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The Global Frequency
2005-07-11, 2:01 AM #1
A day or two ago I found out about a new television show that had not yet been aired on traditional screens entitled: The Global Frequency. And what I heard about this new show is that it had been shelved by The WB, yet has recently risen a few eye brows through the rather uncondoned and distasteful p2p method of BitTorrent. Since then its received internation recognition through a British tabloid. Here is a link to the article regarding it: Article
Its a little small and a little hard to read so heres a little tidbit off the first paragraph.

Quote:
Its described as a brilliant mix between Alias and the X-Files. It has already received rave reviews and has a loyal fanbase of thousands around the world. But new sci fi tv show has never actually been seen on the small screen. That might just change though as the power of the Internet could force TV executives to show it even though they originally passed on the pilot.
That episode was mysteriously leaked on to the Net and has been picked up by thousands of downloaders using the unauthorized BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing programs. They have not stopped raving about it since.


I've found this torrent and watched the pilot... twice. It looks really good, basically taking the idea that ordinary people can and will do extraordinary things.

Basically posting a direct link to anything the nature of a p2p site wouldn't be a good idea but I'm sure enough on these boards are resourceful enough to find something like this on their own.

Additionally, do you think that p2p numbers could ever receive the attention of DVD sales?

I personally think not, but I think that it would be a good way to gauge how a demographic feels about a particular show.
Ya know? Common sense? Not really that common...
2005-07-11, 2:30 AM #2
heh, cool. is this based off Warren Ellis's "Global Frequency" comic? in case you never heard of it, it's about these bunch of people (1001 to be exact) who are all a sort of a quick-response emergency squad?
幻術
2005-07-11, 12:33 PM #3
its that story exactly
Ya know? Common sense? Not really that common...
2005-07-11, 12:42 PM #4
Heres a new article I found out about on Wired
Ya know? Common sense? Not really that common...
2005-07-11, 12:54 PM #5
cool, thanks for the link. on a sidenote, Warren Ellis is bloody brilliant.

here's a nice quote from his site:

Quote:
Where My Ideas Come From

I still get asked with appalling regularity “where my ideas come from.”

Here’s the deal. I flood my poor ageing head with information. Any information. Lots of it. And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes.

Eventually, you get a critical mass of information. Datum 1 plugs into Datum 3 which connects to Datum 3 and Data 4 and 5 stick to it and you’ve got a chain reaction. A bunch of stuff knits together and lights up and you’ve got what’s called “an idea".

And for that brief moment where it’s all flaring and welding together, you are Holy. You can’t be touched. Something impossible and brilliant has happened and suddenly you understand what it would be like if Einstein’s brain was placed into the body of a young tyrannosaur, stuffed full of amphetamines and suffused with Sex Radiation.

That is what has happened to me tonight. I am beaming Sex Rays across the world and my brain is all lit up with Holy Fire. If I felt like it, I could shag a million nuns and destroy their faith in Christ.

From my chair.

See, this is the good bit about writing. It’s what keeps you going. It’s the wild rush of “****, did I think of that?” with all kinds of weird chemicals shunting around your brain and ideas and images and moments and storyforms all opening up snapsnapsnap in your mind, a mass of new and unrealised possibilities.

It’s ten past two in the morning, and I’m completely wired, caught up in the new thing, shivering and laughing and glowing in the dark. Just as well it’s the middle of the night. No-one would be safe from me right now. I could read their minds and take over their heartbeats with a glare.

Faster than the speed of anyone.

That’s how it works.
幻術
2005-07-13, 12:18 AM #6
just saw the pilot. pretty good. a remake of the 1st comic in the series, basically. i wish they kept Alyph's cigarettes in the show, but oh well.

hopefully i-net will save it.
幻術

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