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Harry Potter, ’Heroes,’ ’House’ and the art of the ’TV disguise’
Jane Espenson, a former "Buffy" writer who’s now penning scripts for "Battlestar Galactica," has written a typically thoughtful piece for The New Republic on why many sci-fi/fantasy TV shows fail despite the fact that such fare does well on the big screen and in book form, as the Harry Potter sales numbers have proven.
There is a way to get fantastical fare onto the small screen — by structuring it as a "Hero’s Journey," she (...)