Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 33 1/3  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DXMachina - Mar 16, 2005 9:48:30 am PST #8031 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

-t and I both saw the name "Buck Bokai" and our minds immediately went to the same place.

Fandom synergy.


Betsy HP - Mar 16, 2005 9:50:23 am PST #8032 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Hey, guys, I'm trying to remember famous opening monologues, voiceovers that started shows. Here are three I know of:

1. Try THIS for a deep dark secret. 2. My name is t deleted. I'm an astronaut. 3. In every generation, there is a ...

Other suggestions?


-t - Mar 16, 2005 9:50:34 am PST #8033 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

-t and I both saw the name "Buck Bokai" and our minds immediately went to the same place.

Yup. So much for me being enigmatic and inscrutable.


Dana - Mar 16, 2005 9:51:50 am PST #8034 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

"Space, the final frontier..."

And, um, how does it go? "Do not attempt to adjust your TV set..."


Kathy A - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:06 am PST #8035 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The handheld thingee that the Dean Stockwell character (what was his name, anyway?) used to contact Ziggy in Quantum Leap.


§ ita § - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:12 am PST #8036 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

"You unlock this door with the key of imagination, beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into . . . The Twilight Zone."


Emily - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:38 am PST #8037 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

One of Lex Luthor's Blue Bottles of Water?

Professor X's wheelchair?


Aims - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:40 am PST #8038 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

One more Victor...

A watermelon. That have been dropped from the sky.


Dana - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:52 am PST #8039 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

And "I was falsely accused of a hideous crime...", although maybe not so famous.


§ ita § - Mar 16, 2005 9:52:54 am PST #8040 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit! These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground! Today, if you have a problem, if no one else can help -- and if you can find them -- maybe you can hire... THE A-TEAM!"