SyFriday: Please Do 'Children Of Men' Right

So they did, and they ended up hitting someone's mom, who obviously got angry and called our parents. I didn't throw a single rock, but my dad looked me straight in the eye and told me that it didn't matter if I threw a rock or not. I was still guilty by association.

In Hollywood, there's no such thing as being guilty by association. Instead, like everything else in the world of television and movies, it's the exact opposite. You're not guilty by association, but you can gain success and acclaim simply by being associated with something.

Sometimes, I wonder if that is what's happening with David Eick. Don't get me wrong, I really do like what Eick -- who is an executive producer with "Battlestar Galactica" -- has done, and I agree with him on many things he says during his numerous interviews. Eick has achieved a lot of attention thanks to the critical success of "Battlestar Galactica," and maybe a lot of it is deserved. But then I see the episodes that Eick has written, like the very forgettable episode "Hero," and I'm not sure if I have the same confidence the industry has given him. And then I see "Bionic Woman," and I get even more worried.

Because Eick is associated with "Battlestar Galactica," a lot of doors to some very sensitive projects have opened for him. One of them was "Bionic Woman," which could've been fascinating and entertaining if done right, and now we have learned he is going to be taking on a television version of "Children of Men."

Please, leave "Children of Men" alone.

The 2006 film, co-written by Alfonso Cuaron and a host of other people loosely based on the novel by P.D. James was an amazing story (and some amazing work of cinematography). In a future world where humans can no longer have babies and where xenophobia is at its zenith, one man is tasked with protecting what could be the future of the human race: an immigrant who is very pregnant.

Now to Eick's credit, he wants to concentrate more on the James novel than the film, so we don't have to worry about any damage taking place to the film, but I really want to wait and see who else Eick brings in to help him pull this off.

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