tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post5439476007485157700..comments2024-03-21T22:19:26.920-05:00Comments on A Follow Spot: Catch Up With a "Once Upon a Time" Marathon New Year's DayJulieKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12521424567356348282noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-45113281205523597882012-01-01T21:12:09.317-06:002012-01-01T21:12:09.317-06:00[completing my last sentence:] ... that makes me l...[completing my last sentence:] ... that makes me like the actors so much. But I do.JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-77056837415870864512012-01-01T21:10:25.925-06:002012-01-01T21:10:25.925-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-42241349346157903542012-01-01T20:11:10.158-06:002012-01-01T20:11:10.158-06:00I'll keep that in mind.
I wouldn't mind ...I'll keep that in mind. <br /><br />I wouldn't mind something nasty happening to little Henry; has there ever been a fictional kid who so absolutely did the opposite of what he was told, all the time?<br /><br />The series structure is rather Lost-esque; each week we get one person's (or one pair's) backstory. Not complaining, just making an observation (that no doubt thousands made before me).<br /><br />Jennifer Morrison is somehow a lot more interesting here than she was on House (it goes without saying that it's worlds better than her awful arc on How I Met Your Mother). There a lot of actors I like on this whom I'm not aware of having seen before (I recognized only Robert Carlyle, Raphael Sbarge for the little he's been on, and Giancarlo Esposito in his one appearance so far). Maybe it's just my weakness for fairy tales.JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-6518651623960716142012-01-01T16:23:02.894-06:002012-01-01T16:23:02.894-06:00Plus it ends up being kind of silly that Emma and ...Plus it ends up being kind of silly that Emma and her mother, Snow White, are the same age. And don't be shippin' on Emma and Prince Charming, since he's her dad. Eeeuw. There are some very strange lines they're drawing here.<br /><br />The Jiminy Cricket episode is the one they didn't include in the marathon. I think it's worth your time for Harry Groener as Jiminy's eeeeevil father. Although the way in which that evil is demonstrated is quite nasty, so you are forewarned if you go looking for the episode at ABC.com. They're all there, I'm pretty sure.JulieKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12521424567356348282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-47944240962597994042012-01-01T16:14:54.342-06:002012-01-01T16:14:54.342-06:00I'm watching the marathon, thanks to your aler...I'm watching the marathon, thanks to your alert. <br /><br />I gotta say though, that's one complicated backstory that they propose, and I keep trying to think if it could have been managed more simply. I mean, not only one baby unknown to the stories, but HER child as well, now grown to awareness. Oh well, I'm hooked anyway.<br /><br />It sure is a Disney production though. Not just "Jiminy" Cricket, but Maleficent.JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-9215723806028420192011-12-30T11:11:20.191-06:002011-12-30T11:11:20.191-06:00My suspicion is that Caitlin Pye-Strauss was Veron...My suspicion is that Caitlin Pye-Strauss was Veronica Geng, whose brief Kael parody in "The New York Review of Books" got her a job at "The New Yorker" (nice bit of irony) as editor and occasional writer. She certainly commanded the verbal dexterity and the ability to skewer the styles of others to have written the above quote.JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-14978772430166641672011-12-30T07:45:58.382-06:002011-12-30T07:45:58.382-06:00It's from that book-length "New Yorker&qu...It's from that book-length "New Yorker" parody (from 1986) titled "Snooze." The movie parody "Citizen Kale" is by "Pauline Zeal" (i.e., Pauline Kael reviewing a movie made by herself, about herself). The "real" author as given in the back of the book is Caitlin Pye-Strauss, which always looked fake to me and who has no other credits that I can find online. (It looks like an anagram in fact, but the best the online anagrammers can do is "Inarticulate Spy.")<br /><br />Anyway. The quote comes toward the end: "She has four disciples, called Kalites, and they stand in for sons or maybe lovers. Each one tries to be her clone, aping her opinions and her fizzy-pop-highbrow style. Each one uses the second person singular and lots of contractions and tries to write columns that are even longer than their mentor's."JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-30495949293453129732011-12-29T17:56:51.328-06:002011-12-29T17:56:51.328-06:00I had "high pop," but that didn't so...I had "high pop," but that didn't sound like anything, so I retreated to my "fizzy pop" comfort zone.<br /><br />When asked for my brand (a marketing thing that was quite big in the romance writer world maybe five or six years ago), I realized "fizzy-pop highbrow" is as close to a brand as I have. And I don't even know who wrote that all those years ago.JulieKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12521424567356348282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-52423886057441909832011-12-29T17:45:51.014-06:002011-12-29T17:45:51.014-06:00You do love your fizzy pop, don't you. (As do ...You do love your fizzy pop, don't you. (As do I.) :)<br /><br />Thanks for the notice. I've missed this so far, and intend to give the marathon a go.JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.com