Odds and Ends...
Aug. 9th, 2004 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat[The internet ate my first three attempts at this, trying again.]
Got my paycheck. YAY! Had to go around robin hood’s barn to get it though. (This is a Granny quote, she has a huge number of them, another is : “You never can tell Little Johnny may have died and then fell in the well”. They seem to be ingrained in my memory banks and I have to catch myself from saying them aloud at times.) Apparently the temp service doesn’t send my paycheck in the mail – I have to go to their office once a week and pick it up. Not so bad, except that they close at 5pm or 5:30pm. Oh well, good news is they do have an office closer to where I work. About 6 blocks down and two avenues over – which will be where I’ll be racing Thurs or Friday once a week.
(Ugh, I miss the days in which I just had to walk down a flight of steps and across two buildings to get my paycheck. One of the many pitfalls of being a temp.)
Also met new landlord who seems very nice and lives here and told me I could hang in the backyard while he's gone if I want to. (Don't the backyard as he admitted has problems, heh.)
Very laid-back, nice, young guy. This could work. Playing by ear.
For the Angel fans on my Flist, some more Whedon quotes from SFX magazine.
[Sorry pony, nothing on the PTB, I looked, but right there with you on that one. Personally, I see a lot of mixed messages in the series. Clarity, thy name ain’t Mutant Enemy.]
“Season One was definitely figuring out what the heck the show was. Actually, all of the seasons have been about that, but season one we really came in with a mission statement of what we referred to as, ‘Touched By An Equalizer’. We used a lot of guest stars and a lot of standalone episodes, but really figured out about halfway through the season that we couldn’t care less about those things. We were more interested in the characters- when Angel (temporarily) turned into Angelus (‘Eternity’) and Faith turned up in the next episode (‘Five by Five’), those were the best shows of the season and they were the first ones that absolutely concentrated only on our characters.
We realized that that was the paradigm: the show would be coming from emotion, and from the evolution of the characters that we had not been getting from the monster of the week. That discovery about the show also led to the decision that we had to increase our ensemble; this was not going to be a standalone show with only three characters…”
Weird, he leaves out Sonmabulist and To Shanshue In LA.
“In Season 2, again we sort of figured that our strengths lay with the people we knew, so we started to have more fun with Lindsey and Darla.”
(They also kept matching the moods of Angel episodes with Buffy episodes, thematically. If they had a depressing Buffy, they’d have an uplifting Angel and vice versa).
“That season the big thing was when our hero turns villain. That season, because we had J and because we had Lindsey and Darla, we were feeling like, ‘This is what the show is.’ We still had an element of uncertainty about tone and where we were going, and we also had our guest stars drop out – Julie [Benz] and Christian [Kane]. Here we were with four more episodes and the two people who had driven the entire season, were gone. So we looked at each other and scratched our heads. I said, ‘Can we just be ridiculous? Are we allowed to do that?’ So we decided to go and make a real fantasy comedy…”
(Interesting. The pitfalls of writing a tv show in a nutshell. And no longer just a rumor.)
“Seasons three and four, more than anything else, represented ANGEL at its most turgid, and therefore was the most beloved by me. Dark and strange and fabulous. At that point we had five players, which were enough for an ensemble and stories that are created from within, and conflicts and romance and all of that stuff. But we felt, ‘Great, that’s our season.’ But it wasn’t enough. We loved it, but we hadn’t finished it yet.”
“A dirty joke about Darla resulted in the biggest plot twist of them all: that following Angel and Darla’s love-making in season two’s “Epiphany”, she (impossibly) ended up pregnant with Angel’s child. My response to the joke, was Oh my God, yes! She’s pregnant! And it literally came from twelve year-old humor. Of course, she’s pregnant and then we did the math and we realized that she’d be a couple of months away from giving birth based on when she and Angel had had sex in the second season. We had our third mapped out: fatherhood, the idea of what it meant and what it meant to Darla.”
“One of the most beautiful things we’ve done was Darla’s speech about how, because she has a baby with a soul, she loves it, and once it’s out of her, she knows she won’t be able to feel that again, and she can’t stand it. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen on the show; and when she stakes herself to save the child, it’s a beautiful sacrifice.”
(Would have to agree with him there – one of my favorite episodes of Angel is Lullaby and the Darla/Angel arc.)
“On Season four of Angel, we came in swinging because we already had all of this unresolved exciting stuff. So I was, like, ‘So that’s why people always do cliffhangers. It makes everything much easier.’ As a result, we just went to the mattresses. It was as dark and twisted as you could imagine, and everything about it just excited me.”
Heh, a writer after my own heart. Have to say, my favorite seasons remain Season 4 and 5. With the first half of Season 3 up to Lullaby, and the Second half from Loyalty to the end (skipping Double or Nothing) being a close third. I felt they were struggling to find a voice in the first two sentences with one too many forgettable stand-a-lone monsters of the week. Then they found it with the latter half. Course to be fair, Season 2, problems arose they had no control over, and upon recent rewatching – I’ve found Pylea actually enjoyable.
These quotes are all from SFX Magazine, UK, July 2004. #119. “Look Back in Angel”, by Ed Gross interviewing Joss Whedon.pp. 58-64
Oh SFX gave Not Fade Away five stars.
