Libkitty, They don't even bother with a handwave. It's just... this is what's happening, go with it. And they do. And I was at home before I realized they'd never explained it.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
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.
Consuela - Jun 17, 2006 3:25:38 pm PDT #2555 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Melpomene - Jun 17, 2006 4:27:42 pm PDT #2556 of 10002
Ever fired your gun in the air and yelled, 'Aaaaaaah?'
Jesse - Jun 17, 2006 5:34:07 pm PDT #2557 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, now I wish I had the A/C in. Bleh.
Strega - Jun 17, 2006 6:08:58 pm PDT #2558 of 10002
Asking for alliteration assistance: what's a word for parentage that starts with S?
erikaj - Jun 17, 2006 6:10:21 pm PDT #2559 of 10002
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
"strain" "siring"? not quite it, are they?
msbelle - Jun 17, 2006 6:11:37 pm PDT #2560 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
source, SURPRISE!, stork
Jesse - Jun 17, 2006 6:14:00 pm PDT #2561 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Spawn?
I guess that's the opposite.
Strega - Jun 17, 2006 6:16:07 pm PDT #2562 of 10002
Hee. "Surprise!" Strain almost works, but not quite.
This may or may not help, and I guess I should have posted in Boxed Set, but for context: "Scorpius's Scarran/Sebacean _____"
Maybe there's a ps-- word.
Edited because I can't spell any of these damn made-up alien races.
Tom Scola - Jun 17, 2006 6:18:12 pm PDT #2563 of 10002
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.
Sire.
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2006 6:21:22 pm PDT #2564 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.