I kept expecting the Italian head of W&H to do something sinister and interesting. She disappointed me.
I definitely thought she was interesting.
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
'Why We Fight'
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.
DavidS - Dec 01, 2004 3:23:10 pm PST #3212 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tommyrot - Dec 01, 2004 3:24:14 pm PST #3213 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, IIRC her cleavage was "interesting."
Betsy HP - Dec 01, 2004 3:24:49 pm PST #3214 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
She was a gun that was brought on in the first act and never fired by the fall of the curtain in the fourth act.
DavidS - Dec 01, 2004 3:25:35 pm PST #3215 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well, IIRC her cleavage was "interesting."
No quotes about it. I was interested in her cleavage. But I was more interested in her CiaoBella!-ness, in contrast to the W&H executives we'd previously seen.
DavidS - Dec 01, 2004 3:26:33 pm PST #3216 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
She was a gun that was brought on in the first act and never fired by the fall of the curtain in the fourth act.
No, she served her purpose, showing that the American dunderheads would cowboy in and mess everything up when she only needed a few bribes here and there to take care of business as usual.
JenP - Dec 01, 2004 4:09:30 pm PST #3217 of 10001
I thought it was extraordinarily silly, and I laughed like a loon.
So did I.
Premise of The Inside, is what I want to know. The article made me go, "Huh?" but then I see it's wrong.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 02, 2004 3:14:29 am PST #3218 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I thought it was extraordinarily silly, and I laughed like a loon.
This is me, and the Burkle b-story was a nice gut-punch counterpoint. As with Hec, my biggest problem with it was its placement in the season.
§ ita § - Dec 02, 2004 4:05:02 am PST #3219 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My biggest problem was the placement too. And I can't forgive it for that. The B-plot knew where it was -- it couldn't have pulled A aside and set it on track?
Of course, the inconsistency in backstory bugged me too. I didn't mind so much about Angel and Spike's misread of Buffy (I disagree he was only into dark!Buffy -- he wanted her before that -- dark!Buffy's just the only one he thought he could have/deserve). It was Angel and Spike themselves who came across as unthreatening pillocks. Couldn't quite see them as a consistent threat back in the day.
There were nuggets in the A story (ciao, etc), but damn. What a waste of a couple good lines.
Allyson - Dec 02, 2004 7:38:44 am PST #3220 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Premise of The Inside, is what I want to know.
I know Kristen (and I) are crawling out of our skin we want to talk about it so bad. Unsure that we can, yet. Where IS that Minear-shaped cutieboywriter? All the answers are locked away in his noggin.
sumi - Dec 02, 2004 8:01:01 am PST #3221 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Shouldn't they be promoting that show?
Or do they wait 'til the week before it airs?