it's been tweaked somewhat for the medium, but it wasn't maimed. It's still got all it's limbs and Warren's own dark heart is beating in the thing because for 42 minutes or so you believe in those people. And better still you feel for them.
I love the Global Frequency comic books - if you don't own them I think less of you - and while Jess and I can sit side by side reading them (and we do) it's a different thing to see something from those pages come alive while curled up together in the same chair. When the show made me wipe the constant smile off my face with a wide grin I'd turn to Jess and she's grinning too. We both tensed when a trigger was pulled and we both shivered slightly with the line "You would have missed..."
Once it was over she said "Well, that was fucking awesome. How could they NOT pick this up?"
Seeing as John Rogers has gone into more detail about that than I have a right to all I could think of to say was "It's the only one you're getting..."
If I had any reservations that anyone could bring Miranda Zero to life then they fell away as soon as Michelle Forbes walked on screen. That character never even got a fucking chance to live and I'm already quoting her.
Fuck us then. Fuck us for putting up with the utter shit that spills from the TV set every single second and not DEMANDING better. Because fuck us if we don't realise there are people out there willing to give it.
So what's worse than having your baby mutilated and killed before your eyes?
How about having it dug up and slapped down in front of you and every fucker with your address turning up to say how much potential it had? Pointing at the corpse and reminding you that 'this' could have happened and how great it would have been if things had been different and how fucking ridiculous it is that it was killed...
People. Warren already knows that. Let him mourn.
Mike is writing to Big Black
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sounds dead fucking right to me
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