From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V5 #39 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Saturday, March 1 2003 Volume 05 : Number 039 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: b/storyteller [Robert Stacy ] Re: b/storyteller [Robert Stacy ] Re: b/storyteller [Todd Huff ] Re: b/storyteller ["marty" ] Re: b/storyteller [Robert Stacy ] Re: b/storyteller [Robert Stacy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:30:27 -0500 From: Robert Stacy Subject: Re: b/storyteller Todd Huff wrote: > > Going back to last week, somebody on a message board > claimed that the bag Wood gave Buffy is present in > "Restless". Can anybody who has that on tape confirm > this? It's not the same bag, Todd. The bag Principal Wood presents her with in "Get It Done" is larger and lighter in color. I happened to catch the last half of "Restless" (what a sterling episode!--still my favorite) again in passing on FX a few days ago. The bag that Buffy finds at her feet during the scene with Riley and human-Adam in the dreamscape Initiative installation ("Wait! I have weapons!") looks more like her own (only it contained gray, clayey mud instead-- earth and water, primal elements). I'd have to review some 4th season episodes to confirm if the bag's identical to the one she kept in her dorm room closet or not, but I'm inclined to say it is. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:11:05 -0500 From: Robert Stacy Subject: Re: b/storyteller Robert Stacy wrote: > I'd have to review some 4th season episodes to confirm > if the bag's identical to the one she kept in her dorm room > closet or not, but I'm inclined to say it is. This, in reference to the bag in "Restless," of course. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:07:36 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Huff Subject: Re: b/storyteller - --- Robert Stacy wrote: > Todd Huff wrote: > > > > Going back to last week, somebody on a message > board > > claimed that the bag Wood gave Buffy is present in > > "Restless". Can anybody who has that on tape > confirm > > this? > > It's not the same bag, Todd. The bag Principal > Wood > presents her with in "Get It Done" is larger and > lighter in > color. I happened to catch the last half of > "Restless" (what > a sterling episode!--still my favorite) again in > passing on > FX a few days ago. The bag that Buffy finds at her > feet > during the scene with Riley and human-Adam in the > dreamscape > Initiative installation ("Wait! I have weapons!") > looks more > like her own (only it contained gray, clayey mud > instead-- > earth and water, primal elements). > I'd have to review some 4th season episodes to > confirm > if the bag's identical to the one she kept in her > dorm room > closet or not, but I'm inclined to say it is. Ah, thanks. "Restless" is in my top three as well. I have to wonder how much was foreshadowing and how much has just been the writers going back and pulling something out of it to amuse the fans and make themselves look good. . Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:48:14 -0800 From: "marty" Subject: Re: b/storyteller > Ah, thanks. "Restless" is in my top three as well. I > have to wonder how much was foreshadowing and how much > has just been the writers going back and pulling > something out of it to amuse the fans and make > themselves look good. > As long as the entire series doesn't end with sliced cheese as the answer. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 02:46:30 -0500 From: Robert Stacy Subject: Re: b/storyteller marty wrote: > > Todd Huff wrote: >> Ah, thanks. "Restless" is in my top three as well. I >> have to wonder how much was foreshadowing and how much >> has just been the writers going back and pulling >> something out of it to amuse the fans and make >> themselves look good. >> > > As long as the entire series doesn't end with sliced cheese as > the answer. Exactly 42 slices . . . ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:03:34 -0500 From: Robert Stacy Subject: Re: b/storyteller Todd Huff wrote: > Ah, thanks. "Restless" is in my top three as well. I > have to wonder how much was foreshadowing and how much > has just been the writers going back and pulling > something out of it to amuse the fans and make > themselves look good. There are moments in "Restless" that still send a chill through me. The scene in Xander's dream, with Buffy in the sandbox, and Giles and Spike swinging gleefully in the sun, and the music swells with that wonderful female vocal . . . transcendent. (Hi, Don.) Fair is fair, even in the less-predicted-predictive [sic] episodes, I'm sure there's a lot of lucky-break, found-resonance in the scripts. Sometimes somebody writes something that sounds neat, and later he, she, or somebody else finds a nifty way to work it in. I don't believe there's always been a Grand Master Plan. But there _is_ a staff of smart, talented, inventive writers, who sometimes turn off-the-cuff, "wow, this sounds pretty cool!" throwaways into later moments o' moment. I don't fault them for it in the least. That's thinking on their feet while they fly by the seat of their pants, and I congratulate them for it. ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V5 #39 ****************************