Blake's 7 may still hold the record for HSQ.

This is interesting:

As part of its multi-pronged launch efforts for the new legal drama "Conviction," NBC is the first network to premiere a new series on the iTunes Music Store (www.itunes.com) before it airs on broadcast television.

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["Blake's 7" DVD's have] been available in the UK for a while now.

Yeah, but they're Region 2, and my DVD player's Region 1. (I'm sorry, I should've specified that before.) I know, it sux to be North American.

HSQ, Strega? On "Blake's 7"? How so?

Largo: They killed off the title character .

I was put onto Blake's 7 by someone, somewhere comparing the nerve Buffy showed with 'Passion' to the nerve Blake's 7 had throughout its series.

Also, Season 4 will be out (in the UK) in March.

BCatSK has one of the best establishing scenes ever.

What does an "establishing scene" mean? I understand the words seperately, but I'm not sure what they mean together.

I have no interest in writing screenplays or teleplays, but I'll probably buy that disk.

Oh, me too. I always love hearing people talk about things they understand and love and are engaged in, if it's their work or otherwise. I mean, even the commentators on the Olympic games make me see things that are more than just "oh, pretty", and "ouch, falling", and I'm way more into stories and the telling of them than sports and strange outfits.

His blurb, like his new show, is a work in progress.

Oh, I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.

Allyson, all the blurb talks are making the book look so real and so "there in a minute". It's awesome. The "little details" of the coming-true of dreams.

Tim said nice things about my writing in here, once, i think.

I'm honestly not a stalker, really and truly not any sort of any kind of stalker, OK? But, um, if you threadsuck you may find Tim saying:

Allyson is a damned entertaining writer, yeah? And I say that not as the subject of her article. Well, I mean, I do... but, er, you know what I mean. She's just really good at it.

Ohhh.

Thanks, Tom Scola.

Howdy to the lurkers. I've got a bit of an LJ poll to help me edit an essay about The Boy for Whom the Thread Tolls. Um. Tim.

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yes, I understand it's eyerolly.

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His blurb, like his new show, is a work in progress.

Oh, I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.

Ooh! I share a brain with Nilly! That's quite an honor.

Nilly, my "establishing scene" post happened only in my head but not on paper.

The establishing scene is the scene that establishes who your characters are and why they matter. In Buffy, it's the bit in WttH where Buffy is lured into a dark alley and then kicks the vampire's ass. It's "Ohhhhhh... *this* is the movie in which the tiny blonde girl isn't the victim."

In Butch Cassidy, the establishing scene has a guy acting like a boor in a poker game, bullying the other player (Robert Redford) and accusing him of cheating. The other player just stays quiet and takes the abuse. Paul Newman is trying desperately to mediate, trying to talk the bully down from his escalating demands. After his last attempt, he says "Sorry, Sundance, can't help you."

The bully freezes; the power in the scene does a 180. All of a sudden the bully is very very afraid; this isn't some random poker player, it's the Sundance Kid. He backs down and Redford and Newman prepare to leave. The bully calls out "Just how fast are you?" Redford spins around, and in six shots shoots the bully's gun off his belt and propels it across the room.

So. Robert Redford is a famous gunfighter. He doesn't pick fights or go into them lightly. He and Newman are fundamentally decent men, but dangerous. And we're off!