Speaking of sick and wrong, I finished watching Profit last night. It reminded me of something Tim would do.
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
Joyce ,'Chosen'
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 - Aug 21, 2007 9:04:15 am PDT #6916 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DavidS - Aug 21, 2007 9:05:09 am PDT #6917 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It reminded me of something Tim would do.
Does it remind you of something David Greenwalt would do?
Polter-Cow - Aug 21, 2007 9:05:36 am PDT #6918 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It reminded me of something David Greenwalt did.
JenP - Aug 21, 2007 9:27:31 am PDT #6919 of 10001
His work on Buffy is incomparable. Literally. Naturally, I had to vote for it.
Profit. I just watched that a couple of months ago. Man, that was fantastic.
ETA: Oh! But mostly I was excited to read that there's a New Thing. Yay, new thing!
libkitty - Aug 21, 2007 11:40:21 am PDT #6920 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I still get a voting box. Huh.
And the top two results:
- Firefly 29%
- Buffy 25%
I love us.
Burrell - Aug 21, 2007 1:12:25 pm PDT #6921 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I had forgotten how much fun Profit was, then I netflixed it and we've been rewatching it. Yummy.
Juliebird - Aug 21, 2007 3:13:12 pm PDT #6922 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I rented Profit just this past week because I had heard Good Things. I watched the first disc with the pilot and second ep and promptly took the rest of the show off my queue.
While I did enjoy it a bit, between the bad 90's hair, clothes, soundtrack and the "Talented Mr. Ripley"ness of it all, I couldn't bring myself to finish. Except that's not fair cuz Jim is mildly smarter than that buffoon.
In the end, I really think it was the hair (and the music, oh the music!) that made me unable to really get behind the wonderful f*cked-upness of it all.
*sits in corner by my lonesome*
§ ita § - Aug 21, 2007 3:26:17 pm PDT #6923 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I took Profit out of my queue as soon as I'd finished the first disk. Sure as hell knew it was something I needed to own.
joe boucher - Aug 21, 2007 3:56:26 pm PDT #6924 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Lisa Darr was my favorite thing about Profit, especially her spotlight episode where they shipped the demented scientist off to China. (To me that guy will always be the janitor in I Only Have Eyes for You, which was a great Buffy episode, albeit not one of the great ones Tim wrote.)
Strega - Aug 21, 2007 4:20:31 pm PDT #6925 of 10001
the music, oh the music!
But... it's Mike Post!
People who liked the insanity of Profit should try the Mel Profit arc of WiseGuy. It's just as bizarre, in completely different ways.
Er, well, in mostly different ways.