See, I didn't get that at all. Except at the end, which shocked me the first time I saw it, before he called Charlie back.

Not even the boat scene, with that patented Wilder hysteria reaching a fever pitch? It was pretty much "all bets are off" for me at that point.

Not even the boat scene, with that patented Wilder hysteria reaching a fever pitch?

My take was that he was a little crazy, but not menacing. Maybe I'm weird.

ET CETERA ET CETERA!

Heh.

Yeah, wasn't bad, but why? Love the Weigart story, Frank. Not interested in kinder, gentler DW(Deadwood, not Domenic West) It is bad enough that TV SATC have more jump-cuts than Homicide now, lest we see something smutty. Swergin really surprised me this week. Want to write a drabble where Al says "I'm not evil. I haven't been evil for a very long time. Why does everyone keep asking me that?" But I probably won't really do it.

erika, heh. Hadn't thought of him that way. It seems to me, and this is still without having seen more than random episodes from the first two seasons (I know, I know) that Al has gone from doing what he needs to in order to protect his interests/business to doing what needs to be done to protect his town and the people in it. Fits in with the growing sense of community that others have commented on. Helping Alma was also a nice callback to Bullock being the first person to go to Al's aid after Hearst took his finger.

Oh, I wasn't being serious...just kind of struck me funny as I was watching. But I think you're right, mostly. Oh, reminds me I was gonna change my tag today. No disrespect to my imaginary spouse, another member of HBO's cabal of Daves.

Heh, you're new tagline could have been the episode title, given Alma's trip to the bank.

I love his apathetic "No, stop, don't."

WWatCF has so many really awesome lines--it's almost as quotable as Princess Bride. One of my favorite retorts in the movie is Violet's "Can it, you nit!" (CatCF did have that perfect little moment between Violet and Veruca when they're walking into the factory, look at each other, smile oh-so-sweetly and swear "Best friends forever!" with that glint of "I'll hate you forever and beyond!" in their eyes.)

Speaking of Veruca, the new version completely missed the screechy whininess of the 1970s vintage, and the writers missed a great character point by not making her father both the perpetrator of his daughter's greed and the captive of her demands, as he was in the original film.

by not making her father both the perpetrator of his daughter's greed and the captive of her demands, as he was in the original film.

And indeed, as I seem to remember from the book, as well. (I could be wrong on that, though)

One of my favorite retorts in the movie is Violet's "Can it, you nit!"

Hee! I can hear it in my head.

"Everything here is eatable. Edible. You can eat everything."

" Wait! Stop! Reverse that!"