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.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
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.
Calli - Jun 10, 2005 9:30:03 am PDT #8616 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
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.
smonster - Jun 10, 2005 10:03:16 am PDT #8622 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
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'.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2005 10:04:53 am PDT #8623 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
beathen - Jun 10, 2005 10:21:37 am PDT #8624 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
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.
You just have to be able to track who has them so you can eventually get them back!
DXMachina - Jun 10, 2005 10:38:59 am PDT #8625 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
How was Danny to get from one station to the next in time to meet the same train?
That was a problem. I don't know the LA system at all, but I can't imagine them being able to do it, especially if they start from the platform. The train doesn't have to worry about surface traffic or traffic lights. You certainly couldn't do it in Boston.
The only fan wank I can think of is for Web to have arranged for the train to be held up by signals between each stop to allow the others to catch up.