I didn't love Changing Channels.
If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Laga - Nov 18, 2010 6:56:36 pm PST #15899 of 30002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
§ ita § - Nov 18, 2010 7:14:36 pm PST #15900 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Carver's gone over to Being Human.
I adored Changing Channels. LoveLOVElove. I laughed so hard, and felt all their pain and danced pantsless in the meta of the whole thing. But then again, he did Nightshifter and The End and I'd rather this not be a Malleus Maleficarum.
Morgana - Nov 18, 2010 7:31:09 pm PST #15901 of 30002
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
I didn't love Changing Channels
A short while ago Polter-Cow linked this article with excerpts from the Season 5 Companion, where they talk specifically about Changing Channels. Quotes like "We were like, ‘How much crazier can this episode get?' but it always found a way to get one notch crazier. I think the Japanese game show just came out of a desire to watch the guys get hit in the balls. Purely juvenile." and the director and editor talking about how they were laughing so hard they were crying while working on the episode just made me think that it was like I was reading something that had been translated from another language. But then I never found the Three Stooges amusing either.
§ ita § - Nov 18, 2010 7:33:57 pm PST #15902 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not a big fan of the Three Stooges. HUGE fan of hitting guys in the nuts. Worked for me, especially with the counterpoint of the emotional questions they were being asked in a foreign language to make it even high stakes and sad, and the introduction of the derisive term "pretty boy angel".
Laga - Nov 18, 2010 7:45:45 pm PST #15903 of 30002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I love The Three Stooges. I can give myself the giggles just thinking about the Omay short. They didn't do a lot of nut jokes. I guess I'm more amused by guys poking each other in the eyes. (and pig latin of course)
I think a lot of my dislike for Changing Channels comes from never having seen the Dr Dreamy show. Is that Gray's Anatomy? So I didn't get a lot of those jokes.
Morgana - Nov 18, 2010 8:08:32 pm PST #15904 of 30002
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
especially with the counterpoint of the emotional questions they were being asked in a foreign language to make it even high stakes and sad
But it wasn't sad from the guys' perspectives. Frustrating, but not sad. For all they knew the host could have been asking them the colors in the rainbow or the year strontium was discovered.
from never having seen the Dr Dreamy show
I've never seen that one either.
Juliebird - Nov 18, 2010 10:53:09 pm PST #15905 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I finally convinced a colleague to check out Show after months of being the only show I talk about. I broke down and sent her go.back.to.sleep with the warning that it really wasn't that gorey all the time. She was all over it. Sick sick lady.
§ ita § - Nov 19, 2010 4:36:46 am PST #15906 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It doesn't need to be sad from the boys's perspective to be sad for me. I have meta reactions too.
Amy - Nov 19, 2010 5:18:04 am PST #15907 of 30002
Because books.
The Japanese game show was also perfectly in line with what Gabriel would find funny, which was the point. The joke was for him to enjoy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 19, 2010 6:17:21 am PST #15908 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
But the body still needs rest. I would think he would sleep, just not dream. I keep wondering where they're going with that.
Maybe if the removal of his soul means no mental conflicts or need to process information meaningfully, he can just lie or sit still for a few hours and physically recuperate?
I don't know though... even goldfish sleep, right?