Depending on your definition of the words.
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
sumi - Feb 02, 2005 6:24:56 am PST #4318 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
beathen - Feb 02, 2005 6:27:59 am PST #4319 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
He's being sarcastic.
Duh. I should have picked that up within reading the first two sentances.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 02, 2005 6:55:28 am PST #4320 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Show not quirky. Show scary.
So you've seen it already? And it can't be both?
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 02, 2005 7:01:01 am PST #4321 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
To be fair Frank, since Allyson's (and Kristen's) knowledge about the show comes directly from Tim it's probably more complete and accurate than that possessed by anyone outside the production itself.
Polter-Cow - Feb 02, 2005 7:06:27 am PST #4322 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So you've seen it already? And it can't be both?
Well, she's said it's something like L.A. Confidential meets Silence of the Lambs, and central to the series is an existential battle for the main character's soul, so really not striking me as quirky so far.
(My WF DVDs have shipped!)
Allyson - Feb 02, 2005 7:26:12 am PST #4323 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
Read the pilot and saw some dailies. It's creepy and scary, has twisted gallows humor. There's really no quirk.
ChiKat - Feb 02, 2005 7:27:56 am PST #4324 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
twisted gallows humor
Well, it is Tim Minear. Of course it has twisted gallows humor. I'd be upset if it didn't.
Polter-Cow - Feb 02, 2005 7:35:31 am PST #4325 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's creepy and scary, has twisted gallows humor.
Oy, but is it too twisted for Fox?
Okay, now that does sound like a best-selling DVD: Too Twisted for Fox!
sumi - Feb 02, 2005 8:00:39 am PST #4326 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Bryan Fuller on sci wire. Some spoilers. But I no longer remember which episodes aired and which didn't. Did Safety Canary air? There is a spoiler for that one.
xnera - Feb 02, 2005 8:08:55 am PST #4327 of 10001
I delurk, therefore I am.
Imagine my surprise when the article I was coming over to link has already been linked to.
Blind. Rage.
Ouch. *winces* Chris (the columnist) is an acquaintance of mine. His columns are witty and intelligent, and sometimes VERY funny. I can understand people not realising that it's supposed to be humorous if you're not familiar with his work.
Feel superior because he doesn't know how to spell "Minear" (or have I been spelling it wrong all these years)
Damn. I glossed right over this. And here I went and thanked him for not saying that Tim worked on Buffy. Guess I'll have to go chew him out for misspelling Tim's name.
He's encouraging readers to not watch the show, to not bother lending their hearts to it. It's self defeating.
Point. But isn't "bad" publicity better than none? I can bet you that most of our circle of friends hadn't heard of "The Inside" before now; maybe they'll actually check it out, and get some more viewers. The board we post on has a HUGE contigent of Firefly fans, so knowing that Tim is involved will likely get at least a few more viewers.
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.
Yes, I said as much after I read the column. Unforunately that will only reach our online friends, and not the normal audience of the article.
A week or so ago he asked all of us to list favorite shows that were canceled before their time, because he was going to write about it in an upcoming column. I wish I had known he would be writing about "The Inside", because I would have pointed him to various things I've heard about the show from my lurkings here. But I don't think he's really trying to say "don't watch the show". I think his goal was (a) to make people chuckle, because that's what he does, and (b) to say that Fox is bad. 'Course, I could be wrong about this, as I am me, not him, and alas, do not yet possess the powers of telepathy.