Also, I live in the woods.
Note to self: watch Tivo'd Inside eps during the daylight.
Did I mention my house is really dark?
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
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.
Pix - Jun 15, 2005 6:07:32 pm PDT #9134 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Jessica - Jun 15, 2005 6:09:42 pm PDT #9135 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think he assumed she had experience as a submissive, and thought he was baiting her into admitting it. He was playfully testing her.
Emily - Jun 15, 2005 6:11:44 pm PDT #9136 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Other people's kinky sex is boring.
"Really, I'm glad you have weird sex. That's great. But I don't care."
My problem tends to be that it's played so blatantly to titillate (not this time, I'm saying usually) and wavers between glamorizing and moralizing, so the people involved are all gorgeous and wearing fantastic clothing and in opulent surroundings -- and they're also pretentious and/or violent. Okay, Brandt was a bit pretentious. But other than that, well avoided!
I'm off to dance now. Have fun.
SailAweigh - Jun 15, 2005 6:14:14 pm PDT #9137 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
He was playfully testing her.
And I think, up until the handcuffs, Rebecca was enjoying it. She sure didn't back off when it became obvious he was going to kiss her. I don't know how much of that was supposed to be "FBI testing the suspect" and how much was just "female curiousity."
Amy - Jun 15, 2005 6:15:03 pm PDT #9138 of 10001
Because books.
Plus, he was innocent, so it would just be a little head game.
Even general guy on the street would know an FBI agent doesn't usually show up just to chat, and she wanted to see the room. My take was, he thought she was curious -- maybe not in terms of doing anything that moment, but someday -- and since the conversation turned that way, he wanted to illustrate the whole control issue.
I think he was genuinely freaked when she started screaming.
I think he assumed she had experience as a submissive, and thought he was baiting her into admitting it. He was playfully testing her.
Or this.
Ginger - Jun 15, 2005 6:17:42 pm PDT #9139 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Paul seems to be as driven by his past as anyone else. My impression was that he was rejected by the late DA some years ago and he has since married, yet that rejection still really bothered him. I wonder if more than one woman has rejected him for someone who's not such a nice guy. (I'm presuming he's married from the baby thing. I guess it ain't necessarily so. Do we know?)
Jessica - Jun 15, 2005 6:17:56 pm PDT #9140 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And I think, up until the handcuffs, Rebecca was enjoying it.
Oh, yeah. She was testing herself, too.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 15, 2005 6:17:57 pm PDT #9141 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Had to catch up with the new Good Eats (oh the irony of following up The Inside with that) and catch the non-interview portion of the Daily Show, but just wanted to chime in with a "Wow, that was really disturbing. In that good way. Kudos."
And now, to bed.
Jessica - Jun 15, 2005 6:18:53 pm PDT #9142 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Had to catch up with the new Good Eats
Ooh, that's right! It's Wednesday!
Pix - Jun 15, 2005 6:23:37 pm PDT #9143 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Okay, getting past the creepiness enough to comment coherently.
I watched these first two eps back-to-back. I hadn't had a chance until now to see the pilot, so perhaps that's why my creep-o-meter was set especially high. It's also why I haven't been posting in or reading this thread until now, so please forgive me if I repeat what other people have already said. I'm planning on trying to keep up with it now.
I love Web's character. I love the idea of Web as puppet master (and yeah--the posable action figures line made me laugh and flinch at the same time, which is quite a trick if you can pull it off). I also love that unanswered question: so what is his history, exactly? How did he become the way he is? I like that all of the characters are damaged in some way and that Web selects his team for the strengths that grow out of being damaged...which obviously ties pretty solidly into this week's script.
I really liked that the dominant wasn't the killer tonight. I liked also that the issue of S&M and judgement was broached and yet never resolved. I like it when characters are well-developed enough to believably have different reactions to topics like that. I agree with whomever it was (Jessica, I think?) that said they thought that that was written well. It didn't settle for any of the stereotypes: it was neither glorified nor villified.
[ETA: Emily said what I meant better in an earlier x-post:]
My problem tends to be that it's played so blatantly to titillate (not this time, I'm saying usually) and wavers between glamorizing and moralizing, so the people involved are all gorgeous and wearing fantastic clothing and in opulent surroundings -- and they're also pretentious and/or violent. Okay, Brandt was a bit pretentious. But other than that, well avoided!Rebecca is growing on me. I liked the first episode, but I wasn't thrilled with her--something about her didn't quite ring true for me at first. I have to say, though, that I like her much better now. I'm so glad that the cell phone msg was her and not Web; that added a whole new dimension to her and took away the predictible: that is was the puppet master again. Very interesting.
So yeah...short version is that I'm really glad I have this TiVo'd and am liking it so far, much more so after this second show. Next week looks really interesting too.
It's nice to have a Minear show back on the air.