Apparently Someone Likes It

Out of curiosity I went scrounging around on the ‘net to see whether there had been any comment at all on that television show I wrote a few months back. It turns out that there’s an archived review from Valentine’s Day here.

I’m of two minds on the whole thing because the review itself doesn’t seem particularly informed, but then I have to wonder at the quality of the program itself. I have no idea how it turned out since I never saw the final result and more or less walked away once the final episodes were handed in. On the other hand, I’m glad that at least people seem to like it, but if I were to live on Arcturus IV, on the other, other hand, they say that this program’s quality is the result of the improvisation sessions, thus resulting in more natural, spontaneous sounding dialogue. To prove their point, they give a piece of dialogue, something about the disgruntled Asian guy who grew up in a white country being told, “You’re no longer a skinny little Chinese guy surrounded by six foot tall pale gorillas” and I had to break into a bitter grin at that, since, of course, no such line ever arose out of the improvs like that, and that entire character was more or less created and scripted by me because I wanted some comic relief and so took over the character entirely during the writing process.

Oh well… It’s funny what you don’t see in the commentaries and extras sections of these “making of” things…