I think that on an episode-by-episode basis, the writing is actually pretty respectable. It's just over the season that it's not holding up. I mean, I don't spend a lot of time wincing at clunky dialog when I'm watching.
Angel: Eve. So, I guess we should, I don't know, talk? Eve: About what? Angel: About what happened back there with us. Eve: Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
'Life of the Party'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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Consuela - May 12, 2005 6:54:46 pm PDT #8109 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Gus - May 12, 2005 6:56:43 pm PDT #8110 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Not being pretty, I'll take your word for the facts.
Fuck all that faux modesty!
I be pretty. Lost has lyrics. Maybe we are both easy.
beathen - May 13, 2005 5:31:00 am PDT #8111 of 10000
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Somebody announce the name of a series that was not cancelled soon after the first C&D came out of the lawyer's office.
What's a C&D?
Laura - May 13, 2005 5:33:13 am PDT #8112 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Cease and Desist!
Nora Deirdre - May 13, 2005 5:33:16 am PDT #8113 of 10000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
cease & desist order?
beathen - May 13, 2005 5:38:07 am PDT #8114 of 10000
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Thanks! I was so confused reading a few of those posts. Just out of curiousity - why did Buffy get a C&D?
askye - May 13, 2005 5:46:10 am PDT #8115 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
Buffy didn't get a C&D but various sites started getting them.
Allyson - May 13, 2005 5:57:06 am PDT #8116 of 10000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
If you remember Rayne's shooting script site, she got a C&D to shut it down.
It's a double edged sword. FOX has to exercise its rights over its properties in order to retain those rights. Obviously, from the amount of BtVS sites on the net posting screencaps and such, they don't go on rampages. They know that it's free publicity, though they have no control over the quality of the publicity.
I think they usually go after sites that just post hundreds of screencaps and little else, or spoiler sites.
tavella - May 13, 2005 6:42:20 am PDT #8117 of 10000
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.
FOX has to exercise its rights over its properties in order to retain those rights.
Not true for copyright, only true for trademark. Fox can let a million script sites flourish and still retain full rights to the work under Berne.
I do have some sympathy for them going after script sites, because those represent something they might genuinely want to sell in the future. Some of the attacks on sites for using lowres images just appear to be pissiness, though.
The Partyman - May 13, 2005 8:44:02 am PDT #8118 of 10000
[insert something funny here]
Allyson, you're chronically selling yourself short.......
ITA with ita.
(I have more thoughts, but they will have to wait, as the mind is still processing, and I have to go out).