I just read the Gilmore Girls interview, and couldn't actually believe how some of the questions were phrased by Ausiello.. I'd of hung up on 'em.

I also took away, "Wow, Amy Sherman-Palladino is kind of bitchy, eh?"

I was an extra on the last two eps. of Invasion. I had an interesting conversation on the set with another extra. She was saying how the canon (not sure if that's the word I'm looking for) of[ alien spirits merging with humans to form a hybrid race is essentially the same as scientology. ]

So if that's true, the question is did the scientologists have something to do with the creation of the show or the squashing of it?

Maybe Shaun was inspired by conversations with Parker Stevenson.

In seriousness, I thought the foundation of Scientology is that we all already have the dead alien living inside our heads. We just need to spend lots of time and money to learn how to make the alien work for us. Which is very different from Invasion's canon of the aliens (which we're not even sure are aliens) killing off the human and replacing it with a hybrid clone.

Good luck getting a dead alien to work. I've had one for years, and I can't do a thing with it.

I think according to the scientologists we are the descendants of the hybrids.

I don't watch Invasion but from what they told us I believe the lights [that float down are the souls. Again, I don't watch but if that's the case and the result is a hybrid that would seem to be a pretty significant similarity. I'd imagine they might even pursue it further because their secret is out now and a way to cover their odd behavior and even get a degree of protection would be under the guise of a religion.]

Huh. Maybe they're going to reveal that in the next ep because, up until now, I don't think there's been a single reference to the lights being "souls." If so, then Invasion would be a lot like the origin story of Scientology. Then again, The Matrix could be seen as a lot like Scientology, too.

Sadly, with the cancellation, I don't think we'll ever know the answer.

ETA: Cindy, I think you need to spend six figures before the alien starts working for you.

50!

Yeah, that's pretty much all I got.

Is this really going to stay the thread name?

Okay, so I've been trying to compile a music list for The Inside and this is what I have so far, it's prolific:

New Girl in Town: "Bliss" Syntax

Pre-Filer: "I'mmortal" Skinny Puppy

Aidan: "My Father's Waltz" Hem

Little Girl Lost: "Lexicon Devil" The Germs

Gem: "Spark" Nitin Sawhney

Any additions?

So, um, in time for the new thread, and I can't remember when I had a post in any thread that had less than three (um, actually four) digits in its number, I read the script of Old Wounds that Kristen (who, I can't say this enough, rocks) put at her site. So, of course, I have some ramblings to do:

"We get FLASHES of grisly crime scene photos neatly arranged and organized." - I like this sentence, the so different terms of "neatly arranged" and "grisly crime" packed together one next to the other.

And Carla is not Mel, and therefore easier for me to imagine her as Sharon-from-Wonderfalls-only-not-really. So this script was written later, but I think shown earlier than the former one, right?

I like the dynamic between Mel and Danny - very much like siblings, teasing each other constantly, but bonding together against the stranger they don't know, inspecting Rebecca together.

"Did you just make a joke, sir?" - Hee. I could hear the actress saying that. I wonder if it's any closer to what it actually sounded like.

Now that I know what they mean, I really enjoy seeing all the various colors change on the versions of the script - wonder what they replaced, why the changes were made. It's like a little window to the backstage process, that creates maybe even more questions than the lack of it (what was replaced? Why? Why was it supposed to work better? Did it work better?). Interesting.

And the victim that Paul offers is, again, part of the crime-fighting forces, a prosecutor. So, again, in a way, things are close to home, right? So, of course, Web turns it down as "ordinary". Of course.

And I liked it that Rebecca refused to play. Didn't present her case, despite all the preparations. Actually looked at what Paul brought, despite the big legendary boss' dismissal of it. She thinks for herself.

So Paul thinks Web controls them, all of them - he believes that control is real. And then a not your-generally-good-guy says he also thinks control is real. In a somewhat different connection, of course. That I'm probably way too vanilla to watch, but in reading it's OK so far.

I like it that Rebecca describes the victims in exactly the way Web wanted Danny to describe them, while, at the time, they are the exact case he told them not to pursue.

Web never misses an opportunity to manipulate anybody around him, it seems. First, dismissing Paul so off-hand-ly, then listening to Rebecca, then making her primary. It's like he's looking for each little opportunity to unsettle the people around him.

