Nothin'. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.

Mal ,'The Train Job'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

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


msbelle - Sep 01, 2010 9:51:23 am PDT #21603 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

AT work people keep throwing up road blocks that keep me from getting anything done. So I finally hook-ed my extrernal hard drive and have been doing work in my iTunes over lunch. YAY!

And my first consultant paycheck came in and I was able to make an additional payment to my big Credit Card bill this month. YAY!

didn't manage any of the de-cluttering, oh well.


Strega - Sep 01, 2010 9:54:56 am PDT #21604 of 30001

In The Shield, were there innocent individual victims? But we weren't supposed to be loving on the bad cops, were we?

That’s the fun of it, there’s a lot of “Ugh, this is the new worst thing they have ever done... Man, I hope they don’t get caught!” There is also a mix of completely selfish awfulness and awful stuff that they think is justified or for the greater good. Which of course is what makes it easier for them to do the utterly selfish stuff.

In the later seasons Forest Whitaker is an IA agent going after the Strike Team. People asked him how it was to play a villain and he was all, “What are you talking about? I’m the GOOD GUY!” Poor thing.


Cass - Sep 01, 2010 9:56:06 am PDT #21605 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

“What are you talking about? I’m the GOOD GUY!”

Mark Sheppard Syndrome.


Jessica - Sep 01, 2010 9:57:16 am PDT #21606 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

In the later seasons Forest Whitaker is an IA agent going after the Strike Team. People asked him how it was to play a villain and he was all, “What are you talking about? I’m the GOOD GUY!”

To be fair, that was also his character's POV.


§ ita § - Sep 01, 2010 9:59:25 am PDT #21607 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Mark Sheppard Syndrome.

Isn't he usually a bad guy, though? Leverage and possibly Warehouse 13 being notable exceptions.


Connie Neil - Sep 01, 2010 10:08:54 am PDT #21608 of 30001
brillig

I couldn't watch "The Shield" because I could never feel sympathy for the "heroes". I was always rooting for them to get caught and to get their self-righteousness kicked in the teeth.


DavidS - Sep 01, 2010 10:15:11 am PDT #21609 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Yikes, cougar shot and killed around the corner from Chez Panisse. That's Berkeley, within a couple blocks of the JCC Emmett used to go to.


Cass - Sep 01, 2010 10:22:23 am PDT #21610 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Isn't he usually a bad guy, though?

Upon reflection, yes. I should have called it Sterling Syndrome because I was really thinking of that character specifically.

He certainly played two very bad people on the Silk Stalking eps I in no way admit to watching on Hulu.


Jessica - Sep 01, 2010 10:24:36 am PDT #21611 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Okay, just got an all-desks email saying that none of our staff works in that Discovery building (it's a big campus), and that they've been evacuated.


Burrell - Sep 01, 2010 10:26:34 am PDT #21612 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Yikes, cougar shot and killed around the corner from Chez Panisse.

Yikes is right! Also? Yummmm... I could so go for a Peets coffee and a visit to the Cheese Board right now.