Holy shit (as it were), there were TWO. Two defenestrations.
You've got to admire the Czech stick-to-it-iveness. Anybody else would have stopped at one.
Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.
'Sleeper'
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.
Betsy HP - Sep 24, 2005 4:10:06 pm PDT #4232 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Betsy HP - Sep 24, 2005 4:10:57 pm PDT #4233 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Sorry, I HAVE to quote this bit.
On March 10, 1948 -- a month after the establishment of a Communist-dominated government -- Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (the only remaining non-socialist minister, and son of the founder of the republic) was found dead beneath the bathroom window outside of his top-floor apartment in the Czernin Palace, the Foreign Ministry building in Prague. The authorities at the time said it was a suicide (and the Czech people were privately impressed at how he had been so fastidious as to close the window after himself on his way out). While it was unclear for a long time whether he was actually murdered, in early 2004 police concluded that he was indeed assassinated and had not committed suicide. The circumstances of how he was assassinated are still unclear. This event is not usually called a defenestration of Prague.
Italics mine.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2005 4:15:05 pm PDT #4234 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Has there ever been a regicide by defenestration?
Betsy HP - Sep 24, 2005 4:36:14 pm PDT #4235 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Charles III had to step out a window to be beheaded, but they didn't behead him in the window.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2005 4:47:57 pm PDT #4236 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, what are some other obscure words for murder?
Kevin - Sep 24, 2005 5:26:34 pm PDT #4237 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Tim Minear?
Kiba Rika - Sep 24, 2005 5:30:51 pm PDT #4238 of 10001
I may have to seize the cat.
Has anyone ever used Minear as a verb? Because I think if not, we should all bring it into common usage.
Example:
"He pissed me off so much. I wanted to minear him, but I didn't want to get arrested. It was a dilemma."
Kevin - Sep 24, 2005 5:32:50 pm PDT #4239 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
To minear. I like it.
To be honest, I once made a joke on Whedonesque about using "fillion" as a verb (as in, when you get mad at somebody and want to post rude things about their company online). The problem is, people HAVE started saying to fillion now.
Kiba Rika - Sep 24, 2005 5:45:52 pm PDT #4240 of 10001
I may have to seize the cat.
Ooh or you could say minearize.
"After that guy called it THE Serenity instead of Serenity, I wanted to minearize him so bad."
In my etymology, this means I would write a show wherein he got killed, not actually kill him.
A real-life example:
Topic!Cindy's husband got minearized. Or mineared. Whichever you prefer.
Got Life - Sep 24, 2005 6:12:54 pm PDT #4241 of 10001
Life is eternal, Love is immortal, and death is only an illusion.
Okay saw this, From James Marsters in the new SFX:
"I would like him to go through a journey where he starts in one place psychologically and ends up in another, allowing him to go through some kind of change," Marsters explained. "I would like him to be the lead. I heard from some people that they were thinking of doing a Spike/Illyria piece and I need to talk to them and say, 'I'm really interested in doing the character as a lead, but I've done him as a sidekick.' If they write an Illyria piece with Spike tagged on, I probably won't do it.
I love Amy Acker and would love to shoot with her, but there's nothing for me to prove by doing it with her," he continued. "It has to do with theme. What is the theme? Who is the character the audience is supposed to identify with? The trick of a story is that you bring the audience on a vicarious journey and you make the central character someone they want to be, so they see themselves through the eyes of that character. Illyria could be all through it. They could be talking to each other in every scene, but thematically it's got to be Spike's story. That's brutally honest, but it's the way I feel."
And my honest opinion is this that I am kinda put off by the attitude of All me or nothing. I think Jm can be class act, but maybe some of the fanbase is starting to bleed onto him. Because, NOT anti-anything, but where not the last couple of years of Buffy very focased on him. I mean the only way they could not be more is if he was Buffy. The same on Angel. Everyone else was shifted to the background and the only way he did not have the lead role was because he was not Angel.
I guess I think that whatever place this universe goes next they need all the fans and actors and none of the egos. And it needs to be about the product being good not who is the main star or who gets more story.
Sorry for the rant, but this is one of the best, most intelligent places I have found on the net, where even when tempers flare everyone is respected. I just wondered what others thought. When DB or Smg said stuff like they only wanted to do it a certain way like in David's case big screen and Sarah's only with strong story and scooby interaction, they were torn apart or put down.