Wesley: We're going to bring Angelus in alive. Connor: No we're not. Gunn: I thought you said capturing him wasn't an option. Wesley: Changed my mind. Connor: Change it back.

'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.


Kristen - Jan 01, 2005 10:52:11 pm PST #3794 of 10001

I haven't seen this discussed anywhere but...

'Profit' is finally coming out on DVD.

Waiting until late summer is going to be difficult. But victory is sweet.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 02, 2005 5:58:53 am PST #3795 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'll always regard it as a tragedy that David Greenwalt never hired Adrian Pasdar as one of the Wolfram & Hart lawyers.

(Of course, I'm still lamenting the fact that they didn't get Diana Muldaur—complete with Rosalind Shays' elevator cable burns—to play Lilah's replacement rather than Sarah Thompson.)


Ocipital - Jan 02, 2005 3:40:52 pm PST #3796 of 10001

I'll always regard it as a tragedy that David Greenwalt never hired Adrian Pasdar as one of the Wolfram & Hart lawyers.

Origionally posted by Joss over at Whedonesque

Profit floored me when I saw it, and yes, we were definitely talking about having Jim Profit show up as a senior partner.


Sydney Carton - Jan 02, 2005 7:29:25 pm PST #3797 of 10001
Actually, I've feeling a wee bit peckish...

I'm coming to LA on Wednesday and will be around for a week. Anyone/few people around to grab coffee or something?

I've never been able to get to a F2F, but always wanted to meet some of you as I know there is a strong LA contingent.

Open offer. I'll watch for replies :-)


Ocipital - Jan 03, 2005 3:11:18 am PST #3798 of 10001

I'm currently working on some mini biographies for the ME peeps, and im getting increasingly confused about Tim's earlier work, which is such a shock given the amount of avalible interviews and quotes, especially in comparison to Greenwalt (who turned out to be fairly straight foward).

The only stuff ive seen Tim actually mention in interviews pre Angel, is Lois and Clark, X-Files, and Strange World (though im sure i read him mention High Tide somewhere).

The confussion begins with Zorro which TimMinear.Net says he wrote for from 1990 - 1992. US.IMDB lists it as Zorro(1997), whilst TVTome lists it as Zorro(1957). Looks like its just a name mismatch and they both mean Zorro(1990).

Then after a couple of movie credits we hit 1994/95, where on all three sites Tim is credited on both New Zeeland based "High Tide" as co-producer where he writes 9 episodes and Robin's Hoods as Story Editor, which doesnt credit any individual episode writers. Was Tim doubling up or was one of the shows held over from the previous season. I have further confussion because the mini-bio on TVTome mentions this "Early in his career, he was the Story Editor for a season and a half on the syndicated series "High Tide" for which he wrote a number of episodes, under both his own name and the pseudonym Chris Baena.". I've never heard of any pseudonym, but Baena is credited with High Tide all the way to 1997, though he is currently not a member of the WGA.

1995/1996 I have nothing on any site, then 1996/1997 doubling up again, with Lois and Clark and Two, similar situation the next season with Tim Credited on both x-Files and Ghost stories. WGA does list two WGA writers Tim Minear, and a Timothy P. Minear, though the same agency for both suggests its a duplicate, and not another writer who may have confussed researchers on TVTome and Us.IMDB (TM.Net does not list Two or Ghost Stories).

Anyone have any ideas on the right sequence of events.


Astarte - Jan 03, 2005 5:11:17 am PST #3799 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.

Sydney, you should post in the F2F thread about your visit. Hope you have a great visit.


§ ita § - Jan 03, 2005 5:19:42 am PST #3800 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ocipital, I don't know if Kristen will see it here, but she runs timminear.net, and can be trusted to have all her facts right, and is probably one of the best people (outside the Minear himself) to straighten things up for you.


Kristen - Jan 03, 2005 5:35:12 am PST #3801 of 10001

Okay, lemme 'splain...no, there is too much. Lemme link to the original TMnet bio.

ETA: Also, the reason that I don't have specific episodes to credit for some of these shows is because, well, they didn't have fansites with writer information when I first compiled the list. I dimly recall that Tim was going to take a look at the filmography section and get back to me but then he got busy. And pretty much stayed that way for the next five years.


Ocipital - Jan 03, 2005 6:32:01 am PST #3802 of 10001

Thanks Kristen,

So the psyedonym thing is true, though i still cant see it being Chris Baena (though it does sort of sound like Tim Minear if you distort your voice), not if he left half way through the second season, unless other writers decided to keep this psydonym going.

Guess Two and Ghost stories are bogus entries, wont mention them then.


Kristen - Jan 03, 2005 8:06:35 am PST #3803 of 10001

Okay, I've tried to respond to this twice now but my pc keeps freaking out. I think it's the rain's fault.

Anyway, Tim confirmed the facts in that bio prior to my posting it on the site. So I think that the pseudonym listed is probably the correct one.

Unless it's under the pseudonym that he was convicted of a felony. Hmmmm...

ETA:

Guess Two and Ghost stories are bogus entries, wont mention them then.

I have no idea if they're bogus or not. I've never heard them mentioned before and they weren't included in his IMDB listing 4 to 5-ish years ago.