From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V3 #11 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Tuesday, January 23 2001 Volume 03 : Number 011 Today's Subjects: ----------------- b/prediction/schedule ["Donald G. Keller" ] Re: b/prediction/schedule [Todd Huff ] Re: b/prediction/schedule [meredith ] b/what faith's been up to [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:33:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: b/prediction/schedule I have a prediction for tomorrow night. The episode will pick up right from where the last one ended: Dawn will come around the corner, confront Buffy and Giles and Joyce, and =demand= to know what's going on, what she is. She's had enough, I think: first the guy outside the magic shop, the crazy guy in the hospital, her own mother (twice), and as we saw again in last week's rerun, Buffy, who in the process roughed her up a little. Don't think she's forgotten any of this; plus, she's smart enough not to be taken in by Buffy's well-intended dissembling. It's past time she knew, and past time everybody else knew, too. Despite the ongoing danger from Glory. I'm also going to take some convincing that this is not simply a rehash of "Helpless"... By the way, next week is reruns again. Trying to get a handle on this schedule thing: the TV season seems to be divided unevenly into three pieces, call them Fall, Winter, and Spring. Fall is from whenever the season begins to Thanksgiving; take a week off and one more episode in December. Winter is a second batch of episodes, scattered semi-randomly across January and February, with an episode in March or April as well. Spring is one more batch of wall-to-wall episodes leading up to the end of the season. The last two seasons have broken 10-7-5 (2nd season was 11-7-4). This season has gone by the same pattern so far: "Into the Woods," the December episode, was the tenth of the season, and "Triangle" two weeks ago was the eleventh (meaning we're exactly halfway through the season now). They have tended to run January episodes back to back, so this one-on-one-off-repeat is unusual, but I'm guessing we'll get the same number (seven) of episodes over the next twice-as-many weeks. Do we feel this season is a little down again, just as it was this time last year? I do. "Fool for Love" was an excellent episode (Spike rules!), and having just re-watched "The Real Me" again, I give that one high marks as well (Harmony has minions!). But the rest have been, by the high standards of the show, routine and a little below. Dawn is an excellent addition, the use of Spike has been terrific, Giles owning the magic shop is a good change, Tara and Anya being more part of the group works well... ...but it still all feels like setup; if they have fireworks to set off, they still haven't lit them. But consider that at this point in the 2nd season, we'd just seen "Ted"; "Surprise"/"Innocence" were still to come. This is the moment in the 3rd season after "Gingerbread" and before "Helpless." Last season was after "Doomed," with "A New Man" (not a crucial arc episode) next, and the all-hell-breaks-loose of "The I in Team"/"Goodbye Iowa" about to happen. So timing is still as usual. Let the hope continue. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:57:10 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Huff Subject: Re: b/prediction/schedule - --- "Donald G. Keller" wrote: > I have a prediction for tomorrow night. The episode > will pick up right > from where the last one ended: Dawn will come > around the corner, confront > Buffy and Giles and Joyce, and =demand= to know > what's going on, what she > is. > I think it's likely you're right. So few other shows pick up like that but Joss has done it before to good effect. Sarah Michelle Gellar has stated publicly that if the show leaves the WB, she's leaving as well. Link below. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/eo/20010122/en/gellar_i_m_gone_if_quot_buffy_quot_leaves_wb_1.html I'm going to be out of touch for at least a week, so enjoy without me. Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:07:48 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: b/prediction/schedule Hi! Don commented: >Trying to get a handle on this schedule thing: the TV season seems to be >divided unevenly into three pieces, call them Fall, Winter, and Spring. Yes: it's called November Sweeps, February Sweeps, and May Sweeps. That's when the networks put on all of their (relatively) good programming so they can maximize ratings and thus maximize advertising rates. It's getting so that those are the only three months of the year you can find anything worthwhile on. It's worse than PBS on its fundraising schedule. >Do we feel this season is a little down again, just as it was this time >last year? I do. I do too. >...but it still all feels like setup; if they have fireworks to set off, >they still haven't lit them. Exactly. Stop dropping hints in the media of what cool things are coming ... just show us, already!!! Todd reported: >Sarah Michelle Gellar has stated publicly that if the >show leaves the WB, she's leaving as well. Let's all devoutly hope this show doesn't end up killed by network greed. What difference does it make what network it's on? I don't get it. Though I do have to admire SMG for sticking to her guns. As the article said, moving networks would probably mean a nice increase in her salary, but she doesn't seem to be too concerned about giving that up. [Ugh. I just saw a preview for _Hannibal_, and already chills are marching up and down my spine. I have a feeling the movie is going to KILL me.] +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:43:34 -0500 From: meredith Subject: b/what faith's been up to Hi! In case anyone is interested, I just did a check up on what Eliza Dushku's got cooking nowadays. She's listed as in three movies coming out this year: _City By The Sea_ (Also starring Robert DeNiro and Frances McDormand - looks like a period piece set in the 1950's) _The New Guy_ (Not much info on this, but it looks like another brainless summer movie aimed at the high school crowd) _Soul Survivors_ (Also starring Casey Affleck and Wes Bentley - listed as "thriller") Yes, I know there are several other, more useful things I could be doing with my time. +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V3 #11 ****************************