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.)

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]

Tim Minear's vocal cult following

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

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...

Thanks, Nilly.

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

Perhaps we are facing the problem of projection. People who write these sort of stuff can't imagine that the people who produce are really all that different from them, so they HAVE to be as famaliar with other material as they are, irrespective of the fact that by the defination of being a creator that most of your time and effort is sheperding your own project rather than exhaustively researching everyone else's. Even for no other reason that if you do so, everything has been done before and the only difference is execution...

EtA Sorry for the spelling, but way too tired and laptop barely working in this crummy hotel...

Yes, CaBil. Very true. And if people are watching your thing and their expectation is "why isn't this like Buffy? Why isn't that actor playing it more like that other actor I was thinking of?" They sometimes don't seem to see the thing that actually IS there.

What's a vocal cult, anyway? Do you all talk like me?

In five part harmony, no less.

Wow. A cult of five. We won't need much Kool Aid.

Ha! Not too late, after all.

Is it silly of me to think that - skipper as I am in this thread, because I do not want to read any spoilers - I'm glad I didn't read that article before I could read Tim's reponses to it?

But as far as "The Inside," I do know that after the non-launch we not only held the modest numbers the network brought to the show, but built on them slightly week to week.

I liked the way you once described it, that the network's job is to bring the audience at first, and your job is to keep them. And you keep doing your side.