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I see the portmanteau, but it still sounds like a remedy for indigestion.
It's all about the coat.
Host ,'Conviction (1)'
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.
Jessica - Apr 21, 2007 2:35:43 pm PDT #5978 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Liese S. - Apr 21, 2007 6:18:13 pm PDT #5979 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So I'm rewatching Drive tonight. So what do we think that Alex Tully of Hastings, Nebraska was doing in Ashland, Kentucky on July 12th, 2003?
Polter-Cow - Apr 21, 2007 6:34:29 pm PDT #5980 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Don't...we know? He said he was driving the getaway car for a bank robbery or something like that. And his partner was killed. Or...well, wait, that partner stuff was obviously a load of crap, but I presume the rest is true?
Consuela - Apr 21, 2007 7:07:34 pm PDT #5981 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I sort of assumed he was in fact driving the getaway car. I could be convinced otherwise, but I'm pretty sure he's got *something* evil in his background.
Invisible Green - Apr 21, 2007 7:37:52 pm PDT #5982 of 10001
He said he was driving the getaway car for a bank robbery or something like that. And his partner was killed. Or...well, wait, that partner stuff was obviously a load of crap, but I presume the rest is true?
The "cop" accused Alex of all this, but Alex never admitted to it. And it was "the cop's" partner who was supposedly killed, not Alex's.
Polter-Cow - Apr 21, 2007 7:54:20 pm PDT #5983 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, that's what I meant.
I assume the getaway car part is true, given that it was supposedly the reason they got him in the Race and gave him his old car.
The knife is interesting, though. Wouldn't think the lowly getaway car driver would need that.
Strega - Apr 21, 2007 8:20:43 pm PDT #5984 of 10001
Monique, many of your thoughts are mine. And some things you mention are on my to-be-dealt-with list. Once I've slept.
Having very, very briefly met Emma Stone, I can't really deny the Lohan comparisons since I was thinking them, and she was making them herself. But yeah, she's like Lohan back when Lohan was profoundly adorable and not... sort of tragic.
Beth is a friend of ND's, and he was totally psyched to see her.Ooh! Just tonight we watched her in Sordid Lives. She was fantastic.
In conclusion: recapping made me like Ivy quite a lot. I think she's my anti-Wesley; she's an obnoxious ass, but she's usually right. (I can't quite figure out why I find that so appealing, but I'm sure it'll come to me later.)
The knife is interesting, though. Wouldn't think the lowly getaway car driver would need that.The getaway man is never lowly. But I think the more important implication was that it wasn't exactly an isolated case.
§ ita § - Apr 21, 2007 8:23:53 pm PDT #5985 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The fake cop was playing down the sinisterness of the getaway driver, but it seems silly to imagine Tim would cast Nathan as even only that.
Theodosia - Apr 22, 2007 2:34:16 am PDT #5986 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Maybe Alex was like The Transporter, a specialist getaway car driver? Or else perhaps he was previously blackmailed into as such for ultra-secret Black Ops teams....
Kevin - Apr 22, 2007 2:45:08 am PDT #5987 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I am presuming Alex was a getaway driver for bank robbing, where one of his jobs went wrong, people died, and this forced Alex out of the game. Either that or something else forced him out.
I think it's nice to have a lead guy who isn't just A Cheery Guy or A Slightly Nasty But Basically Clean Cut Person With A Pun As A Name. It also, in my head, leads to possibility of a whole 'Beige Alex' arc -- by the time he finds Katherine, will she even want him? Also, this has gotta make Alex pretty skilled and connected if it's deep in his history, which has gotta be fun to play with on a weekly basis.