And so it came to pass that I got my hands on one of the latest Pathfinder Campaign Setting accessories - "Fey Revisited". And among the multitude of fey-related campaign ideas and elements I came upon the mention of "Lost Girl" - that's right, that "Lost Girl" that is a TV series Michelle Lovretta.
What can I say? At this moment I felt what was probably dramatic irony. From the beginning, "Lost Girl's" strategy was to incorporated everything into Fey, including vampires, werewolves (Dyson) and succubae (Bo), regardless of how they were seen as in the real world. (A succubus, for example, is a demon - not a Fey.) Only in the last half of the 3rd season does "Lost Girl" begins to identify other, non-Fey creatures/magic-users in its universe. Fair enough.
In any case, perhaps as a response to this cultural omnivory, we've got "Fey Revisited" that lists "Lost Girl" as a Fey-themed inspiration story alongside such different works as Algernon Blackwood's "Willows" and Guillermo Del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth", not to mention Lewis Carroll's "Alice". No offense, but only some of those sources talk about Fey of any sort, and yes, I know that real life is no barrier for a RPG campaign - I am just saying that that "Lost Girl" didn't differentiate between various creatures that it made into Fey, and now it made into a Fey-related campaign inspiration with an equal amount of indiscretion. Talk about karma!
PS: As for "Fey Revisited", it is quite a decent campaign sourcebook, though I am not sure that it is 28 bucks worth, you know?
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Spike: update
My apologies to anyone who got misled by my yesterday's post: Spike had cleaned up its game. 'Bar Rescue' appears to be airing full episodes for now, while 'Deadliest Warrior' and co once more show the 'episode highlights' label where appropriate. Sorry about the rant yesterday, then.
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Spike: latest developments
For an opening line, I am a fan of the TV channel Spike. Sadly, it appears to have become discontinued in Canada, but that's off topic. The topic is that Spike seems to be going downwards in quality, and its latest 'trick' is just another symptom of this deterioration.
Let's start at the beginning. And in the beginning we have one of the several programs that are aired on this channel: 'Bar Rescue'. As I said, Spike appears to have become discontinued in Canada, but its' site is still accessible, so that's okay.
On the other hand, this site doesn't show most of the new episodes from such shows as 'Bar Rescue', but they are releasing the so-called 'episode highlights': a bundle of scenes from various eps of different shows that are aired on Spike. That's still ok.
Lately, though, Spike has began to label those highlights as 'full episodes', which is not ok. A 3-4 minute scene from a 'Deadliest Warrior' episode is not a 'full episode', not to mention - seriously? A single clip (say, about an AK-47) from an episode 'Somali Pirates vs. Medellin Cartel' is the only highlight of that ep? Seriously?
In 'Bar Rescue' case this isn't as extreme, there the audience can enjoy a bit over 15 minutes worth of highlights from their latest ep, but it is not a full ep. No, for real - use the right label! If people will want to see episode highlights they will see them all the same, and if you try to trick other people into seeing them by using the wrong label, this will work only once or twice, and that's it. No one else will go there because the audience doesn't like to be tricked.
So: a popular TV channel is reduced to somewhat fraudulent tricks to have its audience watch the highlights from the new episodes of its' shows. How the mighty have fallen!
Let's start at the beginning. And in the beginning we have one of the several programs that are aired on this channel: 'Bar Rescue'. As I said, Spike appears to have become discontinued in Canada, but its' site is still accessible, so that's okay.
On the other hand, this site doesn't show most of the new episodes from such shows as 'Bar Rescue', but they are releasing the so-called 'episode highlights': a bundle of scenes from various eps of different shows that are aired on Spike. That's still ok.
Lately, though, Spike has began to label those highlights as 'full episodes', which is not ok. A 3-4 minute scene from a 'Deadliest Warrior' episode is not a 'full episode', not to mention - seriously? A single clip (say, about an AK-47) from an episode 'Somali Pirates vs. Medellin Cartel' is the only highlight of that ep? Seriously?
In 'Bar Rescue' case this isn't as extreme, there the audience can enjoy a bit over 15 minutes worth of highlights from their latest ep, but it is not a full ep. No, for real - use the right label! If people will want to see episode highlights they will see them all the same, and if you try to trick other people into seeing them by using the wrong label, this will work only once or twice, and that's it. No one else will go there because the audience doesn't like to be tricked.
So: a popular TV channel is reduced to somewhat fraudulent tricks to have its audience watch the highlights from the new episodes of its' shows. How the mighty have fallen!
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