I got rushed to the front of the line when I went into one complaining about chest pains.
Just keep walking, preacher-man.
River ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
NoiseDesign - Jan 28, 2005 11:25:48 am PST #1771 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
Steph L. - Jan 28, 2005 11:26:17 am PST #1772 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Did someone already post this? Dick Cheney mistakes Holocaust memorial ceremony for meeting of ski club.
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2005 11:30:38 am PST #1773 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got rushed to the front of the line when I went into one complaining about chest pains.
They didn't rush me, but hey! Morphine. Enough that I was turning the stuff down.
Nutty - Jan 28, 2005 11:32:15 am PST #1774 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
To me it's not about there not being ongoing character development and exploration, but more what is the A plot of the episode?
Oh, sure. But in the early seasons of L&O, it was possible to develop and explore characters by watching them do their jobs. I don't think that's really so any more, but I haven't watched it regularly in years.
Hell, I even get itchy when a character starts resonating with the A plot.
I guess it depends, for me. The recent Sam gets all mushy thinking about Barbara Ehrenreich-type low-wage workers episode was an annoying instance of same; the one from a couple of years ago, where HDT talked Joan of Arcadia down off a ledge by telling her his sad childhood, without us knowing whether it was true or not till afterwards, worked for me.
Allyson - Jan 28, 2005 11:34:24 am PST #1775 of 10002
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 saw that earlier Steph, and I can't tell you how massively offended I am.
Betsy HP - Jan 28, 2005 11:35:04 am PST #1776 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
"Morphine?" "No thanks, I've already had some." "Oh. Okay. Cigarette?"
Jesse - Jan 28, 2005 11:37:50 am PST #1777 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
HDT talked Joan of Arcadia down off a ledge by telling her his sad childhood, without us knowing whether it was true or not till afterwards, worked for me.
Ooh, that was a good one -- I just saw it for the first time recently.
I don't have any room to be more offended by Dick Cheney.
Betsy HP - Jan 28, 2005 11:37:56 am PST #1778 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
We in the blue states ALWAYS wear parkas to funerals.
sumi - Jan 28, 2005 11:38:55 am PST #1779 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
There are an unusually high number of women named "Sam" on tv.
I don't think I know any women named "Sam" irl. Nor men, for that matter.
Wait! I am acquainted with one little girl named "Sam".
Well, I guess that makes it all alright.
NoiseDesign - Jan 28, 2005 11:41:35 am PST #1780 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
I was engaged to a woman named Sam.