Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.

'Jaynestown'


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.


Sue - Nov 02, 2005 6:20:44 am PST #5775 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I definitely have some journals that have been made from old hardcovers at home Kat. I would assume that Kinkos would have that technology. If not, you might try a local print shop.

I can look on mine tonight to see if they look like the holes were punched first.


Allyson - Nov 02, 2005 8:37:36 am PST #5776 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Started watching Profit. Fucking genius. Well, except for the computer technology which is hilarious. Oh David Greenwalt, you sick bastard. I am so entertained I think my brain is grooving along to Profit's beat. I can feel it bopping along in my skull. So good. Like, I wanted to bang in sick so I could devour the rest of it. That good.

To make it all Minearverse related, I was thinking about The Inside and Wonderfalls and TMIAHM, and wondering if maybe I couldn't be entirely objective about my love for those projects because, well, I really just love Tim very much as a friend. So maybe i was applying that love to his work.

But nope, my love for those projects comes from the same place as my love for Profit, and I don't know Greenwalt at all. It's like an honesty check. From Profit. Which is sort of ironic.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 02, 2005 9:20:22 am PST #5777 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

I've always felt slightly guilty that one of Tim's episodes of Wonderfalls was my least favorite. But he has very few misfires among all the jewels of screenwriting (even fewer than Joss, IMHO).


Frankenbuddha - Nov 02, 2005 9:36:28 am PST #5778 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Someone should make that into a movie that doesn't suck.

Who'd have thought Chuck Jones had it in him to screw it up that badly. In retrospect, though, not a good match with the material - Terry Gilliam or Tim Burton has a better sensibility for it, I think.


Allyson - Nov 02, 2005 9:38:31 am PST #5779 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I never feel guilt if I don't like something Tim has written/directed. I do feel irrationally protective when other people don't like something he did.

Sort of like a Browncoat. A Timcoat. A Technicolor Timcoat of Many Colors.

Why the guilt, Matt?


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 02, 2005 10:11:29 am PST #5780 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

Why the guilt, Matt?

I dunno, really. I felt no twinges of it about busting on Angel Season 3, but then again I already had a long history as a viewer of the show and was deeply invested when it temporarily went south. Maybe since the specific episodes of that show that made me see red didn't have Tim's writing credit on them, it's the feeling that I was being critical of his creative writing work on "Karma Chameleon" rather than stuff he was overseeing as the big boss.


Kristen - Nov 02, 2005 10:15:33 am PST #5781 of 10001

I was thinking about The Inside and Wonderfalls and TMIAHM, and wondering if maybe I couldn't be entirely objective about my love for those projects

I rarely completely dislike Tim's work. I'll dislike specific things, which can be minor (But why does he have a yellow pen?) or not minor (simulated bliss? WTF?), but usually I like the thing as a whole. I'm not sure if it's because a) the things that Tim finds interesting when telling a story are the same things I find interesting, b) I like Tim and am, therefore, predisposed towards liking his stuff, or c) I'm a suck up. Maybe it's a combo.

I've always felt slightly guilty that one of Tim's episodes of Wonderfalls was my least favorite.

By the time we got to Wonderfalls, I stopped looking at the credits. I think Tim had a major hand in pretty much everything but two.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 02, 2005 10:18:33 am PST #5782 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

Did he just do a bit of tightening up after the fact on "Wax Lion"? I may be in error, but I always felt that Bryan Fuller's voice was the predominant one in the pilot.


Kristen - Nov 02, 2005 10:25:22 am PST #5783 of 10001

The pilot was one of the two I was referring to. I can't remember the name of the other one now.


Betsy HP - Nov 02, 2005 10:27:41 am PST #5784 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Sing Andrew Lloyd Webber, Allyson, and dearly as I love you, we cross swords.