Brandt.
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
'Destiny'
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.
Scrappy - Jun 17, 2005 5:53:17 am PDT #9417 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Steph L. - Jun 17, 2005 5:53:49 am PDT #9418 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Brandt.
Smirky dom guy?
Scrappy - Jun 17, 2005 5:55:39 am PDT #9419 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yeah, bad guy who becomes victim.
Dana - Jun 17, 2005 6:00:15 am PDT #9420 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Steph, I forget if you have a position on Colin Firth, since you sometimes have boy-related opinions that perplex me (Christian Bale), but if you'd enjoy seeing baby-faced Colin Firth in an incredibly slashy stalky relationship with Hart Bochner, rent Apartment Zero.
Steph L. - Jun 17, 2005 6:02:46 am PDT #9421 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Yeah, bad guy who becomes victim.
I liked him. I don't think I've seen him in anything else, but I liked him in this episode.
Steph, I forget if you have a position on Colin Firth, since you sometimes have boy-related opinions that perplex me (Christian Bale)
Heh. Not so much a position as -- I can never remember what he looks like. I always confuse him and Clive Owen.
Kiba Rika - Jun 17, 2005 6:13:21 am PDT #9422 of 10001
I may have to seize the cat.
It would've been nice to see some acknowledgment that an attraction to S&M doesn't necessarily imply some hidden trauma.
This is true. I guess I had on my see-what-you-want-to-see goggles. Which was that I kept hearing people say to him, "Don't be so judgmental, Paul!" and took that as the voice of the show.
Scrappy - Jun 17, 2005 6:18:51 am PDT #9423 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Apartment Zero added to Netflix queue.
Jessica - Jun 17, 2005 6:19:36 am PDT #9424 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Which was that I kept hearing people say to him, "Don't be so judgmental, Paul!" and took that as the voice of the show.
I mostly heard the voice of the show as "None of these people have a clue what they're talking about. (Except Brandt, and he's not telling.)"
And as soon as Brandt turns out to be innocent, everything the characters have said about what they think they understand about BDSM goes out the window. I don't think the show said anything about BDSM in the end, because it turned out not to matter to the case. They were following the wrong guy.
Emily - Jun 17, 2005 6:25:55 am PDT #9425 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Tep, what was the throwing-the-remote line? Was it the "stronger" line or the "what makes you think he was in control?" line or another one I'm forgetting entirely?
Tim writes snark so often that it's clear he either is snarky or desperately wants to be. I can tell things like that.
I always confuse him and Clive Owen.
Oh God. It's like I don't even know you.
Steph L. - Jun 17, 2005 6:33:31 am PDT #9426 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Tep, what was the throwing-the-remote line? Was it the "stronger" line
Oh, you're right -- it wasn't the final line. It was the "this will make you stronger" line. While I understand that Rebecca's intent (and, by proxy, the intent of the show) may have been to say "Look, you *will* survive this, and be stronger for it," the overall impact it left with me was to conflate S&M with sexual violence, which is all kinds of wrong.
What Brandt said was specifically and ONLY about consensual sexual activity; having Rebecca refer back to that statement, using the same wording he used, in the context of completely non-consensual sexual violence, ends up linking S&M and sexual violence.
I have a big problem with that.