Kristen brought up a good point: Hank and Britt and so completely ordinary...how did the writers make them so compelling? I mean, they have fairly ordinary lives (and ordinary is messy), but they're so beautiful to watch. I think about Jaye in Wonderfalls. Something extraordinary is happening to her, but she's otherwise leading a completely ordinary life, and she's still compelling. Even if you take out the talking monkey, Jaye is so watchable. How they do that?
I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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!
Allyson - Sep 06, 2011 8:36:59 pm PDT #3457 of 4535
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Allyson - Sep 06, 2011 8:38:07 pm PDT #3458 of 4535
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I mean, it's not really a show about a case that needs solving, it's a show about the people who solve cases. Sometimes I wanted the cases to get the fuck out of the way.
Cass - Sep 06, 2011 8:41:01 pm PDT #3459 of 4535
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
how did the writers make them so compelling? I mean, they have fairly ordinary lives (and ordinary is messy), but they're so beautiful to watch.
They are so completely, gorgeously, tragically human.
Strega - Sep 06, 2011 8:42:54 pm PDT #3460 of 4535
Do you expect an answer to that, though? I feel like "How did you do that?" is awfully close to asking "Where do you get your ideas?"
Anyway....It might be worth noting that the videos that were made for the FX production blog are still on YouTube. [link]
Allyson - Sep 06, 2011 8:53:39 pm PDT #3461 of 4535
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Do you expect an answer to that, though? I feel like "How did you do that?" is awfully close to asking "Where do you get your ideas?
Yeah.
I'm trying to think of the questions I enjoy answering. With Sam, it's always, "why bats?" And can I talk up a storm about "why bats."
Allyson - Sep 06, 2011 8:57:24 pm PDT #3462 of 4535
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
HEY STREGA. THINK OF A BETTER QUESTION.
Cass - Sep 06, 2011 9:00:45 pm PDT #3463 of 4535
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
*I* want to know why Ocean Beach. Because it's a very specific kind of place and it was so clearly not made up. Except, I guess, that answers itself. Someone is either from there or lived there or spent time there. Because OB was nearly a character. And I dug that.
I don't have questions. I have commentary that is badly punctuated.
brenda m - Sep 07, 2011 2:58:28 am PDT #3464 of 4535
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
You know, I know his wife.
Namedropper.
smonster - Sep 07, 2011 4:08:20 am PDT #3465 of 4535
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I think it's their passion. Hank and Britt care; about each other, about their (ex-)partners, about their families. Whatever they do, they are all in, even if they cloak it beneath a veneer of California cool.
I remember reading somewhere that improv comedy is all about saying "yes" to whatever your partner suggests. I think, somehow (first cup of coffee, yo) that it's a level of commitment to their lives. Whatever happens is important, not melodrama important, but important.
There was also this really natural flow to the plots, and we got pulled in right along with the characters. As they got sucked deeper into the morass of corruption of Ocean Beach, so did we.
Blah blah blah ramblecakes.
smonster - Sep 07, 2011 4:09:11 am PDT #3466 of 4535
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Those aren't questions, I know, but maybe there's a seed of something there that could inspire one.