I grew up on westerns and many relatives from Texas. "Reckon" was in common usage among my extended family.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
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.
Tamara - Feb 21, 2007 12:40:23 pm PST #4279 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
brenda m - Feb 21, 2007 2:13:57 pm PST #4280 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Heh. I saw a reference in a review today to "French-Canadian ingenue Dhavernas" and it took me aback, because I really know her only from WF, which, not so much with the ingenue. Or the F-C, for that matter.
It took me a bit to get past the western-talk in Firefly, but then I grew to love it. My own speech can be heavily influence by both that and Buffyspeak. Add in my own hodge-podge of accents and regionalisms, and it can get kind of scary in there.
Jesse - Feb 21, 2007 2:26:06 pm PST #4281 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Semi-relatedly, I said to my parents recently that something "gave me a wiggins" and my father was like, "What's a wiggins?" He's the one who turned me on to Buffy in the first place!!
Topic!Cindy - Feb 21, 2007 3:34:09 pm PST #4282 of 10001
What is even happening?
Jesse, that's so funny.
ita, what were the rumors about season 2 of Wonderfalls? I'm curious, now. Oh, how I loved that show.
I came to really like the western language over the course of the show, never minded the Chinese (and liked it when Wash was spitting it out angrily) and loved Nathan as Mal.
The Chinese seemed out of place to me, not that it couldn't blend into English in the future, but there was a stunning lack of Asian-looking people on the series, and the use of Chinese language only served to highlight that fact.
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2007 4:16:17 pm PST #4283 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
what were the rumors about season 2 of Wonderfalls?
Sharon gets pregnant is what sticks most in my mind. Because her girlfriend had had sex. The details escape me.
sumi - Feb 21, 2007 4:18:21 pm PST #4284 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Because her girlfriend had had sex with PoorBitch and then had sex with Sharon.
Yeah, it is pretty farfetched.
Pix - Feb 21, 2007 4:29:44 pm PST #4285 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Oh ack! I'd forgotten that potential plot line. That's just crazy-talk.
tiggy - Feb 21, 2007 4:51:35 pm PST #4286 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
i'm still disappointed that Serenity rewrote Firefly history and focused solely on a few characters instead of being an ensemble piece. not to mention killing one of my favorites.
oh and i hate River. there. i said it.
Tamara - Feb 21, 2007 5:26:39 pm PST #4287 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
- GASP*
Does not compute.
Beverly - Feb 21, 2007 7:20:49 pm PST #4288 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I don't exactly hate River, but I do resent her story using up all the air in Serenity. I too missed the ensemble approach. They might as well have called it the Mal'n'Rivr story, with supporting cast. And yes, the two deaths still rankle. Mainly because while I realize there must be death, it was the *logical*, not the unexpected, characters who died--the old guy, and the happily married guy. Not the doctor-brother turned knight errant, or the swashbuckling captain, or even his staunch woman second in command. No. The old guy. The sweet guy. Just the ones you'd expect to wear the red shirts in any TOS script. They felt like cheap deaths, and Book and Wash deserved better.