I am eagerly awaiting "That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo!"
Wild monkey love or tender Sarah McLachlan love?
Xander ,'Him'
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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 09, 2012 7:19:45 am PDT #9290 of 10458
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Rayne - Jun 10, 2012 1:37:21 am PDT #9291 of 10458
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I can't wait to read Mark's reaction to Daniel Dae Kim showing up!
Oh! Oh! Oh! And when Lorne is "pardoned"! He's going to FREAK!
Frankenbuddha - Jun 12, 2012 11:06:48 am PDT #9292 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
OK, this line from Mark...
Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, here are the main reasons why “Spiral” is one of the finest hours of this show
...makes me think he's watching a different show. Spiral? Really?
Steph L. - Jun 12, 2012 11:08:40 am PDT #9293 of 10458
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
“Spiral” is one of the finest hours of this show
Huh. I know he basically loves all of every season, but..."Spiral"? Really?
Frankenbuddha - Jun 12, 2012 11:15:14 am PDT #9294 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Well, he has said season 5 is his favorite so far which also gets a confused-dog head-tilt from me.
JZ - Jun 12, 2012 11:15:41 am PDT #9295 of 10458
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Well, honestly, even with its badness I don't remember the actual plot of the episode bugging so much; it just felt really underwritten -- there was plenty of opportunity for both an engaging series of events and all these good actors saying interesting, snappy, eloquent things while moving through the events, and instead the dialogue was incredibly meh. Like, a handful of us could spend half an hour collaborating and come up with punchier, more pointed, more true-to-the-characters lines with almost zero effort; just that meh.
Mark says:
But Ben changed right in front of them all (IN A SCENE THAT HAD ME SHRIEKING AT THE TELEVISION), so now she knows the secret.
That Ben is subletting from Glory?
Frankenbuddha - Jun 12, 2012 11:19:10 am PDT #9296 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Like, a handful of us could spend half an hour collaborating and come up with punchier, more pointed, more true-to-the-characters lines with almost zero effort; just that meh.
Didn't a group of us do exactly that?
JZ - Jun 12, 2012 11:22:49 am PDT #9297 of 10458
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Yes, indeed we did, which is how I know precisely how meh it was. And I don't remember anyone having to fiddle much with the plot, just the dull dull things the actors were forced to say. And then the following week the writing was back on track.
victor infante - Jun 12, 2012 11:30:46 am PDT #9298 of 10458
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
...makes me think he's watching a different show. Spiral? Really?
I'd like to point out that I loved "Spiral" at the time. And to be fair, it's one of those episodes that lends itself to watching the series straight through.
Also, Mark irony points:
So, at this point on this show, I basically feel like anyone who isn’t Buffy can die.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 12, 2012 11:39:01 am PDT #9299 of 10458
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I now have nostalgia for when my job was so easy I could collate everyone's rewrites into an actual script while "working".