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.
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
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
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...)
Jesse - Jun 27, 2005 1:39:37 pm PDT #201 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Well, she never went home in between her first two days at the office, right?
Consuela - Jun 27, 2005 3:24:24 pm PDT #202 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Drive-by, since I'm 2 episodes behind and may never catch up. But SMRT-tv has a column on The Inside this week, as well.
Kristen - Jun 27, 2005 3:31:48 pm PDT #203 of 10001
Melody is the flip side of Harmony
I feel like people are reading in-jokes into the show that never even occurred to me.
JenP - Jun 27, 2005 3:36:59 pm PDT #204 of 10001
Me, too. Also, the implication that the shout-outs are a nose-thumbing to Fox execs. is odd. I always take them as a wink to fans or to friends of the showfolk, neither of which bother me. For, I am a fan. And I (rarely) catch the friend kind, de-gloved Allysons excepted, so they couldn't bug. Interesting take.
Allyson - Jun 27, 2005 3:39:43 pm PDT #205 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
THEY DIDNT EVEN MENTION ME
Allyson - Jun 27, 2005 3:40:24 pm PDT #206 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
Also, today a browncoat asked who this Allyson person is and if I'm legit.
I'm 2 legit to quit, baybee.
PatK - Jun 27, 2005 3:41:53 pm PDT #207 of 10001
"I so wanna storm out on you right now, but if I stand up, I'll fall." --Jaye
I don't get how the in-jokes are stabs at the network.
Angel was on the WB. FOX had nothing to do with its cancellation. Besides, naming a cat "Angel" and putting "Wolfram" on a uniform are really weak digs if that's the point of the in-jokes (which I highly doubt).
And Buffy ENDED on UPN.
I can respect her opinion on the show, but her whole ending paragraph wasn't really well thought out. Plus, these little fleeting moments don't take me out of the world, or affect the story quality.
[scratches head]