Maybe it was flirting with you, Cass.
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Trudy Booth - May 01, 2005 1:07:19 pm PDT #6796 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Topic!Cindy - May 01, 2005 1:18:40 pm PDT #6797 of 10001
What is even happening?
sj, the sun finally came out, here. I hope it's out in your area too, and that you keep feeling better.
Cass, that's too funny.
We had the same amount of French in high school. I'd respond in Spanish, which I did take, iffn I could remember any of it.Yo tambien y no hablo español bien. Mas despacio, por favor. Quiero una siesta. Quiero cerveza. Quiero una vacaciones.
As he was putting it together, he sang the following song, inspired by a BTVS-themed fake driver's license for Spike that Cindy sent him long ago and which is one of his greatest treasures:
Everybody's ni-ice to-oo Mister Spi-ike
Everybody likes me 'cause I'm Mister Spi-ike
Everybody's happy liking Mister 'Spi-ike
♥ Emmett is the coolest.
erikaj - May 01, 2005 1:21:40 pm PDT #6798 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. My mother even wants the Emmett report. She's a fan.
Narrator - May 01, 2005 1:22:43 pm PDT #6799 of 10001
The evil is this way?
Yo tambien y no hablo español bien. Mas despacio, por favor. Quiero una siesta. Quiero cerveza. Quiero una vacaciones.
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Narrator - May 01, 2005 1:22:46 pm PDT #6800 of 10001
The evil is this way?
Number slut!
erikaj - May 01, 2005 1:25:57 pm PDT #6801 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
No te enojas. No vale la pena.
Not surprisingly, no vale la pena is my favorite idiom ever.
Steph L. - May 01, 2005 1:28:38 pm PDT #6802 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
largely b/c the Chinese is never explained (and I've watched the original 2-part pilot through....the one where Mal gets married-but-not-really, and there's been no explanation as to why they all swear in Chinese, and sorry, but that bugs).
It's never explained on the show, maybe, but Joss's explanation is that in the future, America and China are the two superpowers, such that everyone from the bottom of the social ladder to the very top knows a bit of Mandarin.
Hmm. I think having to find that out from a source outside of the teevee makes it a weak element. Everything the viewer needs to know should be accessible through the show itself; granted, not everything must be spelled out in 50-foot-high anvils, and not everything must be revealed in the first episode, but as a viewer, I expect it to eventually be explained on the show itself.
§ ita § - May 01, 2005 1:31:10 pm PDT #6803 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I never felt a lack of explanation ... well, okay, it wasn't explained, but I just thought "Huh. The Chinese must have gained cultural or political power between now and then." and figured the how of that gaining may or may not be interesting to tell.
erikaj - May 01, 2005 1:34:48 pm PDT #6804 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm with Tep. And that whole "Let's get in the spaceship, consarn it," tone gets on my wick sometimes. But maybe I'm just sad nobody's made "Space Balmer" yet. Oh, God, an asteroid hit Mount and Fayette...
brenda m - May 01, 2005 1:37:56 pm PDT #6805 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
I agree that the Chinese thing wasn't very well executed. I think it's not explained because it's supposed to be sort of a texture thing. But it would've seemed more natural if they had done a little more with getting some chinese people/architecture/whatever in the background to show that there had been some significant cultural melding sometime over the last several hundred or whatever years.