You know, he does have a birthday coming up...
See, now I'm interested to see what he'd come up with after watching it, if the feelgood dead baby episode of the year came before being exposed to it. It's a fun experiment!
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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.
Jars - Oct 23, 2005 11:43:29 am PDT #7075 of 10001
Kristen - Oct 23, 2005 11:52:33 am PDT #7076 of 10001
Speaking of the feelgood dead baby episode...I was watching WaT, like, a week or two ago, I think. I was doing stuff around the house so I wasn't fast forwarding past the commercials, which is how I heard the teaser for that night's 11 o'clock news. The story?
A woman was killed and sliced open by another woman who wanted to steal her child.
I went to find the actual story online (since I was watching this a few days after the fact). Turns out that this was the second such incident. The first one being about 10 months ago. I meant to ask him if he'd heard the original story and if that was where the idea for Aidan came from. But I forgot.
aurelia - Oct 23, 2005 11:59:09 am PDT #7077 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
The first one was national news. A good friend of mine (who was pregnant at the time) spent part of her childhood in the town where that happened. Her 7 yr old son caught the story on the news and told her that he hoped that wouldn't happen to her.
Allyson - Oct 23, 2005 12:24:32 pm PDT #7078 of 10001
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
Tim is a Cracker fan, IIRC.
Kristen - Oct 23, 2005 12:48:40 pm PDT #7079 of 10001
You do recall correctly. He's the one who told me I should check it out.
Kevin - Oct 23, 2005 12:50:21 pm PDT #7080 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Everybody would be forced to watch The Day Today. And Cracker.
Burrell - Oct 23, 2005 1:12:20 pm PDT #7081 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ooh, Kristen, I was just reading about this most recent case. At least she lived, right?
Kristen - Oct 23, 2005 1:20:02 pm PDT #7082 of 10001
Last I heard, she was alive. But reading the coverage was freaky. Especially when you got to the quote from the boyfriend/husband about how he thought she (the attacker) was pregnant.
Also, Strega, I just read this and thought it was cute:
I do suggest that if you don't know anyone in the biz who can read your TV spec, you find the most intelligent person on the relevant Television Without Pity forum and ask him or her if they'd be willing to read it for you.
Allyson - Oct 23, 2005 1:41:13 pm PDT #7083 of 10001
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
I did that!
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2005 2:20:15 pm PDT #7084 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The loaning continues ... a friend to whom I'd said "You have a Firefly-shaped hole in your life." returned disc 1 to me today and gruffly asked for disc 2. Which is out on loan to someone else. Well, he didn't exactly return it to me, because the guy standing next to me grabbed it and said "Hey, can I borrow that?" and made off with it. He promises to have it back to me on Tuesday.
Large backlog for disc 2.
When I asked him if he'd liked it, he said he hadn't expected to, but did, but that whoever wrote the theme song should be shot. Which I also heard in a discussion about it yesterday. So now I'm imagining all these people feeling about my lovely theme song the way I feel about the Enterprise abomination. It's ick.