Do you see any goats around? No, because I sacrificed them.

Willow ,'Showtime'


The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People  

[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.


The Partyman - Jul 16, 2005 8:32:42 pm PDT #1485 of 10001
[insert something funny here]

World's biggest beagle

Woah, that's a big Beagle!

Do some research, asshole.

Woah, that's a big Asshole!


Deena - Jul 16, 2005 8:36:54 pm PDT #1486 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Wow, that was offensive. Could he possibly have watched the show even once?


Tim Minear - Jul 16, 2005 9:58:47 pm PDT #1487 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"

I suck at posting, technically.


Tim Minear - Jul 16, 2005 9:58:50 pm PDT #1488 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"

Still with the sucking.


Tim Minear - Jul 16, 2005 10:00:27 pm PDT #1489 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"

It's okay if I fisk this, right? If I did the making the text all smaller and quoted wrong, I trust Ita will fix it for me. I'm useless with this stuff. Though not with the fisking.

I might be on slightly safer ground when it comes to surmising the identity of the actress the creator of Fox's The Inside had in his head when he was piecing together the character traits of the winsome blonde with the all-access pass into the mind of the serial killer.

Uh, considering you made two references to "Silence of The Lambs" in the previous, unquoted paragraph, you mean Clarice Starling, right?

The team of writers mentored by Joss Whedon on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and other parts of the Buffyverse have more distinctive voices, higher profiles and more vocal cult followings than any other writers on any other shows. What they also have is a nasty case of Sarah Michelle Gellar damage."

Oh. You mean Buffy. Um. Er. Not so much. Now, Sarah is a blonde. And so is Rachel Nichols. I do not do their hair. I'll admit I thought she had a little Jodi Foster thing going on. Still do. Never did she recall to me Sarah Michele Gellar.

But Rebecca Locke is not Clarice Starling. She's my fictionalized version of Elizabeth Smart.

And Buffy is brilliant. But I have to be honest here -- I've really only seen a handful of Buffys. Sometime I plan to watch them all on DVD. Haven't had time yet. So I'm frankly not all that familiar with it. (Bet ya'll never considered that, didja? But it's the truth.)

Long-time Whedon right-hand man Tim Minear has ventured down the same road for The Inside. Rachel Nichols, the actress playing Rebecca Locke, the investigator who was abducted as a child and, as a result, can see into the abyss and beyond, is another poreless, porcelain blonde striding with perfect posture into a world of darkness and gore and, again, she's no Sarah Michelle Gellar."

She's also not very much like Ethel Merman. In fact, I can think of a few other actresses she's unlike. But admit it -- she does have a little young Jodi Foster thing happening? And a dash of Bridget Fonda.

Tim Minear's vocal cult following are up in arms at Fox's impending cancellation of his series but they ought to have been bemoaning his failure to come up with a more compelling heroine."

Careful, or I'll sick my vocal cult on you. (What's a vocal cult, anyway? Do you all talk like me?)


Tim Minear - Jul 16, 2005 10:00:30 pm PDT #1490 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"

Was that harsh? I went to "X" last night and listened to the Pistols, the Weirdos, Germs and The Bags all the way to Costa Mesa. Could account for the attitude.

(Edited because Allyson said I sounded whiny. I trust her to tell me these things.)

(also edited because Allyson points out it's not my job to do research for this writer who needs to meet Google.)


Nilly - Jul 16, 2005 10:04:03 pm PDT #1491 of 10001
Swouncing

Tim, I'm probably too late with this, and I'm nothing close to ita, but if you want the text to appear different, all you have to do is put > at the beginning of a line, then a space, then the text. So

this

looks like

this

[Edit: yup, too late. And now, to read what you actually posted]


Allyson - Jul 16, 2005 10:06:45 pm PDT #1492 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Tim Minear's vocal cult following

I think that's me. But I'm not following you.


CaBil - Jul 16, 2005 10:07:24 pm PDT #1493 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.

Tim, you should to come to San Diego today. The love was flowing muchly in the direction of creators and would have brought your attitude back to the normal cheerful murderous mode...


Tim Minear - Jul 16, 2005 10:08:53 pm PDT #1494 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"

Thanks, Nilly.

CaBil, would, but I gotta work in the editing room on Sunday. I was thinking of stealing Joss' cutting style.