From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V4 #33 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Wednesday, March 6 2002 Volume 04 : Number 033 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: o/maggie walsh on ALIAS [Hilary Hertzoff ] Re: o/maggie walsh on ALIAS [meredith ] Tonight's BUFFY ["Susan Kroupa" ] Re: New members ["Susan Kroupa" ] Re: New members ["Susan Kroupa" ] Re: Tonight's BUFFY [meredith ] Re: Tonight's BUFFY ["Susan Kroupa" ] Re: Tonight's BUFFY [meredith ] Re: Tonight's BUFFY [Robert Stacy ] Re: Tonight's BUFFY ["David S. Bratman" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:37:50 -0500 (EST) From: Hilary Hertzoff Subject: Re: o/maggie walsh on ALIAS On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, meredith wrote: > Hi, > > My favorite new show is ALIAS, ABC's tale of a fetching young double-agent > who is also trying to juggle grad school and living in L.A. with her secret > life working for the CIA within a rogue spy organization called SD-6. I > was checking out spoilers for next week's episode, and noticed Lindsay > Crouse (a.k.a. the late Prof. Maggie Walsh) in the list of guest stars. Address please. I've also become an ALIAS addict. > > If you haven't been following the show all season it's probably not going > to make much sense (especially since a Heap Big "Holy Crap, Batman" > Revelation ended last night's episode), but they are rerunning the series > from the beginning on the Family Channel. I'd recommend it - there is much > kickass factor, but on top of that it is a very well-written show with > mostly fine acting performances all around. You forgot to mention the bizarre Rambaldi plot and the web game. See below for the latter (spoiler warning here) http://pw2.netcom.com/~oakgrove/alias.htm Hilary Hilary L. Hertzoff From here to there, Mamaroneck Public Library a bunny goes where a bunny must. Mamaroneck, NY - Little Bunny on the Move hhertzof@panix.com by Peter McCarty ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 22:00:18 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: o/maggie walsh on ALIAS Hi, Hilary requested: >Address please. I've also become an ALIAS addict. http://sd-6.com. >You forgot to mention the bizarre Rambaldi plot and the web game. > >See below for the latter (spoiler warning here) Wow, I had no idea about the web game! Thanks! And as for the bizarre Rambaldi plot, I couldn't think of where to begin. :} Basically, both SD-6 and the CIA are trying to unravel the mystery of the work of one Milo Rambaldi, an Italian contemporary of DaVinci who was an inventor scarily ahead of his time. His writings indicate that if he had had the materials available to him at the time, he would have invented the cell phone, digital computer and a bunch of other modern-day advances. Indications also are that he was working on something big, that the evil covert agencies of the world all want to get to first. A lot of Sidney Bristow (ALIAS protagonist)'s adventures revolve around getting bits and pieces of Rimbaldi's writings and gadgets he invented for SD-6 before their nemesis organization K-Directorate does, and also getting the information to CIA before SD-6 finds out what she's doing. The plot keeps getting thicker and thicker, and this week a twist was introduced that's downright X-Filian. I can't wait to see where they're going from here. ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ======================================= (: New England Patriots - Super Bowl XXXVI CHAMPIONS :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:31:09 -0800 From: "Susan Kroupa" Subject: Tonight's BUFFY And we thought it was going to be a light episode! I found this one incredibly painful. Sue ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:37:48 -0800 From: "Susan Kroupa" Subject: Re: New members Thanks! I don't know to add a new member. Do I just give him the e-mail address? Sue - ----- Original Message ----- From: meredith To: Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:10 PM Subject: Re: New members > > Where do I find these archived digests and > >manifesto? > > No glyph needed!! It's not talked about very much around here. > > The list archives are at http://www.smoe.org/lists/stillpt/. > > The list manifesto (for lack of a better word) is at > http://www.smoe.org/dgk/list.html. > > > > > ======================================= > Meredith Tarr > New Haven, CT USA > mailto:meth@smoe.org > http://www.smoe.org/meth > ======================================= > Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series > http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html > ======================================= > (: New England Patriots - Super Bowl XXXVI CHAMPIONS :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:43:49 -0800 From: "Susan Kroupa" Subject: Re: New members Nevermind, I figured it out. Thanks! Sue - ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Kroupa To: Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:37 PM Subject: Re: New members > Thanks! I don't know to add a new member. Do I just give him the e-mail > address? > > Sue > ----- Original Message ----- > From: meredith > To: > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:10 PM > Subject: Re: New members > > > > > Where do I find these archived digests and > > >manifesto? > > > > No glyph needed!! It's not talked about very much around here. > > > > The list archives are at http://www.smoe.org/lists/stillpt/. > > > > The list manifesto (for lack of a better word) is at > > http://www.smoe.org/dgk/list.html. