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10/19/09
So... by the time I've finished reading this article, it's already 100 years old, yah? /lame lightspeed joke #publishing
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05/11/09
Next time try to actually watch the trailer and not just read the headline before you voice your reply ;)
Or shut yo mouth your ignorance is showing...
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Who am I kidding. I'm still gonna see it.
05/11/09
Norks?
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04/22/09
I just don't want to live there.
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04/22/09
Pasta. Plain. But Good.
INGREDIENTS:
Pasta.
And salt.
And water.
And Fire.
DIRECTIONS:
Place the pasta in the water and the salt in the water and the water in the pot and the pot on the fire.
In the pot? The fire in the pot?
No. The water in the pot. The pot on the fire.
The pasta in the water?
Yes, in the water.
And the salt in the fire?
No. The salt in the water.
And the water on the fire?
No. The water in the pot and the pot on the fire. Not the water on the fire. For then the fire will die and dying be dead.
Nor will the water boil and the pasta will drain dry and not cooked and hard to the teeth.
The salt falls nor does it cease to fall.
The water boils. So be it.
Cease from placing your hand in the boiling water. Place your hand in the boiling water and it will cause you pain.
Much pain?
Very much pain.
In the pot the bubbles bubble up and bubble some more. The bubbles are bubbly. Never more bubbly bubbles bubbling bubbliest. And having bubbled the bubbles still bubbly.
Or bubblier?
Or bubblier.
Across the kitchen a board intended for chopping. Here. Take it. Chop.
What will I chop? There are no ingredients to chop.
Just chop. Don't cease from chopping. To chop is to become a man.
After 10 minutes. The pasta stiff and dry and upright no more. The pasta lank and wet and soft. In the eternal damp of water.
Pour water free like some ancient anointing. The pasta left alone in the pot. Alone and naked.
The salt? Where's the salt?
The salt is gone. Lost to the water and gone forever.
I grieve for the salt.
It is the salt for which I grieve.
Tip the pasta out.
The pasta?
Yes. Tip it out. Onto.
A plate?
Yes. And stop.
Finishing your sentences?
Yes.
Why?
Because it's so.
Irritating?
Nothing in your memory anywhere of anything so good. Now the pasta is eaten. Disappeared. The pasta disappeared as everything disappeared. As the comma disappears and the semicolon disappears and the inverted comma disappears and the apostrophe disappears and the adjectives and the pronouns all disappear.
Leaving just full stops and And.
And And?
And And.
And And.
04/22/09
um enjoy?
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I can't find the it on their site, but this dude reposted it on his blog:
[www.rosslaird.com]
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04/13/09
On the plus side, only a couple of more weeks before the last time any Dollhouse references need to be pointed out.
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Nice seeing her get some work.
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I thought it was really interesting that Topher assumed Boyd was the mole, and went to warn him before reporting it. So, Topher willingly works for the Dollhouse and has no moral objections to the work (that we've seen), and when he discovers that there's a mole, he's concerned about the safety of the Dollhouse... So I wonder what it is about Boyd specifically that makes Topher:
a) Suspect him immediately, and
b) Want to protect him.
Was Topher trying to look out for someone he considers a friend? Or is there something more at work here? This show just gets better every week!
04/13/09
a.Just because he has no morals, doesn't mean that he can't understand why others wouldn't find the whole place morally wrong. So he knows that Boyd isn't a big fan of what they do AND is probably more vocal about it then anyone else.
b. Now I think he tried to help him just because Boyd is probably one of the few people that doesn't try to knock him off his high horse all the time OR belittle him.
04/13/09
Topher took a huge risk warning Boyd first, and I've never gotten the sense from him that he'd be willing to put himself in that kind of danger for anyone, even Boyd, especially if he (Boyd) was working against the Dollhouse and, by extension, Topher himself. I'd think he'd be more pissed about someone messing with his equipment, compromising his imprints and maybe stealing his work than worried about Boyd getting captured. It just seems like a hell of a risk to take for someone who hasn't treated him as badly as some of the others have.
This could be (and probably is) a case of the show not letting us get to know the characters well enough to get a real sense of them yet. Or it could be a hint of something deeper. They didn't NEED to put that scene in there; it didn't really add anything to the plot, and it stands out, at least in my mind, as unusual. I have a feeling it may become important later.
04/13/09
This was a great ep though!
04/13/09
So there is no way (yet!) to know if Boyd really is innocent or not...
04/13/09
Only a few eps left to find out!
04/13/09
This may be a little out there, but if Echo is self-aware enough to know that she's a Doll, could she be aware enough to sense or feel that Boyd IS working against the Dollhouse, and asked Topher to be imprinted so that she could lead the investigation in an attempt to protect Boyd? I'd buy her trying to protect Boyd more easily than her trying to protect the Dollhouse. But this is more of a crazy guess than a solid theory, obviously.