Can I be a sassy witness who contributes nothing to the case, but who is just so darned colorful?
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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.
Largo - Jan 19, 2006 8:53:37 pm PST #7634 of 10001
Kristen - Jan 19, 2006 8:57:52 pm PST #7635 of 10001
I'll know by morning if I have need of such a colorful character.
Also, I should mention re: Criminal Minds poisoned bank envelopes thing, I didn't like the way they did it. I mean, if you're inside the bank, standing on line for a teller, why do you need an envelope? I don't even think that they have those at the console in the middle.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 19, 2006 10:41:56 pm PST #7636 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
If it's a CSI-ish plot, I volunteer to be one of the witnesses/leads whose deviant lifestyle the investigators trivialize and wax moralistic about.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2006 3:28:19 am PST #7637 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Now I'm just waiting for someone to do an assassination in a drive thru.
Chris Isaak beat you to this one in MARRIED TO THE MOB. Dressed as a clown.
Kristen - Jan 20, 2006 3:44:11 am PST #7638 of 10001
It doesn't count if it's not TV.
Betsy HP - Jan 20, 2006 5:11:09 am PST #7639 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I wanna be the evil computer genius. I've always aspired to becoming an evil genius.
Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2006 5:37:12 am PST #7640 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Betsy, don't be evil!
Kristen - Jan 20, 2006 6:39:17 am PST #7641 of 10001
Dude. It's set in 1966. The only way there's an evil computer genius is if there's a time machine.
ETA: And, no, before anyone asks, there isn't a time machine.
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2006 6:41:03 am PST #7642 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Computers in 1966 were evil by default. There was no Apple.
Jessica - Jan 20, 2006 6:41:12 am PST #7643 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
ETA: And, no, before anyone asks, there isn't a time machine.
A true evil genius would have built a time machine.