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 23:32:17 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Tonight's BUFFY "That's because this dress is radioactive!" >And we thought it was going to be a light episode! I found this one >incredibly painful. No kidding. It had some fall-down funny moments (see above, not to mention the sight of Buffy juggling is one I'll be unable to get out of my brain for a long time to come), but all in all, this has to be one of the most depressing episodes ever. But oh, so good. The final line is going to keep me squirming all week ... ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ======================================= (: New England Patriots - Super Bowl XXXVI CHAMPIONS :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:21:56 -0800 From: "Susan Kroupa" Subject: Re: Tonight's BUFFY Angel was no picnic this week either. I'm depressed. Sue - ----- Original Message ----- From: meredith To: Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: Re: Tonight's BUFFY > "That's because this dress is radioactive!" > > >And we thought it was going to be a light episode! I found this one > >incredibly painful. > > No kidding. It had some fall-down funny moments (see above, not to mention > the sight of Buffy juggling is one I'll be unable to get out of my brain > for a long time to come), but all in all, this has to be one of the most > depressing episodes ever. But oh, so good. > > The final line is going to keep me squirming all week ... > > > ======================================= > Meredith Tarr > New Haven, CT USA > mailto:meth@smoe.org > http://www.smoe.org/meth > ======================================= > Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series > http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html > ======================================= > (: New England Patriots - Super Bowl XXXVI CHAMPIONS :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 00:06:15 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Tonight's BUFFY >Angel was no picnic this week either. I'm depressed. I'm three episodes behind on ANGEL. :} Just watched the ballet one last night, and I have to say I have no idea why David disliked it so much. It had some great lines, and a marvelous performance by Charisma Carpenter. The storyline had been done before (Angel even admitted as much), but I liked that particular take on it. It reminded me of something that might have been on the old _Friday The 13th_ series. ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ======================================= (: New England Patriots - Super Bowl XXXVI CHAMPIONS :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 00:41:26 -0500 From: Robert Stacy Subject: Re: Tonight's BUFFY meredith wrote: > The final line is going to keep me squirming all week ... Especially after the preview for next week's episode. My brain wants to force a connection. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 22:07:17 -0800 From: "David S. Bratman" Subject: Re: Tonight's BUFFY Oh, it had its funny parts, like the opening scene with the hideous dresses (and the (inadvertent?) Christine Lavin quote, "What was she thinking?"). And the typical Alan Moore patented segue, from the old man saying some couples aren't meant for each other to the scene with Buffy and Spike. But overall, very sad. When it was over, I had to keep reminding Berni that I had indeed married her. "I'm glad you didn't get a visit from a future David," she'd said. "Who says I didn't?" I replied. For after all, it is our future now. Don't see how the old man could have been taken for a future Xander, though. Didn't look anything like him, even a many-years-aged him. But one had at first no way of telling whether this was a casting problem or a Clue. And we have a nice little brand-new loose end at the end. Echoes of a famous scene involving Willow come to anybody else's mind? And then we have last night's _Angel_, about which I had better be more circumspect, I guess. The problem with sending characters off to an alternate dimension, especially one conjured up from a hat for no other purpose, is that the dimension can follow any rules the writers care to make up, so there's no logical way to even surmise what might happen next. I trust clues functioning as limitations will emerge soon, as they usually have in this situation. The other cliffhanger in _Angel_, of course, is to note where Gunn and Fred were headed, and if they'll get there in time. But I must say Wesley acted very stupidly. This is not like him, or at least not like the new him. (The old him would never have gotten out of the hotel.) What did I dislike about the ballet episode? The scenes in which Angel and Cordelia re-enact the old lovers were awfully, abysmally, painfully, self-consciously bad. Compare, please, with the scenes from an earlier episode in which Wesley and Cordelia deliberately re-enact the saga of Angel and Buffy. Now that was funny. This was just bad. ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V4 #33 ****************************