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.
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.
Tim is a Cracker fan, IIRC.
You do recall correctly. He's the one who told me I should check it out.
Everybody would be forced to watch The Day Today. And Cracker.
Ooh, Kristen, I was just reading about this most recent case. At least she lived, right?
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.
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.
I still can't imagine someone not liking the theme song. It half made the show for me. Just like the theme song for "Wonderfalls." They're very distinctive and there is no way I would accidentally associate the theme song with a different show. I do that with some of the theme songs out there.
