Our characters are living, breathing people with all the emotional complexity and contradictions present in quality dramas like "The West Wing" or "The Sopranos."
He apparently never saw B5, Farscape or the better episodes of DS9.
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Ginger - Jul 29, 2005 3:15:46 am PDT #3860 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
DCJensen - Jul 29, 2005 3:49:47 am PDT #3861 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Our characters are living, breathing people with all the emotional complexity and contradictions present in quality dramas like "The West Wing" or "The Sopranos."
He apparently never saw B5, Farscape or the better episodes of DS9
Compared to the original BSG, The Anna Nicole Smith Show has emotional complexity.
Strega - Jul 29, 2005 6:47:12 am PDT #3862 of 10001
I think Mega Man was later, P-C.
the better episodes of DS9.I suspect he at least saw those, if he didn't write them himself.
I don't understand the need to parse each line so as to find implied slurs against every work he doesn't specifically pay homage to. I really don't. He's writing to network execs. The point is not to write an annotated history of television drama; it's to briefly convey a concept. Are execs going to be more interested if he refers to low-rated shows from years back, or if he refers to current hits that win Emmy awards?
Christ, Moore totally stole the concept of an in media res opening for "33" from Homer. That thieving bastard!
tommyrot - Jul 29, 2005 6:59:07 am PDT #3863 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Christ, Moore totally stole the concept of an in media res opening for "33" from Homer. That thieving bastard!
Yay! I learned a new Latin phrase!
Polter-Cow - Jul 29, 2005 7:02:56 am PDT #3864 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Are you joking, or did you not learn that in high school, or did you not study Homer in high school?
Also, it's in medias res.
OH SNAP.
lisah - Jul 29, 2005 7:06:44 am PDT #3865 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I don't understand the need to parse each line so as to find implied slurs against every work he doesn't specifically pay homage to.
And, really, what's the point? He was trying to sell his own show! He needs to be selling it as the best thing since sliced bread (in SPACE!).
tommyrot - Jul 29, 2005 7:08:00 am PDT #3866 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Are you joking, or did you not learn that in high school, or did you not study Homer in high school?
No. No Homer in high school for me. No Latin either.
Volans - Jul 29, 2005 7:12:59 am PDT #3867 of 10001
move out and draw fire
No Homer in high school for me. No Latin either.
Same here. Can't remember when I learned in medias res... prolly law school. Or from TV.
(edit: and how much do I love P-C juxtaposing a Latin correction with an atti-snap? THIS much!)
-t - Jul 29, 2005 7:16:57 am PDT #3868 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
No Homer in high school for me. No Latin either.
Me neither. I think I learned "in medias res" from a movie review that referenced Homer. I don't remember what movie.
Polter-Cow - Jul 29, 2005 7:26:08 am PDT #3869 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Huh. Wow, I thought The Odyssey and The Iliad had always been high school English standards. Wonder when they came into vogue, then. When they teach you The Odyssey, one of the big things they always mention is the in medias res bit. It was kind of funny, though, that we did The Odyssey in ninth grade and The Iliad in tenth grade, even though the latter is chronologically before the former. I don't remember which one Homer actually wrote first, though.
(edit: and how much do I love P-C juxtaposing a Latin correction with an atti-snap? THIS much!)
Heh. Atti-snap? I'm not familiar with that term.