It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.

Buffy ,'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.


Cashmere - May 02, 2005 11:16:37 am PDT #6376 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Allyson brings all the lurkers to the yard! Woo hoo!


Daisy Jane - May 02, 2005 11:17:46 am PDT #6377 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I'm not a lurker, and I wouldn't say I'm sold, but I'll certainly check out the 1st episode or two and then fall in love or not.

I'd be checking it out for 1) Tim 2)It's not one of those horrid sitcoms I can't stand 3)It's not one of those whiney family dramas I can't stand.


Cashmere - May 02, 2005 11:17:57 am PDT #6378 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

And by all I mean two.


xnera - May 02, 2005 11:18:44 am PDT #6379 of 10001
I delurk, therefore I am.

Hey! LURKERS! You there. Come on out and tell me if you're convinced.

Well, I was convinced anyway because it's Tim, but yes, between your writeups and the screenshots Kristen posted (mucho gracias, Kristen--I never watch TV anymore so I missed the promo), I'm now completely convinced and excited. "Home" was one of my favorite X-files episodes. Definitely the kind that stays with you--there's many eps I've forgotten but as soon as you said the title I knew which one you were talking about. Creepiness is good. I also love Rebecca's backstory--sounds like there's a lot of meat there to work with. I've already been pimping it to my friends, but I'll up my pimping level.


Barry Woodward - May 02, 2005 11:20:52 am PDT #6380 of 10001
I fought the law and I won!

I think he's the first person who's been able to manipulate her since she was a little kid, and that causes her to trip a little, in surprise.
Wouldn't it be interesting if Web was somehow involved in Rebecca's kidnapping case? Hmm...


Hayden - May 02, 2005 11:26:48 am PDT #6381 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I'm with Heather. Minear's involvement is good enough to get me to watch the show, but I can't make any commitments about how I'll like it.

For what it's worth, I didn't much care for Wonderfalls when it was on tv, but I liked the whole run on DVD. I could say the same about Firefly. I wanted to like it more than I did during the tv run, but the episodes had problems that went down easier when watching the entire run, in order, on DVD.


Barry Woodward - May 02, 2005 11:32:22 am PDT #6382 of 10001
I fought the law and I won!

Rachel, Adam, Peter, Katie & Jay:

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Rachel, Adam, Peter, Katie, Jay + Nelsan Ellis?

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Is the new cast member present from the beginning or was he added later on in the season?


aurelia - May 02, 2005 11:47:04 am PDT #6383 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Still no date, huh?

Home was a creepy, creepy episode, but Donnie Pfaster was the one who kept me awake.

Most of the descriptions have made me think of sort of a cross between Profiler (pretty!) and Millennium (sans all the religion stuff). But I loved that Millennium was so dark precisely because the evil was human.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 02, 2005 11:49:27 am PDT #6384 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 figure Tim and Jane are two of my three favorite television writers, and I love Katie Finneran's work as well as really liking Coyote's and Baldwin's, so odds are it'll sit really well with me. But I can't guarantee I'll love it—on paper Alias should have been my favorite non-Mutant Enemy show and it inexplicably left me cold.

I do feel enough loyalty to those involved that they've got me as a viewer for at least a full season, minimum.


aurelia - May 02, 2005 11:51:52 am PDT #6385 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

+ Nelsan Ellis?

It's too bad they didn't light him from the same direction as the others. It would've made the manip a little less obvious.