Of course, I'm the one who's always going back to re-work season 5 in my head so that Riley turns out to be the Glory host, and not Ben.
Wait.... are you saying Ben is Glory?
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Ailleann - Dec 01, 2010 7:35:55 am PST #7733 of 10464
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le nubian - Dec 01, 2010 7:36:40 am PST #7734 of 10464
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ha! that's a really good idea though...that Riley is the Glory host (though I almost typed "Glory hole" which adds another unnecessary layer).
Frankenbuddha - Dec 01, 2010 7:59:43 am PST #7735 of 10464
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
ha! that's a really good idea though...that Riley is the Glory host (though I almost typed "Glory hole" which adds another unnecessary layer).
I figured whatever they had to remove that was killing him (whatever Maggie Walsh did to him) was blocking Glory, so when they took that out, she started appearing. I think it would have been a whole lot better for relationship angst than vamp!hookers, it would have made Giles actions in The Gift that much more hardcore, and it would have saved us from Charlie Batch's "acting".
Stephanie - Dec 01, 2010 8:42:26 am PST #7736 of 10464
Trust my rage
So, Batch was Ben?
Zenkitty - Dec 01, 2010 9:07:34 am PST #7737 of 10464
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I like the Riley-as-Glory idea! And if they'd brought Lilah back, instead of Eve maybe we could have had Christina Hendricks as Glory.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 01, 2010 9:30:49 am PST #7738 of 10464
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So, Batch was Ben?
Charlie Weber. My bad. Charlie Batch is a journeyman backup NFL quarterback. I have no idea why that's the name I came up with.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 01, 2010 9:31:11 am PST #7739 of 10464
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I like the Riley-as-Glory idea! And if they'd brought Lilah back, instead of Eve maybe we could have had Christina Hendricks as Glory.
A win-win.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 01, 2010 10:04:27 am PST #7740 of 10464
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think if they'd just cast any more experienced actress for Glory it would have worked out better. The shows got so much good work out of older antagonists played by actors like Mark Metcalf, Harry Groener, Sam Anderson, and Keith Szara-whatever, but Lindsay Crouse is the only actress of middle age or older that I recall them casting in a recurring role.
Not that Juliet Landau, Stephanie Romanov, and Gina Torres weren't all wonderful, but I wish casting directors had been more mindful that young, beautiful, and talented triple threats are rare and prioritizing the first over the third can cause problems. There's no real reason that Glory couldn't have been played by a Lena Olin type, for example.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2010 10:16:18 am PST #7741 of 10464
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lindsay Crouse is the only actress of middle age or older that I recall them casting in a recurring role.
Kristine Sutherland is really hurt right now.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 01, 2010 10:35:26 am PST #7742 of 10464
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ah, I was thinking in terms of recurring villains. But you're right, they did give one actress over 40 a fairly important role throughout.