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.
Betsy, true, but. Let me be bitter anyway.
Oh, Jack/Daniel readers: Komos has new fic. It's entirely smutty. Don't even go near this from work levels of smutty.
Fay, I may be oversensitive on the issue, and I agree that they have chemistry, and they seem to be setting it up that way. I just think it's kind of obvious, and really, given the size of the Pegasus galaxy, why do we assume that Ronon has anything more in common with Teyla than with the Earthers?
Teyla's from a rural, semi-nomadic, rather spiritual people. They don't appear to have any advanced weaponry, although it's possible their knowledge base is far more sophisticated than their technology. Ronon, on the other hand, is a weapons specialist, military trained, from a highly technological, urban society. Despite his recent experiences, he's got a lot more in common, I think, with Sergeant Bates or my mythical Airman Teresa Jones, than he does with Teyla Emmagen.
IJS.
why do we assume that Ronon has anything more in common with Teyla than with the Earthers?
Two, two, two exotics at once!
Yes, I am making my sociocultural point about orientalism by punning on a commercial. That is what makes me postmodern.
t eats Nutty's brain, cause she's smart AND funny
And yes, thank you, you clarified my point exactly.
Well, I'm glad you liked it, because I was totally guessing and haven't seen the particular episodes being debated.
Still and all, the big clue was who is allowed to say "don't" and "can't" in dialogue, and who has to say every syllable like an actor at speech class. Also, I bet there is a correlation between fictional peoples who may be considered exotic and fictional peoples almost totally ignorant of the concept of irony.
Ah, well, Ronan/on does get to speak with contractions, slanginess, and snark, so there's that departure, at least.
I'm looking forward to Sam coming back, but I will miss Vala, and I would love to see them together. Could still, I suppose. I have a question, but not sure about wf, so...
is Vala gone now? As in, won't be in this week's ep? Not much of a send-off. Did I just breeze by the part where they fixed the being connected to Daniel thing? I admit to not watching the SG eps closely this past week, but I'd think I would've caught that much
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Jen, I saw her in the trailer I saw last night, so she's definitely in this ep.
Oh, OK, good. Well, then maybe I'll get my wish. That'd be nice.
Thanks to the gracious and talented ita, I finally saw Prometheus Unbound.
Vala was a LOT more dangerous in that episode. Nowadays she's mostly comic relief; her Sekrit Power is annoying people to death. Okay, she gets points for shooting an Orii last week, but in general I'm not seeing the woman who could overpower *everybody on the Prometheus*.
I do see both the chemistry there, and the problem with it, philosophically. However, yeah, he really does seem less alien than Tayla does (and terribly American, IMO), so it bothers me less (less, actually, than putting her with John, but that's a whole different issue for me).
Vala was a LOT more dangerous in that episode.
Oh, yes. As I said elsewhere recently, she even managed to escape from the brig and take out an entire security team without any weapons. Which leads me to believe she might have been able to escape from Daniel any time she wanted...
