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No love for Highlander? I was looking for Equilibrium today (never even heard of it til someone mentioned it a week or so ago here) and came across Druids for the first time as well. Guess I won't be going back for it.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ? Haha. I'm missing your point like I miss my alcoholic sister from Oklahoma. I know it's a stretch but stick with me. If players choose to fold the hand they're dealt because it isn't a straight flush then they forfeit the right to whine while the...

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ? I suppose you expect to win every game you play? Do you whine at the banker in Monopoly for not giving you free cash? At your best friend who just bluffed you out of a winning hand? You're right that the point of games is enjoyment. You're wrong though...

You'd think it was something besides a simple pause to guide the actors (for which they'd want to write 'pause', wouldn't they?), but alas in Buffy scripts that's all it is. They never use (pause). (Beat) is the direction of choice. Take a look at any script, you'll find it turns up dozens of...

Lol Henry. If you really just want to break it all down I'll pull out my Derrida and we can get started on some real deconstruction. Otherwise I take arguments over the meaning of castration as equivalent to waving a white flag. The chip has been referred to in this context a dozen times over...

If there are quotes from other episodes that suggest ambiguity or Spike's going after his soul, I would actually really like to see them. I only went back and re-checked the episodes I knew contained the reason for my believing he wanted rid of the chip (as much for myself as to post here; for...

Come now, that analogy doesn't follow. I read it as one unified episode, not a plot arc spanning multiple seasons (the end goals of which aren't all on table at the same time; i.e. at the end of 6 the Buffy writers are certainly still working out Spike's role in 7. Is it so insane to posit...

By crap I mean fine for a movie, but hardly Joyce. Certainly it was enjoyable (I've watched it all the way through since, on DVD--I think Unbreakable was better, though similarly predictable; better because less predicated on a gimmick, if nothing else). I make distinctions between what I like...

I love you. You just gave me the best idea. Dear Dr. Seuss: kindly prepare To meet a raunchy Baudelaire.

You crack me up. The 'misdirection' (like I already said, it isn't misdirection, but if that's the word you want for it have at it) isn't great, therefore I choose to believe it isn't deliberate. Whether it's bad writing accidentally or purposefully, well, I prefer accidentally. The emotion...

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50724 The boomstick is a line of Ash's from Army of Darkness btw. Makes you appreciate Blizzard even more :D .

You can chose to read it as ambiguous, but it is not at all clear that it is :D . Really though, the whole 'intentionally ambiguous' excuse only works when it is done well, which is not the case here. The end of 6 is not an example of ambiguity or simple misdirection, it flat out contradicts...

Happy to see the Mavs die out, just because they shouldn't have been there in the first place (IMO of course). Now that that's over though, I guess I'm rooting for the Nets, since Kidd went to Berkeley. Then again he used to be a Mav so.. hmm.

Hence the problem. Season 6 ended one way, season 7 started in another, completely different one. I don't think it's a case of Spike lying, I think it's a case of the writers screwing up. One more case for the case file of such things.

Umm, yeah, what with The Hero With A Thousand Faces being the model for such things as, oh, Star Wars. Not that I would expect Joe Guy off the street to know this, he just seems relatively well known around here :). Maybe that is only in the general forum though.

Really? Joseph Campbell? I'm almost as impressed as I was a few years ago when I met a girl who happened not to know who Ben Affleck was. I salute you sir :D

Amen brotha. If I want maggots with my cheese I'll go to Italy.

It is, just not to the orthodoxy. It's parallel to a heresy. Hmm.. odd too, that in Gnosticism Christ has a female parallel in Pistis Sophia, for which the Matrix offers up Trinity. There's a really interesting section in one of Campbell's Masks of God books on Satan as Christ in Gnosticism...

Man that was a great image, draping himself over that cross.

If you read the post directly above yours, you find mention of an interview with Whedon, where he says the WB wants Marsters for his appeal, and they are counting on Whedon to work out a way to bring him back. The Shanshu Prophecy is a possibility, but Whedon sounds in the interview as if he'd...