I think if the series had kept on going Perri and Kolchak could of started to have romantic feelings for each other. I have gone to the ABC boards when this show was on the air and some Americans just didn't like the idea of a black woman and a white man working together.
shareThose sounded like the racist minority that you met with on the boards. I imagine the majority of mature, decent Americans see nothing wrong with interracial relationships.
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My only problem with their budding relationship was that there was zero chemistry between them. She was a chirpy chipmunk, and he was a glum sourpuss who was rude to her much of the time.
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My only problem with Gabrielle Union's character was her use as resident weekly Damsel-In-Distress. That got old real fast, with Teri Hatcher, on the first season of LOIS AND CLARK!
Ms. Union's character in BRING IT ON had more feistiness, compared to the journalistic Scully she was portraying here.
Remmeber only six episodes aried on television. I don't think ABC gave the writers time to develop the show. ABC screwed over Night Stalker big time. I wanted some more romance between Perri and Karl. And this could of happened if ABC had given the show a better time slot and more time to develop.
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Although I agree that majority of Americans would see no problems with interracial relationships. You cannot forget that there has been multiple times harsh racism to these ideas on TV, leading the shows or films with a somewhat lower rating. Although yes! it could be a coicidence...
But Nip/Tuck season 4 for example, with the Sanaa Lathan and Julian McMahon relationship. After looking at some other forums as well as video sites including 'youtube', there was so many comments relating to people saying "white people, dont need black people", (users were from the US)
However fortunately it has been to nice to see no what so ever racism to Carl and Perri relationship, so far..
p.s i have nothing wrong with Americans :)
I find that kind of odd given that quite often in television/movies you now see those exact types of interracial relationships (black women/white men). You also see that more prevalently now in the real world -- even in the southern US, whereas you would've almost rarely seen that 10-15 years ago in this region.
shareThat's typical of Americans. They're so afraid of mixed relationships especailly black/white but others too. They're obsessed with race and xenophobia. You notice how many racist posts are on this site?
It may or may not have gone on to a relationship for awhile anyway. On the X-Files, Mulder and Scully's relationship took almost 10 yrs to happen though the sexual tension was always there. Of course, those were the early years of FOX and the BIG 3 networks have always been very pro-romance so they'd never drag out the possiblilty of a relationship for that long. I think to keep the sponsers happy, they might have kept them apart since it was on Disney and alot of cowardly conservatives probably wouldnt have approved.
Does that mean the British Royal Family would welcome an Afro-English princess as a daughter-in-law (or even a granddaughter-in-law) for Queen Elizabeth II?
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Actually you are wrong. I love how folks assume to know what EVERY citizen of a country is thinking, feeling, or how all 300 million of us Yanks are reacting. I didn't know this site was full of psychics.
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-Not everyone; just maybe 99.999999% of them deserve to be flatheads.
I think you are way off. Interracial relationsips are on many, many shows. And of course in an apples to apples horror comparison it certainly never hurt Angel the series.
Even Gabrielle Union has played a love interest in an interracial couple before. I'm not sure you are aware of that? It was a small show nobody hardly ever watched it was called Friends.
Yes, the relationship was an obvious goal that's why the show featured attractive stars. This was the opposite of the original series. She was also a rich girl, much like Kolchak's dead wife. I'm sure that would have been a plot point after the discovery of Kolchak's evil predlection.
The show failed because it was mis-managed by ABC. ABC bought Nightstalker and then didn't want monsters. It was not marketed and was never given a chance to grow. Also the show was kind of slow it had lots of great camera work but it was not compelling to watch. I couldn't wait for this show. I own everything Spotnitz made on dvd. Yet, I had to struggle through it as it was very weak. I think the episodes that didn't air were better than most that did air. Sadly the unaired episodes and the commentary make the never to be made future storyline more interesting.
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It was actually Aiesha Tyler not Gabrielle Union but point taken.
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I don't know if that's a true statement because they run the show on the Sci-Fic network, it has developed a big cult following. The networks are less likely to give a show the oppotunity to find its audience than they did in the past. Today, the show has to do big numbers from day one.
"Cheers," one of NBC's biggest shows ever, would have not survived in today's climate. Cheers was not a hit when it first aired, the show did not develop an audience until it's second season,but that was in the 1980s. Since cable is now competing with the networks and producing it's own shows (sitcoms, cop dramas, etc.), networks have to compete for the same audience and for the same advertising dollars. Advertisers prefer cable because it's cheeper and the audiences are narrower and fit their user profiles better.
i own season 1 dvd set, and the very last few episodes gabrielle union, and stuart's character's had like just began to start having feelings for one another, and then what happens? the show gets cancelled. I wanted them to get together so bad lol, but they said the show had low ratings, so it was cancelled. i thought it was a very good show actually, something different on television, i bet if they made a season 2, they would replace gabrielle union with a white woman, and have her character Perri transfer to another newspaper or something like that, and then there would be a romantic relationship between stuart's character and the new employee.
I think people don't want to admit it but I remember two years ago on the ABC message boards and some people were really angry that Gabrielle was on the program. It was a perfect example of Americans not being able to handle a beautiful black woman and an attractive white man working together. On several Nip/Tuck message boards last year there was anger and outrage at Sanaa Lathan being Julian McMahon's love interest. Some white women were really pissed about that.
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Wow, I don't know about that. I think the 2 main characters had no chemistry between them. I really wanted to like this show and I watch the reruns on the SCIFI channel but it was just thrown together and well...it sucked
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