As far as the revisionism in the Spike vs. Dracula thing, don't we see Spike, Darla and Dru killing off the gypsy tribe that cursed Angelus on the show? The way the description reads to me is gypsies curse Angelus, Darla tries to force them to remove the curse, but Spike eats her last hostage and she ends up killing the tribal leader, Dracula gets pissed off about the gypsies being eaten and wackiness ensues. Only the last bit isn't canon.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
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Kalshane - Oct 16, 2005 10:04:37 pm PDT #8917 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Anne W. - Oct 18, 2005 5:03:02 pm PDT #8918 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Did anyone happen to see this?
All I have to say is that if the old Batman TV series could have done this, they would have.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 18, 2005 5:18:56 pm PDT #8919 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The old Wonder Woman TV series essentially did.
§ ita § - Oct 18, 2005 8:17:22 pm PDT #8920 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Betsy HP - Oct 19, 2005 11:34:32 am PDT #8921 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
People can be really, really stupid. An arts group in San Francisco rehearsed and announced a for-pay live version of "Once More With Feeling".
And didn't bother to ask Fox about the rights.
Hands up, all theater people who wonder what they were smoking.
Alas, it turns out that Fox never grants theatrical rights for this in any case.
JZ - Oct 19, 2005 12:14:49 pm PDT #8922 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Damn. I was planning on going to that thing. The question of rights-getting never crossed my mind; I just assumed that if they were doing it at all, obviously they'd taken care of the necessary copywright and permission issues long before.
Apparently it's mostly a dance troupe -- possibly all of this is different, or not so much an issue, in the world of dance, and all this just never occurred to them?
Betsy HP - Oct 19, 2005 12:27:14 pm PDT #8923 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Maybe. I know it's an issue for Martha Graham dances, because who had the rights was a big deal after her death. And I think it's an issue for Balanchine, too.
Betsy HP - Oct 19, 2005 12:42:45 pm PDT #8924 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Yup. Dances can be protected by copyright. If you're going to dance either Balanchine or Graham, you have to get permission.
So there's really no excuse for the dance troupe, except that (I infer) they're amateurs.
Sue - Oct 19, 2005 12:56:35 pm PDT #8925 of 10000
hip deep in pie
Possibly, because they are dancers, they are clueless about rights and such. Some really small companies think that they'll avoid detection, and are so small that it won't be worth it to go after them, so they don't bother.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 19, 2005 6:37:16 pm PDT #8926 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
and are so small that it won't be worth it to go after them
No such animal. I think Fox has employees whose job is to sift through LiveJournal posts so they can send cease and desist orders to people using screencaps from their shows as icons.