Archive for July 2006

Internment?

On 25 July 2006 with No Comments

In a report from Comic-Con, Joss is quoted as saying that Goners will include “some Japanese” and “two dobermans”.

Just where did my mind go with this new information?

Combining the reference to Japanese with the fact that the film will have “a very ugly side to humanity going on in it” and with the random and unrelated Google discovery that the term “goners” was used to describe certain prisoners in Soviet prison camps, and I start wondering whether or not any of the characters will have a link to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Violet Tendencies

On 11 July 2006 with No Comments

“Loved the speculation on the character Mia’s name,” Joss wrote in February. “Can’t wait to hear what you all say about Violet.”

It’s entirely irrelevant, of course, but the last Violet I encountered was the one in the book Jennifer Government, and she was majorly and uncontrollably demented.

Left/Off

On 8 July 2006 with No Comments

“It’s a completely new work that does take place in the modern world,” Joss once said (mp3) of Goners. “Needless to say, slightly left of center.”

Did he actually mean “off-center” when he said “left of center”? Or was his use of that particular phrase intentional, and meant to invoke something of a political implication, which is the context in which that phrase normally is used?

It’s Not A Rumor! (Yet)

On 5 July 2006 with No Comments

Just to head off any potential rumors, Priyanka Chopra is not in negotiations to star in Goners, either.

Goners Is Undefined

On 1 July 2006 with No Comments

At least, according to Urban Dictionary it is, except in the singular.

On the other hand, there are two Wiktionary definitions (and the same ones for the singular), and you have to use the singular on Dictionary to find any results there.