I just started watching VM because of the reruns, and my boyfriend and I are pretty interested. The pilot was particularly good.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
bon bon - Jun 27, 2005 10:49:28 am PDT #191 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
joe boucher - Jun 27, 2005 10:49:34 am PDT #192 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Is the dog named Jeffrey?
Damn, I'm missing the reference.
Dahmer would be my guess.
Polter-Cow - Jun 27, 2005 10:52:44 am PDT #193 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
To recant my earlier quasi-criticism of VM: I just read the pilot recap on TWoP and now I'd really like to see it. So well done, VM fans. Clearly not a show best watched by catching one ep in the middle of the season
Whee!
Dahmer would be my guess.
Oh, oh, okay. I thought there was actually a flesh-eating dog named Jeffrey somewhere in fiction.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2005 10:53:24 am PDT #194 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought there was actually a flesh-eating dog named Jeffrey somewhere in fiction.
You're thinking of Clifford.
tiggy - Jun 27, 2005 10:54:36 am PDT #195 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
So well done, VM fans. Clearly not a show best watched by catching one ep in the middle of the season.
definitely. this is also what happened with me and Farscape. i saw an episode in the second or third season and it just made no sense without knowing all the history. VM is definitely a character/arc driven show and you need to know both. delving in mid-season is not the best way to go at all.
so need to get to work, but this is much more fun.
Nicklas - Jun 27, 2005 11:08:14 am PDT #196 of 10001
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
I think the last five or so of VM were bad entry points but beyond that, I'm not sure I agree. The hugely-uneven-in-quality CotW took up far too much screen time for me to say that you can't dip your toes into it here and there and not get it. It's possible I don't see it since I saw everything, but even after the middle of the season very few of the episodes felt to me that it relied on old knowledge.
But it is a nice show -- the Wallace/Veronica-dynamic was really good -- only id didn't have that thing that makes me want to watch and re-watch whenever.
(Probably end up buying the DVD, but then again, I'm a TV-on-DVD-junkie.)
Nicklas - Jun 27, 2005 11:11:24 am PDT #197 of 10001
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
Farscape season three might be the evilest thing ever done in regards to new viewers, especially later in after a couple a episodes. I admire their guts for doing it.
libkitty - Jun 27, 2005 11:28:38 am PDT #198 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Skipping to the end to say that I get a toaster! Now, I know that this is far behind many others here, but I think it's pretty damn good considering that the show really just started and I've been on vacation for two out of three episodes. Whoo me! I got more Firefly toasters too (at least one went straight to the bookstore to buy the DVDs), as I brought Firefly and Wonderfalls with me. I am such a Minearverse pimp.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 27, 2005 11:48:15 am PDT #199 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Perhaps eating Lucky Charms in her pretty pink kitchen with a great big drooly English Mastiff underfoot?
I think this would make me root for the 900 lb. man to eat her.
I actually took Rebeccas's statements to Simon at the end of the premiere to suggest she might not have much of a life apart from her job. Seeing her decide to build one might be as intriguing as a reveal of something that's already there.
Kiba Rika - Jun 27, 2005 12:06:54 pm PDT #200 of 10001
I may have to seize the cat.
I actually took Rebeccas's statements to Simon at the end of the premiere to suggest she might not have much of a life apart from her job. Seeing her decide to build one might be as intriguing as a reveal of something that's already there.
Yes, this. I imagine Rebecca as totally engrossed in her work, to the point that she lives in an apartment that is decorated only by yet-to-be-unpacked boxes. I might be over-trying-to-identify (does that make sense?) but I imagine in college Rebecca was the girl who sat in the corner doing more work than she had to, while everyone else was out getting drunk. And she didn't mind. And she only felt left out a little (I like that felt and left are anagrams). I imagine she gets very little sleep, but that it works for her, that if she gets too much she starts to feel like her brain is foggy. In my mind, when Rebecca leaves the office, she just goes home and waits to go back to the office.
Granted, all of the above could be me trying to find a hook into a character by ascribing my characteristics/life for the past year to her. (I really have spent the past year sitting at home, an undecorated, never fully unpacked home, wishing I was at work). (And it's not that my job was especially great, though it wasn't especially bad. It was just much less lonely than home, and much more purpose-filled.)
The more I see of Rebecca, the more I like her. This is true for me and lots of characters. At first, I thought Xander was stupid and unfunny. Shows what I know based on a first impression, huh? (Of course, FunnySyphilis!Xander was my first encounter, so...)