t Averting eyes since I missed the Friday shows
Funny. Paul Gross is playing John Diefenbaker in The Tommy Douglas Story
Jimmy Olsen jokes're pretty much gonna be lost on you, huh?
Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
brenda m - Mar 20, 2005 10:51:55 am PST #414 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2005 2:03:30 pm PST #415 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I just watched "Dream A Little Dream".
Please, I beg of you, tell me it never gets worse than this.
Props to Suela for still spearheading the renewal campaign after an episode that is one long hyperextended lawyer joke, and not even a funny one.
Consuela - Mar 20, 2005 3:11:59 pm PST #416 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Betsy, DaLD is universally accepted as appallingly bad. [link] And, sadly, the first Farscape episode I came across. Thankfully, I turned it off after ten minutes or so, and didn't hold it against it when I actually watched my first full episode (which was Green-Eyed Monster, much much better).
There are a few real clunkers of episodes in the run of the show: Jeremiah Crichton, DaLD, Picture If You Will, Mental As Anything. And there are a number that are seriously flawed for whatever reason: TOBM, Vitas Mortis, The Ugly Truth, Coup By Clam, A Prefect Murder, Twice Shy, La Bomba.
But there's so much wrong with DaLD that I'd be just as happy never to watch anything but the envelope scenes again. Oh, and maybe a couple of Zhaan's hallucinations. It does supply that fabulous shot of Aeryn, John, and D'Argo walking down the hallway in silhouette, that they use for the credit sequence, though -- the one where John has his flight suit on.
Dana - Mar 20, 2005 3:16:50 pm PST #417 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
when I actually watched my first full episode (which was Green-Eyed Monster, much much better).
Wait. I was into Farscape before you were? That seems wrong, somehow.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2005 3:20:29 pm PST #418 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Right. In the last three days, I think we saw three of those: Vitas Mortis, Picture If You Will, Dream A Little Dream. (That's the DVD ordering.) At least Out Of Our Minds is cued up and ready to go.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2005 3:39:56 pm PST #419 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
I have to speak up in defense of "La Bomba," which to me was a rollicking thrill-ride that restored a lot of my lost affection for the series. Sure, it had people riding out a nuke in an elevator, and Sikozu pulling that previously unsuspected Skarran-killing superpower out of her ass. But it's not as if the show didn't train us to use jazz hands when waving away the plot silliness long ago. And it gave us back the real Aeryn, who'd been AWOL for far too long .
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2005 3:56:10 pm PST #420 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Consuela eloquently says what I was feeling. That was not a happy Jack, nor even an entertainingly unhappy one, which I'm willing to entertain for a little while. It hurt me to watch him so torn up.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2005 4:00:59 pm PST #421 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Which show is this, and should I be watching for the pretty pretty boys or for the writing?
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2005 4:04:39 pm PST #422 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why do I watch Stargate? It's never brilliant TV, but it's engaging TV, and fun TV when it's on -- and when it's on it can be like a little Chinese puzzle where they slot the doohickey from season one into the unresolved plot detail from season two and swish it around with the knowledged they gained last episode.
There are only a couple through-notes on the character's emotional development. By and large, they're the same people in different (or similar) situations.
The locations are all very Vancouver, much of the costuming sucks, you'll never be transported by the language -- but ... I don't know. I can't get enough of the OT4 that is SG-1.
Plus, Jack O'Neill is my favourite TV character.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2005 4:05:38 pm PST #423 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Living or discontinued? Because nobody's ever gonna beat out Emma Peel.