I adore DLM with a stone passion. It took me about 5 episodes before I fell in love with George, but once I got hooked...
Season 2 was even better, and I nearly cried when I heard it wasn't being renewed.
I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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[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.
Pix - Oct 23, 2005 9:56:07 am PDT #5286 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
victor infante - Oct 23, 2005 10:30:17 am PDT #5287 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I'm liking DLM. We just finished Season One, and Season Two is winging its way to us via Netflix. We took a detour through the first disc of Veronica Mars, but it didn't grab us, so we're going straight back to DLM, and giving VM a try again later.
Polter-Cow - Oct 23, 2005 10:42:18 am PDT #5288 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ooh, VM and DLM would be like a Big Giant Voiceover Party.
victor infante - Oct 23, 2005 10:51:05 am PDT #5289 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
It really is, isn't it?
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 23, 2005 11:00:01 am PDT #5290 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
Personally I didn't much like Season 2... all the whimsy seemed to leave with Bryan Fuller. But seeing the Wonderfalls pilot gave me a strong sense of deja vu for the pilot of DLM—the same manic zinging energy in the black humor.
Kristen - Oct 23, 2005 11:13:33 am PDT #5291 of 10001
all the whimsy seemed to leave with Bryan Fuller
Didn't Bryan leave the show somewhere in the middle of the pilot? I didn't think he was at all involved in even the first season.
Invisible Green - Oct 23, 2005 11:18:30 am PDT #5292 of 10001
I thought he left after the third episode.
Kristen - Oct 23, 2005 11:24:28 am PDT #5293 of 10001
That could be. I remember there was some brouhaha regarding the pilot but maybe he didn't actually leave until later.
Gris - Oct 23, 2005 12:16:27 pm PDT #5294 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I hated the first two episodes of season two of DLM and stopped bothering. Season one was pretty great, though i think that it was noticably losing something by the end of the run, so wasn't too surprised by what I saw as the degradation in season two.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 23, 2005 1:35:09 pm PDT #5295 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
Didn't Bryan leave the show somewhere in the middle of the pilot? I didn't think he was at all involved in even the first season.
I know he was onboard for several episodes, long enough to be told off by executives for being gay and not knowing what he was talking about when he went to bat for Rebecca Gayheart. (The studio didn't think she was pretty enough and wanted to replace her. And so they did.)
Even after his departure they still had funny, quirky exploits with Mason and Roxy and the various soon-to-be-dead folks like Susan Sullivan. It was only Season 2 that appropriated the mood of Buffy Season 6.