Not fading away
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gwynI admit that when I first saw people on my flist talking about a virtual season 6 of Angel, I was mystified by why and what and wherefore. It seemed like a peculiar idea that could go painfully bad, but I finally dropped by to see it and it's really quite cool. There is the main No Limits Virtual Season 6 site here, and if you click on some of the links, it will take you to a site with spoilers and promos and all kinds of other things, which looks remarkably like E! Online or other such sites. Pretty spiffy. The first virtual episode is up, and it's very enjoyable, and all the characters have excellent TV voices (by that I mean that the TV writers, to my mind, always wrote the characters a bit differently than we do in fanfic). It's heavy on dialog, which is right for an episode, but it's not written as a screenplay treatment. And I'm not sure I totally understand this, but it looks like there's also fanfic based on the episode(s). Anyway, check it out, the folks who've put this together have done an amazing job, and it's kind of fun to think of the show as not being wholly gone from our lives.
I'm starting to realize that the word dammit or the more formal but pointlessly so damn it is what I'll end up in the insane asylum for -- I'll finally snap after reading the thousandth fic where the fan writers use damnit, and they'll cart me away muttering "it's spelled dammit when it's one word. D-A-M-M-I-T. It's in the dictionary. Look it up" over and over and over, and then years later I'll still be wandering around in jammies and a tatty robe muttering the same thing. On the wall of my cell will be the word DAMMIT scrawled a thousand times with purple crayon. They'll call me the crazy dammit lady. "That's all she's said for the last nine years."
I got my Keen Eddie DVDs and Angel S4 DVDs the other day and boy do I have a job of getting through everything so I can write reviews. I still really really love S4 of Angel, maybe it's my favorite, so I can't wait to sit down and watch, but I have almost no time right now for myself. Eddie is painful though because they've put them in the bad order they were aired in, and also removed most of the cool music. I used to feel sort of generically sorry for my Wiseguy-fan friends over the removal of Nights in White Satin, and I've often said that I would gladly take Miami Vice on disc with just lame cover versions of the music if it meant I could get them on DVD, but you know what? I retract my previous statement, to quote my honey Dom Toretto. Not having One Step Beyond for the foot chase in the pilot is just... painful. I'm so depressed that Paramount was willing to give us the eps on disc, but so cheap they wouldn't even license a few songs. Grrrr.
I'm starting to realize that the word dammit or the more formal but pointlessly so damn it is what I'll end up in the insane asylum for -- I'll finally snap after reading the thousandth fic where the fan writers use damnit, and they'll cart me away muttering "it's spelled dammit when it's one word. D-A-M-M-I-T. It's in the dictionary. Look it up" over and over and over, and then years later I'll still be wandering around in jammies and a tatty robe muttering the same thing. On the wall of my cell will be the word DAMMIT scrawled a thousand times with purple crayon. They'll call me the crazy dammit lady. "That's all she's said for the last nine years."
I got my Keen Eddie DVDs and Angel S4 DVDs the other day and boy do I have a job of getting through everything so I can write reviews. I still really really love S4 of Angel, maybe it's my favorite, so I can't wait to sit down and watch, but I have almost no time right now for myself. Eddie is painful though because they've put them in the bad order they were aired in, and also removed most of the cool music. I used to feel sort of generically sorry for my Wiseguy-fan friends over the removal of Nights in White Satin, and I've often said that I would gladly take Miami Vice on disc with just lame cover versions of the music if it meant I could get them on DVD, but you know what? I retract my previous statement, to quote my honey Dom Toretto. Not having One Step Beyond for the foot chase in the pilot is just... painful. I'm so depressed that Paramount was willing to give us the eps on disc, but so cheap they wouldn't even license a few songs. Grrrr.
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Date: 2004-09-10 02:18 pm (UTC)Absolutely. I was a bit dubious about it at first but when I read it I was totally won over. The work that's gone into it is amazing and V Online is both clever and funny.
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Date: 2004-09-10 03:34 pm (UTC)*dies laughing* I can *so see that*.
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Date: 2004-09-10 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-10 03:54 pm (UTC)No! Dammit, NOOOOOO! What the *hell*? First Fox kills the show, then Paramount screws the fans further? Arrrrgghhhhh!
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Date: 2004-09-10 08:23 pm (UTC)Bastards! That's just sick and wrong.
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Date: 2004-09-11 09:51 pm (UTC)He said that? When?
*Goes out to buy the DVD*
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Date: 2004-09-11 09:52 pm (UTC)