Er, wasn't that makeup? I was pretty sure it was makeup.
Lynn Cartwright would be shocked (and also proud) to hear that, I think.
Someone buy the casting director a drink!
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'The Message'
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§ ita § - Mar 24, 2005 8:43:50 am PST #483 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Betsy HP - Mar 24, 2005 8:56:19 am PST #484 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Furthermore (not that I'm holding a grudge) I hated the making-time-flow-backward-by-flying-backward meme when I saw Superman doing it. In the comics.
This episode just had so many asspulls: Stark's reappearance, the space mist, Chiana having trashed Aerin's prowler offscreen, the time travel, Aeryn's locket reappearing in the transport pod even though in this time stream it had never *been* in the transport pod, the crumbling picture...
Bleh. My suspension of disbelief snapped and I got whiplash.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 24, 2005 10:10:22 am PST #485 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wonders if we should warn Betsy that asspulls and Stark go together like bread and butter. Thinks better of it.
Betsy HP - Mar 24, 2005 10:33:29 am PST #486 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I was afraid of that. Him and his magic lighty face.
But now I know who Harvey is, so yea!
Jessica - Mar 24, 2005 11:24:07 am PST #487 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The Locket makes me cry a lot. I forgive it the bad makeup and accents and time travel.
StuntHusband - Mar 24, 2005 11:25:37 am PST #488 of 10001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
sits with Jessica, quietly
Betsy HP - Mar 24, 2005 11:41:46 am PST #489 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I envy you; I would love a big ol' shippy episode that worked that well for me. (Oh, okay, I have Look At The Princess part 3.)
Sean K - Mar 24, 2005 11:45:50 am PST #490 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I kind of like The Locket myself, gaping holes, asspulls and all.
Betsy HP - Mar 24, 2005 11:49:06 am PST #491 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Apart from production issues, my biggest issue is that as shown, John and Aeryn wasted twenty (fifty?) years together. I like to think that after fifty years with the guy she loves, even Aeryn Sun might admit as much to him. It isn't as if he wasn't just as wrinkly as she by the end.
StuntHusband - Mar 24, 2005 11:49:34 am PST #492 of 10001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I weep at lots of stuff. Under my crusty, ancient, cranky, curmudgeonly elder-goth-fag exterior - you know, the Alex that says, "I love children - done to a nice medium-rare over mesquite" - lies an incredibly sentimental goofball.
Gandalf falls? Crying. Doesn't make any difference that I've read the books twice yearly for 24 years, and I know what happens, and what happens NEXT. Crying.
Eagles out of the sun? Crying.
Boromir? Crying.
shrug
Jilli can tell you - just talking about the end of RotK, or "Sleeping in Light" from Babylon 5 makes me weepy and choked up. I made the vast, vast mistake of putting the RotK soundtrack in the car's CD player. The Eagles music came on and I almost had a wreck - hard to drive when your eyes runneth over.
Sap, thy name is Alex.