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I actually read an LJ post today where someone was so happy about Daniel's speechifying in, um, Origin. I couldn't contain my laughter.

read an LJ post today where someone was so happy about Daniel's speechifying in ... Origin.

Read it. Busted a gut laughing, for reasons similar to 'Suela's, I think.

Actually, I enjoyed Daniel's speechifying too. I didn't think it was terribly effective, but it was very old-school Daniel, and it was nice to see him again.

Well, okay, yeah, but she seemed to think it was convincing. Which was what made me laugh.

I think they might reasonably expect some success in convincing the Jaffa, since the latter just got through with the big "Our gods have lied to us and never really were gods at all! WE MUST OVERTHROW THEM AND BE FREE!!!1!" movement. Mind you, they'd be convincing them to talk smack to beings who can wipe out whole populations or destroy whole planets via a lone corporeal agent, so I don't think the resistance would fare as well as against the Go'auld.

I really don't see how the situation can end well for our heroes unless the Ori's stepped-up "worship or die" plan convinces the ascended Ancients to engage/counteract them en masse in Oma/Anubis fashion.

Interesting:

Writer/producer Rockne S. O'Bannon told SCI FI Wire that the idea for Cult, the TV pilot he's currently working on for The WB, was inspired by his experience as executive producer for the SCI FI Original series Farscape. "It's kind of based on my experiences with the Farscape fan community, obviously taken to an extreme," O'Bannon said in an interview. "One of the aspects of Cult is the subculture that grows up around a television series. It's kind of a show within a show. And it's totally based on that [experience], but an extreme extrapolation, because the Farscape fans are wonderful, benign people, and not all the fans of Cult are anywhere near as benign. They're actually quite nasty."

[eta: Further down, a choice of words & punctuation that will make fandom blink:

"It has to do with a kind of Charles Manson-slash-Hannibal Lecter kind of cult figure," O'Bannon said of the fictional series around which Cult is based. "[The brother] would go on the Internet and deal not only with the official Cult network Web site and post to that, but there's a whole set of other Web sites related to the television series, some of which are very hard to get into. They're somehow related to this Charles Manson/Hannibal Lecter cult figure, who is fictional, but you kind of wonder whether he's fictional or not."

Whee, finally caught up! I was stalling because our TiVo repeatedly failed to tape the 4400 finale. Finally I just gave up and skipped those posts.

re: SCIFriday - the BF (who I just found out was reading Trek fanfic way back in the day when you had to send off to get printed pamphlet-thingy's - this would have been ca. 1975 - what a pioneer! The only thing cooler would be if he had been reading slash. Although then, probably wouldn't be my boyfriend but some lucky man's) says not only was SG1 a rip-off of the early Trek episode Amok Time, but SGA was also a rip off of Operation: Annihilate! (in which Spock gets infected by a giant flying fried egg-white looking thing and everyone tries to save him but finally only he can go down to the planet and do whatever to save himself).

I was mostly bored this week, although Skinner Caldwell and his hideous sweater-vest, chess-playing geekout self were pretty cute. Sadly on SG-1 Vala was like the last interesting thing on the show to me, so even though I agree the show was more like itself than it has been all season, it reminded me of how I've never really loved it the way I love SGA. Although the Cigarette-Smoking Prior was good for a laugh.

BSG - Despite myself I'm starting to get sucked in! A locker room of half-naked pilots was enough to get my attention. I was surprised to learn that was Xena even though I'd been hearing the casting spoiler for months, because she looked so completely different. Also, Starbuck boxing - yum. She is so hot, the only one on the show I find attractive. I still hate Gaius and Six, and don't care about Adama, Tigh, Mrs. Tigh or Madame President.

Well, Bad Eggs was also a rip on the Spock ep. As was the SG:1 ep where Teal'c got bitten by an alien dragonfly.

All SF plots are recycled, didn't you know that? Many of them from tv westerns, themselves recycled from Greek, Japanese, and even earlier stories. There are only three plots: a stranger comes to town, a person leaves home on a quest, and...I forget the third. Home in peril? Oddly, most stories center around territory at their base, with romance and heroism and duplicity and all that other juicy stuff woven in as needed. But at bedrock? Three plots.

What's the tattoo on STarbuck's arm?

Ok, can someone white-font for me who the "Dark Shadow from the Past" on SG-1 this week is? He really doesn't look familiar.