It will pass in about six years.
Can we move that up to six months? I'm getting tired.
Gunn: Well, how horrible is this thing? Lorne: I haven't read the Book of Revelations lately, but if I was searching for adjectives, I'd probably start there.
'Hell Bound'
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.
Tamara - Jun 27, 2005 6:59:36 pm PDT #216 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Consuela - Jun 27, 2005 8:16:05 pm PDT #217 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yeah, the show analysis seems perfectly reasonable. I should've said that, too. The last part just made me go, "Whuh?" so I got distracted.
I shoulda warned y'all: that's someone on my flist who wrote the column, so I'm mildly defensive on her part. Sadly, she doesn't have the joy of knowing Allyson and her beautiful hair, so she wouldn't have caught that shoutout.
browncoats who don't know Allyson? Foolish, foolish peoples.
libkitty - Jun 27, 2005 8:57:58 pm PDT #218 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Add a Wonderfalls toaster for me. Pretty soon, I'll have all of Alaska (or at least Juneau) hooked on all the wonder of Tim. Yeah me!
JenP - Jun 28, 2005 12:22:49 am PDT #219 of 10001
I shoulda warned y'all: that's someone on my flist who wrote the column, so I'm mildly defensive on her part.
Heh. I figured there was a connection because of SmartTV - that's actually why I made a point of saying that article itself seemed a perfectly sound critique to me instead of just pointing out the part that made me scratch my head. (Well, that, and I didn't want to just sound all whiny and stuff).
She just loses me in that final paragraph, where she seems to be saying that shoutouts=an attempt to stick it to Fox execs. I don't see the basis for making that connection; in my mind, shoutouts=giving fans (and/or friends) a happy.
Emily - Jun 28, 2005 4:28:00 am PDT #220 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
At least, I Peter Coyote was an FBI guy in that one.
You know what else he was in? Legend of Billie Jean, baby! Yeah!
DXMachina - Jun 28, 2005 4:35:17 am PDT #221 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
He was also a mysterious government guy in E.T.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2005 5:09:42 am PDT #222 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
He was also himself in Commune, on which I was an editor. Making me two degrees from Tim. Yay!
bon bon - Jun 28, 2005 5:43:02 am PDT #223 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The Closer, well, first I need to get past my annoyance with Brenda, because I do find the concept interesting. The woman gets lost on her way to the grocery store, talks to her dad on the phone, and has enough attitude to make the sweet southern honey bite and sting like a bee.
Hey! I talk to my dad on my phone, too!!1!
brenda m - Jun 28, 2005 6:27:27 am PDT #224 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The Closer, well, first I need to get past my annoyance with Brenda, because I do find the concept interesting. The woman gets lost on her way to the grocery store, talks to her dad on the phone, and has enough attitude to make the sweet southern honey bite and sting like a bee.
She had kind of a lock-the-lawyers-in-the-wine-cellar Angel moment there last night that was pretty cool.
My dad calls my phone and leaves messages for the dog. Does that count?
Tim Minear - Jun 28, 2005 9:55:40 am PDT #225 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"
The shout outs are hardly slams on the network. And people are reading in a hell of a lot more than are actually there -- at least on purpose. "Melody" is the inverse of "Harmony?" Wow. I just thought Melody was an ironic name for someone who did that kind of work... the "Harmony" thing never occurred. I never wrote Harmony, that character is really not on my radar at all. She came onto Angel the year after I left. I knew the blue gloves would be taken as a shout out... but that's what props had. It wasn't a plan. And Craig Silverstein named the cat "Angel" when he rewrote that act. So unless there was a character called "Angel" on "Dead Zone," I don't think even THAT was a shout out per se. My shout outs are more along the lines of casting, anyway.
I really enjoyed the teevee.org guy's review. I was pleased that he kept talking about the show the way I meant for it to come across. So it must be on some level for some people.