Uncertain Audience: Difference between revisions

* ''[[.hack//Legend of the Twilight]]'': On one side, it was considerably more light-hearted and childish than ''[[.hack//Sign]]'', with more comic relief and cute monsters. On the other side, it also had more [[Fan Service]] and Implied [[Twincest]] between the two main characters such that the series has arguably become infamously immortalized because of it.

 

* Perhaps the main flaw of ''[[Titan A.E.]]'' was it did not seem to have a target demographic: The harder science fiction elements turned off children from it, and the goofier moments (already hit by the [[Animation Age Ghetto]]) turned off Science Fiction fans.

* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' plays up both the romance angle and the pirate angle, as well as the kiddie comedy angle and the zombie curse angle. Taken individually, each would seem to mesh poorly with the others, but (the first, at least) is notable for its success in [[Multiple Demographic Appeal]].

* Also the bad sci fi ''[[Pod People]]'', now mainly known through [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]. It features an [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.]]-like Friendly Alien who befriends a little kid, but also features a gang of bikers with some coarse language and sexual innuendo. It also contains a B-plot about a second alien, identical to the first, going on a murderous killing "spree" against the rest of the trapped-in-a-cabin cast.. so it's basically E.T. [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]''. Possibly a result of [[Executive Meddling]]; originally it was written to be a straight up horror film, but when E.T. was released they tried to capitalize on the success and turn it into an alien buddy film. Didn't really go well.

* It is not quite clear if Barry Levinson's ''[[Toys (film)|Toys]]'' was intended as a kid´s comedy or a satire for adults, having elements from both genres.

* ''[[Ink]]'' has many light-hearted and whimsical elements from [[Fairy Tales]] and Juvenile Fantasy, but it also has lots of swearing, frightening scenes, deals with several adult themes as drug use and suicide. It also has several elements from [[Le Film Artistique|arthouse films]](Specially in the visual style) and fighting sequences involving martial arts and a [[Camera Abuse|shaky camera.]]

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

** ''[[Firefly]]'' was a ratings flop in part due to the difficulty of marketing such a mixed-genre product properly. (Getting [[Screwed by the Network]] didn't help it find its audience; it wasn't until the DVD release after it was cancelled that it became a phenomenon.)

** Ditto ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. They even threw Chekov in to bring in the [[The Monkees (band)|Monkees]] [[Fan Girl]]s.

 

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