Cindy, I think you are confusing your TV viewing habbits with my relationship habbits.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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.
Kevin - Jun 10, 2005 9:00:37 am PDT #8612 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
§ ita § - Jun 10, 2005 9:20:03 am PDT #8613 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a question about the ending of the episode -- how does everyone know where to go, and get there in time? Web and Paul show up pretty handily, but the baddie didn't need to get off there, did he? How was Danny to get from one station to the next in time to meet the same train?
Typo Boy - Jun 10, 2005 9:21:31 am PDT #8614 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Oh one comment relevent to the show (as opposed to odds of survival).
I don't actually think the "Silence of the Lambs" comparison is a good one. It uses a SOTL trope, but that is not the same thing. All the discussion of pulp upthread makes me realize that a better comparison is Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction".
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2005 9:27:33 am PDT #8615 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You're going to have to expand on that, TB, cause I'm not really seeing it.
Calli - Jun 10, 2005 9:30:03 am PDT #8616 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Peter Coyote's character is sort of giving me a younger Cigarette Smoking Man vibe. Not the whole evil manipulator of mankind thing (well, maybe a little), but more the craggy fella who knows more about what's really going on than anyone else in the room kinda thing.
Gus - Jun 10, 2005 9:33:25 am PDT #8617 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Seconding P-C. I tried to stretch noir-update wide enough to fit, but it kept slipping loose of my grasp and smacking me in the nose.
Typo Boy - Jun 10, 2005 9:35:23 am PDT #8618 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Sorry PC - this a drive by - umm the playfulness with genre conventions - playing by classic pulp fiction rules while subverting to whole game. The thing is once it hit me, it just seems obvious. Probably I'm just nuts.
Gus - Jun 10, 2005 9:43:25 am PDT #8619 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
There are certainly enough conventions to subvert in the criminal investigation arena. There used to be a show on about vampires that had almost as rich a field of expectations to twist out of the ground, screaming.
-t - Jun 10, 2005 9:58:03 am PDT #8620 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
How was Danny to get from one station to the next in time to meet the same train?
I was wondering that, too, but I put it down to my complete ignorance of LA's subway system.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 10, 2005 10:02:51 am PDT #8621 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I was wondering that, too, but I put it down to my complete ignorance of LA's subway system.
Heh, me and the friend I was watching it with both said "LA has a Subway System?" at the same time.