Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.

Lorne ,'Why We Fight'


Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.  

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CaBil - Aug 23, 2004 9:31:44 am PDT #8809 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.

I've been told that the Buffy RPG will have adventures and stories based on missing episodes and "Lost Seasons"

More information will follow as I find it.


Polter-Cow - Aug 23, 2004 11:10:16 am PDT #8810 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Maybe I'll finally get an answer about the title/date thing.

If I recall correctly from reading the responses of people who've already listened to it, the answer is much what I suspected, which is "It was cool."

Though, you know, really, it was supposed to be cool cause the time/date was identical to the time/date of airing, but the time/date of airing was Eastern time, and Sunnydale is in California.


§ ita § - Aug 23, 2004 11:13:57 am PDT #8811 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

it was supposed to be cool cause the time/date was identical to the time/date of airing, but the time/date of airing was Eastern time, and Sunnydale is in California.

It came on at 8 in California too.


sumi - Aug 23, 2004 11:18:41 am PDT #8812 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

That's what I thought.

It just didn't work in Central time. (Possibly not in Mountain time.)


Polter-Cow - Aug 23, 2004 11:19:22 am PDT #8813 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

It came on at 8 in California too.

It did, but that would have been 11 for the East Coast. For it to seem like the events on the show were occurring in realtime for the East Coast (which would see it first), the Sunnydale time should have been five-ish.

It just didn't work in Central time.

And no, it didn't, and that's where I was. Heh.


dcp - Aug 23, 2004 11:20:46 am PDT #8814 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I thought it was a shout-out to 24.

I seem to remember that the first half of the season was full of shout-outs to other shows.


§ ita § - Aug 23, 2004 11:21:33 am PDT #8815 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

For it to seem like the events on the show were occurring in realtime for the East Coast (which would see it first), the Sunnydale time should have been five-ish.

Was it supposed to seem like it was happening in real time across the country, or was it supposed to seem like it was happening now?

The former is impossible on network TV, the latter acheived in Eastern and Pacific.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 23, 2004 11:25:30 am PDT #8816 of 10001
What is even happening?

It's not something we usually talk about in front of the rest of you, but we on the east coast are prescient, anyhow. The time stamp was fine, either way.


Polter-Cow - Aug 23, 2004 11:25:48 am PDT #8817 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

or was it supposed to seem like it was happening now?

The former is impossible on network TV, the latter acheived in Eastern and Pacific.

The latter was achieved in the Pacific; I will give you that. But it wasn't achieved in Eastern because the time given, though it matched the time in the Eastern time zone, was describing a location in California, whose time is three hours back, so it may have looked like it was "now" but it wasn't. Whereas with you, yes, eight o'clock in Sunnydale would have been eight o' clock for you.

The time stamp was fine, either way.

For the record, I thought so too, and I'm only arguing this because I only just realized how it technically doesn't work. But many, many things that are cool technically don't work.


§ ita § - Aug 23, 2004 11:28:59 am PDT #8818 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

P-C, you're making my former and the latter the same.

What I'm saying is the "now" is more independent of the time zone. It's eight o clock now, the action is happening at 8. That's what I mean.

If the time said 5, it wouldn't make sense in that framework.

Relative timing, not absolute.