Grey's Anatomy Prepares To Give Birth (Trees And Things)

uncarved block: Smacks Forehead

Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:28:12 EST

OK, this goes to show how little I think about business. There's a perfectly good word to describe what L&O and CSI are doing: franchise. In fact, I think the word has even been used in preference to spin off, though I don't read enough ab

Thalia: Re: Parsing "Spin-off"

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:40:00 EST

I'm going to vote for "clone" because as far as I can tell there is little difference between it and the original, except it's got a shorter lifespan. So clone seems rather appropos.

Thalia

uncarved block: Parsing "Spin-off"

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:09:42 EST

From the language perspective, that's an interesting question. Most spin-offs before CSI (and Law And Order, to give proper credit) actually changed the basic structure of the show, or at least many of the narrative assumptions t

Thalia: Re: Grey's Anatomy Prepares To Give Birth

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:16:07 EST

And here I thought the king of spin-offs was CSI. Don't they run 20 shows now or something? It seems that they take a character, introduce him in a different time zone, and have yet another of the same show, only with different characters. Or i

coquito: Re: Grey's Anatomy Prepares To Give Birth

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:45:10 EST

I guess the time is ripe for me to write a prime-time drama about this girl I knew in college who fucked 4 or 5 dudes and a woman (mostly not all at the same time) while her military husband was deployed overseas. Apparently that sort of thing lig

dzetetes: Re: Grey's Anatomy Prepares To Give Birth

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:24:42 EST
I don't like Grey's Anatomy. I find most of the characters pretty unsympathetic. I'm fine with unsympathetic characters if they're interesting (like Denethor of Gondor in LOTR, who was delightfully insane), but they're mostly uninteresting and