'Serenity'
[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.
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".
You're going to have to expand on that, TB, cause I'm not really seeing it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The only thing I could think of was maybe he meant Danny's team, but can't remember whether that interpretation was disproven by what happened.
Web and Paul show up pretty handily, but the baddie didn't need to get off there, did he?
For this, I got nothin'.
A couple weeks ago, I mailed my WF DVDs to a friend so she could watch the show. She loved it madly.
I realized I had several other friends who needed to be converted, and I could send my DVDs to them too!
But wait...why waste time and postage? I could get her to send them to someone, and they could send them to someone else, and so on and so forth. A pyramid scheme of conversion! Except more of a line.
I win at toasters.