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Fantasy TV shows
Wulfen:
Ive noticed that the Fantasy genre seems to get the short stick when it comes to TV. I cant remember a non-animated/kids show fantasy series.
And by Fantasy I mean Elves, Dwarves, Goblins, Dragons, Magic and so on. There's huge amounts of materiel for possible series and a ready-made audience (think LOTR) so why not? I mean Sci-Fi, which is generally lumped togethor with Fantasy, has several new series created all the time.
What does people think? We need to address the lack of adult-maturity Fatasy show?
shrimp:
Thats cause the stuff they did do was AWFUL... See Xena Warrior princess and Hercules. Dreadful CGI monsters and godawful scripting...
ASturge:
Hercules was funny!!!
I think one reason is that all the costumes/makeup/effects would cost a complete shitload.
LiterSize:
ROAR. now. It had Druids, Romans, even allusions to Jesus! OH MY. I think Xena and Hercules were the big return to that, but yeah. Maybe if it was "Law & Order: Dragon Victims Unit" or "CSI: Shangri-La" then they'd be back. As it stands, I guess Stargate is the closest we get?
practicality:
I think it's hard to get a large enough budget so that sets, special effects, costumes, etc don't look cheesy, and to get a good script that's not too cliched.
Fantasy books let the mind give the setting all the details that it wants.
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