In case she's wondering, from my POV her new job is going very well indeed. I had her write sides for a character we've yet to create and she knocked it out of the park. I've had co-ep level writers who couldn't do that.
I'm completely unsurprised.
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[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, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 22, 2006 5:03:31 pm PST #2424 of 10001
What is even happening?
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 22, 2006 5:04:52 pm PST #2425 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
You're going to need to buy more shock.
Jon B. - Dec 22, 2006 5:26:39 pm PST #2426 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I had her write sides for a character we've yet to create and she knocked it out of the park.
What are "sides"?
Allyson - Dec 22, 2006 5:34:21 pm PST #2427 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Can I say it? I wanna say it.
§ ita § - Dec 22, 2006 6:50:36 pm PST #2428 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey, Tim, I found someone else who likes That Old Gang of Mine. I sold Angel to him by telling him: The Buffy guy, the Profit guy and the Wonderfalls guy! Oddly enough, that seemed to work for him, since he liked all three series a lot.
His reaction to That Old Gang of Mine was "That's totally darker than anything in season 2. Cool." I can't wait until Wesley and Angel and the pillow.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 23, 2006 12:50:25 am PST #2429 of 10001
What is even happening?
You're going to need to buy more shock.
They were all out of it at Target, and you're *so* not getting me back in a mall.
Laga - Dec 23, 2006 1:27:53 am PST #2430 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
yes what does, "write sides for a character" mean, please?
Topic!Cindy - Dec 23, 2006 2:15:33 am PST #2431 of 10001
What is even happening?
Shows usually film the scenes of a given episode out of order. The cast members are given the day's "sides" -- the part of the script they're working on, that day. They're easier to drag around with you than an entire script, if you're going to rehearse in between shots.
There are also casting sides, which can be, but aren't always, part of a final script. When a show puts out a casting call, they give auditioning actors "sides" to work off of -- script pages of a scene the character will appear in (or script pages of a scene something like the character may appear in -- in episodic television, a lot of time casting sides come from script drafts, rather than the final version).
I now await correction.
Simon - Dec 23, 2006 5:53:37 am PST #2432 of 10001
They were also a major source for spoilers in the Buffy and Angel fandoms. Good times. People would spend hours posting about the tiniest bit of information gleamed from the sides.
Pix - Dec 23, 2006 7:11:42 am PST #2433 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I couldn't have asked for better responses to my question. Thank you!
I do, however. have questions about the midget. Did he break in? Were you living alone at the time? Or in Twin Peaks?