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Post by Dalton on Jul 3, 2003 16:26:35 GMT -5
I'd hoped you'd be returning. Welcome back.
Rob Sorenson
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Post by Dalton on Jul 3, 2003 16:27:46 GMT -5
Thank you Spring. It kind of surprises me to learn that the name of the gang was introduced without any discussion among the members. Just recall how much back and forth went on between us when we were considering a name change for our group. It doesn't surprise me that "Scoobie's" came from one of Xander's quips that just stuck but it would have been nice to have seen the others reaction and response to trying on that moniker for the first time.
It doesn't bother me nearly so much as missing them hear about Spike's soul for the first time but is still mildly disappointing.
As for BtVS never having alluded to Spike killing any members of his own family I'm glad that was just an invention of the authors of the fanfiction I read.
deborah
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Post by Dalton on Jul 3, 2003 16:35:34 GMT -5
Miss Pamela, I'm delighted at your return. In a tailspin similar to yours, I believed it was something I'd said that drove you away and felt fearfully guilty/bad about that. Everything here is about ME, right? I'm much relieved if my casual and occasionally acerbic (see? I DO know how to spell that!)levity has proven not to be the "smoking gun" this once. And re the *Scoobies* name, I somewhat hesitantly offer the obvious simply because nobody seems to have mentioned it, probably because everyone already knows it: it derives from the cartoon "Scooby Do, Where Are You?" The elderly cartoon, like the recent and much maligned movie (co-starring Sarah Michelle Geller), involves a bunch of teen-aged friends who investigate spooky and scary apparently supernatural doings that terrify the huge but timid Great Dane, the pet of one of them, which is named Scooby Do. So they are the Scoobie Gang--a natural figurative connection for Xander (or any of the group) to make with their vamp/demon hunting activities. This probably is something everyone already knew and therefore didn't mention. However, never let it be said I neglected the obvious.
Again, delighted (and HUGELY relieved!) at your return, Miss Pamela!
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 3, 2003 16:36:35 GMT -5
I think that when I wrote "others" in my preceeding post I forgot an apostrophe that belonged after the "s". Nan, I herebye invite you to Email me (see profile, still have not set up a Yahoo Email adress for the website) with any helpful corrections to my grammar and/or puntuation that you would care to share.
deborah
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Post by Dalton on Jul 3, 2003 16:37:26 GMT -5
Maybe to grammar and 'puntuation' I s/h added spelling. Meant to say 'punctuation', of course.
deborah
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Post by Dalton on Jul 3, 2003 16:39:22 GMT -5
Kim sent me a nice note in response to my reporting the problem on the board with the time stamp on the posts, last week.
I'd opened, "Hi, there. It's the nag." Kim replied, "You are NOT a nag, Nan. We need folks to tell us when stuff is not working properly. We'd discovered the problem on the Angel boards last week. They tell me that as of yesterday, the problem should be resolved. We'd installed some new time synchronization software that seems to have affected the boards. We'll keep an eye on it this week. Thank you. Kim" I thought some, like me, might be curious about what the problem actually had been.
And Deborah, at first I misunderstood what you were requesting. Now I understand, and if I have anything constructive to offer about persistent problems of sentence mechanics (as opposed to the inevitable typos sans the edit button), I'll remember that you invited private comment. I'm pleased and honored to be asked, and hope to contribute something useful in this regard. It ain't been like that elsewhere, else-times.... Only one day to Tuesday! Yea!
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 3, 2003 16:40:05 GMT -5
We have been so Spike starved lately. Do we think that tomorrow's episode will finally bring us some satisfaction by actually featuring Spike rather than just offering us a few brief, tantalizing glimpses and lines? The last few episodes have been sorta like crossing a desert on barely enough water to keep going.
deborah
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Post by Dalton on Jul 3, 2003 16:41:12 GMT -5
I've now read your first two installments, Rob, and you certainly have learned a lot about cliffhangers! You have me very curious about what this will end up being about.
Rusty, what I noticed about your piece is your strong sense of the visual. You place the readers in the scene so they can SEE what's happening, not just be told about it. It makes the writing much more vivid, less "voices in the dark": a tendency that a lot of beginning writing seems to display.
I'm enjoying watching the people on this board bloom into producing intriguing fiction and analytic essays.
Several not yet heard from--how about a try from some of the other S'cubies?
I gave poetry--the first I've written in years! What about the rest of you?
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 3, 2003 16:42:43 GMT -5
Welcome back Miss Pamela! I am glad to see our Chair of Linguistics has returned from her sabatical. *smile*
As to the reason for your abscence, I am upset to hear it had anything to do with me, imagined or not. Several of you folks have a history going back from before I was a poster on this board... (poster board??? *shakes his head*)...anyway, I never saw myself as a "take charge" kinda guy. *chuckling* In fact I always rather reveled in my label as a slacker. Well, let me please clarify that I was never giving a hint that you or anyone was unimportant. *Gives her a big hug*
I welcome you back as I have missed your posts. One of your major contributioons in the past (and I notice even now in just a few posts) has been your sense of humor. It lightens the whole discussion. I would dare to say that, indeed, if it weren't for you, the silliness that led to the creation of the S'cubies, the VHISN, and the S'cubie website would not have occurred. So please be aware that you are perhaps far more important to this group than you ever conceived.
Good to see you return,
Vlad, TA, tp
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Post by Dalton on Jul 3, 2003 16:43:55 GMT -5
Robert has submitted his 3rd section to his great fanfic and I am currently setting it up on the website...as soon as it is ready, I will drop a message here on the board.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 7, 2003 15:44:16 GMT -5
Deborah asked, "...and what's the killing of a sibling called anyway?"
To many siblings it would be called "justified". (A little joke for all of us with brothers and sisters.)
Alexandra K.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 7, 2003 15:45:10 GMT -5
Spring has submitted another episode analysis, Lie to Me. I am currently also placing this on the S'cubie site. *L* It's a deluge!
When it's there, I'll post it's presence.
Vlad
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Post by Dalton on Jul 7, 2003 15:46:03 GMT -5
LOL! Now that's funny! (The acutal term for sibling killing is fratricide, in case anyone was still curious.
Vlad I
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Post by Dalton on Jul 7, 2003 15:46:42 GMT -5
I went to one of the posts with the broken picture link and clicked on the broken link icon. The computer came back with the information that the picture was no longer available at the "Geocities" URL. Can you doublecheck the broken links and see if the original pictures are gone from the originating place and 'that' is why the pictures don't post? I suspect that is not the reason, but hope springs eternal.
Many thanks,
Alexandra
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Post by Dalton on Jul 7, 2003 15:47:35 GMT -5
Thanks Nan. I love Robert's fic. But I'm so much farther behind because 1)I'm supposed to be writing a two huge documents for work; 2)I write what I visualize, and scenes and dialogue come to me at odd moments and I have to write them down or lose them. (It's not psychosis, just the way my imagination functions.)That means I start somewhere in the middle and work toward both ends. I've now gone back to the beginning so I can at least get that posted and start connecting all the bits.
I would like some feedback tho. Is the way I write in semi-script form annoying, or a style that makes it hard to get into the story? My novelization skills are still in their infancy, so I write faster like this. I promise to try and get the beginning to Vlad in the next couple of days.
Rusty Goode
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