Perhaps the programming person used to work for FOX?

You're assuming that there's a person there who actually thinks about these things, other than the cleaning lady's kid who has a part-time job for the summer, throwing tapes on the floor and just picking the top of the pile as the current episode. Nobody can tell what sort of lottery process he uses in order to decide on the hour of airing things, though.

Tim's X-Files episode with Lili Taylor (which I've never seen) is on

It's one of the few episodes of "X Files" that I've taped and re-watched when the show was still running here. I was thrilled to realize who was responsible for it, because, hey, it meant I'm consistent.

You're assuming that there's a person there who actually thinks about these things, other than the cleaning lady's kid who has a part-time job for the summer, throwing tapes on the floor and just picking the top of the pile as the current episode. Nobody can tell what sort of lottery process he uses in order to decide on the hour of airing things, though.

I'm still going with monkeys. Terrifying space monkeys.

Why? (Serious question - I just don't understand the connection, and I'm curious.)

I remember the debate you had with yourself on whether or not to obtain the episodes through unofficial means. It seems appropriate that you get to watch the show legitimately after deciding to resist temptation.

It seems appropriate that you get to watch the show legitimately after deciding to resist temptation.

Thanks.

As for the what is now turning into a daily report of "guess what episode was on last night": they finished going backwards, and now they've finally showed the first episode.

The interesting question now is, I think, what will happen tonight. Will they continue to the 4th episode? Will they decide to go all jump-and-go-backwards again, and do a 6th episode-then-5th-then-4th? Or - my current favorite guess - will they simply continue going backwards, and go to the original pilot of the show?

Strangely enough, I still didn't get to actually, you know, watch anything. But my loyal VCR is being checked every morning to make sure it did its job faithfully.

Just watched Done the Impossible, and it was fantastic, not that I'm biased by Firefly being my One True Show. However, I did notice with dismay that one of the trivia questions referred to Tim Miner. They got it right in the actual documentary, at least.

Funny, it seems it's difficult for me to type Minear incorrectly even when I'm trying to. I had to retype the above four times to make it Miner.

I did notice with dismay that one of the trivia questions referred to Tim Miner. They got it right in the actual documentary, at least.

Sets my teeth on edge, that does.

At least they spelt Joss right.

So, in others "we don't really know what we're doing" issues, the Israeli channel who shows "The Inside", which went episodes 3-then-2-then-1, tried to switch back to some sort of order and after the 1st episode had the 2nd again (and in honor of their first re-run, they took off the "re run" little symbol that they had on the previous episodes), then the 3rd, and I assume that Friday night had the 4th, but it being shabbat, I didn't tape it.

Last night they had "Lonliest Number" (again, showing a new episode, they put back the "re run" little symbol on top, just so we'd know what's going on). I still never watched a single episode because the schedule makes it a bit difficult to wake up on time in the following morning. I keep checking the end titles to make sure what episode was shown. I had to rewind a bit in order to find out which episode last night's was, because the name in the subtitles could be translated back into English as "The Lonly Hearts Club".

Of course, one thing that I did manage to see in last night's episode was Allyson's logo. I rewinded a few times, watched it (couldn't turn the volume on, because my roommates were all still sleeping), and each time smiled to myself in such a pleased way that I am quite thankful right now that all my roommates were still sleeping and couldn't see me nearly-waving (but only nearly! I never did that!) to the screen, going "oh, my friend designed that!".

So, if they're keeping the USA order of schedule (um, after they got over their backwards-going tendencies), where is "Point of Origin" supposed to be?

Hey Nilly! I'm so pleased you're going to get to see these episodes.

PoO never aired here in the US. We skipped over it and saw Thief of Hearts and Declawed. (Aidan was going to air next but then the show went on "hiatus.")

Kristen! Thanks.

We skipped over it and saw Thief of Hearts and Declawed. (Aidan was going to air next but then the show went on "hiatus.")

Last night we had "Thief of Hearts" (and its name was even translated correctly! Which was a good thing, considering I hadn't read its script and therefore couldn't actually check which episode it was and get myself spoiled). So I'm assuming they're following the USA order, now that they've realized they should go forwards with the order of the episodes instead of backwards or randomly.

I still didn't get to watch a single episode. They're on after midnight, ending on around 1am, and even if I could stay awake, I can't turn the volume on, so that I wouldn't wake my roommates. And on most of the other hours of the day, the tv is on the news, so I can't stop people from watching that for a bit of escapism. But I'm taping very faithfully.

[Edit: oh, and on an Israeli tv site I just saw a little discussion about the references to past shows on "The Inside", like the Wolfram company, the "Once More With Feeling" sign, and they specifically mentioned that it's there because Tim worked not only on "Firefly" and "Angel", but, yes, on "Buffy", as well. That mistake is now officially international, crossing oceans and languages. They spelled his name in Hebrew, so I couldn't tell if they were misspelling it in spirit, to go along with it, as well.]