[Theepistle] Why a remake of the Saint would be awesome

[Tim Forcer]

Hi all,

My thanks to Carolyn for a most interesting and useful packet of 
information about _Human Target_.

I can't help wondering, who are the biggest idiots?

Viewers, who rarely stay away in enormous droves from recycled/cloned 
second-rate dumbed-down rubbish.

Advertisers, who seem happy to buy space in the ad-breaks for 
recycled (etc) TV rubbish and the cinema ads which go with their 
big-screen equivalents.

Writers, who at least have the justification of avoiding biting the 
hand that feeds and are happy to deliver what the studios most demand.

Senior studio folk, who sit on top of gigabuck empires, so are 
clearly justified in regarding themselves as Masters of their 
particular Universe, and therefore must be the ultimate arbiters of 
what is and is not good.  (Shades of senior bankers?)

I suppose I should take more notice of a Sam Goldwyn quote I 
particularly like: "Nobody ever went broke under-estimating the taste 
of the public."  Change "taste" for "sensibilities", "intelligence", 
"discrimination", etc, to suit one's whim.

Have a good weekend,

Tim