I got the impression from reading about it that the creators were basically like, "We totally didn't rip off the setting and part of the plot of NX. We'd...never heard of it before. Yeah. Totally."
It's more vague borrowing than RTD-style blatancy, but yeah, it's similar. Ed's different from Fleischman, though, in that Ed came to Stuckeyville after going a little bit insane and having an early mid-life crisis and really really really wanting to stalk his old high school crush. So, slightly different motivations and outlooks. The supporting cast, though, is very Cicely, as is Stuckeyville in general.
The bio linked from there mentioned that he recently had a daughter whom he and his wife named "Tu." SUCH CRUEL PEOPLE.
I very badly hope that that's a Wikipedia hack, because OW.
I don't think my expectations go low enough for most of the shows you try to push on me...
WOE UNTO YOU.
They all seem...lackluster.
Alas. Maybe you just need to get verrrrrrry bored one day, and mainline half a season. The style takes some getting into, but once you're in, it will eat your brain. That, and Whedon is becoming practically classic literature in the television-culture sense, and not having watched at least a good-sized chunk of Buffy is like never having read Romeo and Juliet. UNCULTURED HEATHEN. ; )
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Date: 2007-01-04 12:19 am (UTC)So, in other words... it's Doctor Who? : )
I got the impression from reading about it that the creators were basically like, "We totally didn't rip off the setting and part of the plot of NX. We'd...never heard of it before. Yeah. Totally."
It's more vague borrowing than RTD-style blatancy, but yeah, it's similar. Ed's different from Fleischman, though, in that Ed came to Stuckeyville after going a little bit insane and having an early mid-life crisis and really really really wanting to stalk his old high school crush. So, slightly different motivations and outlooks. The supporting cast, though, is very Cicely, as is Stuckeyville in general.
The bio linked from there mentioned that he recently had a daughter whom he and his wife named "Tu." SUCH CRUEL PEOPLE.
I very badly hope that that's a Wikipedia hack, because OW.
I don't think my expectations go low enough for most of the shows you try to push on me...
WOE UNTO YOU.
They all seem...lackluster.
Alas. Maybe you just need to get verrrrrrry bored one day, and mainline half a season. The style takes some getting into, but once you're in, it will eat your brain. That, and Whedon is becoming practically classic literature in the television-culture sense, and not having watched at least a good-sized chunk of Buffy is like never having read Romeo and Juliet. UNCULTURED HEATHEN. ; )