deviations from the show's average?
That makes a huge difference. I mean, Lost and Alias would never come up on my radar because so few of their plots hold water.
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
'Safe'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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§ ita § - Aug 08, 2005 3:08:37 pm PDT #8887 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat - Aug 08, 2005 4:48:41 pm PDT #8888 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
And honestly, for the OC Marissa is the epitome of stupidity and has been so from day one.
Laura - Aug 08, 2005 6:29:10 pm PDT #8889 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Lost and Alias would never come up on my radar because so few of their plots hold water.
So the OC has your non-porous plots?
It is kinda scary the percentage of shows I enjoy that have the Ludicrous plots.
Also, just noticed that an hour forty passed with such a tight number available. What is the world coming to? (see above Kat scores 8888 without effort)
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2005 6:30:06 pm PDT #8890 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So the OC has your non-porous plots?
Relatively speaking, yeah. And that's saying something.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 08, 2005 9:50:14 pm PDT #8891 of 10000
"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
Are we supposed to be voting for overall ludicrosity, or deviations from the show's average?
I think we have to judge by the latter. If not, how could anything else compete with any given episode of Charmed? This is a show where people pay Alyssa Milano's character to write an advice for the lovelorn column. (For those lucky souls who have never watched, her character has dated Nick Lachey and been married to the Devil in seasons past. Compared to her, Buffy has good luck with romantic relationships.)
Frankenbuddha - Aug 09, 2005 4:36:00 am PDT #8892 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
How does either rate against a) random attack by mountain lion or b) sudden amnesia by presumed death of daughter?
Or, you know, shaking off heroin withdrawl in an hour. And I think "Spawn working at CTU" trumps "Spawn not eaten by cougar" for ludicrousness.
By the way, anyone see the Six Feet Under where the opening death was a jogger getting eaten by a cougar? It totally made me flash on 24 and wonder why they couldn't have gone that way.
Heh, and I just realized that once they moved 24 to Monday, Spawn was out of the picture. So you no longer could say "Spawn's in trouble; must be Tuesday."
arby - Aug 11, 2005 8:35:49 am PDT #8893 of 10000
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)
TVShowsonDVD has the following item:
One of our readers, who only identified himself as "Michael", tipped us off overnight to [...] The Lost Chronicles : The Official Companion Book. 176 pages long, it ships on September 28th from Hyperion Books. [... It] also "comes with an exclusive hour-long DVD containing unaired scenes from the show"! With the use of the word "exclusive", it sounds like these scenes will not necessarily be among those included on the season set's extras. If so, then it seems like this might be something that will be a must-have item to accompany the 9/6 release of Lost - The Complete 1st Season.
Amazon's page is here.
Who wants to bet that these "exclusive" scenes show up on an "exclusive" one-hour TV special promoting the second season?
§ ita § - Aug 11, 2005 10:43:04 am PDT #8894 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Now I need to know which disks have the specialest features on them, so I can just get those. I want to see the auditions.
le nubian - Aug 15, 2005 2:52:04 pm PDT #8895 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I just saw Sawyer in an old ep of CSI. I was typing, heard the voice, looked up, and said: "WTF? Wow."
The ep is: "Assume Nothing."
Sheryl - Aug 15, 2005 4:28:42 pm PDT #8896 of 10000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
When we were on vacation in Glasgow, the path we took to the light rail went past a promo poster for Lost. Basically a shot of all the characters (except Sun and Jin, oddly enough) dressed and made up like in the Channel 4 promo.