Duggy wrote:
> Doug Freyburger  wrote:
>
>> Chortle.  Sturgeon's law remains a reality.  if I want the top ten
>> percent it's necesary for the market to include the other 90% ...
>
> I have to say there's a difference between damaging SF and SF I don't
> like.  I've made it very clear that I didn't like Firefly, however, I
> think that it wasn't damaging.  Whereas, bad b-grade stuff, is
> damaging.
Just to check - You think the same principle applies to every other
genre as well, right?  The bad b-grade romantic comedies damage that
genre in the same way?  But romantic comedies are more popular so the
damage is larger and the successes even larger still.  It's the same
game with two extra digits on all of the numbers.
Historically a very large percentage of monetary block busters have been
broadly speculative fiction, horror and fantasy.  Many of the hugely
successful ones have been horribly bad.  That the execs have not figured
this out shows stupidity on the level that I wonder how they find their
Depends in the morning because they certainly can't find or figure out
how to use those complicated rest room places.
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