XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: graham@ditl.org   
      
   David Johnston wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   God, remember how we all ooohed and aaaahed at those big   
   rubber stop-motion dinosaurs eating cavemen? Remember   
   when Clash of the Titans was a spectacular special   
   effects movie? The good old days...   
      
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