The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Moonlight: my powers are strong, but not that strong" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/07/moonlight_my_powers_are_strong_but_not_that_strong.php Comments for the entry "Moonlight: my powers are strong, but not that strong" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:12:13 +00:00 Comment from Jonathan Reed Haha, that's great.
I used to get lots of emails of a similar nature when I used to help run gotfuturama.com. Somehow some (probably young and foreign) viewers thought I was something to do with running of the show and I'd get a mixture of really quite sweet emails saying how 'it my favourite tv to watch all the time' or (when it was cancelled) 'how could you stop making more. Futurama is my favourite ever. Please make more. I would pay lots to see more.'
On reflection I could have made a lot of cash - although in a very un-ethical way!
Strange how that person singled out you on a general tv/entertainment blog. At least you could see where these people found my connection.

]]> 4207@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24349 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:12:13 +00:00 Comment from Persephone I was an ESL teacher before I had children, and my guess is that your very polite and rather formal correspondant is probably not a native English-speaker. He or she (probably she -- Moonlight was that kind of programme) evidently got tangled up in your elegant style and advanced vocabulary, and was left with the impression that you are a person of power and influence. Which you are. Just not in that particular sphere. (I tried to watch Moonlight, but quite apart from the squeamishness factor [mine], couldn't get over vampires that had been around for decades in some cases and centuries in others but were still so shallow. Perhaps their depth had been sucked out of them by living in California?)

]]> 4207@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24355 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:19:47 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob "My guess is that your very polite and rather formal correspondant is probably not a native English-speaker. "
I'd have thought so, too, if it weren't for her name and email address which are both very English.

Moonlight got better. Never great but it did get better after about the sixth episode.

]]> 4207@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c24356 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:23:14 +00:00 Comment from Persephone I had a Québecois student named Glenn. His parents thought English names were chic.

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