Got my paycheck. YAY! Had to go around robin hood’s barn to get it though. (This is a Granny quote, she has a huge number of them, another is : “You never can tell Little Johnny may have died and then fell in the well”. They seem to be ingrained in my memory banks and I have to catch myself from saying them aloud at times.) Apparently the temp service doesn’t send my paycheck in the mail – I have to go to their office once a week and pick it up. Not so bad, except that they close at 5pm or 5:30pm. Oh well, good news is they do have an office closer to where I work. About 6 blocks down and two avenues over – which will be where I’ll be racing Thurs or Friday once a week.
(Ugh, I miss the days in which I just had to walk down a flight of steps and across two buildings to get my paycheck. One of the many pitfalls of being a temp.)
Also met new landlord who seems very nice and lives here and told me I could hang in the backyard while he's gone if I want to. (Don't the backyard as he admitted has problems, heh.)
Very laid-back, nice, young guy. This could work. Playing by ear.
For the Angel fans on my Flist, some more Whedon quotes from SFX magazine.
[Sorry pony, nothing on the PTB, I looked, but right there with you on that one. Personally, I see a lot of mixed messages in the series. Clarity, thy name ain’t Mutant Enemy.]
“Season One was definitely figuring out what the heck the show was. Actually, all of the seasons have been about that, but season one we really came in with a mission statement of what we referred to as, ‘Touched By An Equalizer’. We used a lot of guest stars and a lot of standalone episodes, but really figured out about halfway through the season that we couldn’t care less about those things. We were more interested in the characters- when Angel (temporarily) turned into Angelus (‘Eternity’) and Faith turned up in the next episode (‘Five by Five’), those were the best shows of the season and they were the first ones that absolutely concentrated only on our characters.
We realized that that was the paradigm: the show would be coming from emotion, and from the evolution of the characters that we had not been getting from the monster of the week. That discovery about the show also led to the decision that we had to increase our ensemble; this was not going to be a standalone show with only three characters…”
Weird, he leaves out Sonmabulist and To Shanshue In LA.
“In Season 2, again we sort of figured that our strengths lay with the people we knew, so we started to have more fun with Lindsey and Darla.”
(They also kept matching the moods of Angel episodes with Buffy episodes, thematically. If they had a depressing Buffy, they’d have an uplifting Angel and vice versa).
“That season the big thing was when our hero turns villain. That season, because we had J and because we had Lindsey and Darla, we were feeling like, ‘This is what the show is.’ We still had an element of uncertainty about tone and where we were going, and we also had our guest stars drop out – Julie [Benz] and Christian [Kane]. Here we were with four more episodes and the two people who had driven the entire season, were gone. So we looked at each other and scratched our heads. I said, ‘Can we just be ridiculous? Are we allowed to do that?’ So we decided to go and make a real fantasy comedy…”
(Interesting. The pitfalls of writing a tv show in a nutshell. And no longer just a rumor.)
“Seasons three and four, more than anything else, represented ANGEL at its most turgid, and therefore was the most beloved by me. Dark and strange and fabulous. At that point we had five players, which were enough for an ensemble and stories that are created from within, and conflicts and romance and all of that stuff. But we felt, ‘Great, that’s our season.’ But it wasn’t enough. We loved it, but we hadn’t finished it yet.”
“A dirty joke about Darla resulted in the biggest plot twist of them all: that following Angel and Darla’s love-making in season two’s “Epiphany”, she (impossibly) ended up pregnant with Angel’s child. My response to the joke, was Oh my God, yes! She’s pregnant! And it literally came from twelve year-old humor. Of course, she’s pregnant and then we did the math and we realized that she’d be a couple of months away from giving birth based on when she and Angel had had sex in the second season. We had our third mapped out: fatherhood, the idea of what it meant and what it meant to Darla.”
“One of the most beautiful things we’ve done was Darla’s speech about how, because she has a baby with a soul, she loves it, and once it’s out of her, she knows she won’t be able to feel that again, and she can’t stand it. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen on the show; and when she stakes herself to save the child, it’s a beautiful sacrifice.”
(Would have to agree with him there – one of my favorite episodes of Angel is Lullaby and the Darla/Angel arc.)
“On Season four of Angel, we came in swinging because we already had all of this unresolved exciting stuff. So I was, like, ‘So that’s why people always do cliffhangers. It makes everything much easier.’ As a result, we just went to the mattresses. It was as dark and twisted as you could imagine, and everything about it just excited me.”
Heh, a writer after my own heart. Have to say, my favorite seasons remain Season 4 and 5. With the first half of Season 3 up to Lullaby, and the Second half from Loyalty to the end (skipping Double or Nothing) being a close third. I felt they were struggling to find a voice in the first two sentences with one too many forgettable stand-a-lone monsters of the week. Then they found it with the latter half. Course to be fair, Season 2, problems arose they had no control over, and upon recent rewatching – I’ve found Pylea actually enjoyable.
These quotes are all from SFX Magazine, UK, July 2004. #119. “Look Back in Angel”, by Ed Gross interviewing Joss Whedon.pp. 58-64
Oh SFX gave Not Fade Away five stars.
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Date: 2004-08-10 06:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-10 04:17 pm (UTC)The wonders of full time = direct deposit.
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Date: 2004-08-10 06:39 am (UTC)Absolutely one of AtS finest moments, IMO.
Yay! for the paycheck and hoping they keep coming.