My answer is floppier than Gumby in a microwave.
AWESOME.
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Dec 04, 2006 7:48:52 am PST #4329 of 10007
Liese S. - Dec 04, 2006 7:54:07 am PST #4330 of 10007
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
TAR: I don't know. I just think it depends on cultural standards, I suppose, how obligated the person in question feels about helping out a desperate-seeming (albeit with full crew & camera) stranger. Do the producers take them back to where they were or want to be? I know it's their choice to go along for the ride, but it just seems so brusque and somehow indifferent to that person & their day. I'm sure they just think it's fun and odd and whatever, but it just seems off to me, somehow.
Megan E. - Dec 04, 2006 7:56:54 am PST #4331 of 10007
AWESOME.
Strangely enough, it was not a spam message about Viagra.
Sean K - Dec 04, 2006 7:58:22 am PST #4332 of 10007
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
(albeit with full crew & camera)
S and I have talked about this re TAR before -- That it's not just racers asking a local for assistance, but racers and their HOLLYWOOD CAMERA CREW!
We feel this is particularly advantageous when racers are trying to talk airport personel into getting them on to planes that are supposedly full or have their doors closed for departure already.
sumi - Dec 04, 2006 7:59:54 am PST #4333 of 10007
Art Crawl!!!
George Clooney's pet pig has died.
tommyrot - Dec 04, 2006 8:02:30 am PST #4334 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
As for finding a successor, "No," Clooney insists. "I think Max covered all my pig needs."
Heh.
Allyson - Dec 04, 2006 8:03:12 am PST #4335 of 10007
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
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KTHXBYE
sarameg - Dec 04, 2006 8:03:26 am PST #4336 of 10007
We feel this is particularly advantageous when racers are trying to talk airport personel into getting them on to planes that are supposedly full or have their doors closed for departure already.
I dunno. On one hand I can see it, but on the other, I can see an employee not making any allowances that aren't officially sanctioned for fear of having it air and getting them in trouble. Or for that matter, running into a customer who has seen TAR and pulling the "but you let them do that!" Gah. If someone came at me with a camera, asking for special treatment, I'd be very inclined not to do it.
flea - Dec 04, 2006 8:04:57 am PST #4337 of 10007
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You know, Clooney was a lot less attractive in 1989 than he is now (IMO). Damn him - who has the right to be better looking at 45 than at 30?
Jessica - Dec 04, 2006 8:06:00 am PST #4338 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
That it's not just racers asking a local for assistance, but racers and their HOLLYWOOD CAMERA CREW!
They get an "If you help us, you'll be on American Television" bump from that, but no actual help, according to the racers and producers I've spoken to. (Ditto with getting release forms from everyone they speak to who appears on camera -- the racers have to do all of that themselves, so asking for directions, while helpful, can be much more time-consuming than what we see onscreen.)