And I loved it that Paul took that game and manipulation and saw a good point in it, in regards to Rebecca. He lets Web get to him, in a way, but tries to stop it from hurting his, um, worldview? The way he really tries to interpret the people around him?

And I loved it that it seemed that Rebecca really did know that the case was important to him, she realized the victim was important to Paul and went on to check. Now, did Web know? Probably. At this point, I'm willing to believe quite a lot when it comes to this character (based, mostly, on the first episode. He wasn't present much in the second one).

And again that word, "control", casually, when describing the murdered lawyer's past confidence, even when it was probably partly an act. Hmm.

I always like it when a character pronounces the name of the episode. Especially when, like here, it seems like it's going to mean more than one thing - a plot point, but also something more.

I liked how the described jumps between the questions askers and answerers showed the similar things between the victims. Oh, and how one of the assistants was described "mousey control freak".

"It s a support group for very clumsy people." - Yay! The thread name! And just in time for the new thread with the no-name yet. You have no idea for how long I've been wondering about its origin and why would somebody say something like that.

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( continues...) I like it that nothing seems to distract Rebecca from her target, the case. It reads pretty clear what Paul thinks about the club, but Rebecca is either not judging people so quickly, or just ignoring what's not relevant for her case, like her possible opinion on what the members of the club may be doing.

It's funny, reading a script, with the names of the characters already there, it's easy to tell that this Brandt guy, the same one who spoke at the beginning, is important. However, um, nothing of what was described before the teaser had to have anything to do with the murder, right? It still could just be the club members' "void filling", in a way. Hmm.

I like the way Brandt, while being investigated, remains in control (hey, that word again!) of the situation. He shoots Paul's responses and emotions back at him, reading him probably quite well. He even makes Rebecca talk about something other than the case. And I liked it that Web figured his games and didn't want to let him win this round, even if he's still the suspect. And it all resonated in an interesting way with the topic of the conversation. Like, the control being in the hands of the one that seems to have it least, the person being questioned.

And again with the previous investigation - Brandt was the suspect, yet he managed to control the witness and as a result the whole investigation. Which makes me think about Web and his controlling techniques and now I'm all confused.

And (well, there are many "and"s here) I liked Rebecca trying this "let's turn this game around" thing herself. Entering Brandt's apartment on her own, as the weakest person in the room, will again may be keeping her with the control over the situation, if she manages to expose something about him.

OK, so Paul blames the murdered lawyer because "she chose to be with someone who got off on hurting her rather than with someone like me, who respected her". But, well, isn't that exactly what he's doing by staying to work with Web? Work-wise, of course, so different, but still. Paul was treated with no respect by Web (no, wait, but it made Rebecca respect him, enough to want to try and help him, so now I'm all confused again).

And I liked how Rebecca explained her non-judging approach: "You don't know what her life was. What happened to her to make her the way she was". How she understands, from her own experience, what it's like. She chose to deal with the most painful gory crimes, as her way of trying to deal with her past (and, well, Web made her choice possible).

I liked how Rebecca understood so quickly that the case was important for Paul because it was a personal connection, and all throughout that conversation, Paul actually talked about Rebecca's approach being also due to a personal reason. He even straight out asks her about escaping from one monster in order to be controlled (that word again!) by another, wanting her to answer his question to a dead woman, with their stories in some sort of similarity. And, again, Rebecca, when he has all the knowledge about her past, turns the table over and shows him how things are not as simple as he thought and that she still controls, not only the past when she managed to escape, but also the present. I really love the way each interaction resonates the others, and then again.

Rebecca managed to put herself in a really risky position, and pulled herself out (she dislocated her shoulder while getting free of the handcuffs, right? She actually managed to get free, again). Only to maybe - if Brandt really is the killer - put herself in a whole lot of guilt.

But I don't think Brandt's the killer, for two reasons. First, the usual one - the person we suspect usually is not the real killer, so that the plot would be interesting and surprising. But it's more than that - it doesn't fit the, um, actual story (not the plot) if he's the killer. Yeah, he's playing with them and running and all that, but if the whole point is about who's controlling the situation, then it has to be somebody completely different, you know? At least, that's how it feels to me. Wait and see, I guess. (continued...)