ita, you'll be pleased to know that yours is the essay that makes everyone say, "oh wow" when I describe the book.
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.
Dude, it makes me go "oh, wow" myself. Because I still can't believe it.
You only really drink the one cup.
Bah!
I just read the guardian article. He can't have watched a single episode. Becky "striding with perfect posture"? When?
i'll agree with liking Connor when he made his return in season five. his character did a complete 180 though.
If baby connor had just disappeared into Quortoth, I would have been okay with it all. I hated VK Connor so much.
I still kind of wish that they'd done something along of the fic I wrote after Holtz and baby disappeared.
I swore that the entire Connor arc was Minear's way of scaring us all into double bagging.
And, snerk!
Season 4 after "Orpheus" I watched from the hall. Except "Home."
The "Whatever you do, DON'T push this button to play the video" text reminds me of Victorian Latin texts. They didn't want the naughty bits of Catullus to offend schoolboys...
so they put them all in the back of the book in one section.
That's my favorite part. "Whatever you do, DONT LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN!"
Poor dear empty heads. Send your kid to bed at 8 with a glass of warm milk and a bible.
Oh, you know, it reminds of Time Bandits at the end when the little boy screams, "MOM! DAD! Don't touch it! It's EVIL!"
And of course they immediately reach out and poke the smoldering chunk of evil and explode.
I love Gilliam.