Going…Going…Goners
2009 April 29
Back in the day, oh, two or three years ago, I actually believed Joss Whedon’s Goners would be filmed. So I made the image below, which I recently found on a Photobucket account I’d forgotten I had. I may have posted this, or a version of it, at the old Goners site. Or I may not have on the basis of it not being good enough. My standards have lowered since then, apparently.
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Wow, that totally ties in with Steve DeKnight’s Vampy Cat story in Buffy!
Impressive image-man-ship, Your Majesty! I especially dig the hand reaching up from the lower right hand corner and how much time it took me to realize that the woman is encompassed by an eye.
Is the hand reaching up to help her escape? Or is the hand reaching up to pull her into a hellish abyss? And why is its thumb so long? Is it Uma Thurman from “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”? Or is it a nonhuman-yet-possessing-an-opposing thumb entity? Tune in next week at the same bat time on the same bat channel.
I still can’t believe I let this see the light of day with a stupid page curl in it. Yikes. Talk about heading into the abyss. I’m already there.
I don’t know. I like it jaynelovesvera. And even though I am now a proud member at Goners.org, I still have no idea what the movie was supposed to be about.
Hi jaynelovesvera, is this what you named your site after?
Absolutely, korkster. Meshed with the “lurks” from Joss Whedon’s Fray comics. I love Fray. The pic of Summer Glau I made earlier then used for the site header is supposed to look “dreamy” in every sense.
I had read and loved Dick’s book years before it was adapted for Blade Runner. Back in the day (several decades ago) I read the best scifi voraciously. And wondered why there were so many lousy scifi movies made when so many great stories were going unfilmed.
Oh, wow! That is Summer! I didn’t even know.
I had seen a version of Blade Runner, but I can’t remember if it was the director’s cut or the original. Is there a version that you recommend? Or should I just skip it all and read the books?
And thanks for the info on your site! It’s like discovering a treasure chest!
I liked both versions of the movie, korkster. Dick’s books are brilliant but his prose style bothers some people, I’ve heard, though I’m a great admirer.
Here’s the original post the header detail came from.