SPACE ISLAND ONE: "Not In My Back Yard"

by Diane

…So after finally seeing “Not In My Back Yard”, which I wrote three years ago (it must have been…), my initial response is vague disappointment. The director seems to have been on some kind of slo-mo drug: dialogue that had some punch when I wrote the script has been relentlessly punch-ectomized by the very leisurely pace of the filmed product. The actors have a slightly impatient look to them, as if they know this too but aren’t saying anything (or maybe have said something, and haven’t been paid attention to).

I keep asking myself: does this episode look slow because all dialogue looks slow in the wake of The West Wing?… I’ll have to have a look at the thing again in a week or so. Right now, I’m left saying to myself, “Oh well…the check cleared.”

(sigh)

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Nathan December 18, 2013 - 9:32 am

Wow, a series writer is/was online! I would really like to see this episode (I’ve seen the entire series up until this point, but can’t find this one online). If you have a digital format of it, can you upload it to google drive and share with ncf23(at)cornell(dot)edu or otherwise email me a source for it? This series is very unique and amazingly smart even by the standards of today’s biggest productions; I’d buy it on DVD or Amazon if it were sold, but it seems no one is making money off it anymore!
Thanks,
Nathan

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