Haven't you killed me enough for one day?

Mal ,'War Stories'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2005 11:05:01 am PDT #6750 of 10002
brillig

How lucky am I to live in this blessed age?

It makes watching reruns of the original Dragnet lots of fun. "Come on, Sgt. Friday, just hug him already!"


§ ita § - Aug 09, 2005 11:05:09 am PDT #6751 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If, however, I had a student that tried to use the text to prove that Shakespeare was a Scientologist

See, that's about intent, and my line excludes that. I'm comfortable with discussing the text as a tract that supports Scientology -- but to say that Shakespeare was one gets into what he may really have been feeling/meant.


Scrappy - Aug 09, 2005 11:05:09 am PDT #6752 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

What about I Spy?


Frankenbuddha - Aug 09, 2005 11:06:17 am PDT #6753 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

It makes watching reruns of the original Dragnet lots of fun. "Come on, Sgt. Friday, just hug him already!"

"Just the facts, ma'am."

"But the subtext is smacking me in the face!"


Kat - Aug 09, 2005 11:07:19 am PDT #6754 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

If, however, I had a student that tried to use the text to prove that Shakespeare was a Scientologist, I would try to talk them out of interpreting the text that way. Because it may be supportable, but given the arrow of time, it's not a valid interpretation.

But didn't Xenu blow up the volcanoes 70 million years ago! Shakespeare so could have been a scientologist! now I'm pulling your leg.

I'm kinda now intrigued about the Radar piece, "The Passion of Tom Cruise."


Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2005 11:08:01 am PDT #6755 of 10002
brillig

"But the subtext is smacking me in the face!"

"If there is any subtext, ma'am, the recap at the end will tell you."


Frankenbuddha - Aug 09, 2005 11:08:12 am PDT #6756 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

What about I Spy?

Oooh, good one to pull out. I don't think U.N.C.L.E. counts as I never got the feeling that Illya and Napoleon were pals. That may just be my unfamiliarity with the show, though.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 09, 2005 11:09:06 am PDT #6757 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

"If there is any subtext, ma'am, the recap at the end will tell you."

"The names have been changed to protect the slashed."


§ ita § - Aug 09, 2005 11:09:09 am PDT #6758 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ha! I just went to IMDB to find out dates of the movies/TV shows just mentioned, and for reasons that are no doubt very specialcoincidental, a search for "Starsky & Hutch" also brings up "The Real Story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1993) (V)".

I never felt the slash in I Spy, and I don't remember enough about Butch and Sundance to have an opinion.


sumi - Aug 09, 2005 11:09:59 am PDT #6759 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

This just sucks. Christopher Reeves' widow has lung cancer.