It's more vague borrowing than RTD-style blatancy, but yeah, it's similar.
Heh. Seems like a lot of shows in the mid-nineties did that. Ballykissangel, for one, where I can and have already written an essay on the similarities. And I think there was one that was an officially licensed takeoff...set on a tropical island somewhere, maybe? I can't remember anything about it.
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.
Hee. I'd heard that. He sounds...a little creepy, actually. Although when given a choice between vaguely creepy not-quite-stalking and a vaguely icky sometimes-present aura of sleaze, I'm not sure which I'd choose.
The supporting cast, though, is very Cicely, as is Stuckeyville in general.
Wheeee!
I very badly hope that that's a Wikipedia hack, because OW.
I checked on Google. Unless the same person hacked every site ever to mention Rob Morrow, it's not a hack. And that makes me HURT.
I don't think my expectations go low enough for most of the shows you try to push on me...
WOE UNTO YOU.
And yet I seem to watch better TV...
Alas. Maybe you just need to get verrrrrrry bored one day, and mainline half a season.
This may be a solution.
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.
You're so right. It's been that way since about 2002, actually; you can't use a multi-fannish resource without at least some background knowledge of Buffy. It's as ubiquitous as Star Trek. Maybe moreso, since Trek fans are sometimes ostracised even in the fan community.
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Date: 2007-01-04 04:44 am (UTC)DW with an American teenager, then.
It's more vague borrowing than RTD-style blatancy, but yeah, it's similar.
Heh. Seems like a lot of shows in the mid-nineties did that. Ballykissangel, for one, where I can and have already written an essay on the similarities. And I think there was one that was an officially licensed takeoff...set on a tropical island somewhere, maybe? I can't remember anything about it.
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.
Hee. I'd heard that. He sounds...a little creepy, actually. Although when given a choice between vaguely creepy not-quite-stalking and a vaguely icky sometimes-present aura of sleaze, I'm not sure which I'd choose.
The supporting cast, though, is very Cicely, as is Stuckeyville in general.
Wheeee!
I very badly hope that that's a Wikipedia hack, because OW.
I checked on Google. Unless the same person hacked every site ever to mention Rob Morrow, it's not a hack. And that makes me HURT.
I don't think my expectations go low enough for most of the shows you try to push on me...
WOE UNTO YOU.
And yet I seem to watch better TV...
Alas. Maybe you just need to get verrrrrrry bored one day, and mainline half a season.
This may be a solution.
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.
You're so right. It's been that way since about 2002, actually; you can't use a multi-fannish resource without at least some background knowledge of Buffy. It's as ubiquitous as Star Trek. Maybe moreso, since Trek fans are sometimes ostracised even in the fan community.