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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:48:56 GMT -5
Thanks, David... I will keep this post in mind the next time I'm thinking my comments might seem silly.
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:49:24 GMT -5
The wait to talk about an episode is almost as nerve-wracking as the wait for the actual episode. I should be working... but I can't. My anticipation of the discussion here is too distracting.
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:49:57 GMT -5
I completely hear you. How many airings do we have to sit through? Can we begin discussing it while California is actually watching it, since they are watching it and not on here watching us go nuts not able to talk about it? Central time is very nearly done. Mountain and Pacific still to go. Nobody from Alaska or Hawaii to get ticked because we didn't wait, right? And we don't have to worry about Kerrie, because who knows how long she has to wait to get it in Australia.
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:50:25 GMT -5
We see the ep same as east coast, just at 7 PM, not 8 PM. I'm not sure how Mountain Time works (what %age of the population lives in MT. time?)--do we have any MT posters? So we are just waiting on the west coast, and even tho it probably means I'll go to bed and miss all of it, I think it's only fair to let them watch the ep so as to be able to join in from the get go.
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:51:12 GMT -5
Spring, it goes without saying that I enjoyed reading your analysis of Passions. However, that well tuned instrument, my mind (shut up, out there, no cybersnickering!), rather missed an echo of the sheer hilarity of this episode. You deal with the serious elements excellently, but I kept waiting for some reflection of one of my favorite lines in BtVS: Spike's slightly hysterical exclamation, "You made a bear! You made a bear!" Maybe you were too startled by whatever you found out about St. Sebastian sites (I had a cat named Sebastian: elegant, long, and civil) to be channeling the more more slapsticky elements of this ep that are part of how I fondly remember it, not having seen it in several months. Perhaps the fact that I remember the funny parts best means I needed a reminder of the very sober undertext. Anyway, I surely look forward to your exploration of "Something Blue": that's next, right? Nan
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:51:47 GMT -5
I meant PANGS. Drat.
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:52:27 GMT -5
Most of you had moved on when B.R. answered our welcomes:
#427 Re: B.R. Walsh Posted on 4/29/2003 9:25:52 PM By B.R. Walsh
Didn't mean to post and run but my husband prefers to play solitaire over watching Buffy. Thank you all for the warm welcome. Yes, I'm a lurker from way back. You guys are so quick and funny and have such a way with words that its scarey to try and cut in sometimes. But, in this crazy, mixed-up world you have given me many smiles and outright guffaws and taken my mind off of this crazy, mixed up world for a while. And for that I deeply thank you!
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:53:37 GMT -5
I'm a little late on the posts but I just had to say... I LOVE Madeline L'Engle. A Wrinkle In Time is one of my favorite books of all times. I just got Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life and I can't wait to read it.
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:54:22 GMT -5
Ok, wish I had that edit button. Madeleine not Madeline
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:55:20 GMT -5
Supposedly, there's a film version in the can of "A Wrinkle in Time" that for whatever reason hasn't been released. My seven-year-old daughter and I have been reading our way through L'Engle's books so she'll have her own ideas in her head in case they (whoever they are) screw it up as Disney did with "A Ring of Endless Light." (Just passing the time until we can talk about "Empty Places"...)
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:55:49 GMT -5
My God. Cyber toe-tapping...
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:56:26 GMT -5
Becky... this announcement is on Madeleine's official site about the movie: "The highly anticipated movie-version of "A Wrinkle In Time" is being premiered at the Toronto Children's Film Festival! The festival runs from April 25th to May 4th. We expect that the film festival screening is bringing us closer to the announcement of a national television airdate, so stay tuned as we will pass along such news as soon as we receive it." I'm not sure what I feel about the movie... this is one of those books I'm afraid to see in movie form. I have very definite pictures of the characters in my mind and I'm not sure how I'd like someone else's interpretation.
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:56:59 GMT -5
B.R. Walsh is welcome. Maggy Walsh isn't. You're not Maggie, are you? No, of course not. Welcome! I think I'm freaking. This episode drove to to the WALL!
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:57:25 GMT -5
Uh...There isn't some nice lurker out ther whose name just happens to be Maggie Walsh...is there? I could crawl into my hole and hide now...maybe...
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Post by Dalton on Aug 3, 2003 11:58:05 GMT -5
Hope nobody minds, but I couldn't stand the wait. I worked out all my thoughts in Word and plan to cut and paste as soon as someone yells "GO". It's not nearly as long as some of my episodic diatribes. Most everything I liked or didn't like about the episode was very neatly wrapped up into major themes this time, rather than lots of little things that have to be addressed individually.
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