I LOVE…
…LOVE LOVE LOVE this guy's plays. Truly unsettling and frightening. There's a quiet violence going on in every little exchange. Yeah, they're none too pleasant, but they're really astounding.

phel: It's different from Buffy in tone. I mean it has a lot of the same signifiers, the awkward, dorky and hilarious dialogue, the endless comic dynamic of demons as "just folks, etc. But the tone overall tends to be a bit darker.

yeah, Whedon's strength is really in ensemble, and it feels like maybe the network mandated this be more of a vehicle? Since it came out of Dushku's development deal, etc?

somebody else must have noticed this
I didn't see this mentioned in another comment, though I do skim some, so hopefully I'm not repeating anyone's comment…

Also:

Ah, the Open Letter to the Guy Who Stole My Bike Wheel sketch…the source of my online name.

There was one anime series, Azumanga Daiyo that I actually preferred the dub on because a) so much of the humour was pretty esoteric and language-based and they'd actually replaced a lot of the verbal jokes with stuff that would play similarly but better in English and b) some care was obviously taken in the…

NEWS FLASH!

easytoplease: makes sense to me. I'd rather hear the emotional content of the original voices and have to read what they're saying. Dubs always feel a bit off.

phel: That remark is a collective insult to the assbag community. No need to drag them into this.

RLJD@SXSW
If hip-hop @ SXSW is yer thing, fellow Canadian and sometime av club commenter Jesse Dangerously is on tonight. http://sxsw.com/music/shows…

hope she's okay
I haven't seen her in much, Handmaid's Tale is the only thing that leaps to mind, but I really thought she did excellent work. Hopefully she'll pull through.

Wow, dude, did you seriously just recommend a show based on what an actress in it is wearing (or not)?

Wow, dude, did you seriously just recommend a show based on what an actress in it is wearing (or not)?

And here's how the old hands do it.
This is also (I believe) the first ep since the pilot that was written by one of the old Mutant Enemy stable (Tim Minear), and the dialogue overall felt a lot more assured and… I guess "Joss-y". The man-reaction sub-plot, and even that specific turn of phrase brought me back to the…

Ah, but Patton Oswalt is articulate and funny.

LEC - don't they thave the AV club blocked at your school? You better get back to your homework, or you'll never make it to Jr. High. ))((

@Shane Danielsen

Inasmuch as you can get a sense of someone in a place like this, she seems generally pretty cool.

hank1: generally I agree, and I hope once Joss starts bringing the Whedon again, as promised, the writers will fly headlong into the big mess of those problems, and make the problems the actual dramatic fuel of the show…a classic Mutant Enemy trick, and one sorely missed.