I'm moving to the Valley next month! Right near Robin, too! And Allyson! And Kat! And others! AIFG!
That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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 18, 2005 2:24:42 pm PDT #9636 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
§ ita § - Jun 18, 2005 2:37:01 pm PDT #9637 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's in A Valley, D. I am not. To me, it's all The Valley, or an Even Further Valley.
t /geography snob
HiddenSky - Jun 18, 2005 5:51:09 pm PDT #9638 of 10001
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
I'm in the Delaware Valley. Oops, 3000 miles apart.
Tamara - Jun 18, 2005 6:44:52 pm PDT #9639 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Do I live in the valley? I still don't understand LA geography.
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2005 7:20:30 am PDT #9640 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Zap2It interviews Tim and the cast. Minor spoilers for "Loneliest Number" (just the basic concept, and nothing fatal to a spoilerphobe like me).
The cast all sound so damn smart!
Harrington says he also read Ellroy's "The Black Dahlia," based on a famous Los Angeles murder case. Nichols, a Columbia University graduate with degrees in economics and applied mathematics, took a more analytical approach.
And then, of course:
While he may have started with serial killers, Minear doesn't plan to stop there. "We're doing violent crimes. We can do serial killers, but we can do arsonists, mad bombers, terrorists, rapists. There are all manner of sick and twisted deviant behaviors that we can explore for the enjoyment of America."
Kat - Jun 19, 2005 8:04:39 am PDT #9641 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Pasadena is in the San Gabriel Valley. The Valley that is most often referred to as "The Valley" is the San Fernando Valley which is the basin that runs from the Verdugo Mountains to the East (those East of Burbank) to the mountains near Simi in the West. The Santa Monica/hollywood hills to the South and the San Gabriel Mountains to the North.
Thus, your geography lesson is done now.
Narrator - Jun 19, 2005 9:14:21 am PDT #9642 of 10001
The evil is this way?
I'd take notes but I figure after the next earthquake all of those places will be somewhere else anyway.
ETA -- Rachel Nichols is on the cover of the TV Week in Sunday's Chicago Tribune. There a reprint of the zap2it article on the series. And a reprint of another zap2it article about Katie Finneran, who is a native of Chicago. Katie said that she signed on because of Tim Minear, who she refers to as "the Noel Coward of television."
Amy - Jun 19, 2005 10:21:12 am PDT #9643 of 10001
Because books.
"There are all manner of sick and twisted deviant behaviors that we can explore for the enjoyment of America."
And that's why we love him. Heh.
Tamara - Jun 19, 2005 10:32:05 am PDT #9644 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Thanks, Kat. I guess I am in The Valley then.
bon bon - Jun 19, 2005 12:22:48 pm PDT #9645 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Did anyone link to this article before? [link] If so, sorry for the re-post.
And then, something miraculous happened: The executives at Fox hired Tim Minear to salvage the project. [snip] How good is Minear? It would not be rash to consider him one of the five best minds in television.