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Post by Dalton on Jul 12, 2003 16:15:17 GMT -5
Rob, you brought it to my attention that the value attributed to your pleas concering Xander were incorrect. I apologize for this and I immediately went to the HTML code and recalibrated the Plea Counter. It should now display the correct number of pleas, with only a minor margin of error. Sorry for any inconvenience. Please take a look and inform me if there is anything yet wrong with it. Your ever diligent technopagan, Vlad Edited By Vlad I at 2/13/2003 9:13:00 AM.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 12, 2003 16:15:55 GMT -5
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Post by Dalton on Jul 12, 2003 16:16:35 GMT -5
Shannon you crack me up! I love it. Now how exactly did you get on the pages with no links over there? Hmmmm? Spill it darling, you know we NEED to know. And I love the way you just pop in when you have something yummy to share Shannon. Please oh please keep it up. P.S. Vlad, does this pic scream to be put on the e-mail page or what? Watergal =^..^=
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Post by Dalton on Jul 12, 2003 16:18:49 GMT -5
[laugh] busted. Glad you liked the photo, seemingly as much as I did, which popped up while . . . nosing around. . . the jmarsters.com site [grin]. I like to the photo [for oh so many reasons] because I see a devilish spike peeking out of James expression. ; >
Shannon Hill
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Post by Dalton on Jul 12, 2003 16:19:30 GMT -5
Spring, I appreciate your position too but as you say there's no way to prove it either way. We both agree that for Spike to come as far as he had before getting back is soul was a remarkable achievement. I have to go along with Dawn in questioning the inherent value of a soul considering all the soulfully endowed humans who have committed crimes and atrocities against humanity. Presumably Jeffrey Dommer, John Wayne Gacy and Adolf Hitler all had souls and in the Buffyverse so did Warren. Are ensouled evil humans more evil or more responsible for committing evil than soulless monsters whose are by definition evil? Are there not at least some people who are evil by nature? Can't a tendency toward evil be just as natural for some people as shyness or being extroverted? Perhaps people and monsters should not be judged on whether or not they pocess a soul but on if and how much they are able to overcome their natural undesirable tendencies, whether they're struggling to overcome shyness or a natural inclination to tear out someone's throat. Rambling here. I guess that all other considerations aside the greatest (Not the only but in my view the most important) asset of Spike's soul is the value that Buffy places upon it. Since becoming ensouled she can no longer dismiss him as an E.S.T. incapable of real feelings and undeserving of consideration or respect. Having his soul restored to him eliminated Buffy's biggest excuse against him. Whether or not she will ever come to recognize and accept him as her true love and life partner at least now she is able to accept him as a person entitled to all the rights, consideration and respect of any other.
deborah cohen
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Post by Dalton on Jul 12, 2003 16:20:06 GMT -5
deborah: I agree you can be just as evil with a soul as without a soul; I don't agree you can be "just as good" or "just as moral" without a soul, as with a soul. At least that is how it seems to me in the Buffyverse. The soul adds that "internal moral compass" that allows the person a chance to understand what he is doing is wrong. Spike never seemed able to figure out right from wrong on his own. He would try, but he couldn'tmanage it - hence his lack of remorse for his crimes. He wasn't remorseful because he didn't really understand they were wrong. Now, he does.
Spring Summers
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Post by Dalton on Jul 12, 2003 16:20:37 GMT -5
Either it's a problem with my VCR or my tapes- I bought a 10 pack of one of those fancy *gold* six hour tapes when I recently got cable for taping the FX reruns- I don't know which. At least now I now that it hasn't been me f***ing up. But on Tues after successfully taping "First Date" I was unable to rewind or play for a long time. Thankfully, since every episode from "Showtime" forward is recorded on that particular tape it eventually started working again after I got it to fast forward to the end. Then yesterday before going to work I set the VCR on timer to tape both evening episodes on FX, "Pangs" & "Something Blue", two of my favorites as it happens. When I got home "Something Blue" was still on but the VCR was not recording. Of course I assumed that I must have messed up when I set the recording time even though I recalled setting it to stop 10 minutes after the second episode should have ended. But I didn't freak because I knew I could record them again this morning. So this morning I got up and started recording the back to back Buffy and then got ready for work. After I was ready for work I sat down to watch the last half of "Something Blue" (I couldn't leave for work until the episodes were over because I needed to set the vcr to record tonight's episodes) and I notice it's not recording again! So to cut this rant short upon further messing with the vcr and tape I find that the tape is just stopping on it's own, I don't know why. I guess it could be a defective tape (the second from the set of blanks I just bought) or it could be the VCR. I put in another used tape and it plays fine. So now I missed my last (well, not last in this life time but last for a good long while) to record those two episodes. I actually do have both on a different tape (which I have to tell you all about but that's a separate post) but the sound quality on them is very poor. Anyway I marked this morning's tape as "BAD TAPE", opened up a new one and pre-set the vcr to record tonight's episodes "Hush" & "Doomed". Tonight I will definitely buy some new blank tapes and see if I have no more problems with taping this week. But if it recurrs I guess I need to buy a new VCR before Tues. I very disappointed that my plan for taping all of Season 4 in chronological order has now been foiled but I will be miserable if I have mechanical problems taping the next new episode. Oh, needless to say I was late for work. And here endeth the rant.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 12, 2003 16:26:07 GMT -5
I will be making the move to Part Nine right now. It should be available in a few minutes.
Alexandra K.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 12, 2003 16:26:49 GMT -5
Vlad could probably tell you better than I about buying tapes. I went to the store to buy some more tapes and the salesman showed me that there are two types of VHS tapes for the VCR. One of the types would do for my recorder. The other one was a fancier VHS type for another type of VCR. I would not have known the difference and probably would have chosen the fancier tapes if he had not alerted me that those were no good for my machine. There was nothing blatant on the packaging to tell me not to select those tapes except for the quiet addition of some innocuous information that DID NOT tip me off at all. Sorry, of course, I don't remember what the innocuous info was. Help, Vlad. It may be that your VCR is fine but the type of tapes you bought are not for your machine
Alexandra K.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 12, 2003 16:27:40 GMT -5
Actually, Spring, I was the one who told you that.
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