From Twitter 05-23-2010

[scarfman]

• 07:07:16: @cartoonmoney The Cage does have footage that The Menagerie doesn't.
  
• 07:13:18: Dunno. It's a close call. RT @cartoonmoney @AKOTAS Alright, but is it a big enough difference?
  
• 14:00:06: Some days a blank cartoon template seems like an endless opportunity. Some days it haunts you.
  
• 15:20:07: When Spike asked Faith between punches where Buffy is, and Faith said, "I don't know," Spike oughta said, "Then you're of no use." #buffy
  
• 15:32:06: @cartoonmoney I can do it with random three-word snatches of dialog from M*A*S*H ...
  
• 17:41:33: I wonder why boys never fall for girl vampires.
  
• 18:07:20: I stand corrected, internet.
  
• 19:19:58: #AKOTAS updated: update for Gareth in the contemporary arc. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2195.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
  

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[athelind.livejournal.com]

The Cage does have footage that The Menagerie doesn't.

Oddly, I was just thinking about that on Saturday.

One of the things I love about "The Cage" is the bridge chatter: in those opening scenes, and any time the Enterprise actually does something like enter orbit or accelerate to space-warp speeds, the various crew stations are delivering snippets of high-quality technobabble back to Pike, reporting on the status of their systems. It feels very real and very NASA.

For me, one of the big disappointments of Enterprise (the series) is that they didn't try to capture that feel. In later eras, sure, warp travel has become routine, and constant verbal updates would hardly be needed, but for the shakedown cruise of an experimental prototype?

It wasn't until the revised BSG that we got a show that actually made a stab at that sort of thing in production episodes.

I wonder why boys never fall for girl vampires.

Wow, EVERY possible answer is reeking with ugly cultural double standards. The GENTLEST way to phrase it is "bad boys are alluring; bad girls are skeevy sluts", but that trivializes the romanticized sexual predation at the core of the modern vampire love story.

From your next Tweet, I suspect your contacts bombarded you with a plethora of counter-examples. Your question is still valid if you phrase it in terms of "the most popular recent vampire franchises", though, and could probably remain so in a broader context. I suspect that even some of the counter-examples would reinforce the "bad boys vs. bad girls" dichotomy.

The reasons behind that dichotomy are Too Big For Twitter: that's a doctoral thesis waiting to happen.

[scarfman]

For me, one of the big disappointments of Enterprise (the series) is that they didn't try to capture that feel.

I suspect the difference isn't so much that characters in 2001 didn't need as much to get the feel for supralight drive tech as viewers in 2001 didn't need as much to get the feel for supralight drive tech.