that is a guy named Tim Drake just begging to be assassinated

Your Batman kills kids? And yet you don't like Dark Knight?

See, in my Batman world, that is a guy named Tim Drake just begging to be assassinated.

Well, to be fair, Tim was only thirteen at the time, and he didn't actually blackmail Bats. And besides, Dick was in on the conspiracy.

Of course, some of the Titans at the time called Tim a little creep. Heh.

Personally, I ♥ Tim because he's a dysfunctional little freakboy. Just like I love that Dick's an adrenaline junkie with a guilt-complex the size of Siberia. And Bruce, well, he ain't remotely right in the head...

I don't know anything about Deadwood, which is just as well, as I'm trying to resist the lure of the premium cable channels. (I was hoping to get rid of cable totally, but now there's a Farscape mini-series, AND with the cancellation of almost every network show I watch, I *can't* get rid of Cartoon Network.)

I remembered him from The Talented Mr. Ripley

Really? Was he the guy at the end?

Yup. They first meet at the opera, I believe, and then you realize they're together, and then it all goes badly at the end.

Yeah, Sci-Fi has got to be backpedalling madly right now.

"Well, we never meant that we really didn't like our viewers, or that the show was too smart for the audience we wanted to attract!"

"Right. Really, what we meant was that we'd be humiliated forever if the miniseries became a big hit for another network, particularly since we'll soon be losing the rerun rights on the first four season, and someone could pick up the show as a whole and make a bunch of money on it in syndication!"

I would love to be a fly on the wall in those contract negotiations. I wonder what JHC had to give up in order to get SFC to air it. I hope hope hope it wasn't any more exclusive hold on the reruns. The show needs to air elsewhere in order to pick up an audience, especially since SFC is running the reruns at 3 AM nowadays.

Teppy -- Deadwood is a western -- don't you have the western-squick?

I'm just hoping that dvds will appear on Netflix in a year's time.

Well, to be fair, Tim was only thirteen at the time, and he didn't actually blackmail Bats. And besides, Dick was in on the conspiracy.

Okay, so less with the aggressive-aggressive and more with the whimsical passive-aggressive meet cute? Somehow that doesn't fit into my mental Batman either. Then again, having a sidekick provided that said sidekick may die or be maimed melodramatically, so I suppose there is an up side to it all.

Jack Davenport. Love that name. He and Fred Toaster and Jeffrey Throw Pillow have a great comedy routine.

SCI FI Brings Back Farscape in mini-series form.

So, I've got about six months to catch up on the entire series. I can do that. Especially given that all I've got after Angel ends is ... Stargate and possibly Stargate Aquarium. And I love my SG, but I never expected it to be ... it. Ah well. God love Netflix.

Kinda cool to know that there'll be more when I'm done with the DVDs.

I never saw Tim as whimsical, or cute. I mean, he was basically a scary kid, when push comes to shove.

Okay, so less with the aggressive-aggressive and more with the whimsical passive-aggressive meet cute? Somehow that doesn't fit into my mental Batman either. Then again, having a sidekick provided that said sidekick may die or be maimed melodramatically, so I suppose there is an up side to it all.

Well, Tim (who had figured out their secrets early on, as a result of having seen Dick in the Flying Graysons the day his parents were killed) was mainly trying to get Batman and Dick-as-Robin back together so that Batman would stop being such a Jason-is-dead nutcase.

Tim's a messed up kid, in the most entertaining of ways.