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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:28:34 GMT -5
I don't give a rat's patoot about any of the characters on 7th Heaven, Dawson's Creek or Touched By An Angel. The characters in the Jossverse feel so real to me. They seem like people I'd like to get to know.
They feel like my friends. If my friends were leaving and there was a possibility I'd never see them again, I'd want to know they were happy.
Call me a wuss if you will. Hell, I'm quite aware that I've become something of a blubbering fool in my last few posts.
Some nights are just tougher than others.
Rob Sorenson
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:30:16 GMT -5
Has Josh been around today? Or am I just a complete moron and can't remember? It's been a long day and my brain has shut down for the night.
Josh, if you have posted today and I'm too brain-fried to remember it, I apologize. Hell, you probably have posted and I responded and still don't remember.
Sometimes I honestly think I'm losing my mind....
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:31:30 GMT -5
Rob, I completely agree with you! I liked Hunter's review but his conclusions depressed the hell outta me!
I WANT the Scooby Gang to reunite because who is Buffy without her friends? Her family represents and brings out the humanity in Buffy - what is she without these representations? How can she survice without them? And that probably doesn't make sense but you're smart - you can figure out what I'm talking about.
The eternal optimist in me wants a happy, everyone is happy, fairy-tale type ending. I know that won't happen and honestly, the realist in me knows that it shouldn't. Life doesn't end perfectly....but I still want it to for the Scoobs. I have suffered right along side them for 7 years - they (and me) deserve a happy ending!!!
-L
Edited By Lee Hollins at 4/30/2003 11:56:00 PM.
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:34:32 GMT -5
//I don't give a rat's patoot about any of the characters on 7th Heaven, Dawson's Creek or Touched By An Angel. The characters in the Jossverse feel so real to me. They seem like people I'd like to get to know.
They feel like my friends. If my friends were leaving and there was a possibility I'd never see them again, I'd want to know they were happy.
Call me a wuss if you will. Hell, I'm quite aware that I've become something of a blubbering fool in my last few posts.
Some nights are just tougher than others. //
I'm reminded of The Matrix, when Agent Smith explains how they tried a previous version of the matrix but everyone kept rejecting it -- it was too perfect, not real enough.
You sound like the people in the matrix (which, by the way, is all of us). The unhappy endings are tough, but you stay and deal with it because as hard as they are to get through, they're more real than the shows that give you happy endings just for watching. I respect that. Incedently, I never have once flipped a coin to decide between Buffy or the Gilmores. And I even think Lauren Graham is a complete hottie, and even actually personally know one of the actresses on the show. I still watch Buffy when it's new. Guess I can watch Gilmore Girls next year.
David Crenshaw
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:35:46 GMT -5
I don't think he has posted today, Lee. Today has been interesting -- the group has been relatively small and even several new faces on the board, but still very prolific. But a lot of our regulars seemed to have stayed quiet.
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:37:57 GMT -5
I'm told that Gilmore Girls is quite good, though I've never seen it.
I know for a fact that 7th Heaven and Touched By An Angel are dreck. I've seen those two abominations, and I'm in awe of how bad they are.
Rob Sorenson
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:40:11 GMT -5
I give up.. there is no way I am going to finish the posts. Last I posted was 11-noonish... I got home and I have been reading since 9.. and I am only to post #285 on part 20.
I can't do it. No way.. too much to do. If I missed a post directly to me between here and there then someone will have to repost it with my name in big friggin letters.
I haven't even watched angel yet.
*sigh*
Vlad
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:42:05 GMT -5
It feels good that I'm not alone in my more miserable moments. The S'cubie support group lives on.
(Rob salutes) Good night, all.
Rob Sorenson
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:52:11 GMT -5
In fact I am going to do that right now...I am irritated and I need to relax.
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:53:29 GMT -5
You're right, Dave - we've been prolific posters today and tonight. Lord, can you imagine what we would have been like if ALL the regulars were posting? Can you imagine what our future board will be like once we grow in numbers (as we are increasingly doing)?
We like to talk that's for sure. The S'cubies are definitely a VERBAL group!!
