I'm actually hoping some of it is foiler stuff in a way.

Aha. The casting sides for November just appeared - they're scenes previously used for other characters' sides (Adelle and Sierra) with the names swapped to November. So I think those sites publishing the sides as scriptage are a little wrong.

RE: BSG Spoilers... yes, I was flabbergasted when those spoilers last year appeared on the skiffy site... the same place where Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Moore read and post regularly. I was thinking "why, why would you do that? How stupid can you be??? Of course Ron is going to see it and get mad and put the brakes on all spoilers and the rest of us spoiler whores will suffer!!"

Spoilers are best kept on private and locked forums, where the only members are people who are known and trusted not to be so silly as to do something like take them and wave them under Ron's nose. I've read a couple of recaps by people who have seen He That Believeth in Me on such forums, and would never think of taking them to skiffy. It's a shame this isn't also a locked forum.

Jessica, your spoilers saved my life last year, and I was so sorry to see the fallout that resulted from your generosity. If I could have smacked down everyone at skiffy responsible for posting them there, I would have. Do you have a private LJ? That might be a good place for you to share your spoilers in the future, if you wish to do so.

I personally don't believe spoilers should be kept in locked private forums and such, 'cos, like... I don't know, I think that creates levels of fandom. If somebody wants to be spoiled and somebody has that information, I think they should be allowed to spoil themselves.

I'm not going to be posting spoilers for BSG this time.

It really has nothing to do with not pissing off RDM, it has to do with not putting DH's job at risk. I love spoilers and miss the Buffy/Angel spoiler community dearly, but being able to put a roof over my kid's head depends on DH having good relationships with publicists. However small the risk is that anything I post gets traced back to him, it's not worth it to me.

Yuh-huh. One of my best friends works on Doctor Who, and I have to basically say nothing about that show for the simple reason if I do and anything gets traced to her, she'll get fired. So I can understand that, Jessica.

Oh, Jess, I'm sorry for all the ugly fallout.

I'm really not getting that much out of the two scenes they've got.

No, but I really really like that last monolog of Sierra's. Would it be all kinds of unethical to bookmark it and set it aside as a possible audition piece?

Well, how much attribution does one have to give at an audition?

Would it be awkward if whatever airs isn't quite that?

Well, how much attribution does one have to give at an audition? Would it be awkward if whatever airs isn't quite that?

I have no idea what the current conventions are since I haven't actually auditioned for anything in at least four years, but back then it was just Character Name, Play/Movie/Whatnot Title. And, because monologs are expected to be so short, the audition(er? ee?) usually ends up whittling it way down to the best 60 seconds anyway, so as long as it's based on some text from something you didn't write yourself (unless you are Sam Shepard) nobody much cares how exactly word-for-word right it is.

I'm just not sure about the ethics of poaching from sides, which are technically not supposed to be released to the public at all. But it's a nice snarky little piece, and if for some reason (as may well happen in the however many more drafts and tweakings are yet to occur) it ends up getting cut from the show, it makes me a little sad to think of that bit of writing just vanishing forever.

I think I've just talked myself into an act of poachery.

So, with Tahmoh Penikett joining Dollhouse as a series regular, is Helo exploded?