On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:37:45PM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote:
You may all get your rocks ready for this one, I expect a stoning from
the zealots. (and Lusercop because he can't resist a good stoning)
:-) I don't tend to reply to buffy threads, not particularly agreeing with
the apparent
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Twin Peaks winds me up. I remember being in school when it was on, and the
kind of people who were into it suffered from two other co-morbidities:
1. They liked Marillion
They liked Twin Peaks and Marillion? They clearly are people of
Curiously, the original article
(http://www.reason.com/0308/cr.vp.why.shtml) explains some of why I'm
uneasy about buffy: the extent to which it carries Standardized American
Memes (good and bad). American tolerance/demand for Moral Closure seems
to be very high, cf. all those films where the
Tim Sweetman wrote:
be about fifteen different recommendations, two of which would involve
Befunge. By the same toucan, best TV series is not a sensible thing to
Befunge the Vampire Slayer. That's the best TV series. Ever.
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T'was written...
WTF do you mean, best TV series ever?
Busty was great but what about the Avengers???
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:29:12AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Twin Peaks winds me up. I remember being in school when it was on, and the
kind of people who were into it suffered from two other co-morbidities:
1. They liked Marillion
On 3 Sep 2003 at 17:28, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Twin Peaks winds me up. I remember being in school when it was on, and the
kind of people who were into it suffered from two other co-morbidities:
1. They liked Marillion
2. They tried to understand R.E.M. lyrics
I never watched it but I
Nigel Rantor wrote:
Hopefully Lynch hasn't completely given away the
idea of coming back to TV...
And Wild Palms was forgettable. Well, I saw it and now it is forgotten.
I've seen it. I some point I was looking at the original comic books
(never found them). It's true that the first
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
I've seen it. I some point I was looking at the original comic books
(never found them). It's true that the first episodes have some lynchean
colour, (not mentioning the presence of Robert Loggia), but Lynch didn't
participate in them, did he ?
Before I saw it I just
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:55:14PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
Frankly, I think comparing those shows to buffy is misguided. It's sort
of like trying to compare 8 1/2 to the Philadelphia Story. Ok, maybe
not quite *that* extreme.
well, i'd prefer to watch Hepburn Grant in _Bringing Up
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:44:02PM +0100, Phil Lanch wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:55:14PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
Frankly, I think comparing those shows to buffy is misguided. It's sort
of like trying to compare 8 1/2 to the Philadelphia Story. Ok, maybe
not quite *that*
http://www.reason.com/0308/cr.vp.why.shtml
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On 3 Sep 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
http://www.reason.com/0308/cr.vp.why.shtml
Sorry for me this The mere existence of Buffy proves the declinists wrong
about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex
and evolving characters turns the whole article into shite.
At 08:38 -0700 9/3/03, Dave Cross wrote:
Still - it was the best TV ever made ;)
You jest surely. Have you never seen The Prisoner or Twin
Peaks?
Ah, the ignorance of youth... ;-)
Liz
Dave Cross wrote:
From: Jason Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 9/3/03 2:51:26 PM
[ BtVS ]
Still - it was the best TV ever made ;)
You jest surely. Have you never seen The Prisoner or Twin
Peaks?
Have you seen the last episode of The Prisoner and if so would you
also consider that to be the
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
Still - it was the best TV ever made ;)
You jest surely. Have you never seen The Prisoner or Twin
Peaks?
Ah, the ignorance of youth... ;-)
I am not that young and I watched both The Prisoner and Twin Peaks.
Neither is as good in my
On 03/09/2003 at 17:16 +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Indeed BtVS is, at a rarely-precedented level, the work of one man.
It's clear, when watching interviews of the scenarists or other members
of the team, that Whedon had control over every aspect of the show. I
know no other example of this
Rafael == Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rafael Indeed BtVS is, at a rarely-precedented level, the work of one man.
Rafael It's clear, when watching interviews of the scenarists or other members
Rafael of the team, that Whedon had control over every aspect of the show. I
Rafael
Paul Mison wrote:
Babylon 5 is an obvious counter-example,
First time I encounter this title. I think it was never
broadcast in France, at least not on a public channel. Or is
it ancient ?
Dave Cross wrote:
You jest surely. Have you never seen The Prisoner or Twin
Peaks?
While Twin Peaks was pretty good, (and I enjoyed the companion movie as
well), I don't think it has the same level of achievement and
homogeneity than Buffy and the Prisoner. It's more like a testbed for
Lynch's
At 16:47 +0100 9/3/03, Steve Mynott wrote:
Dave Cross wrote:
Have you seen the last episode of The Prisoner and if so would you
also consider that to be the best TV ever made?
Or maybe some of the worse...
A think a lot has been said and written about the last episode of
The Prisoner. I'm
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Paul Mison wrote:
Babylon 5 is an obvious counter-example,
First time I encounter this title. I think it was never
broadcast in France, at least not on a public channel. Or is
it ancient ?
It was on Canal + a few years ago. I don't think it
Still - it was the best TV ever made ;)
You jest surely. Have you never seen The Prisoner or Twin
Peaks?
Ah, the ignorance of youth... ;-)
I am not that young and I watched both The Prisoner and Twin Peaks.
Neither is as good in my opinion.
Twin Peaks winds me up. I remember
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Dave Cross wrote:
You jest surely. Have you never seen The Prisoner or Twin
Peaks?
While Twin Peaks was pretty good, (and I enjoyed the companion movie as
well), I don't think it has the same level of achievement and
homogeneity than Buffy and the Prisoner. It's more
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:55:14PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:28:34PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Anyway if we are ruling out comedies, then Northern Exposure was the best
TV series ever made. Or Dr Who minus all the crap ones.
What? Crap DW?? Never!
Timelash.
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:28:34PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Still - it was the best TV ever made ;)
You jest surely. Have you never seen The Prisoner or Twin
Peaks?
Ah, the ignorance of youth... ;-)
I am not that young and I watched both The Prisoner and Twin
Nigel == Nigel Rantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nigel Buffy the TV series is a far too pale imitation of the movie to ever
Nigel really make me watch it. Basically it just pisses me off. The plots
Nigel and characters are, quite frankly, a bag of shite. I figure that since
Nigel any Buffy
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:16:58PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
It's clear, when watching interviews of the scenarists or other members
of the team, that Whedon had control over every aspect of the show. I
know no other example of this on TV, except McGoohan and the Prisoner.
David E.
David H. Adler wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:37:45PM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote:
Buffy the TV series is a far too pale imitation of the movie to ever
really make me watch it.
You realize, of course, that the movie was completely changed from its
original concept and that the tv series is much
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:47:34PM +0100, Steve Mynott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Dave Cross wrote:
From: Jason Clifford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 9/3/03 2:51:26 PM
[ BtVS ]
Still - it was the best TV ever made ;)
You jest surely. Have you never seen The Prisoner or Twin
Peaks?
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:58:18PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:55:14PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:28:34PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Anyway if we are ruling out comedies, then Northern Exposure was the best
TV series ever
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:29:26PM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote:
David H. Adler wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:37:45PM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote:
Buffy the TV series is a far too pale imitation of the movie to ever
really make me watch it.
You realize, of course, that the movie was
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
While Twin Peaks was pretty good, (and I enjoyed the companion movie as
well), I don't think it has the same level of achievement and
homogeneity than Buffy and the Prisoner. It's more like a testbed for
Lynch's next movies. Hopefully Lynch hasn't completely given away
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