XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: elvisgump@NOhotmailSPAM.com   
      
   in article 3fd652dd.96963835@news.telusplanet.net, David Johnston at   
   block@telusplanet.net wrote on 12/9/03 5:46 PM:   
      
   > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:59:23 -0600, z  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Graham Kennedy  wrote in news:1071004575.6058.0   
   >> @eunomia.uk.clara.net:   
      
   >>> I wouldn't be especially sad to see Enterprise go. I would   
   >>> be sad that they probably wouldn't want to make another   
   >>> series if this one flops. Not for quite a long while anyway.   
      
   >> I"d miss it.  The one thing going for making another series is that the   
   >> special effects costs are going down all the time   
      
   > They aren't, you know.  You just get better effects for a given   
   > investment, but since the audience is constantly getting more   
   > demanding (I still can't believe that people were actually bitching   
   > about the the CGI in the Hulk movie.  Man, they'd have a heart attack   
   > if they ever saw a Harryhausen movie), it always costs the same   
   > or more to do a new series.   
      
   I thought the quality of the Hulk animation was top-flight but I think a lot   
   of people were complaining because it was so unbelievably done. It was one   
   thing to imagine a guy could become the Hulk in the comics, maybe a stretch   
   to see Bill Bixby become the size of Lou Ferrigno but to see the Hulk become   
   15ft tall photo-realistically pushed it way too far to me.   
      
   As to "Enterprise" I've never heard what the per-episode cost of it is. I   
   remember there was a big deal made of the $1 million per episode that TNG   
   supposedly cost. Not all the episodes are obviously the same and they are   
   probably always trading budget from episode to episode to cover production   
   overages, such as maybe "Carpenter Street" having less FX than "Twilight",   
   but has there ever been talk about what the average episode costs?   
      
   Even if it's up to $2 million per for Enterprise, that's 26 hours for $52   
   million which is still cheaper than most one-off feature films.   
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