Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.

'Safe'


Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"  

A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.

Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.

Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.

This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.


tommyrot - Jul 18, 2005 8:03:11 am PDT #2115 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

There needs to be a musical episode of BSG. Since they can't really blame magic for making everybody sing... maybe there can be a computer virus that infects all the Cylons and makes them sing.

I just wanna be myself
I just wanna be myself
I just wanna be myself
Be myself
Be myself

I'm all alone, so are we all
We're all clones
All are one and one are all
All are one and one are all


DXMachina - Jul 18, 2005 8:05:45 am PDT #2116 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Send in the clones, there ought to be clones...


Betsy HP - Jul 18, 2005 8:07:08 am PDT #2117 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together


tommyrot - Jul 18, 2005 8:10:00 am PDT #2118 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I am the Boomer. I am the Boomer. I am the Cylon. Goo goo g'joob


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 18, 2005 8:15:23 am PDT #2119 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Have we heard any music or popular culture on BSG, aside from knowing that they have news/talk shows similar to our own?


Strega - Jul 18, 2005 8:17:59 am PDT #2120 of 10001

It was a perfectly good article chronicling a difficult process of interpersonal and corporate negotiation, and very interesting, with a few unnecessary and distracting opinions thrown in.

Do you expect that kind of complete objectivity in a Sunday Times magazine article, though? To me the context of the article, and the fact that it's an arts-section type of piece, signal that it's not going to be hard journalism. I don't usually read the Times, so I may have a poor idea what they normally run in the magazine.

How you summarize the article might highlight that we were reading for different things, though. To me the story's hook is, "There once was a bad show, which had some fans. It was remade as a good show, which made some of those fans angry." The conflict between the fandom and actual quality is what interests me. A completely objective description of events would make me think, "But why should I care? Why are you telling me about this show in particular, when every show has conflicts we don't hear about?"

if you have an enemy captive, and want to know what makes him tick
In "Flesh & Bone"? They didn't want to know what made him tick. Roslin's the only one who even wanted Leoben questioned; Adama was ready to kill him immediately. Then Leoben told them that he'd planted a nuke on one of the ships, which gave them something to chat about, and made it a very bad idea to perform any experiments that might actually kill him.

They've never demonstrated much interest in why the Cylons do what they do. Cylons kill people. Most of them figure that's all there is to know. Which is part of why Boomer's in such a spot.


tommyrot - Jul 18, 2005 8:19:47 am PDT #2121 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Have we heard any music or popular culture on BSG, aside from knowing that they have news/talk shows similar to our own?

I'm pretty sure we haven't.

Adama gave a book to Roslyn once. That's all I can think of.


Strega - Jul 18, 2005 8:23:40 am PDT #2122 of 10001

There's big band-ish music (I think it's a live band, but it might be a recording) at the party in "Colonial Day." And yeah, Roslin and Adama talked about some popular mystery novels in one of the first few episodes.


Jessica - Jul 18, 2005 8:25:42 am PDT #2123 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

To me the context of the article, and the fact that it's an arts-section type of piece, signal that it's not going to be hard journalism. I don't usually read the Times, so I may have a poor idea what they normally run in the magazine.

The features in the magazine are usually pretty good, at least compared to their arts/style coverage in the rest of the paper.


Emily - Jul 18, 2005 8:40:00 am PDT #2124 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

There needs to be a musical episode of BSG.

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Original series, but there you are.