I just realized that the voiceover on Burn Notice reminds me of my current favorite HGTV show, Income Property.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Dec 31, 2009 11:10:12 am PST #28432 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sue - Dec 31, 2009 11:11:28 am PST #28433 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Yay ita.
The good news, I most likely have a virus, not strep. The bad news, the doctor thinks I am going to feel worse before I feel better. He said this virus is a lot like mono and lasts about a week.
He didn't swab me for strep, but he did say that if I spiked a fever or my tonsils swelled up even more, that there is a doctor on call all weekend and I should come in.
smonster - Dec 31, 2009 11:12:52 am PST #28434 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Exactly, ita. I've never even seen all of it and I hate it with the fiery passions of a thousand burning suns.
SpeakIng of such things, for those who've seen LOM UK, would you consider Nelson a Magical Negro? I'm inclined to say no, perhaps because bartender-as-confidant is such a time-honored role. Also, the fact that he acknowledges his persona and its impetus to Sam gives him a dimension beyond caricature.
Anyway.
Sue - Dec 31, 2009 11:12:56 am PST #28435 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Income Property.
Canadian.
(Sorry, I can't help it.)
Jesse - Dec 31, 2009 11:14:55 am PST #28436 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Half of those shows are Canadian! I swear, I'm about ready to get a place in Toronto myself!
brenda m - Dec 31, 2009 11:16:54 am PST #28437 of 30001
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
The only Tom Hanks movie I still like is Big. The one I can't forgive that comes to mind is The Green Mile, even more than Forest Gump.
He just strikes me as so smugly self-satisfied that I can't stand him. Also his crusade to fuck up the Washington Mall and the cult of the "Greatest Generation." It stikes me that there's more than a whiff of Mary Sue in how he sees himself and his vision, and it comes off in his films.
Dana - Dec 31, 2009 11:18:39 am PST #28438 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm not sure Nelson helps Sam at all.
Lee - Dec 31, 2009 11:19:08 am PST #28439 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
It's snowing outside. I'm a little alarmed.
Better than snowing inside.
Yay for no strep! Boo for the virus!
I am home, and in my inside pants, and waiting for Suzi to get here so we can slounge together.
There will be bubbly of course, but mostly slounging.
Jessica - Dec 31, 2009 11:19:14 am PST #28440 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also both Toy Story movies (and presumably #3 when it comes out), but that's kind of cheating since it's voiceover work. And a comedy.
§ ita § - Dec 31, 2009 11:19:32 am PST #28441 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lady GaGa made the best of list! Frankly, some of those dresses are worse than Patricia Arquette's dress. And Kate Winslet definitely belongs on that list.
eta:
I don't think that the bartender in LoM is a Magical Negro. You can still have advice-giving black people. It's all in how you do it, and if you tokenise the role.