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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.


Monique - Apr 02, 2006 10:39:11 am PDT #9104 of 10001

I feel that there's something...I don't know...weird? presumptuous? about taking that script and posting it elsewhere.

Just speaking for me because I have some experience in this, but: As a webmaster for an official site, I also think it's presumptuous to just take things from other sites to post. It takes a lot of work to be official and get special things, and when people repost things to their sites it provides less of a reason for people to go to your site.

I know it's the Internet, I know tons of people do that, I know of sites that do nothing but repost content from other sites, I know it's how it is. But I don't think it's right. Sorry. Just a peeve of mind.


Lee - Apr 02, 2006 10:42:53 am PDT #9105 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Plus, to some extent it's just a respect issue. If someone is posting a script as a favor for a group of people (namely us), I feel that there's something...I don't know...weird? presumptuous? about taking that script and posting it elsewhere.'

Just speaking for me because I have some experience in this, but: As a webmaster for an official site, I also think it's presumptuous to just take things from other sites to post. It takes a lot of work to be official and get special things, and when people repost things to their sites it provides less of a reason for people to go to your site.

Speaking not as a web master, but as an individual, I would say wanting to do so, or complaining about not being able to do so, when the owner of the site has clearly and unambigiously made a decision to take them down, is rather strange and offputting, not to mention rude.


Kevin - Apr 02, 2006 12:26:20 pm PDT #9106 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

To be clear, I'm not on about republishing Kristen's scripts (now) - I'm trying to figure out what issues caused the take down, to see if it's worth the hassle publishing other (final) copies of the scripts. I don't think 20th would be fishing around them as the script book licenses haven't gone.


§ ita § - Apr 02, 2006 12:28:02 pm PDT #9107 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't think 20th would be fishing around them as the script book licenses haven't gone.

That's your call, but I wouldn't bargain too hard on it.


Jackal - Apr 02, 2006 12:45:39 pm PDT #9108 of 10001
It's not that I'm the only one, it's that I'm the honest one.

Polter Cow, now that you've mentioned it I agree about Point of Origin working better as episode 11. Had it been episode 6, then Little Girl Lost would have been a step back for Rebecca, what with her imagining the Pony Man, when the whole point of Point of Origin was her putting him behind her.

So now that there's only two episodes left, and the season arc has been all about her being pulled between Web and Paul, any bets on who she's going to side with? I'm guessing Paul, but I have no idea how it's going to play out. Or she may possibly reject both of them...


Kristen - Apr 02, 2006 12:53:02 pm PDT #9109 of 10001

Basically, someone emailed one of the script sites and told them about the PDFs. They ended up on the front page of the TV section and we got a lot of hits from that site. I was uncomfortable with how public the scripts had become and pulled them until I can determine how likely it is that someone at 20th is going to take issue with them being online. (The owner of the script site did contact me and was very nice about the whole thing. They were under the impression that the person who contacted them was the owner of TMnet and that it would be okay to link.)

If someone wants to go track down and buy all the final shooting scripts, retype them and post them on their site, that's their call. But since I think it's fairly obvious that's not where the ones on our site came from, I'm erring on the side of caution.

I don't understand why it was so necessary for me to explain myself but there you have it. Could we please move on to more interesting topics now?


Pix - Apr 02, 2006 12:56:40 pm PDT #9110 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Can we talk about ponies? Or really big dogs?


Kristen - Apr 02, 2006 12:57:26 pm PDT #9111 of 10001

How about really big dogs that you can ride like a pony?

Um. In a non-porny way, of course.


Jackal - Apr 02, 2006 1:03:02 pm PDT #9112 of 10001
It's not that I'm the only one, it's that I'm the honest one.

I don't want to drag the script conversation on longer than it has been already, but I have a quick question: where could I buy the shooting scripts? The Fox store don't seem to have them but is there another way of buying them from Fox... Or would it have to be a third party retailer?


aurelia - Apr 02, 2006 1:05:07 pm PDT #9113 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Can we talk about art projects? Or is this thread limited to crafts?