-L
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:54:52 GMT -5
Vlad, I'm sorry you are so overloaded. You have my sympathies.
As to the posts you are not caught up on - all you need to know is that my posts were extremely enlightening, fascinating, articulate, witty beyond belief - basically, they were nothing short of AMAZING! Don't listen to whatever anyone else tells you - my posts were simply....awe-inspiring.
***yells at the peanut gallery to SHUT UP!!***
;-)
-L
Edited By Lee Hollins at 5/1/2003 12:10:00 AM.
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:56:11 GMT -5
Good-night Dave, good-night Rob, good-night Vlad, good-night Patti, good-night John Boy, good-night Momma, good-night Poppa.....
GOOD-NIGHT ALL!!!
See you in the morning!
-L
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 16:58:53 GMT -5
//I'm told that Gilmore Girls is quite good, though I've never seen it.
I know for a fact that 7th Heaven and Touched By An Angel are dreck. I've seen those two abominations, and I'm in awe of how bad they are. //
Gilmore Girls is pretty good, and to be honest, if anyone is looking for a Buffy replacement or a show with a much happier tone than most ME shows, Gilmore Girls is the one I'd recommend. It's extremely well-written, even if it can get fluffy at times, and it has a lot of things in common with Buffy/Angel -- good humor, well-developed characters (and I'm not talking about Lauren Graham's figure), etc. I have always prefered the darker shows, like Buffy and Angel, or it would probably be higher on my list of must-see shows, but the episodes I have seen really were enjoyable.
Touched By An Angel made me sick after about two episodes, and I'm a Christian. Every show was a sermon, and I can't stand that kind of thing -- the people who watch Touched By An Angel don't need saving, or at least they don't think they do, so to say in every episode how much God loves people, etc., really all anyone who watches does is sit and home and wish the unsaved -- you know who we are, the ones watching satanic shows like BtVS -- could watch that show and be enlightened like they already are. But then that's also why I left the Baptist church -- one too many times of listening to the preacher say how we all need to repent, and not one person in the congragation realizing the message was for them. Anyhow, that's what I didn't like about Touched By An Angel -- every week, they send a message out, and every week the people watching don't realize the message is for them. No point talking if who you're talking to isn't hearing you.
Anyhow ... Dawson's Creek. Never saw it, can't comment on it. Been a long time since I was a 20-something, so I sort of avoid shows where I know I'm really not the target demographic. Never watched Felicity either. Or pretty much anything produced by David E. Kelley.
7th Heaven -- my daughter's favorite show. It's ok, pretty much modern-day Brady Bunch. Catherine Hicks is a hottie. Even though the show is about a minister and his family, I liked it ok because it's just presenting a family trying to live the right way, even with some bumps along the way (mostly brought on by Jessica Beihl's character). Not as well-written as Buffy or Gilmore Girls, but not as bad as most of the crap on TV. Just a bit family hour for my tastes. And they had one episode where mom was completely wrong in what she was bringing down on the kids, but the message was it was mom so they had to listen because it was mom -- didn't like that; wrong is wrong, and in my house, even the adults have to admit it when they're wrong and say they're sorry. That rubbed me really the wrong way when that happened.
Anyhow, that's my take on the shows you mentioned.
David Crenshaw
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 17:00:53 GMT -5
//You're right, Dave - we've been prolific posters today and tonight. Lord, can you imagine what we would have been like if ALL the regulars were posting? Can you imagine what our future board will be like once we grow in numbers (as we are increasingly doing)? //
We definitely have hit a growth spurt here in the last days of Buffy. Perhaps those who didn't like the sound of ScoopMe shutting down are starting to migrate over so they'll have a place to be when the spit hits the fan. Or at a minimum, our long-time lurkers are starting to decloak so they don't get left behind when the transition takes place.
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Post by Dalton on Sept 9, 2003 17:02:00 GMT -5
Vlad, Lee's right -- her posts were great.
Mine you can just skip. I think I mentioned a dog once or twice, but other that, really most of what I said probably bears not being repeated.
I'm sure this is of no surprise to anyone who has ever read anything I've written, too. ;-)
David Crenshaw
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