txanne
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« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2008, 07:56:21 pm » |
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No Marti Noxon for me, thanks. I'm one of those people who disbelieves in Buffy's last season.
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Emma Bull
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« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2008, 08:05:35 pm » |
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I think our writer shopping list would be DIZZYING. But some of the very best ones seem to come out of nowhere (which really means, shows nobody noticed).
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Falkner to Worth: "'Competent'" is not an insult."
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« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2008, 08:19:14 pm » |
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Well, I'd give Chris Mundy or Simon Mirren a job in a heartbeat.
But I am also a post s-3 Buffy objector.
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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txanne
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« Reply #18 on: February 01, 2008, 09:12:08 pm » |
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I'm willing to grant them through s5. But I will kill with my brain anyone who accepts that crappy-ass Slayer origin story as truth.
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« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2008, 09:20:17 pm » |
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Dude, Buffy ran for five seasons. Then she died heroically saving the universe again. There's this great video fanfic of a musical, too.
Terri Windling wisely observes, though, that the show lost its center when it lost its central metaphor: High school is hell. I continued to have fun, but a bad wobble started up in the storytelling gyroscope, that produced, among other things, a tendency to reset character development.
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txanne
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« Reply #20 on: February 01, 2008, 09:42:05 pm » |
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I reject my reality and substitute Bull's own.
(fanvid musical! if I didn't already worship you, that woulda done it.)
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« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2008, 09:52:01 pm » |
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*giggle*
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« Reply #22 on: February 02, 2008, 03:12:39 pm » |
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Another observation (I've had the winter crud for the past couple of days and keep waking up with odd realizations about things.)
How the heck would you cast Chaz if you needed a live actor? Not that there aren't probably guys shaped like that who can act, but, like Keith Hamilton Cobb, they might have problems finding roles and maintaining a career.
(In a lot of ways this project reminds me of the good times of Andromeda. The pre-first-season web sites and first season stuff. KHC writing anthropological essays.
Before Sorbo threw his weight around and lobotomized it.)
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« Reply #23 on: February 02, 2008, 03:20:24 pm » |
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Funny you should ask about Chaz's actor, actually....
Funny you should ask.
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« Reply #24 on: February 02, 2008, 03:25:21 pm » |
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O rly? (or is this a case of "wait and see" with a side of ebil chucklz?)
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« Reply #25 on: February 02, 2008, 03:31:10 pm » |
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Young Mr. Robert X. Aguilera?
Oh, I think we'll be hearing from him.
And possibly some of his coworkers, too.
*tries to giggle quietly, so Em doesn't catch her*
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« Reply #26 on: February 02, 2008, 04:39:12 pm » |
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Busted, Bear. Busted.
You guys wouldn't believe what we talk about in the studio commissary...
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« Reply #27 on: February 02, 2008, 07:56:06 pm » |
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You realize I'm probably not the only one who compulsively checked...  Neither Google nor IMDB knows a Robert X. Aguilera. Even just plain 'Robert Aguilera's are pretty thin on the ground. Which is actually a little surprising. Hmm. After the concert tonight, I should probably check Roberto X.... |
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« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2008, 01:37:29 am » |
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I'm willing to grant them through s5. But I will kill with my brain anyone who accepts that crappy-ass Slayer origin story as truth.
Hey, c'mon, that whole origin thing turned out to be con-job. It was a put-up by some Neolithic male sorcerors who wanted the girls to do all the work. And the musical may just have been the best thing on the last three or four seasons. Giving us a chance to see Michelle Trachtenberg dance was worth a lot of lesser stuff. |
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« Reply #29 on: February 03, 2008, 01:53:21 am » |
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Getting screwed over by HBO would put you in really great company. Look what they did to Carnivāle, after all. And Daniel Knauf, the exec-producer and chief writer was the guy responsible for Wolf Lake, my very favorite werewolf series. Hey, I wonder if that last episode was what gave Hilary Clinton the impetus to run for President  |
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