Theatre folk are often touchy-feely. Hugging happens.
Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.
'Objects In Space'
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.
aurelia - Sep 24, 2005 11:00:17 pm PDT #4317 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 25, 2005 12:56:24 am PDT #4318 of 10001
What is even happening?
Tim, I think I get put off a little becasue he is saying basically what Smg , Db and even Eliza have said, yet they were all called ungrateful, while he is being called smart. Whatever. That is why I am the fan not the writter or director.
Diagnosis: Fandomitis.
Got Life - Sep 25, 2005 2:18:38 am PDT #4319 of 10001
Life is eternal, Love is immortal, and death is only an illusion.
and the cure,please.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 25, 2005 3:06:33 am PDT #4320 of 10001
What is even happening?
See your user name?
Polter-Cow - Sep 25, 2005 3:31:56 am PDT #4321 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Health insurance?
Zenkitty - Sep 25, 2005 6:23:31 am PDT #4322 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
No cure has yet been found.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 25, 2005 7:15:32 am PDT #4323 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
While I was disappointed to hear that SMG didn't want to do any Buffy movies, I wasn't disappointed in her, if that makes any sense. It seemed perfectly reasonable that she might be tired of the character after 7 years and not want to return to it. Ditto for DB being tired of playing Angel 14 hours a day year round and only wanting to continue in a new format.
Not wanting to return to a character unless the co-workers whose show added a year to your career are shunted to the side to give you center stage seems rather more self-aggrandizing to me. And I think I'd still feel that way if the comments were coming from Alyson Hannigan, J. August Richards, Amy Acker, or another actor whose character I'd actually be interested in seeing more of.
Scrappy - Sep 25, 2005 9:35:32 am PDT #4324 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I think he was saying, I have played this character as a sidekick for 8 years. if I am going to commit to returning to him, I want to play him a the center of a the story. I want to play Spike as the person who does things, rather than the guy who snarks at people doing things. That doesn't seem odd to me. If any of the Scoobs said the same thing I would understand it.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 25, 2005 9:44:30 am PDT #4325 of 10001
What is even happening?
I agree. I think Tim makes a good point too, in that most actors would be thinking the same thing, and JM had the candor to say it, and it's not like he said it in a nasty way.
Jessica - Sep 25, 2005 10:08:57 am PDT #4326 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm not so much put off by his wanting to be the main character as his specifically mentioning other actors and saying it would be okay if they were in his movie but only if they don't upstage him. It seems a pointlessly petty way of getting his point across.