HEY STREGA. THINK OF A BETTER QUESTION.

I should do homework; it's been a while since I last watched. You could ask if any characters surprised them -- went in a direction they didn't anticipate when they began, either because of something they saw in the actor, or something that came up while breaking an episode.

Is it worth contacting Shout Factory? If Fox won't produce DVDs themselves, could Shout get the rights? Shout certainly has experience doing cult-audience shows and still making a profit. And they're smaller so it seems like you might get a personal response if you contacted them.

It's worth contacting my mom. I don't wanna be embarrassed and FAIL ANOTHER CAMPAIGN.

That's a good question, BTW. Amy @ Popgurls helped me rephrase the other lame one into:

No matter what sort of horrible decisions Britt and Hank make, they're always our heroes, and we're always rooting for them to be okay. How did you be sure to maintain that?

Also, I didn't see you retweet me strega. I think you're embarrassed to be my friend or something. The hover text over the TWOP link on my page reads, "They made Aaron Sorkin cry, once."

Because I'm so proud of you.

I have a "pay it forward"-type idea - you said that dl-ing the pilot on iTunes was a good thing? I would be willing to offer to gift the pilot to, say, the first 3 people who post on my fb wall. The deal being if they like it, they do the same? Could be used with Twitter, too. I'll probably do it whether or not it becomes a thing. They would all count as separate downloads, right?

smonster, that is EXCELLENT. MWAH. Hrm. I'll have to figure out how to phrase it.

Even if they only gifted it to one person, it would be something.

So you turn two three and then what?

That is a really good idea.

I beg you to not use first person plural. Please? It hurts me.

Also, I didn't see you retweet me strega.

Didn't retweet what? Bear in mind that I'm not actually always online. Some days, yes.

I also found a Donor's Choose for Ocean Beach: [link]

Which, you know, I think I'll put up there.

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.

What struck me was how fully formed the characters were from the start. They felt like real, normal human beings from the first scene. Most shows take 3-5 episodes to figure out who the people are and what the tone is. How did they manage that without workshopping for a couple of months before shooting?