What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!

'Just Rewards (2)'


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.


The Partyman - Feb 02, 2005 5:11:45 am PST #4296 of 10001
[insert something funny here]

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.


Vortex - Feb 02, 2005 5:13:58 am PST #4297 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Feel superior because he doesn't know how to spell "Minear" (or have I been spelling it wrong all these years)


Allyson - Feb 02, 2005 5:15:24 am PST #4298 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

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.


Wolfram - Feb 02, 2005 5:16:27 am PST #4299 of 10001
Visilurking

I'm on my second cup, Wolfram.

Heh. I guess one writer now owes his balls to your patiently slow caffeination.


Lee - Feb 02, 2005 5:17:31 am PST #4300 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

(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.


UTTAD - Feb 02, 2005 5:19:54 am PST #4301 of 10001
Strawberry disappointment.

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.


Allyson - Feb 02, 2005 5:29:33 am PST #4302 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

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.


Polter-Cow - Feb 02, 2005 5:37:19 am PST #4303 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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."


Wolfram - Feb 02, 2005 5:39:24 am PST #4304 of 10001
Visilurking

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.


DXMachina - Feb 02, 2005 5:39:56 am PST #4305 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

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.