Re: My Own Worst Enemy - season 1
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Originally Posted by Joe H
Basically what most speculated, that Edward knew that he was never going to be able to have a real relationship and that it sort of takes care of his needs.
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It still doesn't actually make sense - it's not like he's actually getting the benefit of Henry's life in any way that we can see. I suppose that the current plot with Mike O'Malley's character(s) may be about exploring the link between the two lives a little - especially if the agent becomes more erratic as the cover's life falls apart - but I think getting to that point requires an awful lot more investment in terms of time than it's reasonable to expect the audience to give.
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Originally Posted by KevinGress
I think that until a better model is adopted - a 2 hour self-contained pilot, 6 or 8 hour miniseries, etc. people are going to continue to let shows like MOWE pass by.
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Well, that overlooks the fact that
My Own Worst Enemy didn't just fail because NBC didn't do all they could. As I mentioned earlier, the show has a few basic structural problems. I think it was also not helped at all by the fact that NBC ordered it straight from the pilot script or even the proposal, so they really had no time to see what wasn't working between episode 1 and 2, and by the time the problems could be identified, it would be a multi-week turnaround by which time even more of the audience would have bailed. This week was better than most, but it was probably too little, too late.
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Originally Posted by KevinGress
Why shouldn't I wait for the show to go to DVD first? In fact, while at this stage it's still dicey, I think a showrunner like Whedon would be better served to simply run his/her show directly to DVD to avoid the hassle, and if it's a hot enough product, then the networks will come crawling (see: Sanctuary)
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As to the first question, one of the great things about network TV is that it hits everybody at the same time, and you can talk on fora like this or at the water cooler and, if you're enthusiastic enough, maybe turn someone else onto it. Even if you're not directly counted in the Nielsens, you can still exert some influence to make a show you like a success and get that sort of enjoyment out of it. It's also how these things are designed to work, as a serial.
As to the second question, I suspect producers want the resources a network gives them. $2M+/hour productions don't go direct to video except by accident, and the combination of DVD and online doesn't yet offer the sort of revenue streams ad-supported networks do. Even a guy like Whedon is likely going to have a hard time making something with the production values of
Firefly or
Dollhouse for video - after all, Sci-Fi basically threw out the original 15-minute episodes of
Sanctuary before airing their version.
