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| sioux |
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| mo - I like Shane on the L Word. I really found her sexy, especially when she would occasionally let herself be vulnerable. |
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| zzzzzzzzzz..... |
| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:54 pm |
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Marantz,
I have learned hat women just have alot more stuff going on inside their heads that we cannot relate to. On the other hand they cannot believe how simple we are. It is like this...you cna't be angry at a tiger if it eats you because that is the nature of a tiger. Women are just like that. They care about everything.......Not that there is anything wrong with that....  |
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| Melody |
| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:17 pm |
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Watched my very first ep of Rescue Me this week and I'm hooked. I heart Denis Leary. Must find DVDs of last season immediately.
Marc, you're gonna love The Wire. Thinking about that first season makes we wanna see it all over again. I bet HBO is planning to rerun all seasons before the next one airs, a la Sopranos.
Inla, great to see you again! Fabulous insight on SFU, as usual. I too watched the new season trailer several times, analyzing what it could mean. Notice Nate and Brenda are in different vehicles. Claire is alone in hers, smiling. David and Keith are together, taking turns driving. Ruth and George are together. So who will die? I wonder. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:31 pm |
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Quote: I have learned hat women just have alot more stuff going on inside their heads....
That's interesting zzzzzzzz. I guess that's why they wear hats, to keep all that stuff from getting out.  |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:37 am |
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Updated "Six Feet Under" Spoilage
Had dinner with the inside source, who clarified a couple of things.
The unexpected principal death is not the mid-season pivot; occurs in Episode 10 of a 12 episode season, not an opening-of-episode death but an in-plot one, and thus leads directly to the final outcome. Mid-season pivot point(s) are interlocking occurrences, not specific demises.
We have seen all we will see of the Kimmels and Carol the Producer Maniac (on Nate and Lisa's wedding video). Drat.
Inside source let slip something about "George pushes the button" and "nuclear proliferation" (and I'm happy to announce that it was pronounced correctly), but the wicked twinkle in his eye made me ask if that was a leg-pull, and he didn't demur.
God, I hope Mr. Ball doesn't end with Armageddon. Of course, I also hope we don't end with Armageddon. What a whirrled.
Rachel Griffiths had her second kid last week. A girl. Kewl.
End Of Updated "SFU" Spoilage, Sort Of
billy: Chur welcome. No Toby return. Also, no Robbie the Plan-driven floral arranger. All other returns/non-returns are as previously indicated.
melody: Thankee kindly, nice to be back.
Now, after watching all of Season One and half of Season Two this week, after devouring Season Three lazt week (the 6FU jones knows no intervention, and the Season Four DVD can't come out soon enough), I'm doubling back. It could be any of 'em, and the thing has, after all, built upon Nate Fisher's fear of, well, death.
Don't get me started on the impending departure of
Queer As Folk, which at least outright announced that one of their principals would die this last season. I'm betting Brian (or Ted, to go back to the British arc they abandoned), but there it's anyone's guess. (It better not be Sunshine, though). Am loving La Gless this year, though -- very funny/touching in the Debbie Does Retirement episode.
I should just dye all my clothes black now.It's a good thing I don't take this seriously. I'd never sleep. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:16 am |
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| Do I feel people should just get on with life? Generally, yes, but that said I'm sort of with Marilyn on this one. You feel what you feel and people saying you'll get over it or that it is no big deal is not usually very helpful. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:22 am |
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Quote: You feel what you feel and people saying you'll get over it or that it is no big deal is not usually very helpful.
wise words. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:09 am |
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| I'm still nowhere near sure why, but this week's 6FU has left me in tears for longer than any other episode before. The sadness is starting to permeate and not let go. Bravo to every single actor on the show. I have but one wish for the season's end and that is that Billy not freak out and kill Claire. It seems ripe, though, I mean, Ruth is so over her daughter and what would be the worst thing to happen to her, being angry at her daughter and then be the Mother of a murdered child. Please don't let that happen. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:23 am |
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| inla -- if i'm right, please IM me. No, don't. Please, do. No, I can't know. Well, huh? AAAArrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh! |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:36 pm |
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ehle Check your inbox.
I was also in tears last night, and not just because of the ever-escalating Claire/Ruth rift. The Nate/Brenda scene at the end, with Maya, dissolved me, as did David and Keith and the kid(s). As did, for that matter, George and Claire bonding only to have Ruth go Retro-Ruthey.
Look Like "6FU" Spoilage But Really Just Observations
It certainly IS starting to look like Claire will be bitin' it in Episode 10. Maybe she's the body in the funeral home van that police-uniformed Keith is standing sadly in front of as David drives past, at the close of the launch trailer. But the signals seem to be less that Billy kills her than she tries to keep him from killing himself, and it backfires. Or maybe, with the impending reappearance of Russell, something totally unforseen happens in THAT direction.
