My theory was along the same lines but less fully formed.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
The Minearverse 6: Fiery Thread of Death
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
Laga - Feb 15, 2009 4:08:00 pm PST #1726 of 4535
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
aurelia - Feb 15, 2009 5:19:00 pm PST #1727 of 4535
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
That picture looks quite different from what I was remembering.
There were more on her left cheek that fall in the shadows in that photo.
Vortex, what if she's only a doctor due to an imprint?
Steph L. - Feb 15, 2009 5:35:26 pm PST #1728 of 4535
I look more rad than Lutheranism
So I think the issue is that I see the imprints as real, but you don't.
Because they aren't real. They're recordings. And they're not even original recordings; they're mashups.
Glamcookie - Feb 15, 2009 5:43:00 pm PST #1729 of 4535
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
The thing I can't get beyond with this show is way would you want Echo as Miss Penn and not the real thing.
I had the same reaction. DW said it's because they take multiple personalities and splice them together So you're getting a bunch of "Miss Penns," not just a single good negotiator. I'm still not quite buying it, though (probably because Eliza didn't quite sell it as others have mentioned).
Vortex - Feb 15, 2009 6:19:17 pm PST #1730 of 4535
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Vortex, what if she's only a doctor due to an imprint?
ooooooh! meta!
Kalshane - Feb 15, 2009 6:59:12 pm PST #1731 of 4535
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.
I finally watched it off the DVR and was not particularly impressed. It was okay, I certainly didn't feel like I wasted an hour and there's some interesting stuff there, but it didn't hook me.
Then again, it took 3 episodes for Firefly to hook me (though I blame Fox for that) so I'm will to give this 3 episodes as well.
The GF, on the other hand, really enjoyed it. Not to the point where she'd keep watching if I stopped, but she was a lot more involved during the episode than I was.
I agree that the promos during the show were awful and cringe-inducing, and that I think whoever said that Summer looked like she didn't want to be there was spot-on.
On a side note, am I the only one who recognized Agent Helo's boxing opponent as Toa? (And how many respect points have I lost for making that connection?)
Liese S. - Feb 15, 2009 7:08:12 pm PST #1732 of 4535
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
On a completely unthinky note, I think the set is a little too busy. I don't see what the advantage of having such a large elaborate open set is, if it doesn't give you any supercool shots where the relationship of the rooms to each other matters.
DavidS - Feb 15, 2009 7:10:41 pm PST #1733 of 4535
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't see what the advantage of having such a large elaborate open set is,
Joss loves his multi-tiered sets, though. The Bronze, the Hyperion, Serenity, Wolfram & Hart...
§ ita § - Feb 15, 2009 7:29:08 pm PST #1734 of 4535
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey, Toa's The Rock's stunt double and cousin! Mmmm.
t /less deep than Kalshane
Kevin - Feb 16, 2009 3:01:17 am PST #1735 of 4535
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Okay, so, this is a serious request: can anybody come up with a great way of selling Dollhouse to average joe (not to be confused with Joe The Plumber) in a few sentences?