Tim, if you must kill Spike, I beg of you, let him go out with a bit of dignity: Let him die this time with less jewelry on him than, say, Tom Jones.

or Mr. T.

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There's creme de menthe brownies in it for you if the plot involves Spike being killed before the opening credits in some way that allows no possibility for resurrection, a la Fred.

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Look! The Winged Victory of Samothrace!

::steals Matt's typing fingers::

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But I am irritated when a conservative complains about liberal oppression at this historical moment.

I do, too. Especially when I feel it’s more like the other way around.

I’m kidding.

Women in peril always sells, look at CNN.

Heh. Look at Lifetime. And you don’t have to be a famous woman, either! That’s why it’s always “The Joan Brock Story,” or “The Susan Wilson Story,” to name but two. Women you’ve never heard of, living lives more outrageous than yours.

I think that scenario isn't so much liberalism as populism, though. Which is actually even more wrong for a Heinlein adaptation.

But it certainly couldn’t be as awful as the jingoism which pervades most Frank Capra films, as well as the post-Gelbart years of “M*A*S*H.” Please. Don’t get me started.

I mean, I guess I'm the same kind of hypocrite - here I am, a gov't employee, always ragging on government.

Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you, I always say!

Hamilton was the prototypical emigrant who came to America to reinvent himself -- and practically invented the idea of America in the process.

I think I’ve seen that movie, and I think Stacy Keach played his part, too. Or am I getting this confused w/ “Mistral’s Daughter”?

You wanna adapt a book to the big screen, Tim? Try Chuck Klosterman’s “Killing Yourself to Live.” What I read of it (before going off to buy…something else) was twisted, bitterly funny, and right up your alley.

Gunn got turned and dyed his hair?

And lost a foot in height and is now played by that guy who sang the thong song.

Laugh all you want, but if this were the UPN….

Also, I had lunch with Joss and he asked me if I wanted to write and direct some blonde vampire movie thing.

Funny.

Oh, wait. You’re kidding, right?

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Fred had the possibility of being resurrected. The mysterious trip to the lab, the crystal creature with the paralysis venom, and the fact her eyes crystalized before Illyria took over were all nice loopholes for future writing.

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Re: "blonde vampire movie thing" (if it's fer real) - You know, everyone's throwing out ideas/suggestions (Spike, Harmony, Sisqo-as-Gunn), and they're all good and funny. However, I, for one, would like to see this take place in an entirely different universe, w/ new characters, and new mythologies. And if it's not too much trouble, Tim, could those blonde vampires also be high school cheerleaders?

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Tim making a Spike-centric movie would so bring on the pain.

A Spike-centric movie would bring the pain all by itself. And the likelihood that such a thing would screw with "Not Fade Away" bothers me tremendously. I don't want to see a finale I liked turned into another "Dad."

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Yeah, playing with Not Fade Away seems like a neg.

Was there a blonde vampire in Fray? Cuz I would love love love a Fray movie. I think it would be totally workable, too.

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Y'know.... to tie in with some earlier discussion... a story involving the early Darla years could include a lot of early American History.

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Darla and Alexander Hamilton?

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