They tried to do something similar by selling Pocahontas with just showing Colours of the Wind (not the opening of course)

I love the song but the animation and gags always seemed cheap to me. Is that just cuz I am still used to the movie more without it? Dunno. It's not like If I Never Knew You for Pocahontas where the basic animation was done by the original team

C'mon. That song is a highlight!

Did Fantasia 2000 ever get a wide release? I remember going to Vancouver and my parents taking me to seebit atvtge one Imax it was playing there (it never even came to our own city's IMAX). Now of course an IMAX release could play in hundreds or thousands of theatres but it seemed an odd strategy 17 years ago.

The Grimm Bros actually revised their original volume many more times than just twice, Wiki claiming their were 17 editions in the brothers lifetime—each time cleaning them up more and more as they became aimed more at kids. Famous changes are making a number of the evil mothers into step-mothers (I think an example…

I commented the same before reading this. I thought MAYBE it was too obviously based around fairy tales to be included in this list—but it really should be there.

I suppose it's too obviously based around subverting fairy tales to make this list, but I wish Neil Jordan/Angela Carter's underrated Company of Wolves had been included…

Thematically a remake I'll buy, but "basically a remake"? That seems a little too specific and to ignore how vastly different in nearly every way The Red Shoes and Black Swan are…

That's Scream's Skeet Ulrich!

He's off-screen hooking up with the gang member Kevin met at the drive-in. Poor Kevin—you snooze, you lose, I guess.

And I see it is set for BBCAmerica on April 15

Class doesn't really have much of a problem making excuses to travel to different realms, though…

Oh! I was thinking of the earlier twist—I had completely forgotten (blacked out?) that final reveal… I completely agree with you, in that case….

I liked the cliffhanger lol. I went back and forth on it episode by episode but overall really liked it. My main complaints were the villains were literally impossible for me to understand, and it felt like Ness had enough story for twice the number of episodes—when I say things were rushed I mean that things like…

Boo I heard a second season was a shoe in. Wasn't it a test for the BBC though first airing on their online channel? Which seemed odd (I think it then would later air on one of their tv networks). We got it the day later here in Canada on Space (Canada's sci fi channel).

I ultimately prefer Angel slightly. The irony is Jiss Whedon, while obviously his voice and final say coloured everything on Angel, was way way less hands on with that show—never even being a showrunner.

I get that. As an ex soap fan (ex only because the current remaining American ones are in horrible shape creatively and have been for over a decade) I do something similar

Twin Peaks soap elements (small town etc) seemed to be riffing more on daytime soaps and Peyton Place than the big city/big business 80s prime time soaps.
But when it comes to less soapy serialized shows besides Hill Street Blues there are examples like thirtysomething which I know some might call a soap (as some…

Well Peyton Place did that first. Pure soap but with, for its time, some of the best prime time production values out there. The production values absolutely hold up to any other late 60s prime time drama.

Also Twin Peaks got its serialization from Frost and Lynch wanting to partly twist the soap opera model (who did tv serialization first). Sure, they added genre elements to it, but… of course so did Dark Shadows 25 years before.
Then the 80s moved that into prime time with the over the top prime time soaps which were…