![]() And Perlman (who from all accounts did take Beauty and the Beast very seriously) did a wonderful a job of acting, through all that getup. The dialog had a kind of elegance to it, not at all common in TV, which I admit to enjoying. Few of the episodes had a plot worthy of the name, but it was often pleasant to hear Ron Perlman reciting poetry. But I found this series strangely watchable, and others of my temperament have said the same. ![]() And I don't especially like "fantasy", with a few exceptions. (3) I'm not a fan of what is called "romance" (few men are, as I've pointed out) in fact, the overly solemn Winter's Tale is the only Shakespeare play I don't like. This series is just about the only unashamed fantasy (for adults) which TV seems to have produced with a mass audience in mind and without intending satire, a takeoff, or "camp." Which is, I suppose, why the promoters of this series thought they had a chance. (2) On the other hand, a significant portion of our population likes "fantasy" (as opposed to "romance" in the narrow sense), as is proved by the popularity of the Lord of the Rings films. That cheesy popular guru who writes about Mars and Venus appears not to know the half of it. This says something weird about our society, although (I repeat) I don't know exactly WHAT it says. Statistics suggest that significantly more women than men find it profound. ![]() You find this sort of thing profound or silly, and in our society it seems the majority find it silly. This is not at all surprising, since it's women who read what is called "romance", which its opponents call "mush": the lovers talking in flowery, quasi-religious language about their relationships no development or change in the characters and an absolute lack of humor. (1) We are told that the audience was heavily female. ![]() The blurb was not very well done, but in any case concluded with the remark: "Are you ready for a different kind of passion?" For good or ill, most people weren't. ![]() When it became obvious that this series, which obviously aspired to be the next Star Trek (not just a TV show but a cult, complete with movies, action figures, conventions, t-shirts, books, calendars, etc.) had die-hard fans but not enough of them to sustain the phenomenon, I recall that CBS started running a little promotional blurb for it. ![]()
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