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Current Talk '04 I / Re:Are Focus Groups An Enemy Of Art?
« on: April 29, 2004, 12:00:23 AM »
As is so often the case, you've hit all of the salient points dead on, Rainey.
It's quite frightening for those of us who do like the character of Barnabas to even try to imagine how a group of people such as yourself, who, shall we say, are "less than thrilled" with the character of Barnabas, might have affected his inclusion on the original DS had focus groups been as influential in the decision making process as they are today.
(That having been said, it has often been mentioned that DC often used audience feedback as a way of dictating what direction individual storylines would take. Though, at least the audience was comprised on people who actually watched DS - as opposed to a group of random people brought in off the street who may have never seen the show in their lives. And, of course, had the audience never actually gotten a chance to see Barnabas, they wouldn't have been writing in about him and greatly influencing the direction DS would take from that point on...)
It's quite frightening for those of us who do like the character of Barnabas to even try to imagine how a group of people such as yourself, who, shall we say, are "less than thrilled" with the character of Barnabas, might have affected his inclusion on the original DS had focus groups been as influential in the decision making process as they are today.
(That having been said, it has often been mentioned that DC often used audience feedback as a way of dictating what direction individual storylines would take. Though, at least the audience was comprised on people who actually watched DS - as opposed to a group of random people brought in off the street who may have never seen the show in their lives. And, of course, had the audience never actually gotten a chance to see Barnabas, they wouldn't have been writing in about him and greatly influencing the direction DS would take from that point on...)