Maybe they thought that she was wearing some sort of special glasses or had a camera in her necklace.
And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
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Vortex - Mar 17, 2009 9:21:13 pm PDT #736 of 5827
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
aurelia - Mar 17, 2009 9:58:01 pm PDT #737 of 5827
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
They did sort of gloss over that pesky blinking.
tiggy - Mar 18, 2009 4:11:48 am PDT #738 of 5827
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
maybe everyone that was watching was just blinking at the same time as Echo.
Liese S. - Mar 18, 2009 7:12:38 am PDT #739 of 5827
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'm sure the ATF briefing was something along the lines of, "And we'll be able to see!" Handwave, handwave.
I mean, if I were an ATFer I wouldn't have accepted the handler's version of why Echo was going to be accepted in the first place.
brenda m - Mar 19, 2009 2:20:43 am PDT #740 of 5827
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
That whole briefing the ATF scene was weird to begin with. Way too much nudge nudge wink wink about it if they really didn't want people to pick up that there was something hinky going on. Why not just "we can get someone in, none of your business how"?
Gitmo's an urban legend?
Well, what went on there used to be. Until it turned out to be horrifically true.
Turned out to be? When was there ever any doubt?
le nubian - Mar 19, 2009 2:36:53 am PDT #741 of 5827
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Fay - Mar 19, 2009 5:28:51 am PDT #742 of 5827
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
...so Joss is saying that the first five episodes didn't deal with as much of the disturbing Echo-as-sexualised-product thing as he'd have liked? Or did I misread that?
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 19, 2009 5:36:49 am PDT #743 of 5827
"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
Wow, I already half-expect to see Gloria Steinhem joining forces with Alpha to shut the operation down in an upcoming episode. He wanted to hit people with more squick starting out?
§ ita § - Mar 19, 2009 6:58:00 am PDT #744 of 5827
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sexuality was a big part of it and certainly the most edgy and titillating part of it, but not in any way the only part of it. . . . I thought of her, more than anything, as a life coach. As the kind of person you absolutely need in your life at a certain moment who will either change you or comfort you or take your life to the level you want it to be. And that could be nice, evil, sexual. It could be any number of things. I think we ended up not going there as much as we would have in the first few episodes because we were still in that dialogue with some of the people at the network.
I could read that as the life coach part isn't what he'd explored enough, but I'm startled that people thought it came right out of the gate with too little sex.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2009 7:26:09 am PDT #745 of 5827
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I could read that as the life coach part isn't what he'd explored enough, but I'm startled that people thought it came right out of the gate with too little sex.
I think technically, only the first two epsiodes explicitly referenced Echo as having sex (and in the first it was only a flash and a bit of dialogue). But it's like that both Joss and the interviewer are completely oblivious to the in-your-face-ness of "Eliza is HOT!!!!!" that's been going on. The question itself made me tilt my head in a confused-dog fashion. Joss' answer didn't change that reaction.