...To my abiding shame, I can't recall whether I've read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - it's been a while since I was hitting the Heinlein section of the bookshop. Is it one of the Lazarus Long books?

No.

Or am I on crack?

Yup.

it's the one about the revolution on the Moon.

Ah. 'kay. Haven't read that one, then. Should I?

I like it. Allyson hates it with a hard and gem-like flame. You have to be able to get past the typical Heinlein woman.

I haven't seen it in a while... The main thing I remember is that I'd put the 1952 story's climax earlier -- because Angel does this terrible thing, and you don't really have time to think about it before he's killing the demon. It loses some impact for me as is.

Which may have been intentional, to be fair. One of the things that interests me about the show is how they seemed to be experimenting with how dark they could go without alienating everyone, and that was relatively early.

It won a Hugo award.

I liked AYNOHYEB, but I don't have a deep emotional attachment to it or anything. I don't see "trite" as a valid assessment, though. I mean, it was cool. Nice little throwback, and an interesting look at Angel's history. There are other Tim episodes I like more, like "Billy" and "Lullaby" and "Reunion" and "Out of Gas" and "Karma Chameleon" and that one Buffy ep.

Hey, why the fuck doesn't Tim have a picture up at IMDb? That's just wrong.

Oh, so they weren't using put in the headline the way I (sort of) thought they were. But, OK - WB wears 'Cult' cap - what does that mean? I'm picturing frogs in baseball caps - like I'm for the Yankees (I'm not), so JenP wears Yankees cap?

So I think they mean WB is wearing the 'Cult' cap in that, yeah, they're supporting it. By putting this O'Bannon thriller on the fast track. The Frog fast track, because saying the "WB fast track" would be redundant. Although isn't Frog inaccurate, now that they killed that mascot?

I like it. Allyson hates it with a hard and gem-like flame. You have to be able to get past the typical Heinlein woman.

I still respectfully disagree about this sort of characterization of Heinlein women. You have to not assume that any woman character is Heinlein's personification of all women everywhere.

I know those seem like fighting words, but I have my opinion, and I am often afraid to say it because saying "I don't think Heinlein's women are unbelievable" offends some. Unfortunately this leads to flaming swords of argument on the subject.

So I conclude with "to each his own." But then I like his writing style. He wasn't perfect, but he was ahead of the curve, historically.

Once you've had a cartoon frog dancing and singing "Dubba Dubba WB!" on people's television screens for years, it becomes pretty difficult to disassociate that from your network's corporate ID after the fact.

Yeah, unbranding must be quite the challenge after you've spent so much time... branding. In any case, I don't watch the WB anymore; I had no idea they'd killed the frog. Interesting.

I still respectfully disagree about this sort of characterization of Heinlein women. You have to not assume that any woman character is Heinlein's personification of all women everywhere.

But that's not what I said. I said that there is a typical Heinlein woman, and there is: she shows up in novel after novel, very much the same: sexual, assertive, kittenish, competent.

Writers fall into patterns: some of language, some of situation, some of characterization. One of Heinlein's was a particular female character. That doesn't mean that Heinlein never wrote a woman who didn't fit that template; that means that many of his women did. Heinlein's characterization was not his strong point; he was better at it than Asimov, not so good as Cordwainer Smith.