FOX did a great jpb with House and Point Pleasant.
Tara: Do you have any books on robots? Giles: Oh, yes, dozens. There's a lot of research to be done in order to--no, I'm lying. Haven't got squat. I just like watching Xander squirm.
'Get It Done'
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.
Allyson - Feb 27, 2005 7:00:48 am PST #4920 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
SailAweigh - Feb 27, 2005 8:14:32 am PST #4921 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I don't watch House, but I did watch Point Pleasant when it started. I thought they did a half ass decent job of marketing on that one.
DCJensen - Feb 27, 2005 8:17:50 am PST #4922 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
House has the virtue of being very good. Point Pleasent, I gave up on.
Hey, House has been extended to a full 22 episodes as of a couple of weeks ago.
SailAweigh - Feb 27, 2005 8:28:39 am PST #4923 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Point Pleasent, I gave up on.
So did I, but at least I saw it advertised enough I knew when it was on.
Allyson - Feb 27, 2005 9:46:14 am PST #4924 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
I couldn't get away from Point Pleasant ads.
I'm sad for Marti and those working on the show, but you know, it's just awful. There's nothing remotely compelling about it.
Whatever she didn't get out of her system in season six is just splooging out on the screen.
Writing can be really theraputic, but if your personal problems fall on the vapid side, there's no reason to subject everyone else to them.
I think Marti would be better off wit a Livejournal than a television show. I'll even flist her.
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2005 9:48:40 am PST #4925 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The House ads caught my attention because of Hugh Laurie. But the PP ones, although I thought they started late, certainly picked up in volume. I know I saw more of them than for House.
DCJensen - Feb 27, 2005 10:10:05 am PST #4926 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Hugh Laurie is set to play Perry White in Superman Returns. Filming is slated to start on Thursday, according to IMDB.
Scrappy - Feb 27, 2005 10:12:21 am PST #4927 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hugh Laurie, yum.
That is all I have to say.
Vonnie K - Feb 27, 2005 10:19:53 am PST #4928 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I've downloaded a couple of episodes of House, which is pretty good as character-dramas go, if you disregard all the wacky and wrong medicine. (Seriously, don't they have consultants or something? Oy.) Still, I loooooove Hugh Laurie. And House and Wilson are so very married.
Rather funny and kind of sad thread at Whedonesque that started off as "vote to save Point Pleasant!" then got derailed into "PP is godawful and totally needs to be cancelled," "I've voted for Veronica Mars instead," "Me, too!", and "When's Tim's new show starting again?" Poor Marti. Too bad I can't disagree with any of the posters there, because PP really does suck like a two-bit hooker.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 27, 2005 10:21:26 am PST #4929 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
Loyalty to Marti got me to tune in... once. But even Joss would have lost me if my first episode of Firefly had been THAT bad.