De Doc’s Institute for Memetic Engineering And Polymaths’ Pursuits

If you’re a fan of The Chronicles Of Narnia, go and take a look here, as the artisans of WETAanother door into Faerie.

I am old enough to remember when movies like LOTR, or this current project, would be essentially impossible.

And now…

The back of my neck is all a-tingle.

WOW.

Go view the featurette.

Had you shown me this publicity piece two years ago, I would have thought it some kind of odd prank:

… (Battlestar) Galactica delivered 2.2 million viewers aged 25-54 and 1.9 million among those aged 18-49. The show won a decisive victory over UPN’s Star Trek: Enterprise, outperforming its new episode in total viewers, among adults million vs. 1.7 million) and million vs. 1.5 million). …

Galactica is trouncing the Star Trek franchise? You must be JOKING.

But the joke’s on UPN, and Viacom; the SciFi Network is laughing all the way to the bank. And, very possibly, to the Hugos.

Some of you will remember that I had a harsh opinion of this version of BSG. I still think that calling this show “Battlestar Galactica” is right up there with Verhoeven’s naming his bughunt movie “Starship Troopers”.

That being said, the post-9/11 sensibility that Moore’s bringing to the project is apparently paying off. Reviewers from the UK are enthusastic about the stories they’ve already seen, and enjoying the fact that for once, US fen are envying UK fen — not vice versa. This new series is garnering a LOT of attention and interest, and I can’t find it in my heart to be too grumpy. Decent media-SF is hard to find, and if the new BSG team can continue to do good work, putting out a quality series…

well, I’ll consider it atonement for Earthsea, and call it even.