Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


Experimental TV: Network Drama  

This thread is an experiment to discern the Buffistas' interests in television discussion. It will close on June 1st, 2007, after which our community will assess our future direction. Discuss network aired drama here. [NAFDA]


brenda m - Apr 26, 2007 8:42:55 am PDT #212 of 820
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

During the first episode (all I watched, sadly) I kept wondering if it was all some grand sociology experiment and there weren't any bombs at all.


sumi - Apr 26, 2007 9:15:39 am PDT #213 of 820
Art Crawl!!!

They really do need to stop using horsepower and start using more horses and bicycles. Because - while not everyone will have horses LOTS of people have bikes and know how to ride them.

And how the heck are Stanley, Mimi, Bonnie and Bonnie's slackery bf supposed to plant that entire farm with no machinery?


-t - Apr 26, 2007 9:26:48 am PDT #214 of 820
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

They already hit the point of the whole town having to work together to bring in the harvest, right? So it should be a known issue within the show.

Good call on the bikes.

I'm guessing that Skylar's (is that how you spell it? And where did I get my crazy Schuyler spelling from?) parents will make it home after she has made herself a comfortable place in the town's hierarchy and mess it all up. I kind of like that.


sumi - Apr 26, 2007 11:22:55 am PDT #215 of 820
Art Crawl!!!

I've seen that name spelled Schuyler. . . is it German?

FNLish: Kristin had an interview with Daniel Dae Kim up on the E! website and he is a fan! Apparently, he used to play quarterback in highschool. Anyway, he said something about it being one of the only shows he watches that he can't see himself on. When Kristin pressed him he said he could be the owner of the drycleaner or the liquor store.

Now I want both Ben Browder and DDK on the show.

(I would link -- but there are random spoilery links on the page. Do you guys want a link anyway?)


Toddson - Apr 26, 2007 12:03:19 pm PDT #216 of 820
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Schuyler is probably Dutch. Like Schuykill (for Philadelphians)


sumi - Apr 26, 2007 12:09:50 pm PDT #217 of 820
Art Crawl!!!

But isn't Pennsylvania Dutch, actually German?


sumi - Apr 26, 2007 12:14:06 pm PDT #218 of 820
Art Crawl!!!

Okay, you're right. I googled. And I found this amusing bit of PA history:

John Pott's name, it is said, should be correctly pronounced "Putt" so that Pottsville in reality should be Puttsville. He is to be differentiated, too, from the John Potts, an iron master of Quaker descent, who was the founder of the Pottstown and who early owned land on the present site of Pottsville before Pott or "Putt" came here.


Morgana - Apr 26, 2007 1:12:36 pm PDT #219 of 820
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

Okay, I have no idea what show you guys are talking about at the moment (since y'all don't label it up front, the way we try (sometimes) to do in Boxed Set) but I'm popping in to say I'm from Pottstown, PA, so I'm bewildered to see my onscreen life bouncing up against my real life.


-t - Apr 26, 2007 1:59:11 pm PDT #220 of 820
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It's Jericho, Morgana. And a little topic drift.

Glad to know I'm not pulling non-phonetic spellings out of nowhere


Morgana - Apr 26, 2007 2:07:54 pm PDT #221 of 820
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

Thanks for the clarification, -t. I don't watch Jericho, so I wouldn't have recognized the names.

Does anyone in here watch The Unit? If so, any guesses as to what the hell Mac is doing? Because it is way the hell too late for him to be getting outraged and trying to grab the moral high ground at this point.