# Things you'd like to see but you know you ain't gonna **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784 "2010-07-06T22:08:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/21 "2010-07-07T07:25:30Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > [Cassandra Clare](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare) is probably the best known BNF right now. (Although since she made the transition to pro author, I’m not sure she counts as a fan anymore.) Isn’t she also a liar and a scum-sucking plagiarist? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/22 "2010-07-07T09:08:50Z")
Seasons 3 thru 5 of _Pushing Daisies_. A version of _Ladyhawke_ without the synth soundtrack. Digitally upgraded visual effects on some of my favourite 80s fantasy films. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/23 "2010-07-07T10:45:55Z")
I’d like Notre Dame football games on NBC to to cut back the number of commercials to the same level as other football telecasts, so that the game only takes 3 hours instead of 4.5 hours. I’d like the TV show \*Angel \*retconned so that the character Cordelia Chase wasn’t just thrown away. I never bought the “taken over by Jasmine and then put into a mystical coma” bit. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/24 "2010-07-07T10:53:25Z")
Oh that’s a good point. I want sports events to be put on their own channel and never to sully the main free-to-air channels ever again, including within the News. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/25 "2010-07-07T11:52:17Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Seasons 3 thru 5 of _Pushing Daisies_. Seasons 2 through 4 of _Freaks and Geeks._ ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/26 "2010-07-07T12:32:39Z")
I’d like to see the Earth from the vantage point of the Moon with my own eyes, not just in a picture. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/27 "2010-07-07T12:50:39Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > I would like to see Netflix, or some such, get more European movies from the 1970s. They’ve thousands already but I want to view quite selectively and several I want are still not to be found. I’d like it if Netflix were to add British (and other European) DVDs that are available only in Region 2 format. I have a region-free player and I’m sure others do as well, and there are many things that aren’t released in Region 1 format. (In some cases I’ve actually gone to the trouble of buying the DVDs from [Amazon.co.uk](http://Amazon.co.uk), but it’s an expensive way to watch these titles.) ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/28 "2010-07-07T12:57:56Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I’d like to see the Disney Channel get a whole lot [Darker and Edgier.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier) Not the channel, but there is a game coming out for the Wii called Epic Mickey. It’s not really _that_ darker and edgier, though it is still a step up for Disney. The original concept art, however, was dark, edgy, and [creepy as fuck.](http://offworld.com/2009/07/gallery-the-broke-down-steampu.html) (pretty much none of that cool stuff ever made it to the game…which pissed off a lot of people really, REALLY hoping for a dark, gritty, and acid-tripy adventure in the Magic Kingdom. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/29 "2010-07-07T13:02:23Z")
A Joss Whedon-esque show based on the adventures of Alacrity Fitzhugh and Hobart Floyt. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/30 "2010-07-07T13:19:19Z")
The standards – seasons 2-8 of _Firefly_ and a full return of _MST3K_. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/31 "2010-07-07T13:19:56Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Isn’t she also a liar and a scum-sucking plagiarist? Part of why she’s so well-known! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/32 "2010-07-07T13:24:00Z")
Ed McBain died before he could write his final book EXIT, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/33 "2010-07-07T13:25:45Z")
> [@ErinPuff](#): > > I want a BBC miniseries about Benjamin Britten, starring John Simm. Who’d play [my father](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/britten.htm)? > [@kyla](#): > > Pretty much what it sounds like. Someone who’s famous in fandom, usually for being a great writer. (Or artist, if you’re in a fandom that highly prizes fanart, I guess.) Not the BNFs I know. They’re famous for running and attending SF cons. Some include [the Wombat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Howard_Finder), Ben Yalow, Seth Breidbart (known in computer circles as the inventor of the [Breidbart Index](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breidbart_Index) for determining spam), Ben Yalow, Erwin S. Strauss, Sharon Sbarsky, etc. (I know them on the East Coast; there are also west-coast-based BNFs). ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/34 "2010-07-07T13:29:12Z")
My flying car. Not that cheesy half-airplane thing that has been in the news. A real George Jetson, honest-to-goodness, nuclear powered, autonomous, hovering flying car. The kind I can get in, voice command to go to any destination on Earth, and have if go there on it’s own without any further input from me. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/35 "2010-07-07T13:31:37Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Oh god, no. Fandom is wanky enough as it is. Giving BNFs the opportunity to voice their opinions on TV would make it about a million times worse. > > For people who are smart enough NOT to be involved with fandom, one favorite fannish activity is to argue about who is, and who isn’t, a Big Name Fan, or BNF. Getting accused of being a BNF makes you a magnet for wank. Hell, I once got accused of _acting like I think I’m a BNF_ and it got me wayyyy more attention than I wanted, or felt like I deserved. > > Of course, my fandom is famous for being wanky. _sigh_ Another time, we’ll tell you all about the SMOF (Secret Masters of Fandom). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/36 "2010-07-07T13:33:13Z")
I want to see a new season of _Firefly._ And _Dark Angel._ What? Hey, if _Futurama_ can rise from the grave . . . ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/37 "2010-07-07T13:34:18Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > My flying car. Not that cheesy half-airplane thing that has been in the news. A real George Jetson, honest-to-goodness, nuclear powered, autonomous, hovering flying car. The kind I can get in, voice command to go to any destination on Earth, and have if go there on it’s own without any further input from me. And when you get there, it folds up into a three-pound briefcase! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/38 "2010-07-07T14:15:50Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > A Joss Whedon-esque show based on the adventures of Alacrity Fitzhugh and Hobart Floyt. It’s. A. Pun. Man, I thought I was the only one who remembered those guys. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/39 "2010-07-07T14:20:55Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Man, I thought I was the only one who remembered those guys. The Strange Attractors stuff requires a bit of suspension of disbelief, but they’re great characters. Also, I’ve always thought _Why I Hate Saturn_ would have made a great two-hour TV movie. The last act would need some fleshing out but basically it’s a chick flick with explosions - what’ s not to like? I suspect that it has not aged well, however. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784/40 "2010-07-07T15:37:41Z")
I’d like to see the coyote eat the roadrunner. I’d like to see Knievel blown to bits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youd-like-to-see-but-you-know-you-aint-gonna/545784.md?page=3)