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Post by LadyTass2001 on Jun 18, 2005 19:07:02 GMT -5
I found a list of so called Fantasy Television shows-- on this list I can truthfully say that only about 4 of them is what I consider "Fantasy" what do you think? Give us your opinion-- here is the list and what I would classify them as
#1-- American Gothic--contemporary Horror
#2--Beauty & the Beast--Fantasy
#3--Dark Skies--contemporary Horror
#4--Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman--Historical Fiction
#5--Early Edition--Paranormal/Supernatural
#6--Fantasy Island--Fantasy
#7--Forever Knight--contemporary Horror
#8--Hercules--Fantasy
#9--Highlander--Supernatural/Paranormal
#10--Lois & Clark--?--not sure what to put this one under
#11--Lonesome Dove - The Outlaw Years--Historical Fiction
#12--Millenium--Sci-fi
#13--Nowhere Man--?--never heard of it
#14--Poltergeist: The Legacy--contemporary Horror
#15--PSI Factor--Supernatural/Paranormal
#16--Quantum Leap--Science Fiction
#17--Roar--Fantasy
#18--Sliders--Science Fiction
#19--The Magnificent Seven--Historical Fiction
#20--The Pretender--Adventure/Mystery
#21--The Young Riders--Historical Fiction
#22--Young Hercules--Fantsy
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Post by jabberwocky on Jun 22, 2005 23:36:55 GMT -5
I found a list of so called Fantasy Television shows-- on this list I can truthfully say that only about 4 of them is what I consider "Fantasy" what do you think? Give us your opinion-- here is the list and what I would classify them as #1-- American Gothic--contemporary Horror #2--Beauty & the Beast--Fantasy #3--Dark Skies--contemporary Horror #4--Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman--Historical Fiction #5--Early Edition--Paranormal/Supernatural #6--Fantasy Island--Fantasy #7--Forever Knight--contemporary Horror #8--Hercules--Fantasy #9--Highlander--Supernatural/Paranormal #10--Lois & Clark--?--not sure what to put this one under #11--Lonesome Dove - The Outlaw Years--Historical Fiction #12--Millenium--Sci-fi #13--Nowhere Man--?--never heard of it #14--Poltergeist: The Legacy--contemporary Horror #15--PSI Factor--Supernatural/Paranormal #16--Quantum Leap--Science Fiction #17--Roar--Fantasy #18--Sliders--Science Fiction #19--The Magnificent Seven--Historical Fiction #20--The Pretender--Adventure/Mystery #21--The Young Riders--Historical Fiction #22--Young Hercules--Fantasy Lois & Clark I think you could list that under Comic Book. Nowhere Man: Bruce Greenwood stars as documentary photographer Thomas Veil who, in the course of one evening, seemingly has his whole existence erased, in the compelling one-hour drama Nowhere Man. It appears as if some mysterious and powerful entity has coerced Veil's family and friends into cooperating in a clandestine plan to annul every trace of him. Veil is all alone with no option but to begin a desperate, dangerous quest to find out how and why this has happened and most importantly, who is behind this torturous scheme. It was interesting but not that new of a concept, I think that one of the old Starsky & Hutch episode was about a guy that had this sort of think happen to him and he finds Starsky & Hutch to get them to help him out finding out what haapened to him. |
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Post by Quest on Jul 5, 2005 9:40:44 GMT -5
Some of them I've not certain I would consider them Fantasy, like Dr. Quinn, but admittedly Dr. Quinn wasn't necessarily an accurate portrayal of the west. Technically every show is fantasy to some degree or the other.
Lois and Clark started off really good and got worse as it went on. ABC firing Deborah Joy Levine wasn't a good move on their part.
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Post by jabberwocky on Jul 5, 2005 17:10:46 GMT -5
I think is safe to say you can place Dr. Quinn under the heading Historical Fiction, Fiction that takes place in the passed but has nothing to do with a factual history.
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Post by Quest on Jul 6, 2005 7:16:10 GMT -5
I was glad to see American Gothic on the list. That was a good show which suffered a too quick death by CBS.
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Post by markus on Jul 6, 2005 20:46:39 GMT -5
Quest , I have heard of it what is it about?
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Post by Quest on Jul 10, 2005 9:08:14 GMT -5
It was created and producer by Sean Cassidy, of all people.
