THE GIRL IN QUESTION - Discussion

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BIKISDAD

Thursday, May 6, 2004 10:23 PM

I thought "The Immortal" was an inside joke for fans of Ben Edlund's series, "The Tick". One episode of that show had a womanizing superhero by the same name who, ironically, died within the first five minutes of being introduced on the show.

"You should come over for dinner. My Mom's making her famous phone call to the Chinese place."

TIGERLILY

Thursday, May 6, 2004 10:43 PM

i thought it was a tick reference too.

did anyone notice that marsters was shirtless, and DB wasn't? did he look pudgy?

is it me, or do actors have essentially only two jobs: show up knowing your lines, and stay looking the way you did when you got hired?

DARKJESTER

Thursday, May 6, 2004 10:47 PM

I was thinking of Anne Rice's Ramses when they mentioned the Immortal.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

BIKISDAD

Thursday, May 6, 2004 10:54 PM

I just immediately thought of Edlund. Since he wrote for both shows, it's the kind of thing they would do at ME.

SUCCATASH

Thursday, May 6, 2004 11:18 PM

I really enjoyed the scene when Angel and Spike are fighting demons in slow motion with the Italian music in the background, and then they start punching each other.

BIKISDAD

Thursday, May 6, 2004 11:26 PM

That WAS good - especially the looks on their faces when they started hitting each other. Hey, is my hearing really bad, or was that Dean Martin singing while they fought?

"If the apocalypse comes, beep me!"

SBWATCHER

Thursday, May 6, 2004 11:47 PM

tigerLily,

I thought the same thing. It looked like DB has put on some weight, and that scene confirmed it! Didn't the same thing happen to Nicolas Brendan?

As far as the ep was concerned, it, like Time Bomb , was a fine stand-alone episode, but I feel they've been waisted since there's only 2 left now. I thought they'd take several eps to close it out. Also, I know a lot of people like him, but any episode, Buffy or Angel, with Andrew in it is a HUGE bummer for me. My triumverate of annoying characters is Andrew, Eve, and Chris (from Charmed). But I love Dru ("Will you hold my head under the water?")

Finally, didn't the Tick guy co-write this episode?

"What's sanguine mean again?"

HOWDYROCKERBABY1

Friday, May 7, 2004 12:09 AM

I felt the same way, i was very disapointed with this episode...normally i would just shrugg it off, but because it was one of the last...i was very very sad.

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"Here's to Jayne, the box dropping man-ape-gone-wrong-thing"
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JERSEYBROWNCOAT

Friday, May 7, 2004 12:32 AM

Keep in mind that Joss and everyone involved were pretty certain that season six would happen until *very* shortly before this episode was in production. If memory serves, they were filming either ep. 18 or 19 of the season when WB told the crew they'd have until the end of the season to wrap everything up. Extra season didn't happen, and to my knowledge Joss pretty much figured he'd end the season as he was originally going to end it. Consider the end of season 5 unaltered, for better or for worse.

Personally, I'm glad he's not rushing anything to a conclusion. If there's anything that Firefly's taught us, there are always other media to explore when a TV show is cancelled.

As for the episode, hi-larious, but I was looking for some follow-up to Andrew's comment earlier this season about Team Angel falling out of the Council's graces on account of the whole W&H employment. Considering it's the last we'll likely see of any of the Watcher's Council in the show...not even that really, just the parting words from the last time they met Andrew. It kinda called for follow-up, but I digress. Probably would've been just one more dangling plot thread 'till next season.

Unrelated: Loved the poorly-thought-out car chase.

EDITED TO ADD:

Many thanks here for the screencaps, btw - The bottom one is currently my desktop background.

BIKISDAD

Friday, May 7, 2004 1:28 AM

msckaren,

I agree completely about Amy. Usually, when actors do the dual/multiple personality thing, it just seems like the same person reading different lines. Amy did the best job of BEING two different characters that I've ever seen by anybody. Really amazing. My jaw just dropped open several times during her performance.

"I'm sure I mentioned that there could be dire consequences."

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