'Safe'
[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.
The Inside is going to have to come a long way from its teasers toward being a good show before I am sucked in.
See now, I know Tim can write the dialogue and I trust that Katie, Coyote and Baldwin can all deliver the dialogue and there's not much dialogue going on in the teasers. So teasers = promotion for people who don't know all this already. I am presold based on past performance and talent.
It is kind of interesting, though -- most of Tim's other stuff has had a much more out-there premise. So a much bigger barrier to the average person. "A tiny blonde girl kills vampires???" (kidding, kidding) I trust this will be an excellent version of a kind of thing I've seen before, but I'm not going to have to buy into the premise.
I mean, right?
t saves "neo-Brechtian detachment" for a future discussion
Baldwin will trot out the goods. Mr. Coyote seems -- from the teasers -- to be be doing more of the same 4400 stuff.
Do not get me wrong. I will tune in.
Mr. Tim better have brought the dialog, though.
I dunno. Was that Minear guy ever really that good with dialogue?
I dunno. Was that Minear guy ever really that good with dialogue?
Well he's no Jane Espenson, but who is.
And its name is "Star Wars" -- not "A New Hope" or whatever that fool renamed it.
Well, the opening crawl did dub it Episode IV: A New Hope, even back then.
Mr. Coyote seems -- from the teasers -- to be be doing more of the same 4400 stuff.
But hey, I like that stuff. ( 4400 starts up again the Sunday before The Inside premieres! It'll be Peter Coyote MAAAADNESS! (Unless he's not in it anymore. I haven't checked.))
I dunno. Was that Minear guy ever really that good with dialogue?
Oh, he has had his Mamet moments.
More than a few, actually.
learned a great lesson from BtVS seasons 6 and 7. And Angel, beginning with "you're a champion, Angel. A champion."
When that first shard of badfic writing hits your frontal lobe, run
So what episode of Star Wars had good writing? I seem to remember when the first one came out, the actors threated to tie Lucas up and force him to read his own dialog. OK- I know really a minority opinion here. Probably the only person in the U.S. who did NOT enjoy Star Wars.
I will probably see Episode 3 (as it's showing at two of the Reel Moms theatres on Tuesday). I will probably enjoy it, despite the lines of dialogue that I know will make me choke. Bitterness aside, Star Wars has been part of my life since 1977. So, y'know, I'll be saying a fond goodbye.
And for some reason, thanks to Kristen, I'll be mentally recasting the whole thing with boyband members.
You must let us know how you end up casting it.