{"id":1221,"date":"2008-09-12T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2008-09-12T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T21:32:08","slug":"the-genre-ghetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"The Genre Ghetto"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a similar vein as yesterday’s Journeyman-heavy post…why do so many genre actors inspire such feverish loyalty in fans, yet can’t seem to break through to the mainstream? Why isn’t Nathan Fillion a big action star? Why doesn’t anyone outside the cable TV movie world recognize Emma Caulfield’s crackerjack comic timing? And so on.<\/p>\n

This particularly boggles me when it comes to…<\/p>\n

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That’s Claudia Black and Ben Browder, former stars of Farscape<\/em>. They are both amazing. I find their offbeat charisma completely irresistible — neither is really pigeonhole-able, neither fits into a neat little Hollywood box…but when they’re onscreen, I can’t look away. They both have kind of an olde-thymey movie star quality. Post-Farscape<\/em>, they found work on Stargate SG-1<\/em>, which…nothing against that show, but it just seems like a shame that they were both recruited to an aging, less exciting Sci Fi Original rather than going on and…I don’t know, having an entire show built around them or something. I know that’s completely unrealistic. It’s just…they’re both so awesome! And so many not-awesome people are famous! Not faaaaaaaaaaair!<\/p>\n

But what is that? Is it the whole “genre ghetto” thing? Are they just expected to make all their money at conventions now? Discuss, explain, vent, whatever. It’s Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a similar vein as yesterday’s Journeyman-heavy post…why do so many genre actors inspire such feverish loyalty in fans, yet can’t seem to break through to the mainstream? Why isn’t Nathan Fillion a big action star? Why doesn’t anyone outside the cable TV movie world recognize Emma Caulfield’s crackerjack comic timing? And so on. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,69,4],"tags":[280,292,304],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitching","category-fandom","category-tv","tag-ben-browder","tag-claudia-black","tag-farscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}