Anyone else heartbroken by the reappearance of young Randy Wagstaff?
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Hayden - Feb 11, 2008 7:44:58 am PST #1367 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
lisah - Feb 11, 2008 7:54:16 am PST #1368 of 7329
Punishingly Intricate
Anyone else heartbroken by the reappearance of young Randy Wagstaff?
Seriously. And I could NOT remember the character's name and that made me feel like a bad human. Poor kid forgotten by society.
-t - Feb 11, 2008 7:59:06 am PST #1369 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am lisah, exactly.
Hayden - Feb 11, 2008 8:35:14 am PST #1370 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
To me, his appearance was the real Dickensian aspect of the episode.
Hayden - Feb 11, 2008 8:36:21 am PST #1371 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh yeah! Happy birthday, -t!
lisah - Feb 11, 2008 8:37:44 am PST #1372 of 7329
Punishingly Intricate
To me, his appearance was the real Dickensian aspect of the episode.
It was! hah!
DavidS - Feb 11, 2008 8:51:23 am PST #1373 of 7329
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Randy is Smike!
-t - Feb 11, 2008 11:21:06 am PST #1374 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks, Corwood!
erikaj - Feb 14, 2008 9:11:04 pm PST #1375 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
I oughtn't to be here just now...it's a yo-tech thing, but anyway, having seen 5.1. I've got some observations:
-How does one write about the evacuation of persons? Cause I get Grizzled Reporter's point about young Latina's sentence construction but I'm hard-pressed(that's what she said) to improve upon it. Of course, I've always been stuck in Features...it, uh, doesn't come up a lot
-They so found an actor to be Young! Simon, it's like freaky.
_Love Clark Johnson again...toward the end of H:LOTS Meldrick was too often whiny and dyspeptic.(Also love the Homicide shout-outs)
- Am torn about whether I agree that being young and pretty precludes solid sentence-crafting...depends on whether I qualify as young and where the body-image demons are that day. Not decided between "Go get 'em," and "That's my hey. Hey!" It's not as if writing a decent lede is up there with a perfect singing voice and violet eyes, although if Simon referenced that I'd laugh my ass off.
erikaj - Feb 17, 2008 3:45:09 pm PST #1376 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
Saw through to the fourth one(thanks to Corwood) and I think my favorite part(aside from Omar's Ninja vengeance) was when Editor Guy was telling Clark J. "watch the profanity." Because that is one thing that happened to Simon all the frickin' time. I think it would me, too, if I hung around with cops and cornerboys all day, and I haven't massaged my anti-authoritarian streak as much as he has. I'd really like to. Some days DS should thank God he's not a woman. Not that I'm suggesting he get all Orthodox on a bitch or nothin. But he'd be nothing but that pushy Jewish Simon bitch then. But he'd probably have kept more hair. But a woman can only take over the world as long as she plasters a smile on her face. I just pick up what I hear the most. So if I hung around on the streets, it would be a very short road to "What the *fuck* did you do to my lede, you corporate motherfucker?" It reminds me of something I read about Homicide detective McClarney and how he quit law school because he kept thinking things like "Defendant A is gonna get his ass locked up if he doesn't cut the shit."