Can we bait Adam into doing that?
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
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.
Nicklas - Jun 16, 2005 2:36:01 pm PDT #9344 of 10001
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
jengod - Jun 16, 2005 2:37:13 pm PDT #9345 of 10001
hee. wow. flashback.
Kristen - Jun 16, 2005 2:38:36 pm PDT #9346 of 10001
Can we bait Adam into doing that?
Please don't. You can go visit him at the OB, if you'd like.
Nicklas - Jun 16, 2005 2:42:15 pm PDT #9347 of 10001
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
Please don't.It was more of "is it possible since he doesn't hang out here" kind of question. I don't bait people with political issues -- ever.
Nicklas - Jun 16, 2005 2:56:09 pm PDT #9348 of 10001
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
To stear this away from political drivel: I can't wait to se how long it will take before Paul gets the Wesley-manuvere. Sure, he's "broken" like all of them, but he's the nicest.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 16, 2005 3:11:40 pm PDT #9349 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Okay, now that you mention it, I do seem to recall that Pamie hated WF.
I didn't so much mind her hating it—I never showed an episode to my mom because she would loathe it with a burning hatred matched only by that she feels for Mary Poppins—it was that Pamie's recaps read like commentary for the blind in Ben Stein's voice. Even when Strega and Demian hate shows, they tend to bust on them entertainingly rather than opting for the "misery loves company" approach of trying to bore their readers to death.
But WF wasn't universally hated by TwoP posters. The only hard numbers I can quote are from the cancellation reaction poll, where 17% of 3158 respondents chose "Bummer." and 63% chose "Nooooooo!"
Kevin - Jun 16, 2005 3:26:37 pm PDT #9350 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I am just putting together screen caps (only 4, don't batter me copyright people) and I've noticed something interesting frame by frame skipping bits of the episode. Ice cream man, amongst other things, has single frame inserts.
ETA: Example: [link]
Apocalypse13 - Jun 16, 2005 3:47:57 pm PDT #9351 of 10001
I've always thought that the problem with TWoP was the obvious bitterness of many of it's recappers. I got the impression that so many of them really wanted to be writing TV, but they weren't, so they decided to bash the hell out of it instead.
joe boucher - Jun 16, 2005 3:49:47 pm PDT #9352 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
I stayed home sick and had a Niagara-fest. I realized part-way through tho, that I hated the purported best friend and got the vague feeling the cast and crew weren't crazy about her either.
Perhaps you had a higher fever than you realized. Seriously, though, I thought Mahandra was a great character ("That is not the Janet I want to be" is one of my favorite lines) and that Tracie Thoms did a super job. I don't remember the documentary, but everyone had good things to say about her in the commentaries. She & Lee Pace went to acting school together or something like that. She was a last-minute hire; maybe that accounts for her relative absence in the doc.
"Gore is a magnificent bastard" is my suggestion.
Gore, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!
Emily - Jun 16, 2005 4:23:18 pm PDT #9353 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I've never known two people to agree on exactly what the dividing line is on recaps. I know not to read the recaps of shows I honestly like, because I spend the whole time going, "No! But you missed the... that's not the... dude, that was a joke! You're missing the whole point!" On the other hand, reading, say, the ER recaps was often a non-stop laughfest for me. And I don't think it's the recapper (although I'll grant that there are some I liked better than others) -- it's the show and how I feel about it that determines whether I think the recap is funny or bitter and missing the point.
Which I'm sure has been said fifteen hundred times by other people. But my rule of thumb is, if I like the show I should stay the hell away from the recap.
Well, that and MBTV is a better acronym than TWOP, dammit! Those are my two rules of thumb. Rule of thumbs. That, and always dress in layers. Three! Three rules of...