It took place in a small southern town. It came on CBS in 1995. Gary Cole played Sheriff Lucas Buck of the South Carolina town of Trinity.
Buck was very popular with the townspeople. He was also incredibly evil and possessed supernatural powers. A young boy named Caleb was actually Buck's son due to an affair he had with the mother. Caleb was orphaned (by Buck, actually) and Buck wanted Caleb to follow in his footsteps. Unfortunately for Buck Caleb's cousin Gail Emory comes to town and wants to protect him against Buck. The local town doctor joins Gail in her fight to keep Caleb away from Buck.
Caleb was frequently visited by his sister, Merlyn, who was a ghost. In fact, Buck had killed Caleb's sister.
Buck was one of the most evil characters ever portrayed on TV. And he was the lead of the series. The show only ran for 22 episodes on CBS and the fans really wished for more. Unfortunately CBS kept moving the show around and, since it was serialized, it was difficult for new people discovering it to keep up with it.
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Post by Quest on Jul 10, 2005 9:12:24 GMT -5
American Gothic also had some extremely memorable quotes. Here are some of them:
Merlyn Temple: Someone's at the door!
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Deputy Ben Healy: I'm sick of keepin' secrets, Lucas.
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Then leave that one alone, Ben. 'Cause the next time you go back there, you'll be stinkin' up the place yourself.
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Caleb Temple: I ain't your son!
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Beg to differ.
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Caleb Temple: I don't like trains, and I hate apple pie!
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Well... fine.
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Caleb Temple: I hate you!
Sheriff Lucas Buck: And someday, we'll make that hate work for you.
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Caleb Temple: I hate you!
Sheriff Lucas Buck: For now.
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Caleb Temple: I smell a ghost.
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Caleb Temple: I'm not like every little boy. I'm Lucas Buck's son.
Deputy Ben Healy: I know that...
Caleb Temple: So when I tell you to do something, you gonna do it, right?
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[to Merlyn, who's a ghost]
Caleb Temple: I'm tired of your preaching. Tired of your white dress. And I don't wanna see you no more. So why don't you just go somewhere and decompose?
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Caleb Temple: The Buck starts here.
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Caleb Temple: They say you dream about the person who's gonna kill you.
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Caleb Temple: This ain't right.
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Sure it is, boy. You're doing fine.
Caleb Temple: No, sir.
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Deputy Ben Healy: Well, it's a grey gun. A grey gun.
Sheriff Lucas Buck: A ray gun?
Deputy Ben Healy: A grey gun, Lucas! It's a grey gun!
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Deputy Ben Healy: What's going on here?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Oh, all kinds of fun. Matter of fact... things are just getting good.
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Deputy Ben Healy: Why do you think they call them "southern belles"?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: That's French, Ben. It means "beautiful."
Deputy Ben Healy: Oh yeah, I knew that. Four-alarm "belles."
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Brian: You're late.
Sheriff Lucas Buck: And up until now, you were still on my good side.
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Caleb Temple: Are you spying on me?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Heck, no! That ain't my style.
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[after hitting a guy with a shovel]
Sheriff Lucas Buck: These things have a thousand uses!
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: A good loser is still a loser.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Conscience is just the fear of getting caught.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Too late for salvation my friend!
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Merlyn Temple: Do you know what happens to dogs when they die, Caleb?
Caleb Temple: What happens to them?
Merlyn Temple: They get to run free all day long, and at the night times, they get to rest at the feet of their masters.
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Caleb Temple: You ever read the Bible, Tina? They got the expression in there, "Eye for an eye." Sheriff Buck taught me that.
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Lt. Drey: You always disturb evidence with such impunity, Buck?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: You always go around barkin' up the wrong tree, Drey?
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Fr. Tilden: How did you get in here?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Faith.
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Gail Emory: Don't you give a damn about anything?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Yeah. But not journalism.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Cat got your pen?
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: I could never imagine myself in what you call "love."
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: I don't actually give; I deal. Are you ready to make a deal?
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: I tell you what, I think that girl's pulling your string.
Caleb Temple: Well, I don't know what that means.
Sheriff Lucas Buck: You will.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: I'm afraid you're under arrest.
Barbara Joy Flood: On what charge?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Stealing my heart.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: I've seen your future, Mel, and, uh...
