If anything, it's worse than the pilot.
Oh, as usual, dear.
Maybe I'll skip next week, then. It's not like I'm invested beyond "Eliza Dushku is hot," after all.
That's insane troll logic!
Xander ,'Showtime'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
shrift - Oct 31, 2003 5:24:33 am PST #1633 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
meara - Oct 31, 2003 5:33:57 am PST #1634 of 10000
Yeah, I'm definitely hoping Tru gets better at it, cause that was just painful. But I'm with shrift on the "Mmm, Eliza" boat.
but she kicked the line of fire across the woman whose life she was there to save.
If she'd kicked it the other way, wouldn't it have gone across Tru? I suppose you could argue who it's better to save, but me, I'm selfish, I'd rather the chance go to the woman who was kinda supposed to die anyway, rather than ME!
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2003 5:37:08 am PST #1635 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If she'd kicked it the other way, wouldn't it have gone across Tru?
If the gun wasn't being pointed at her, yes. But it's just ... wrong. You don't do that. If it was Tru she needed to save, she shouldn't have showed up, or could have left, honestly.
If it was pointed at Tru, she cleared it across one and a half people, and his reflex would have been likely to pull the trigger. She's probably have been safe, but mommy-to-be not.
Fine, so I've done a couple too many gun defenses, and a bit of third party protection.
JenP - Oct 31, 2003 5:43:39 am PST #1636 of 10000
I missed it. Though, apparently, didn't miss much, I gather.
tina f. - Oct 31, 2003 5:44:58 am PST #1637 of 10000
No, you didn't miss much Jen. Imagine ED running. In a tank top (the good part). And then running some more. Then there was some more running....
Gandalfe - Oct 31, 2003 7:10:58 am PST #1638 of 10000
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
This is why I'm calling it Run, Eliza, Run. The only reason I can see that they made her a track star is so that we could have lots of running. Otherwise, she'd drive a freakin' car.
That being said, wouldn't you think she'd wear a sports bra if she's going to run everywhere? Not that I'm complaining, mind you, just curious.
Jessica - Oct 31, 2003 7:14:23 am PST #1639 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
This is why I'm calling it Run, Eliza, Run.
The scratch track for the unaired pilot used the "Lola Running" track from the RLR soundtrack for all those scenes. It was quite amusing.
Madrigal Costello - Oct 31, 2003 7:20:57 am PST #1640 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
It did strike me as a lot like "Run, Lola, Run" - though what bugged me was that she was just delaying long-term problems. They did show that her sister was fully capable of finding other sources of drugs, and helping her brother win a game isn't going to get him to stop gambling - if anything she reinforced it. With the Rebecca plot line, I wanted it to be that every time Tru tried to "fix" something, remove a cause of death, fate tossed another one in until they got to suicide - and any ME worth his latex could quickly tell an entrance wound from an exit wound, especially at such a close range. And one pep talk - that's only enough on a family sitcom. If Tru had hauled Rebecca's ass into the hospital, said she'd tried to kill herself and got her held there until she could get counseling, then I might have thought of her as actually helpful.
Gandalfe - Oct 31, 2003 7:23:11 am PST #1641 of 10000
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
any ME worth his latex could quickly tell an entrance wound from an exit wound, especially at such a close range.
But the ME never saw the wound, only had it described to him by her.
JohnSweden - Oct 31, 2003 7:27:48 am PST #1642 of 10000
I can't even.
any ME worth his latex
Y'know, I jumped to Mutant Enemy (writer), not CSI-like stuff, then it went all downhill from there.