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[b][b][b]CSI[/b][/b]: Fenspace
[/b] The stories of the SV New Las Miami of the Space Patrol. This week the gang docks at Ganymede to help out the Browncosts with a drugs case.
(Edit: It was either that or a small Space Patrol CSI fleet consisting of the SS Las Vegas, the SS Miami, the SS New York, the SS Los Angeles, and the SS Des
Moines. The cities they're named after apparently contain the five largest non-federal Crime Labs in the US)
It should be noted that the actual show CSI did a show featuring "fenspace" during its final season (season 10, aired Feb 15, 2010). It was
poorly recieved by fenspace audiences due to its tendancy to paint their subculture in a bad light. In this they are joined by... every single other subculture
that has been featured on a CSI episode.
There was also at least one episode of House which dealth with a handwavium issue. Specifically it included the
good Doctor proposing the use of illegal (on Earth) biomodding to treat a patients terminal cancer (it was later revealed not to be cancer and no such
procedure was performed). A major subtext of the episode was House considering the use of Thionite, but he rejects it by the end of the episode. Many other
episodes following this one included at least once one of his team suggesting the weekly mystery ailment may be related to handwavium, which it never turns out
to be. This has led to a popular fan refrain "It's never handwavium!" (The term handwavium was never used in either show.)
Several Hollywood productions, while not aimed at the fenspace market, have been filmed in fenspace. Joss Whedon filmed a short science-fiction drama using
various fenspace locales as backdrops (including Stellvia, Kandor City and Utopia Planetia). The show was called doing well, and featured extensive use of
handwaved special effects (and the first use of an AI actor in a mundane production) but production was halted during the Operation Great Justice crisis and it
is doubtful that Mr Whedon will be able to secure financial backing from Earth to reinvigorate the show. Note: While much of the filing was done in fenspace a
good deal was also done in soundstages in LA. Other science-fiction movies produced in space include a poorly recieved reimagining of Asimov's Foundation
Trilogy, a film called "Space Kittens" that went straight to video and the movies Mass Effect and Bioshock based on the popular video games of the
same name and directed by Uwe Boll.
Universal was rumored to be considering shooting the next Star Trek motion picture entirely in space. William Shatner was supposed to reprise his role as Kirk
after received a handwave treatment that would restore his youthful vitality. These rumors are denied by everyone involved but that doesn't stop people
from speculating.
The reality show Survivor: Mars was a critical success. All of the participants were from Earth with no Fen involved. A season of The Amazing Race featured
three episode that were set in fenspace (one on Mars, one in Kandor City and one on Venus). Both Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy have had week long specials that
took place on Stellvia (the view of the Earth from the large viewport that served as backdrop to the soundstage was spectacular).
Fenspace (and handwavium) has been referenced a multitude of times on many popular shows, however they are often encountered as hazards to be overcome and
one-step-short-of villians. Amazing enough one of the most positive representations of fen occurs (and still occurs) on the soap opera One Life To Live (airing
weekdays on ABC). The popular character John McBain was transformed in 2011 into a catgirl when one of the other characetrs spiked his good with handwavium in
an elaborate plot to break up his marriage. Jo McBain is one of the most popul;ar character on the serial and her struggle to deal with the reality of her new
condition and the prejudice associated with it is a major storyarc. Despite this many in fenspace complain because the actress who potrays Jo McBain is an
unmodded human in makeup (to be fair the catgirl prostehtics are wavejobs commisioned from Vulpine's Puppetworks and are amazing relalistic).
Noah Scott has appeared on a few episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher and one episode of The Colbert Report. After the famous "Bear Incident"
Colbert refuses to mention The Professor on his TV show. Conan O'Brien has featured some of the more photogenic and popular people of fenspace on his show
and was the first person to do a live on-air interview of an AI (Buckaroo Banzai), well, at least a live made-on-earth interview.
Fenspace appears often on mundane news services, less so in the United States then in other countries more symapthetic to fenspace politics. Fox News media
commentator Bill O'Reilly has a particular hatred for Fenspace, a fact he is more than willing to make clear whenever he is given an excuse.
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