[laughs]
Sheriff Lucas Buck: it's tragic.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Just remember, a good loser's still a loser.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Leave the light on for me, will you, darlin'? I may wanna... tempt fate.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Looks like Marlene did you right. She comes from a long line of backwoods nymphos.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Maybe some monkey's running around Trinity doing his thing with bored housewives.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Some folks would lay all of Trinity's troubles at my doorstep, but hell, you might as well blame a trailer park for attracting lightning bolts and tornadoes.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: The profession of journalism has about as much integrity as the world's oldest profession; maybe less. At least whores don't kid themselves about their motives.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Well, well. Feels like you might be coming down with a fever. Hmm... maybe we should slide in the thermometer and take a readin'.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: You know me better than that, love. I don't "do" anything. Things just happen.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: You know what a conscience is?
Caleb Temple: It's like, uh... when you do something wrong and it bothers you?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Well. Not me.
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Dr. Matt Crower: You don't know anything about my demons.
Sheriff Lucas Buck: 'Course I do.
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Dr. Matt Crower: I'll shoot you three places I know are instantly fatal.
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Dr. Matt Crower: Go to hell.
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Been there. And you know what? It ain't half bad.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: You think you're the only woman I have to service tonight?
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: You look like you got a jock fulla chiggers.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: What about the almighty pursuit of the truth? You kinda chucked that awful fast.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: What I say is, be careful what you see in a man's eyes. Might not be the truth.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Well. If it ain't the Hardy Boys.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Well, won't that be cozy. Just the two of you. In intensive care.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: The past isn't dead. Hell, it's not even the past.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Son, nobody makes anybody do anything they don't wanna do in the first place.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Selena, honey... this was not safe sex.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: See? There's that word again. "Choice."
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Only two roads in this world. And if you're listening to anyone but me, you're on the wrong one.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Is this what scared feels like?
Selena Coombs: I wouldn't know.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: He may be cured, but his personality hasn't improved any.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: Do you know what a mentor is?
Caleb Temple: Half-man, half-beast?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: That's a minotaur.
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Gail Emory: What are you doing?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Prayin'.
["Preyin'"?]
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Judge: I didn't know you were a gardener, Lucas.
Sheriff Lucas Buck: I've been known to pull a few weeds.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP, TRINITY! I always wanted to do that.
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Gail Emory: What could I possibly be hiding from you?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Your true feelings, perhaps?
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Caleb Temple: What're you doing here?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Lookin' after my own.
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[Last lines of the series]
Caleb Temple: Well, what will I do without her?
Sheriff Lucas Buck: Oh... I think we'll get by.
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Sheriff Lucas Buck: All guilt is relative. Loyalty counts. And never let your conscience be your guide
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Post by LadyTass2001 on Jul 10, 2005 14:22:43 GMT -5
some of those are really good--LOL--
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Post by Quest on Jul 12, 2005 6:35:08 GMT -5
There was talk a few years back of an American Gothic movie, based on the series but not exactly a continuation starring Gary Cole (the feeling was that too much time had gone by for the general audience to remember everything that had gone on). Unfortunately this project got stalled and never developed.
Sean Cassidy tried again with another show called "Hollyweird" for Fox. He sold the pilot to them, but they kept insisting on radical changes to it once it sold. It went through three different incarnations during the summer before the fall schedule was to begin. Cassidy eventually withdrew from the project completely due to Fox's inability to decide what they wanted. The basic concept for Hollyweird resurfaced again without Cassidy under a different production team and was called "Freakylinks" on Fox.
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Post by LadyTass2001 on Jul 12, 2005 11:05:53 GMT -5
Imagine that-- take something and change it so much no one would like it then put it on-LOL-
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Post by jabberwocky on Jul 12, 2005 23:23:33 GMT -5
There was talk a few years back of an American Gothic movie, based on the series but not exactly a continuation starring Gary Cole (the feeling was that too much time had gone by for the general audience to remember everything that had gone on). Unfortunately this project got stalled and never developed. Sean Cassidy tried again with another show called "Hollyweird" for Fox. He sold the pilot to them, but they kept insisting on radical changes to it once it sold. It went through three different incarnations during the summer before the fall schedule was to begin. Cassidy eventually withdrew from the project completely due to Fox's inability to decide what they wanted. The basic concept for Hollyweird resurfaced again without Cassidy under a different production team and was called "Freakylinks" on Fox. Yeah, that sounds like Fox. lol |
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