As a rule, I am not a fan of the twee, yet it works for me on PD because underneath all the shiny candy-coated exterior, this show is freakin' DARK. I mean, Ned saw his mother die *twice*, killed his sweetheart's father, had his own father abandon him, and is basically in love with a dead woman. The deaths are pretty gruesome (I mean, mauled by a rottweiler to death? Yikes.) The protagonist, with whom we're supposed to sympathize, willingly lets another person die, knowing the consequences of his actions. The premise consists of our gang reaping the benefit off dead people. Then there are the aunts with their crippling agoraphobia. If this story was told straight, it'd make me want to put my head into an oven.

And yet, the mesh of the creepily weird/weirdly creepy and the oversaturated fairy-tale look and feel of the show is perfect in some mysterious way. I mean, obviously it's not perfect for everybody because I have a lot of fannish friends who ran screaming to the other direction after 15 minutes of the pilot and never looked back, but it's perfect *for me* and a big proportion of the Buffistas and, (surprise of surprises) a lot of viewing public. I'm still trying to get over that last part.

The Devil's insistence that Andie not be involved reinforces a theory I have... in I think the second episode, where Sam ends up working in the garden section and Andie's there? They came back to The Devil for the end scene, and he stuck a flower in his lapel. The same type of flower that Andie was just working with/standing in front of. I think she's involved somehow more than just "love interest".

I agree. My unspoiled speculation is that her late father will turn out to be one of the souls that Sam will have to catch.

My unspoiled speculation is that her late father will turn out to be one of the souls that Sam will have to catch.

If that's all it is, I will be pissed. I want a bigger payoff.

As a rule, I am not a fan of the twee, yet it works for me on PD because underneath all the shiny candy-coated exterior, this show is freakin' DARK

see, I think that's why I like it as well. Thanks for articulating!

Vonnie that's why I like it too!

And I like the voice over for the most part, it's like having a story read to me. But that's just me.

I just wish they'd bring back the super intense colors.

Hey--flashback question. Masters of Science Fiction on ABC--there was an ep with Anne Heche where she bought a mine-detecting A-almost-I and goes to court to prevent it being destroyed. My recording cut off during the court proceedings where they realise that her AI basically shoved another one under the bus so he wouldn't blow up.

What happened next?

Okay, what happened next:

the bot was "acquitted" and she went to live with the bot (who I recall kept going downhill) and then she became some kind of weird spiritual guru and moved on to another cause.

That's kinda of ... unsatisfying. I had wondered if the bot would be found to be sentient, and then condemned for botslaughter, or something.

I think my eyes must be tired. I keep misreading things, and this:

mine-detecting

I read as mime-detecting.

!

I guess that could be useful.

I can't read the word mimes or hear the word mimes or see mimes (which I doesn't happen very often at all) without thinking about the movie Shakes, the Clown which I did not particularly like, but there was a funny bit with clowns chasing the hated mimes.

Um. t /random Sorry.

I have to go dig up my Flood CD and load it onto my new(ish) computer so I can upload it for Vonnie. She needs Flood! For some reason, all I have on the computer right now is Particle Man. Which I like, but... where's the rest of the album? Weird.