Paul Huff (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} phuff) wrote,@ 2007-10-25 23:53:00 |
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Rants addressed to people who will never read my blog, but should.
Dear creators of Bionic Woman,
Your show's okay. I like it okay. The whole Jake 2.0 angle isn't being played up too much, and that show was kind of a knock-off of your original anyway. However, the "Bionic Noises" have _got_ to go. We, the viewers, can tell when the Bionic Woman is using her bionic powers. We can figure it out. We don't need a ridiculous outside-of-the-narrative-frame audible cue everytime it happens. Or ever. Just tell the sound guy to get rid of it.
Ever yours,
Paul Huff
Dear maintainers of Livejournal,
Nobody likes those hover-over-popup-previews. At least, nobody with sense does. Even if they've got a clever name that somebody in marketing somewhere came up with like "Snap". They're over intrusive, you can't hover over them without totally distracting yourself from what you're reading, and they're, quite simply, ugly. Not only should you not have turned them on by default for everybody, you shouldn't have ever coded up that feature in the first place. If your focus groups told you that people liked them, then think New Coke before making a similar change in the future.
Your humble servant,
Paul Huff
Dear J.K. Rowling,
If you wanted Dumbledore to be gay, you should have said so in your books. (Heaven knows they were long enough that no editor ever looked at them anyway, so it's obvious the so-called editors didn't keep it out.) Now that you've finished writing the books, you don't really have much of a say anymore. See Eco's The Limits of Interpretation for more on this topic. Basically, you can't re-write the book unless you actually re-write the book.
Your ever-devoted reader,
Paul Huff
Dear creators of Bionic Woman,
Your show's okay. I like it okay. The whole Jake 2.0 angle isn't being played up too much, and that show was kind of a knock-off of your original anyway. However, the "Bionic Noises" have _got_ to go. We, the viewers, can tell when the Bionic Woman is using her bionic powers. We can figure it out. We don't need a ridiculous outside-of-the-narrative-frame audible cue everytime it happens. Or ever. Just tell the sound guy to get rid of it.
Ever yours,
Paul Huff
Dear maintainers of Livejournal,
Nobody likes those hover-over-popup-previews. At least, nobody with sense does. Even if they've got a clever name that somebody in marketing somewhere came up with like "Snap". They're over intrusive, you can't hover over them without totally distracting yourself from what you're reading, and they're, quite simply, ugly. Not only should you not have turned them on by default for everybody, you shouldn't have ever coded up that feature in the first place. If your focus groups told you that people liked them, then think New Coke before making a similar change in the future.
Your humble servant,
Paul Huff
Dear J.K. Rowling,
If you wanted Dumbledore to be gay, you should have said so in your books. (Heaven knows they were long enough that no editor ever looked at them anyway, so it's obvious the so-called editors didn't keep it out.) Now that you've finished writing the books, you don't really have much of a say anymore. See Eco's The Limits of Interpretation for more on this topic. Basically, you can't re-write the book unless you actually re-write the book.
Your ever-devoted reader,
Paul Huff
