Giles ,'Chosen'
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If there's a gun in the first act, it has to go off in the third.
If Cassidy had said, "Remember that goldfish!" that would have been, kind of, different. By using a specific name, you're arousing viewer interest, viewers who will expect to, eventually, find out who Sally is.
And RT didn't pay it off.
But if it left viewers saying "Who the hell is Sally?", then I don't think it was the best plot device to use. And it also left me more baffled at Beaver's sudden ability to intimidate Dick.
What. Steph. Said.
I just don't like my fiction aided by explanations from the creator, outside the fiction. Work it into the story or don't use it.
A-freakin'-men.
I think my M just does V, only because P-C's post above is the first I've heard of Rob's Sally explanation (at least, as far as I can remember), and I was always fine with it. I never got why people thought Sally was going to pay off.
If Cassidy had said, "Remember that goldfish!" that would have been, kind of, different. By using a specific name, you're arousing viewer interest, viewers who will expect to, eventually, find out who Sally is.I don't know. I mean I understand your point as pertains to fiction, in the general sense, but this was a two second scene, wasn't it? What episode was Cassidy's Sally reminder from, anyhow?
I think my M just does V
The who with the what, now?
YMMV
Mine does
I mean I understand your point as pertains to fiction, in the general sense, but this was a two second scene, wasn't it? What episode was Cassidy's Sally reminder from, anyhow?
The one at Magic Mountain.
Don't get me wrong -- I nitpick because I love. It's like the brilliant student who only turns in B- papers -- when you *know* he can turn in A+ work.
"Sally" may have been a throwaway, or been meant to be one, but I get why viewers demanded to know what it meant. It's a name. It sounded like it had meaning, given the way Dick reacted. To never explain that? Is lazy. Or at least proof of not a lot of forethought.
I think my M just does V
The who with the what, now?
YMMV
Oh, duh. The thing I said, like, 3 posts back.
I have no brain today at all, I swear.
I missed last night's broadcast, but yay for the online version!!
A criminology department, though? @@
My sis has a BS in criminal justice from Univ. of Memphis. She took law classes and CSI-kinda stuff (among other things, I don't know what all).
I have no brain today at all, I swear.Me neither. I'm also overly anxious (not in the anxiety attack sense, just in I'm-out-of-sorts mentally/physically/emotionally sense). I think I'd better go blurt about that in LJ though, because 39 year old angst just doesn't play the same as 19 year old angst.
I'm also overly anxious (not in the anxiety attack sense, just in I'm-out-of-sorts mentally/physically/emotionally sense).
Weird -- I am, too. It's a combination of being too tired and, I think, delayed impact from the stress of The Boy's pharmaceutical adventures. I feel jittery and yet exhausted and also tense, and I feel like an Ativan and a joint would do me a WORLD of good.
Sadly, I have neither Ativan nor a joint.