Hugh Laurie, yum.
That is all I have to say.
Elliot: I thought I said discreet. Gwen: What, do you see nipple?
'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.
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.
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.
Allyson - Feb 27, 2005 10:30:06 am PST #4930 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 hate not knowing when The Inside starts. Makes it harder to pimp it.
I am Matt in regards to Point Pleasant.
Allyson - Feb 27, 2005 10:32:06 am PST #4931 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 gues what I don't understand is, with a staff full of really good writers who spent assload of time on great shows, what don't they understand about making a great show?
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2005 10:40:05 am PST #4932 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am Matt in regards to Point Pleasant.
Me too! Me too!
I mean ... the premise isn't flawed (although I think it's tricky). But the writing lacked tension and the performances uniformly without charisma.
Ginger - Feb 27, 2005 10:45:27 am PST #4933 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I tried to watch Point Pleasant. There were excessively pretty people who spent a lot of time in skimpy swimwear. There was even Richard Burgi, whom I've had the hots for since The Sentinel. There was evil. There was the devil's daughter, whose curse appeared to be that she was born with no facial expressions. After watching three episodes, I just couldn't bring myself to watch any more.
SailAweigh - Feb 27, 2005 10:48:30 am PST #4934 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
That's about where it lost me, too, Ginger. I tried to like it, but it failed to Charm(ed). Which, at least, I can actually watch when I accidentally catch reruns on TNT.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 27, 2005 10:55:16 am PST #4935 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 suppose it could work in a meta context, if we take the motif of the End of the World coming in the form of a vapid teenage girl with the inner emotional life of a cucumber.
Topic!Cindy - Feb 27, 2005 11:34:38 am PST #4936 of 10001
What is even happening?
Loyalty to Marti only kept me for the first ten minutes, despite not being as generally unhappy with her, as it seems folks are here (if we remove PP from the equation, that is). I couldn't turn the channel away from PP quickly enough.