Well, that and MBTV is a better acronym than TWOP, dammit!

Heh. I disagree. I like TWoP cause it makes a word. TWoP TWoP TWoP! Rhymes with "hop."

On the other hand, reading, say, the ER recaps was often a non-stop laughfest for me.

I started reading the Alias recaps recently and thought they were flipping hilarious.

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.

Eh. I don't know that my career aspirations really influenced my FF columns. Though I'm pretty sure I got accused of that one, too. But I just didn't like the show. It happens.

ETA: Not that I ever wrote for TWOP.

I like what I've read of the Veronica Mars recaps at TwoP, because they seem to be affection with snark, a la Boils and Blinding Torment (which all of this talk of TwoP drove me to visit, and I'm so glad. Gotta love Boils and Blinding Torment.). I was hoping to see The Inside recaps. Then, if I didn't like them, I wouldn't read them anymore, but if I did, they might be fun.

Kristen, I think, and maybe this is only how my mind works and no one else's, that the knowledge of your level of interest in one or some of the people actually working on Firefly (Tim leaps to mind) would suggest that any criticism you had was based on the show itself and not at all on frustrated aspirations to screenwriterdom. What I mean is, because I know you supported at least one member of that show's production team, I can't imagine you would say mean things about it just to be saying mean things (which is what I think especially bitter-sounding recaps are). So if you said anything that seemed to be not-praise, it was based firmly in your genuine sentiments about the show, rather than any resentment of the people involved in making it.

But I have been known to have crackpot ideas, and to assume everyone thinks the same way as I do.

On a more Inside-y note... did anyone else think it is nice to know that Paul is not setting himself up as Rebecca's defender because he wants to get in her pants? I mean, with the baby thing. I suppose he could still want to get in her pants but that would be totally inconsistent with everything we've seen about his character, if he actually pursued it. I myself was relieved. I like it when a show is UST-free.

Oh yeah! You're right. I didn't think about that fact.

I like it when a show is UST-free.

I don't know. Danny and Mel could get it on at any time.

I don't think Danny swings that way.

Tamara beat me to it.

Kiba, I don't think most people in the FF fandom knew that. At least not until much much later. I was just some bitter, awful person who should be fired. (hee. fired.)

did anyone else think it is nice to know that Paul is not setting himself up as Rebecca's defender because he wants to get in her pants?

Hey, man, I've already seen 'shippers.

Between Danny wanting to dress up like a biker and his expression after the "you don't know anal" comment, I don't know if it is a foregone conclusion or if we are just supposed to think it is.

she wrote this episode, no?

No, it was Mark Fish.

Kiba borrowed my brain because I thought it had a very Jane air to it, too. I think the "it's a support group for very clumsy people" line that led me to suspect.

Ah, well. Good work, Mark. I liked the episode, overall, except the brainfarty Ms. Rebecca walking into a situation that might have gotten her raped and murdered, for all she knew. But I guess it served its purpose because the follow up with the S&M guy freaking over seeing real fear and not a sexually heated faux-fear was a nice touch.

I'm looking forward to a future episode where Danny has to go undercover at Micky's on Nearly Naked Go Go Boy Night and everyone there knows him.