Then again, if Ruth's plan to Park LaBrea-tize George, then cut him loose, doesn't work right, and if George (poor George; has James Cromwell ever been better? Magnificent) never confesses to her, or SOMEONE, his matriarchal-suicide secret, it might not be CLAIRE that gets offed by a lunatic when Mr. Sibley realizes he's being farmed out, if only accidentally. The launch trailer shows George trying to open the car door while they're driving...What if Ruth tries to stop him and crashes the car? Oh, anything can happen. "It's a Ball World, after all."
Plus, there's this: All of Ruth's ex-men (as opposed to X-Men) will return this season, and source did not specifiy whether it was in dribs or drabs or all at once (the latter indicating a FUNERAL, no?). Well, if it's Ruth, at least she'll be reunited with Nathanial.
Then again, it all started with Nate. Then again, again, just because David survived his Emmy-worthy, heartstopping brush with death, doesn't mean he's off the hook.
Oh, hell, it could be any one of 'em, though I think it kind of MUST be a Fisher.
Am thrilled to see Aunt Sarah's pending return, even if blonde-ified, with Bettina, even with Barbara Bush hair. That past seasonal chicks are coming home to roost seems evident from the prevyoo's of the evident opening death next week...Fiona Kleinschmidt, that well-known painter who deflowered Nate in Topanga.
Am adoring Lisa Banes, Rosalind Chao and I forget the third actress as Ruth's knitting circle. I keep expecting them to suddenly break out into "Double double, toil and trouble," or sump'n.
Trivia sidebar: We all know that Mary the Scam-Artist Surrogate is the new Jan Brady. Did we know that Olivier, the artistic A-hole, is Mr. Alan Ball? Well, he is. Fascinating...
Am really missing Rainn Wilson's Arthur. I always kind of figured him to be a possible nutbar development toward the ending of the show (I do think we're gonna find out he was abused as a kid, hence the comment in Season 3 about how sex "doesn't have to hurt."
I'm a little over Rico's jerkery, but then, I remember, that when MY parents split my father was even jerkier, so that's all right. That Freddy Rodriguez is so, so good.
In fact, imohsohumbleo, all of 'em are on the fast track to TV legend status, and not just the feminine trinity of God (Frances Conroy), Godlette (Lauren Ambrose) and Jesusa (Rachel Griffiths, whose arc over the long view of the show is, really, nothing short of astonishing). Justina Machado is making mincemeat of Vanessa's growing empowerment -- her final scene with Rico in the embalming room was electrifying. Am also loving Tina Holmes as George's daughter -- there's trouble brewing there, with she and Nate, I can just taste it.
Oh, and the dead diabetic's family, with the "bacon-wrapped ham rolls." I plotzed, and then re-plotzed, and then wondered why they all hadn't already expired from clogged arteries.
Okay, done rambling now.
EOLL"^FU"SBRJO
Am starting to dig The Comeback, if only because, at some levels, it's hardly satirical. The business with the puppy poop in the hair last week was one of those screaming/cringeing/hilarious moments the like of which I haven't experienced since the glory days of South Park, |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:03 pm |
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InLa wrote:
Quote: The business with the puppy poop in the hair last week was one of those screaming/cringeing/hilarious moments the like of which I haven't experienced since the glory days of South Park,
And I thought I was easy!? |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:10 pm |
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| marj I know, I know, it's a tic, but that puppy was just so doggoned kewt, and La Kudrow's reactions sent me running around the living room going "EUUUGGHHH!!!" and laughing at the same time. It's a miracle I didn't hyperventilate. The Furrbawl was peculiarly unpurrrturbed. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:13 pm |
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Corrective Dylexsic Dept.
Fiona Kleinschmidt is/was famed for her ceramics more than her painting.
cringing. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:19 pm |
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Ya know? I never saw the Launch Trailer and so I went to hbo.com and watched it. There may be some spoiler's going on, especially with the last shot. Claire's going down an open road in a convertible smiling. Going into the light perhaps? Plus, there's the shot of someone (Ruth or David) looking over to the side of the road and there is Claire's green hearse that looks like it was wrecked. Right after that spotting is the white van (which looked like the one David was driving in the horrifying abduction episode) with Keith in cop uniform (does he get his gig back as a cop???). Plus, whenever we see Claire up to the white van shot, the top is up on the Mustang. Death as a form of freedom? All I know is, that after a disappointing first episode, thing's just seemed off to me, this show is just as good or better than it ever has been.
Quote: Did we know that Olivier, the artistic A-hole, is Mr. Alan Ball? Well, he is. Fascinating...
I had no idea that Olivier was Alan Ball, he looks nothing like the Ball I've seen in interviews. Berry Interestink. Who is Peter Macdissi, then??
TV legend status is so apropos. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:23 pm |
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| ehle Peter M. is not Mr. Alan Ball as in BEING Alan Ball. He is Mr. Alan Ball as in being Alan Ball's life partner, tea-hee. |
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