DVDs, Wedding Stuff & Outlines
In what is an unabashedly geeky moment of pure SF Joy, I saw the review on IGN for the Battlestar Galactica season 1 set. I was expecting the review to be good and it was. But what’s more important is that the review means the set is now available for shameless mass consumerism, and that means it will be available in Singapore at some point in the near future, and I want this set BAD. I haven’t wanted a DVD set for a television series this badly since Babylon 5, but then from what I’ve seen, Galactica has the potential to equal, and perhaps surpass what I saw in Babylon 5, so I’m a happy little nerd bouncing around the island hoping that some day reeeeeeeeeeal soon, I’ll be able to walk into the store and see that DVD set up there so I can squeal like a pig and roll around on my back until the foaming at my mouth stops.
In other news, yesterday the Fiance and I met up with the Solemnizer. I’m not sure how the others work, but this guy wanted to meet up with us and have a little talk first, to discuss the wedding plans, who we were, why we wanted to get married, how long we’d known each other, and stuff like that. He also needed to meet us so that he could sign some form saying that he had legally and voluntarily given us his operating number as a Solemnizer so that we could file for the marriage registration online, but have black & white proof of his having given us the number when the time came to pick up the physical documents. We also ran into his wife, the JOanne from my previous hunt, who wished us luck and once again expressed her okay-ness with the rather bizarre set of circumstances regarding why she was unsuitable for the wedding.
And of course, the mini-series continues apace. I’m hoping to have the outline (Or at least my end of it) done by tonight. The rehearsals have been going to some very weird places, but as it’s for the benefit of the actors, and to give us some idea of what their character is like (and because everyone is aware of the HUGE difference between television and stage work in Singapore and what is acceptable in either medium) we don’t expect to use everything, nor could we really. Some of the stuff they do is either well into the red zone, or financially impossible to pull with the budgets of local television. It’s really a shame. They’re generating some very nice moments, and there quite a few character pieces I’d love to use, but they are just impossible to pull off because the humanity they portray is in direct contrast with the reality that the broadcasters are obligated to present.
It’s inevitable, I think, that the final product is going to be grossly watered down. I just hope that the people in charge are aware of that, because it’s something me and the other writer always have in the back of our heads, and we also know that the company that’s providing the equipment for this has had enough experience with the Singapore broadcasting system to know what they are going to say “NO” to when they see the scripts and episodes start rolling out.
Oh well…