This is a little bit late, but Happy Birthday, Tim. May the rest of the year be as great as the quality of your work.
(Where all values for "quality" fall under "amazingly fantastic and wonderfallsful.")
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Alibelle - Oct 30, 2004 10:03:18 am PDT #2770 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Narrator - Oct 30, 2004 11:33:31 am PDT #2771 of 10001
The evil is this way?
little bam bam!!!
Catch you guys next year.
No, next year will be the Cubbies year. Because folks said this year "Wait 'til next year." So, next year we win. I mean, the players ran the broadcasters out of town this year. That must have been the last piece of the puzzle. Now they can assemble all the pieces and build a World Series team. Or, you know, not.
Mikey - Oct 30, 2004 1:35:48 pm PDT #2772 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
Happy Bidet, Tim! Belatedly, and questionably spelled.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 30, 2004 1:52:30 pm PDT #2773 of 10001
What is even happening?
And, speaking as a New Yorker? All I can say is, I'm just glad New England got all this out of their system. Finally.little bam bam! I missed you during the ALCS (even when Boston was down three), and said as much, somewhere else. (I don't think it's out of our systems yet. It's just sinking in.)
Betsy HP - Oct 30, 2004 6:36:22 pm PDT #2774 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I SO look forward to the end of the pretentious editorial natter about The Curse Of Being New England And Tortured. Maybe they can start complaining about The Curse Of Bad Movies instead.
On the other hand, I do look forward to reading Roger Angell on the series.
libkitty - Oct 30, 2004 7:07:50 pm PDT #2775 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Because they get good ratings. If FF had Lost's numbers, it'd still be on the air.
I may be naive, but I'm of the firm belief that if Fox had supported Firefly from the beginning, they would have gotten the ratings. Everyone I've shown the DVDs to loves them, including people who don't like anything else that I like. My dad hates Buffy and has never seen Angel, and he loved Firefly, ordering them on NetFlix to show them to my uncle. I always get the question, "So, tell me again why this was cancelled?"
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 30, 2004 7:34:47 pm PDT #2776 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't see Firefly getting Lost-style numbers even if everything about its scheduling and promotion had been ideal. The concept, by its very nature, was going to appeal to a much smaller audience. But it might have squeaked by into renewal if handled better.
libkitty - Oct 30, 2004 7:41:57 pm PDT #2777 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Maybe not Lost numbers. But I bet the numbers could have been good. I seriously have yet to find anyone who doesn't at least like the show a lot, once they see it. At first I thought it was just me, and people like me. But my Dad thinks it's one of the best shows he's ever seen. And he doesn't like anything that I like.
The last sentence gave me flashbacks to Mikey, of Chex (or was it Life?) cereal fame. Dang. I feel old.
eta: Also, the concept for Lost doesn't seem like a shoo-in for popularity to me. Certainly, it turned out well. Does anyone know if the suits thought it would ahead of time?
Gris - Oct 30, 2004 8:04:21 pm PDT #2778 of 10001
Hey. New board.
But my Dad thinks it's one of the best shows he's ever seen. And he doesn't like anything that I like.
Ditto me. Exactly.
quester - Oct 30, 2004 8:39:08 pm PDT #2779 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Well, I left my Firefly DVD's with a friend who loved Buffy and Angel and I told him to watch them all so he'd be up to speed when the movie comes out. I hope he does watch and gets hooked.