Hauser: You really think you can solve the problem? Come into Wolfram & Hart and make everything right? Turn night into glorious day? You pathetic little fairy. Angel: I'm not little.

'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.


Allyson - May 19, 2005 7:15:26 pm PDT #6950 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

Vampires believe in you, Betsy.


joe boucher - May 19, 2005 7:19:08 pm PDT #6951 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine

I still need someone to explain Prison Break to me. This seems like a harder concept to maintain over multiple seasons than 24 was.

After reading the press release my first thought is, "Multiple seasons? I'm not sure how they can sustain it for an episode." How does getting himself locked up help? If he needs to be inside wouldn't it be better to get a job as a guard or a janitor or something? And if that sounds implausible consider that the option they've decided to go with is 1) commit a crime, 2) work out a plea bargain to get sent to the same prison as your brother (that would be the plan, right? Because otherwise there'd be a trial -- time you can't afford to waste -- and you'd have zero leverage in getting sentenced to that facility), 3) work your way into the confidence of the inmates who naturally have lots of important info about the guys on death row, and 4) use your photographic memory to remember the prison blueprints and your structural engineering background to MacGyver your brother out. And that's just getting him out, not clearing him. Whereas if he were a janitor he could work on the inside AND still be able to do whatever could be done to help outside the prison (get supplies, follow leads, etc.) and... it still sounds like a lot of disbelief to suspend. So, no, I can't explain Prison Break.

Then, with the help of his cellmate, Sucre, Michael begins to align himself with a disparate group of prisoners, including... Charles Westmoreland, a man some believe to be the infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper.

That said, if they get someone (an Andy Dick cameo perhaps) to Westmoreland, "Are you Doobie Keebler?" I promise I will watch every single episode until it gets cancelled.


P.M. Marc - May 19, 2005 8:32:58 pm PDT #6952 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

That said, if they get someone (an Andy Dick cameo perhaps) to Westmoreland, "Are you Doobie Keebler?" I promise I will watch every single episode until it gets cancelled.

Hee. Joe, isn't it out on DVD this month?


joe boucher - May 19, 2005 9:09:16 pm PDT #6953 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine

Joe, isn't it out on DVD this month?

If we're lucky, Plei. Amazon says May 24. Birthday before last two friends (one Buffista) placed orders for the DVDs; fifteen months later still nothing. On the bright side the package now includes seasons 1 and 2, and 20 of 27 eps have commentaries, so yee and a big haw!

For some reason the word crazappy popped into my head this morning, so of course I was earwormed with the Rocket Fuel malt liquor ad for the rest of the day. DAAAMN! It's craZAPPY!!


sumi - May 20, 2005 6:24:47 am PDT #6954 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Allyson -- is The Inside 22 episodes for sure? (I'm sorry, I don't remember.)

If it is, then it may go (assuming it stays in that Wednesday night spot) through the beginning of November.

If Lost and Veronica Mars begin approximately at the same time in September that they began last September then there will be more than a month of overlap between the three shows.

Of course, at this point we don't know when the new season is starting, if The Inside will get all 22 of its episodes on the air or if it will stay in that timeslot.

I want to see all three shows and I don't know how I'm going to do it.


§ ita § - May 20, 2005 6:31:07 am PDT #6955 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

As far as I know, The Inside has had thirteen episodes ordered.

I wouldn't be surprised if American Idol gets to keep its spot -- does anything get more ratings for Fox? I think it's their 800lb gorilla. It'd be nice if Tim had a show that can oust it, but I can't imagine any script can.


sumi - May 20, 2005 6:35:16 am PDT #6956 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Well, American Idol isn't what's in that slot for the Fall. I think it starts in January or something.


sumi - May 20, 2005 6:35:51 am PDT #6957 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

13 episodes takes us to August 31st.


§ ita § - May 20, 2005 6:42:05 am PDT #6958 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The fall grid is misleading ... wait, no it lies. Head Cases has that slot then. Either way, The Inside doesn't. Worrying too much about what slot it might have in the fall if a) (let's hope) it gets picked up and b) we can guess where Fox is putting it -- is an exercise in frustration.


sumi - May 20, 2005 6:42:55 am PDT #6959 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Well, I'm not going to worry if it doesn't have 22 episodes.