Tim Minear: Miscellaneous Posts

P.S. Someone remind me who the quote in my sig is from - I'm fairly certain it's one of the new Angel writers, but I can't remember which, and I foolishly forgot the attribution when I added it.

"My little teeny piece of advice is, anything Tim Minear tells you or suggests you, you should listen. The man is a genius."

7/9/01 - natalie: Which Angel character are you? See this page.

That explains a lot.

1. Angel
2. Fred
3. Cordelia
4. Lindsay
5. Lorne, the Host
6. Wesley
7. Darla
8. Gunn

Real leadership and, it seems to me, honestly held principles, resolve and an almost romantic idealism about how the world could be.

And for me as an American, sometimes it seems like we've no real friends in this world, but Mister Blair makes it plain that isn't so.

Well, well. I have to say here that I do admire Hines' reviews. (And I've met the man and like him a lot in person. Jane Espenson and I were guests at Dragoncon coupla years back and David was terribly hospitable -- I'd break bread with him again in a nano second.)

I think he does a nice job with his reviews and it's always satisfying to see anyone taking the show seriously enough to spend time writing about it.

And I like the fact that he can loathe and detest something -- sort of validates his past praise, if you get what I'm saying. In terms of his integrity, I mean.

It also kind of invalidates it at the same time, since I feel like he could have ripped into any of the past eps that he *liked* just as easily. Especially since he's comparing me to me and saying that "Minear does this" and "Minear does that, and based on what Minear does, this is all wrong." Uh, okay. Being, well, Minear, hard for me to see it, exactly. Seems to me the ep he's loathing is pretty much just another "Minear" ep. Kinda like the ones he liked were, too.

After about fifty hours of television that I've written, it's kinda me just doing what I do.

Think I'll just keep doing that.

Just wanna be clear about something -- when I said that David Hines' praise is "invalidated" I didn't in any way mean that his point of view is not valid or that he's "wrong." I happen to think he's a very smart guy who has terrific perception. My comment was meant strictly and only from *my* point of view -- in terms of what he says having validity *for the guy that he's criticizing.*

If that makes the least bit of sense.

Let me see if I can use words to transmit ideas...

From the point view of the writer, me, since I don't agree with what he's saying in his latest review which happens to be a slam, it sort of obligates me to season with salt any head-swelling praise from him for past efforts. To not be sober about this, as the writer, would be crazy making.

I kind of have a unique relationship to his reviews of my own work that others would not have. And no matter what any viewer's individual tastes may be, I gotta just keep churning out the junk food.

[There was a little bit more to this exchange, which can be found in the S3 questions section. Don't look unless you've seen up to 3x03, in this case.]

Clearly you've never had the pleasure of enjoying a really *good* hamburger.

Never been to the UK, but the burgers in NZ were atrocious. Could be they'd never heard of real ketchup. They thought tomato sauce was the same thing.

Worked for me.

However, I looked at those clips, not getting sound on the computer at the moment and (my hope is that this has something to do with the fact that...) I look insane [especially on the 'Sanctuary' clip - Ed]. What gives?