From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V3 #136 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Sunday, September 9 2001 Volume 03 : Number 136 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: o/Re: headsups [GHighPine@aol.com] Re: o/Re: headsups [meredith ] Re: o/Re: headsups [GHighPine@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 20:38:42 EDT From: GHighPine@aol.com Subject: Re: o/Re: headsups In a message dated 9/4/01 5:41:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bernip@ix.netcom.com writes: << > For those of you who paid attention to my rant about the =Dark Angel= > finale, it appears that Fox is going to rerun it this Friday >> Well, I didn't remember your rant. In fact, I didn't even remember it was being rerun. I tuned into DA by chance last night, then at a certain point something twitched in my mind and I thought, "Wasn't Donald talking about an Owl Creek Bridge thing sometime back? Hm, wasn't he talking about similarities between the Buffy and DA finales too?" Similarities which are awfully darn striking, down to the fact that their respective friends now think the main character is dead. The emotional setup for the Buffy events were so much more powerful, and yet for me the DA finale had much more emotional impact, because the lack of thought put into the =plot= (as opposed to the emoptional trajectory) blunted the emotional impact of Buffy to me, and at least the =plot= made sense in DA. If not for the coincidental timing, one set of fans or the other would surely be yelling ripoff. (This happens to give me an excuse for a movie recommendation. Allow me to recommend THE OTHERS. I segue into this because its ending also has a degree of similarity with that of another recent film - -- again simply coincidental, given how much prep time goes into movies --- but if you guess the twist, as my companion and I did halfway through, it does not at all spoil the movie. Well, it does lessen the suspense somewhat, but it heightens one's appreciation of the extremely well-written script, in which every element and line turns out to have a meaning. And if you've seen the tv ad -- "You're mad, I =am= your daughter" -- the revelation at the end of what's =really= going on in that scene is a mini-stunner IMO.) Oh, in DA wasn't the character with wireframe glasses in a wheelchair before? I didn't see the wheelchair, but I didn't see him walking, but there he was sitting on the Space Needle there at the end, a place I don't think is wheelchair accessible and surely would have a risk of wheelchair rolloffs, so what happened, he got better? And forgive me for not remembering, it didn't stick in my brain since I hadn't seen the ep, but what was your DA finale rant, in a nutshell? Gayle ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 22:22:45 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: o/Re: headsups Hi, > Oh, in DA wasn't the character with wireframe glasses in a wheelchair >before? I didn't see the wheelchair, but I didn't see him walking, but there >he was sitting on the Space Needle there at the end, a place I don't think is >wheelchair accessible and surely would have a risk of wheelchair rolloffs, so >what happened, he got better? Logan was in a wheelchair, and he still needs to be. He was able to build robotic braces for his legs which allow him to walk around. At the beginning of the finale episode he showed them off to Max and she brought him up to the top of the Space Needle, something she said she'd been wanting to do for a long time. ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 00:52:30 EDT From: GHighPine@aol.com Subject: Re: o/Re: headsups In a message dated 9/8/01 7:26:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, meth@smoe.org writes: << At the beginning of the finale episode he showed them off to Max and she brought him up to the top of the Space Needle, something she said she'd been wanting to do for a long time. >> Thanks. I missed the first ten minutes or so. Gayle ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V3 #136 *****************************