That was just really confusing for me for a moment....
Man, just ascend already.
Willow ,'Chosen'
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.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 27, 2013 4:10:46 am PDT #9854 of 10458
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Typo Boy - Jun 30, 2013 8:34:45 am PDT #9855 of 10458
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
My 91 year old Mom, reading an "Ocean at the End of the Lane" review: "Gaiman sure writes a lot"
Me: "And a damn good thing too"
M91YOM: "He writes for TV too. Didn't he write a couple of Dr. Who Episodes?"
Me: "Yes"
M91YOM: "Didn't he write for Buffy?"
Me: "Not as far as I know"
M9YOM: "I think you're wrong. Didn't he co-write some of the Minear episodes?"
billytea - Jun 30, 2013 9:45:51 am PDT #9856 of 10458
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
He co-wrote every Minear episode.
Typo Boy - Jun 30, 2013 1:59:26 pm PDT #9857 of 10458
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Mathematically, this is quite correct.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 30, 2013 2:01:50 pm PDT #9858 of 10458
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
OK, anybody else now drooling over the prospect of Minear and Gaiman collaborating on ANYTHING?
Atropa - Jun 30, 2013 3:50:16 pm PDT #9859 of 10458
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
the prospect of Minear and Gaiman collaborating on ANYTHING?
stares off into the distance
Whatever the project was, it would have a lovely plot, great dialog, and be so emotionally wrenching that everyone would freak out forever.
Laga - Jun 30, 2013 11:04:10 pm PDT #9860 of 10458
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
my first thought: how do you kill death?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 01, 2013 12:29:28 am PDT #9861 of 10458
"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
Hm. I don't think you can if Gaiman is one of the writers - she was the only thing designed to last longer than the universe.
Typo Boy - Jul 01, 2013 1:19:29 pm PDT #9862 of 10458
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
But in the Gaiman universe it seems like the personifications are like a job title. You can kill off the seed that currently holds the position and someone new takes it over. The takeover apparently includes memories and skills that go with the position, but not necessarily the personal memories. So Death could die and be replaced by a new Death. It is the personification that outlasts the universe, not necessarily the particular person wearing the personification at any one moment. Maybe Gaiman intends Death to be the exception to this, but nothing in Canon has ever specifically said this. We don't know that the "Death" we saw shutting down the universe in the Books of Magic is the same person we see in our time. Of course Death remembers every person she takes, which is everyone, so maybe more continuity of memory than others.
At any rate, you could have Death die, and still be consistent with Canon.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 01, 2013 4:30:12 pm PDT #9863 of 10458
"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
But we've already seen her become other people and die in Death: The High Cost of Living, and it was implied it happens every 100 years. I don't think the experience of death is the same for her as it is for others, even her fellow Endless.