Nilly, I named the characters. There is some thought that goes into it, but mostly I try not to have characters with names that start with the same letter.

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The Inside was Angel. I reached into my bag of trick.

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I reached into my bag of trick.

Shiny tagline. Grog want.

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And I never got to the Melody assault, which made me sad. I wanted her interrogating the suspect and she knows he assaulted her, and he knows that she knows, but there is no proof. But he ends up dead in ghastly ways and Danny, who, um, found the body, is all, "he musta slipped."

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Heh.

The Inside was Angel.

Nah. More like a spin-off. Connor: The Series. Connor was just wearing an ingenious disguise.

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Now I have a mental image of Katie as Mel glibly saying, "there's no need for 'Out, out damn spot!" if you think ahead and wear gloves."

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I love that Matt. If I wasn't clear before, my notion was always that Danny is the one who does the deed. A way to get some Danny/Mel motion in one pinging ricochet of an episode.

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As Allyson said, it makes one's mind go to the Micheal Moore thing and the pres-as-doofus of it, which tickles me.

Good, it was only supposed to be tickly, not pointy. I think I'm too politically moderate to be pointy. I either don't hate either of them, or hate them both; it sort of depends on which day it is.

Unless it's just wrong.

Probably, which might be why I liked it.Thanks Jackal, but I'm fine with it. The new thing? Best thing I've done.

All right. That's exciting.

I had a meeting at NBC last week and the executive's assistants told me "Drive" was their favorite pilot script (they rank the competish). It's all buzzy. Screw serial killers, gimme some glib 16 year old girls.

Will it premiere mid-season, Tim?

"I was made a nobody a long time ago. By something a hell of a lot scarier than you." - I wanted to hug Rebecca when I read that line. Poor little lost girl who still manages to stand up on her feet and fight back and tries to do good and escape from that and find herself and find that strength exactly from that poor-girl place that makes me want to hug her.

Nilly, I will never forget that moment. I hope you get to see it sooner, rather than later. Some of the episodes I saw were too much for me, because I'm wimpy like that, but that moment stuck with me.

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If I wasn't clear before, my notion was always that Danny is the one who does the deed. A way to get some Danny/Mel motion in one pinging ricochet of an episode.

Ah, I took it the other way around, as Danny figuring out some vigilante justice went down and covering for it out of solidarity. I guess I'm just fond of the notion of female characters who don't wait for the guys to do the protecting or avenging.

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Agreed, Matt, but I wanted Mel to be four square against Danny's actions. He thought he was protecting, and she's furious. Looking down a road I'll never travel.

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