Question for Brit-type Un-Americans: Are you scheduled to get one of the 'unaired' Firefly episodes today, and which one is it?
Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.
Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Theodosia - Jul 21, 2003 2:50:33 am PDT #5794 of 9843
'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"
Fay - Jul 21, 2003 2:57:18 am PDT #5795 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
At 8pm we have War Stories, then at 9pm we have Trash.
Yay!!!
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jul 21, 2003 3:13:44 am PDT #5796 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Yay for Firefly! t does Happy Dance
Do any other Brits know if there are going to be any reruns of Smallville this summer, and if so, when and where? I've caught the end of season 2 on C4, and have stupidly got hooked, and now I want to catch up on all the Big Gay Bald Millionaire and Alien Farmboy I missed.
Theodosia - Jul 21, 2003 3:15:57 am PDT #5797 of 9843
'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"
Thank you, Fay. I have "Trash" on VCD, and I have a long plane ride today, so I may be able to semi-sort-of-simu-watch.
Fiona - Jul 21, 2003 3:40:50 am PDT #5798 of 9843
Fiona! I got the package! Thank you so much!
Nilly, I'm so glad to hear that it arrived! You and your friends have a great time watching the tapes, OK?
Jon B. - Jul 21, 2003 4:07:38 am PDT #5799 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Nilly - Your post was so sweet. Glad I could be a part of it. The notes you keep from the Post Office -- Those are the custom declaration forms, right? That is so cute that you keep them!
Emlah - Jul 21, 2003 5:37:45 am PDT #5800 of 9843
To every idea a shelf...
I can't believe there are only three more Buffy episodes ever. I just can't believe it.
Thoughts on Empty Places.....
I liked it up until the end. I loveloveloved the scene between Willow and Xander in the hospital – it completely broke my heart. I liked when they were blowing off steam in the Bronze. I liked Wood/Faith interaction – I think they should get married and have appallingly attractive children. Also, the Andrew mini-lust? It’s growing, although I try to make it go away.
But I felt like the episode (and possible the season, depending where they go from here) completely fell apart in that final scene - I just didn’t buy it, especially Dawn kicking her out. It just felt so odd and forced and false, I could feel all my investment in the show weakening. By the time it went to credits I felt totally flat.
Somewhere along the line I went from adoring this season to feeling mildly disappointed in it and distanced from it, but I can’t pinpoint when it happened. This episode has made it much worse.
Leigh - Jul 21, 2003 6:20:16 am PDT #5801 of 9843
Nobody
Whee, quick drive-by to say that Emlah is me. Apart from the bit where I loved the final scene right up until Dawn told Buffy to get out. Completely didn't buy it--it came out of nowhere, and made no sense. If you don't want Buffy to lead, fine--they've been consistently portraying how brittle and detached (not to mention, bordering on ineffectual) Buffy has become in her role as Queen General and I'm not sure I'd want to follow her either, but kicking her out was heartless and completely stupid--to my mind it strongly resembles painting a big target on their collective ass and handing Caleb a crossbow. And the less said about the farce that is Giles in a turtleneck the better.
Katie M - Jul 21, 2003 6:25:05 am PDT #5802 of 9843
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Umm, but Dawn didn't kick her out. Dawn presented Buffy's options. Buffy chose to leave.
Nilly - Jul 21, 2003 6:25:42 am PDT #5803 of 9843
Swouncing
Thanks, Heather, and special thanks to Jon, who started this tapes chain.
You and your friends have a great time watching the tapes, OK?
You betcha. Updates will follow. Beware, there may be gushing involved.
The notes you keep from the Post Office -- Those are the custom declaration forms, right?
Yes, the ones filled by the senders. Usually the post office send their official forms, but lately, I have no idea why, they send these instead. Which is great, for me. Especially with this package, because eventually I'm obviously going to return everything that's in it to her rightful owner, and this way I get to keep a souvenir, and in fifty years or so when my grandchildren will go through my stuff for some reason (which will hopefully involve an old attic and a burried pirates treasure, I'll have to see how I can provide them with at least one of those, but I have fifty years to come up with a way), I'll be able to tell them about a thing called tv that had a show called "Buffy" that had tapes of it sent to me by my friend from across the sea.
Jon, I also got yesterday the F2F tape from DXM and I can't wait to see you play the theremin on it.