Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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.


Typo Boy - Jan 12, 2007 5:00:17 pm PST #3228 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I like the Inside, but I think I can see how it was harder for people to take than CSI and such:

You are not just seeing the victim of the week who you never met before traumatized (or maybe even just see their corpse and never have to meet them alive). You see Becky who you know identify with each victim and suffer with them. So you have to watch the torment of someone you like and care about. And I don't get the feeling that Becky was going to catch many breaks in that department. She had suffered so much, repressed so much, she could have gotten through years of cases, and learning and getting better at her job, and bringing suppressed traumas to the surface without ever see her torment grow less. The light in it would be that Becky would survive and grown stronger, not weaker. None of the CSIs have a character as broken as Becky, and especially not broken in exactly the right way for each murder they deal with to be salt on that wound. In that sense The Inside was darker than CSI. It is also one reason why it was better.


Tim Minear - Jan 12, 2007 5:14:24 pm PST #3229 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"

So I come into my thread and you're talking about my shows. That's just... odd.


Lee - Jan 12, 2007 5:16:11 pm PST #3230 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Should we talk about crafts, instead?


Dana - Jan 12, 2007 5:16:51 pm PST #3231 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Soaps. I hear this Jensen Ackles guy used to be on DOOL.


msbelle - Jan 12, 2007 5:23:20 pm PST #3232 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I read that as soap and could not figure out 1) how someone is on soap and 2) what brand DOOL was.

perhaps I need sleep.

Tim, great stuff you did on Buffy.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 12, 2007 5:24:25 pm PST #3233 of 10001
What is even happening?

So I come into my thread and you're talking about my shows. That's just... odd.

Ha!

So Tim, please tell us more about TV's hit, Drive, and what is this about the newly 'shorn' Nathan Fillion. Whadja do?


Tim Minear - Jan 12, 2007 5:30:04 pm PST #3234 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"

We cut his hair. It looks the same.

I think it's okay for me to say we've just cast Dylan Baker as John Trimble and Charles Martin Smith as Mr. Bright. There. That's some news.


msbelle - Jan 12, 2007 5:38:09 pm PST #3235 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

quick imdb check. coolness.


Strega - Jan 12, 2007 5:39:13 pm PST #3236 of 10001

Paul's intentions didn't put her in danger as much as Web's, though.

I don't know how intentions can put anyone in danger. The only person responsible for Rebecca was Rebecca.


Tim Minear - Jan 12, 2007 5:41:58 pm PST #3237 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"

Well, I was kinda responsible for Rebecca. Considering I was, like, making the whole thing up.