I'm not sure I've heard about that one.
lights campfire
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Polter-Cow - Mar 13, 2007 2:04:19 pm PDT #4632 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kevin - Mar 13, 2007 2:05:17 pm PDT #4633 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Pruittgate?
Wank has extra humour value in my world, due to the British.
Kevin - Mar 13, 2007 2:09:11 pm PDT #4634 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Tamara, I've fiddled with the Drive Fans countdown -- thanks. It's still slightly off, as the site is hosted in the UK, so UK time... So it's 32 days here now. Just to confuse people.
Simon - Mar 13, 2007 2:15:32 pm PDT #4635 of 10001
Oh god, please take the crazy away on Whedonesque.
Somebody should really do something about that.
Allyson - Mar 13, 2007 2:15:56 pm PDT #4636 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
Oh man, I have no time to describe Pruittgate. But I was there!
Short:
Pruitt fired from BtVS.
Goes to Bronze.
Says Joss was trying to kill him.
Goes on bender and keeps posting about the conspiracy to have him killed. And terrible working conditions for girlfriend (Buffy stunt double).
Writes The Parable of the Knight, a fairy tale about how awesome he is and what a jackhole Joss and SMG are.
Joss and Fury come out swinging.
ANARCHY.
Jackal - Mar 13, 2007 2:17:26 pm PDT #4637 of 10001
It's not that I'm the only one, it's that I'm the honest one.
"The Parable of the Knight" by Jeff Pruitt
...if that's best left of the internet, let me know and I'll take it offline.
Kevin - Mar 13, 2007 2:17:46 pm PDT #4638 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Oh god. I remember the coded Knights Tale story he wrote about it -- I saw it on archive.org a while ago and had no idea what it was going on about it.
Funny. I hope it's archived somewhere.
DavidS - Mar 13, 2007 2:18:14 pm PDT #4639 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm not sure I've heard about that one.
Jeff Pruitt - the stunt coordinator on Buffy. Left in a huffy huff (much to the show's detriment, actually), and spammed the boards with lots of insider gripe and gossip with a lot of "everybody supports my negative opinions in email" type innuendo.
The guy was a a great fight coordinator, but also an unsocialized dick.
The main common factor though is presuming to speak for a large, silent group with the "everybody knows" element.
eta: Heh. I forgot about his parable. What a fruit loop. Nonetheless, the fights weren't even remotely as good after he left. His fight choreography always had its own narrative flow that did a good job of capturing something of the character. Afterwards they had the two stunt doubles that didn't match SMG very well and they had to do a lot of cutaways, and quick edits and it was just (to me) wasted screen time that wasn't exciting.
The fights between Buffy and Faith were always cool and exciting and very character driven. He also designed a lot of fights with differing horizontal planes - lots of stuff coming off cars and tables - that added a lot of visual interest.
Invisible Green - Mar 13, 2007 2:18:43 pm PDT #4640 of 10001
Holy shit, that poster was crazy! Sure, Marti Noxon's done some bad work, but she's done great work as well, especially in Buffy's early seasons. I've never really understood the Marti-bashing (but then, I really loved season six, even if not everything worked). There are some writers I largely dislike, but I can still recognize when they do good work. Like David Simkins. When Joss hired him as the showrunner for Angel I was freaking out, cuz his previous work wasn't very good (Charmed, FreakyLinks). Then he left because of "creative differences" and I was happy. And then he wrote the "God's Will" episode of The Book of Daniel, which was the most brilliant episode of that series, and I gained a newfound respect for him, even if he's still not one of my fav writers.
Tamara - Mar 13, 2007 2:46:26 pm PDT #4641 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Thanks for the info on Pruittgate. Now I can take the crazy rantings of a nutcase on the Wonder Woman IMDB board and put in context. Not that I ever paid attention to it, but now it is nicely filed away in my brain.