i'm not someone who blames the shows filling the timeslot. if i did that, i wouldn't have watched some good shows.I'm not usually, either. I think I was probably looking for one last reason to hate the frog.
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 25, 2006 5:33:13 am PST #7774 of 10001
What is even happening?
Strega - Jan 25, 2006 5:44:37 am PST #7775 of 10001
"…one less major buyer, fewer shows, fewer choices, fewer jobs. And no one’s getting fat ‘cept Mama Cass."
Considering the growing amount of original scripted programming on basic & premium cable, I have a hard time taking this as a sign of the end times.
He certainly doesn't know quality when he sees it, or he wouldn't have cancelled "Freaks & Greeks" when he worked at NBC.
I'm not sure what one has to do with the other.
Williamson's show is "about a troubled teen who moves to a gated community in Palm Springs where he uncovers some dark secrets." That's another one that was given a pilot order last week.
tommyrot - Jan 25, 2006 5:47:56 am PST #7776 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.
"about a troubled teen who moves to a gated community in Palm Springs where he uncovers some dark secrets."
Can we have an untroubled teen who discovers some dark secrets?
Or was that 21 Jump Street ?
Topic!Cindy - Jan 25, 2006 5:50:54 am PST #7777 of 10001
What is even happening?
Can we have an untroubled teen who discovers some dark secrets?
Um Buffy?
tommyrot - Jan 25, 2006 5:54:35 am PST #7778 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.
She was often troubled.
Calli - Jan 25, 2006 5:56:06 am PST #7779 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
She was often troubled.
Yeah, but I think that was mostly after discovering the dark secrets.
tommyrot - Jan 25, 2006 5:59:17 am PST #7780 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.
Oh yeah. Good point. She seemed rather... untroubled... in that flashback where she met her first watcher.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 25, 2006 6:08:53 am PST #7781 of 10001
What is even happening?
There's a lesson in all this. Dark secrets are troubling to teens. Think of the children.
DavidS - Jan 25, 2006 6:14:47 am PST #7782 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Think of the children.
Think of them darkly?
Frankenbuddha - Jan 25, 2006 6:22:43 am PST #7783 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sounds like they are trying to cross THE OC with...I dunno...VM or LOST depending on how dark (weird) the secrets are.