Such a shaky place to have so many oil rigs in the ocean.
...because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard! And I never really liked you anyway. And you have stupid hair!
Spike ,'Selfless'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Aug 08, 2007 10:44:21 am PDT #3406 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
tommyrot - Aug 08, 2007 10:46:29 am PDT #3407 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK,
TV Guide's Michael Ausiello has posted a rumor that the producers of ABC's Lost are considering Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell for the new role of Charlotte, a hot 20-something who is said to be "precocious, loquacious and funny."
Can you be precocious and 20-something?
juliana - Aug 08, 2007 10:54:56 am PDT #3408 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Thank god for Canadians.
So very true.
Okay, who ordered the Apocalypse??
Lee - Aug 08, 2007 10:57:02 am PDT #3409 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Okay, who ordered the Apocalypse??
oops.
Ginger - Aug 08, 2007 10:58:07 am PDT #3410 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I don't know who ordered 90 degrees with 45% humidity and a code red smog level, but if I ever find out, I'm going to hit him with a baseball bat after it gets cooler.
tommyrot - Aug 08, 2007 10:59:24 am PDT #3411 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Have folks seen this Jane Espenson article in The New Republic ?
Harry Potter andThe Secret to Selling Sci-Fi.
It's difficult to sell a show with hard sci-fi or fantasy elements. It doesn't matter that the biggest summer movies (Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Transformers, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) and book (Harry Potter again) are sci-fi or fantasy, or even that "Heroes" was the highest-rated new show on TV. Try pitching a purely sci-fi/fantasy show with a spaceship or an elf and see how it goes over. Put an elf on your spaceship and you might never recover. Even the SCI FI Channel seems reluctant, as they look toward a post-"Battlestar Galactica" era, to dive too deeply into Asimovian or Tolkienish waters. Non-cable networks are even more wary. And their reasoning isn't terrible. Networks are still in the business of broadcasting, not nichecasting. You simply cannot make a hit show by attracting only viewers who also attend Comic-Con, no matter how hard it is to move down a San Diego sidewalk in late July.
And yet, there is a certain kind of fantasy story that seems to be able to reach beyond the edges of the normal fandom. It seems to be able to cross the boundaries and appeal so strongly to people that they sometimes don't even notice that they're enjoying fantasy. Harry Potter is an example of that kind of story. The people who don't like Harry Potter seem to be the ones who haven't tried it yet. It's universally appealing, like pie and Anderson Cooper. That means, of course, that Harry has something to teach those of us who want to write, create, air or sell sci-fi/fantasy television shows.
Kathy A - Aug 08, 2007 11:00:13 am PDT #3412 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Okay, who ordered the Apocalypse??
Well, I tried to order Apocalypto, but the person at Blockbuster didn't speak English that well, so I think there was a mix-up at the home office.
Kristen - Aug 08, 2007 11:01:36 am PDT #3413 of 10001
Kathy, wanting to buy Apocalypto is the first sign of the Apocalypse.
Kathy A - Aug 08, 2007 11:03:01 am PDT #3414 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
So, I did start everything in motion? Go me!
megan walker - Aug 08, 2007 11:11:04 am PDT #3415 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
This would be a good time to post this song from this week's Flight of the Conchords-- for all former French students, megan, and bossa nova fans (Hec).
My housemate and I just about died when we watched that episode. It ranks right up there with their rapping and the David Bowie visions as favorite FotC moments.