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'


Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...

To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])


Polter-Cow - May 08, 2009 8:46:17 pm PDT #2261 of 12003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I don't even care that most of the plots don't make sense. It's just FUN.

Heh. It is! I watched the second episode too.

And Parker is TOTALLY AWESOME. As is Hardison.

They are! Hardison remembers gravity and fears for his squishy man-bits, and Parker blows stuff up.


Polter-Cow - May 10, 2009 9:33:04 am PDT #2262 of 12003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Aw, they're a "little more than a team." This is one of those shows about The Family You Make for Yourself, isn't it? Yay!


Frankenbuddha - May 10, 2009 5:34:46 pm PDT #2263 of 12003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Aw, they're a "little more than a team." This is one of those shows about The Family You Make for Yourself, isn't it? Yay!

Hee. Fun watching the newcomers catch up. LEVERAGE was a hoot! And will be again!


Polter-Cow - May 11, 2009 11:31:07 am PDT #2264 of 12003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Meh. I am not a fan of the Nate-is-an-alcoholic storyline. That is less fun, and it sort of appeared out of nowhere. (I mean, not NOWHERE, I know the guy is grieving over his son, but there wasn't so much a slow decline as "Suddenly this week, Nate's drinking all the time and everyone's worried about him!")

Three more episodes! And then I have to wait for more like the rest of you.


Lee - May 11, 2009 12:13:40 pm PDT #2265 of 12003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I thought that at first too, P-C, but going back and rewatching, there are signs of it in the pilot and first couple of eps as well.


Vortex - May 11, 2009 12:19:05 pm PDT #2266 of 12003
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Frankly, that's often the way that you see alcoholism. You don't really notice how much someone is drinking for a while, and then you suddenly think. Wow, Nate's drinking a lot.


megan walker - May 11, 2009 12:21:51 pm PDT #2267 of 12003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Yeah, but given the whole vibe of the show, I wish it had been more "Nick & Nora" and less of a "thing".


Polter-Cow - May 11, 2009 12:25:59 pm PDT #2268 of 12003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I agree, megan. They played it a little for laughs (loved Parker's assertion that he was getting creepier), but when it got Very Serious, it didn't feel right.


Vortex - May 11, 2009 12:41:40 pm PDT #2269 of 12003
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Yeah, but given the whole vibe of the show, I wish it had been more "Nick & Nora" and less of a "thing".

yeah, that would have been nice, but we don't allow that anymore.


§ ita § - May 11, 2009 1:29:14 pm PDT #2270 of 12003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Nate drinks not just in a few episodes, but in every single one.