Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
[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.
I just woke up, so I'm not all amped on caffeine yet, else I may have just gotten myself banned from Whedonesque.
Would a (not bad at all) picture of Tim in looking intelligent and interesting in proflie cheer you up?
I found my W&H AR pics this morning and have been scanning a few...
Oh I know what might cheer you up... My procrastination on getting an LJ has resulted in someone setting one up for me as a 'present' which will provide increased pimping opportunuties for your Party.
Feel superior because he doesn't know how to spell "Minear" (or have I been spelling it wrong all these years)
Awww, that's the sweetest. I can't wait til the press releases hit.
I don't need a pic of Tim, though. If he's wearing his glasses, ita might want it.
I'm on my second cup, Wolfram.
Heh. I guess one writer now owes his balls to your patiently slow caffeination.
(no balls to be strung up by, so I'll risk it)
I'm kind of with Wolfram. Allyson, on not getting the rage. I hope to hell he is wrong, and that the show is a huge hit, but he was criticizing Fox for some of the very things we attack it for. Nothing bad was said about any of Tim's work.
Not seeing the balls strung up thing either. It read like a bitter attack on Fox to me. The stuff about The Inside also seemed like a pointed dig at Fox.
He's encouraging readers to not watch the show, to not bother lending their hearts to it. It's self defeating.
It also ignores Arrested Development, and FOX is hanging onto that, since everyone up the chain at FOX likes it, believes in it, and hopes it finds an audience.
I believe FOX feels the same way about The Inside.
Firefly and Wonderfalls weren't canceled because they were good, they were canceled because no one watched. People found these shows just as they were on the way out or gone. That was the biggest problem. If enough people tuned in out of the gate, these shows would still be on the air.
Telling people just to stop watching doesn't help. Have to meet the network half way and show up at the door. You don't have to take off your coat and settle in, but you give it a shot.
Don't get the rage. It's cynical and pessimistic, but not really offensive. If anything he's exactly on the money.
I'm with Wolfram here.
My procrastination on getting an LJ has resulted in someone setting one up for me as a 'present' which will provide increased pimping opportunuties for your Party.
Partyman, you're getting an LJ too? I just got one, and it sucks my time away beautifully.
Telling people just to stop watching doesn't help. Have to meet the network half way and show up at the door. You don't have to take off your coat and settle in, but you give it a shot.
But now I do get your point. Everything he said was true, but he should have instead taken the spin of, "Don't let this happen again, dammit."
He's encouraging readers to not watch the show, to not bother lending their hearts to it. It's self defeating.
He's really not. It's a modest proposal to just quit watching great television and skip right to the crap that you know is going to get renewed.
He may not have made the irony clear enough.
He's encouraging readers to not watch the show, to not bother lending their hearts to it. It's self defeating.
I didn't get that at all, and as others have said, he isn't saying anything that we, or even Tim (Friday is when Fox tries out it 13 ep DVD sets), haven't already said.