Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


Hil R. - Dec 05, 2013 4:01:53 pm PST #13862 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I actually thought Carrie Underwood was better in "The Lonely Goatherd" than she's been in the other songs so far. But that one is far less dependent on hitting all the notes exactly than Do-Re-Mi is.


Dana - Dec 05, 2013 4:08:04 pm PST #13863 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

They probably rehearsed the bejeesus out of it.


Hil R. - Dec 05, 2013 4:09:25 pm PST #13864 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Oh, I'd forgotten about this song. Laura Bernandi is making Carrie Underwood look really bad in comparison.


Hil R. - Dec 05, 2013 4:26:15 pm PST #13865 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

"There was one lady, the most beautiful one. I think she was here all the time." "Yes, Louisa." That was a ridiculously stupid line that I'm very glad was not in the movie.


Dana - Dec 05, 2013 4:27:39 pm PST #13866 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

I'm going to have to find a way to watch the movie now. I love the dance scene in the movie. So much simmering tension.


Dana - Dec 05, 2013 4:34:38 pm PST #13867 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Oh, god, the tiniest child cannot sing.


Hil R. - Dec 05, 2013 4:39:17 pm PST #13868 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Oh, god, the tiniest child cannot sing.

Which is odd. I just looked her up, and she's done a bunch of shows with Random Farms Kids Theater in Westchester, and the kids in those productions are usually really good.


Dana - Dec 05, 2013 4:40:42 pm PST #13869 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Maybe she just had trouble hearing. It's a shame, because it's such a big moment.


Hil R. - Dec 05, 2013 4:58:45 pm PST #13870 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I like the girl playing Brigitta. The script doesn't really give the girl playing Marta much to work with -- even in the scene where Maria is listing things about all the kids, she says "And I don't know about Marta yet, but someone has to find out about her." Also, Gretl was hitting her notes much better in this last scene, so I figure it probably was some kind of sound issue in "So Long, Farewell."


Dana - Dec 05, 2013 5:01:16 pm PST #13871 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

I think I'm turning it off now, before I can be sad that "Something Good" isn't in it. That's one of my favorite scenes.

Perhaps I had a wicked childhood
Perhaps I had a miserable youth
But somewhere in that wicked, miserable past
There must have been a moment of truth