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.

Typo,

Being anti- StarWars is being Un-Amurrican.

Now. Kiss me, you UnAmerican misrceant.

Gives Gus a kiss to pass along to Goilfriend

Goilfriend can get her own damn date!

Here is my thought. It is a brutal, but lurving thought.

The Insider looks to me like Poppy Montgomery discovering missing persons, with a twist. I have seen the "he took their life!" thing with Angelina Jolie, who is a bunch pretty.

Mr. Minear is going to have to step up to the podium.

You know, Gus, I've been working really hard to get a book published. It's my dream, and I work on it all night until my eyes hurt and my wrists ache.

And I'm really nervous about how it will be received, or even if it's worthy of publishing. I'm aware that if I'm fortunate enough to find an agent, and even more fortune to see it published, that I'll probably get some pretty cringe-worthy criticism.

But as a person who posts here, who is a member of the community, I expect that my friends, the people who call themselves Buffistas, will encourage me and hope and pray for the best, because they're my little electronic family and they will of course cheerlead for me. The way I cheerlead for them.

Now, when I send something out for beta reading, I expect and demand complete honesty, because I think my friends would want to encourage me in a helpful way, and don't want to fill me with confidence about subpar work.

And I imagine that since Tim is a Buffista, he expects no less, or more from anyone here. As a member of the community, I encourage him, and cheerlead, and do the Go Tim Go thing. I know he's got talent oozing from his soul out to his fingertips.

And when his show comes out for the big beta test, I'll greet it with the same honesty I expect from him or anyone else here. If he writes something that blows, I'll say so. If he writes something that makes me clap and hoot, I'll say so, too.

But until it comes out for beta test, I'll not come here and tell him what he's done sounds like it's a stale copycat based on an ad he didn't put together. I'll watch what he's done from beginning to end and make a judgement based on what he's given me, not what the marketing people have cut together.

If I went into Great Write and everyone there said, "hey Allyson, what you're doing sounds like a weak version of Sedaris, and that's been done and done and done again, you're going to have to really step up to the podium to impress me," I'd think, "who the fuck are you? You've read an assload of my writing, it's always entertained you before, can't you just read my manuscript before discouraging me based on a three sentence description of this work?"

I think you're better served puffing up your chest and criticizing what you haven't seen based on 30 seconds of evidence at TWoP.

I think a little respect for a very long standing member of this community is warranted. He's not steered you wrong before, he's always been kind to everyone here and has answered some brutal criticism with interest and respect.

I think you're being incredibly rude right now. I don't know why you think it's okay to make weird demands of Tim, as if he somehow owes you.

He doesn't owe any of us anything. We'll either like his stuff enough to watch, or we won't and we'll go out for a Dairy Queen Blizzard at 9 on Wednesdays.

And if you watch and and don't like it, by all means, say why. But do it with the respect you'd give Hec if you didn't like a book he wrote and was seeking feedback.