Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

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.


Wolfram - Apr 11, 2005 1:08:09 pm PDT #4747 of 10001
Visilurking

That's a sobering article, Tommy. But not particularly surprising.


DawnK - Apr 11, 2005 1:15:00 pm PDT #4748 of 10001
giraffe mode

I read a review of Revelations (in People or TV Guide) and it specifically said it wasn't like the Left Behind books but more creepy and lots less preachy. The actual review was pretty positive.


Lee - Apr 11, 2005 1:16:46 pm PDT #4749 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Hi Dawn!


Steph L. - Apr 11, 2005 1:22:56 pm PDT #4750 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Everyone who knew them both was convinced that they had had an affair, and everyone was also convinced that it ended after just a couple of months. But Lewis couldn't allow himself to walk away from the mess: he'd promised his friend to take care of his mother, and the fact that he'd subsequently slept with that mother and she'd turned out to be mentally unbalanced didn't free him from that promise; in fact, in his mind, he was now more responsible for her than ever. She was unwell, widowed, without a son, and now fixated on him because he'd sexually used her, so clearly the only thing that could make it all worse than it already was would be to abandon her. So he stayed. He supported her and her daughter financially, said "How high?" every time she told him to jump, and made a conscious decision not to get involved with any other woman while she was alive because, having been such a selfish sex-obsessed bastard, the least he could do was spare her that pain. (And this was even before his conversion; he was a furious atheist at the time, but no less a rigid moralist.)

Damn, *this* is the movie that needs to be made, not Shadowlands.


Susan W. - Apr 11, 2005 1:27:56 pm PDT #4751 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Oh, but I loved Shadowlands!

Which is not to say that I don't see half a dozen plot bunnies hopping around in that particular episode of Lewis's early life.


Steph L. - Apr 11, 2005 1:32:10 pm PDT #4752 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Fair point; I really enjoyed Shadowlands, too. However, I think the Jossverse has forever warped me into wanting the dark and complex side of things, now.

So I amend; *in addition to* Shadowlands, I'd also like to see a movie of The Mixed-Up Highly Inappropriate and Entangled Misadventures of C.S. Lewis' Early Life.


Sheryl - Apr 11, 2005 1:38:20 pm PDT #4753 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Another lovely day here. and I had to spend it at work. Alas...


JenP - Apr 11, 2005 1:39:11 pm PDT #4754 of 10001

Going back...

Watch out, Sydney!
Jessica made me laugh out loud.

Much I did not know about C.S. Lewis I've now learned thanks to JZ. They do need to make that movie.

Revelations. I may need to watch just to watch. They seem to be marketing it as a horror movie.


Susan W. - Apr 11, 2005 1:39:28 pm PDT #4755 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Oh, when in doubt about where to take a plot, I always ask myself "What Would Joss Do?" (And if I get too grim, I have two CPs who'll both say, "Isn't this kinda Season 6?")

I'd also like to see a movie of The Mixed-Up Highly Inappropriate and Entangled Misadventures of C.S. Lewis' Early Life.

I could work on that, only for me it'd end up something like The Mixed-Up Highly Inappropriate and Entangled Misadventures of the Early Life of a Regency Gentleman Loosely Based Upon CS Lewis, With Subsequent Redemption Because I'm a Romance Writer, Yo, and am Therefore Obliged to End on the Happy.


brenda m - Apr 11, 2005 1:53:08 pm PDT #4756 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Revelations sounds like it could be pretty entertaining, if not for the creeping feeling I have that there are folks out there who'll be taking it for a documentary.