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.
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.
What's the tattoo on STarbuck's arm?
Maybe it's a stylized mermaid....
It's Katee's tattoo, not Starbuck's, so we haven't gotten a good look at it. Ditto the one at her hairline on her nape.
Watching Stargate Monday--did we know that Katherine's Ernest was SGA's Dr Beckett?
The cross-pollination on these shows just boggles me when I run into a face familiar as a character on another show.
What's the tattoo on STarbuck's arm?
IMDB says "...tattoo of a Japanese symbol for "choice."
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Although this says she has three tattoos.
The one across the inside of her right forearm, just below the elbow, is words. The one on her nape (from the brief glance I had) looks like a kanji. I haven't noticed the third.
I donno, Beverly, there's not all that much more than any other 2 Vancouver shows
Debet, re: the next episode of SG-1, he's
only sort of a returning enemy, from what I can tell
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So, if you want to know, from Gateworld...
He is a Goa'uld-human hybrid (a la Anna/Sekhmet in "Resurrection," but without the split personality), a reincarnation of Anubis in some sense, and he possesses the half-ascended Goa'uld's genetic memory..."
