(I actually like the NBC version of The Office).

Me! Me! Me!

US Office very much removes itself from the UK voice in the second season. That said, I don't think that's a bad thing - if you want to run for 22 episodes a year, you would have to change format from the UK 6 episodes a year thing.

(sort of confindentially to Dana)

Svilleficrecs (or Kate Andrews, as she's better known) had linked, on someone else's LJ earlier today, to an essay she wrote a while ago on Jim and Pam as a S/M couple (hee!). [link] I don't quite buy it, but Kate writes so persuasively and with such glee that it made me go, EEEE!!

I didn't mean any disrespect for the US Office, which I like, too, but it's an open-ended series, which isn't really comparable to a film.

That's totally fair. Honestly, the show is so perfect right now (psychotic thrall, remember?) that I don't know if it can really sustain the excellence.

Heh. Bookmarked for future perusal.

Somebody (Gervais?) spoke about the first few season 3 scripts for The Office, and said they are excellent. He's normally a fairly good judge, from what I've seen.

However, by season 4 it'll all go wrong. Heh. I've been scorned by many shows 4th seasons.

I had a Firefly thing. . . what was it?

Oh yes, the lj-Whedonesque thingy had a link to a blog that reviewed Steven Brust's reading of the first chapter of his Firefly novel -- which he is still shopping around to publishers. . . or wherever he needs to go with it what with the use of characters owned by 20th-Century.

I assume he knows what he is doing.

Oh, I had heard about this one. Brust is a well-regarded sf/f writer, right? I haven't read him personally, but I think I have one of his books (something about a snarky vampire, IIRC) in my to-read pile.

Brust's book won't get published. The licensing is with Pocket Books, from Universal Licensing LLC, however it's stalled -- last I heard Joss hasn't approved the writers spec yet.

They have two more ready for development, but there's speculation (from Brust) that the movie didn't do well enough to warrant two more books.

Anyway, Brust wrote his entire book without checking with the publisher, and I believe this has presented some problems - they had already accepted the specs and sent them over to Universal for selection, and the timeline Brust used is wrong (I believe they wanted the books set pre-Firefly).

I hope he fanfics it.

I'm right with Vonnie in the totally enthralled with the U.S. version of The Office club. We're making Jim posters for our bedroom walls right now, aifg.

Not-so-random comment about Steven Brust: I was at StellarCon this Feb. in North Carolina, where he's a regular, and he was on the Firefly panel. To which he showed up....about thirty seconds before the end of the panel.

He's also well known at that con for hanging out in the hotel bar smoking, and some additional less-than-stellar interpersonal skills. Which, for the latter, it's at a con, so not really judge-y.

the movie didn't do well enough to warrant two more books.

Here's what really cheeses me off about this: they just made another frelling Garfield movie. Am I wrong, or did that movie seriously tank? Like, about three people saw it (maybe one of the grips, his mom, and his sister)? And yet it gets a sequel. Not a direct-to-video, even. Why can't we have another Serenity?!?!!!