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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, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
I just have a higher tolerance for dark. Things like Saw, for example? Over the bar, for me.
Me too, Zenkitty.
I've been told I'd love Dexter.
I just ran across this Tim quote:
There's something nice about being able to go from a hard drinking space western to a hard drinking whimsical comedy to a hard drinking abyss peering noir.
So drive will be a hard drinking fill-in-the-blank?
Drunk driver?
I find The Inside darker than Dexter. Dexter's funny. And somehow because of his disorder, he's impossible to laugh at properly. Rebecca wasn't remotely funny. I was asked to soberly believe in her and her damage and how it was being exploited the whole time she was onscreen. Dexter does a distracting dance. I felt bad for the character at times, but never uncomfortable.
Hell, if it comes down to wish-fulfilment, somehow Dexter wins as my role model.
Mel Gibson should get a guest spot on Drive.
Hell, if it comes down to wish-fulfilment, somehow Dexter wins as my role model.
Haaaaa.
Dexter is definitely funnier than Rebecca. And I think The Inside tried to be much darker and more grim, whereas Dexter has a lot more humanity to it to balance things out.
Dexter's funny.
This. It's not weighty, either; people aren't as fucked up as on The Inside. Dexter's a misanthrope with an outlet. Plus the Miami location is incredibly sunny.
Maybe because of Becky's background, and Web's ambiguity, and the fact that they were getting inside the criminals heads.
This is the key. On Law & Order: Dear God, Belzer's Going to Live Forever, Isn't He? or whatever, the victims are largely cyphers—as are the regulars below the surface—and the meat of the show is concerned with the hows of the crime-solving. The Inside had much more of a Thomas Harris crawl-into-the-killer's-brain tone to it.
Which I loved, but then again I was rooting for Angel to officially add the two letters from the Season 4 midyear promos and focus on the slow, gleefully lethal stalking of the supporting characters by the lead. I gather that's not representative of the mainstream audience.
It's not weighty, either; people aren't as fucked up as on The Inside.
Yeah, while Dexter is complex, it's not like he's got layers and layers of complicated trauma pounding in his brain. And the people he kills aren't generally that fucked-up, either. They're just sort of bad people with fucked-up motives.
Plus the Miami location is incredibly sunny.
Yep. It's less visually dark.
Which I loved, but then again I was rooting for Angel to officially add the two letters from the Season 4 midyear promos and focus on the slow, gleefully lethal stalking of the supporting characters by the lead. I gather that's not representative of the mainstream audience.I could have watched that. Would have watched that. Want to watch that.
Of course, I know it's easier for me to entertain more disturbing ideas in my brain, when they're all wrapped up in a shiny fantasy universe (i.e. Faith torturing Wesley, and that's the second time I've brought that up in as many days).
I remember Tim comparing The Inside to Se7en, and I really think that works in my mind. Se7en was disturbing, but great, which is how I think of The Inside.
To be clear, I don't mind darkness in TV. To my mind, Tim's episodes of Angel season 2's main arc are the best episodes of the entire run. I'm just not sure I want the entire show to be from that angle.