THAT CAN FLY!
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.
Polter-Cow - Oct 29, 2005 6:38:31 pm PDT #5054 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Katie M - Oct 29, 2005 8:46:17 pm PDT #5055 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
I think that the most awesome part was the villagers carrying torches. As they gathered in the streets outside buildings with electric lights. And they weren't even going up to Castle Frankenstein with them -- they were just walking around town.
Was the UK involved somehow? It took me years before I figured out that characters in British kids' books didn't just have some sort of weird obsession with lighting their way with fire-on-a-stick, instead of using a flashlight like normal people.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 30, 2005 12:53:13 am PDT #5056 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
Something just occurred to me about the "Aurora" episode on Stargate: Aquarium. Why did that ship full of Ancients have trouble with all the crew aging to the point of death over 10,000 years in their stasis tubes? Past stories have established that non-ascended Ancients could live that long—Moros from "Before I Sleep" roughly 10,000 years ago was apparently also Merlin and active on earth as recently as the 5th century AD. And that chick with no eyebrows was frozen in the ice in Antarctica for millions of years, and thawed out OK.
Theodosia - Oct 30, 2005 3:25:22 am PST #5057 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Except for the eyebrows....
Consuela - Oct 30, 2005 7:17:02 am PST #5058 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Matt, you're using logic again. You know that's not allowed.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 30, 2005 10:05:08 am PST #5059 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 think the writers must have forgotten that Ancients lived a lot longer than modern humans, and that Weir only aged maybe 50 years over 10,000 in the pod. Which, to be fair, I didn't remember for several weeks. (Though no one's paying me to remember this stuff, either...)
Theodosia - Oct 30, 2005 11:38:51 am PST #5060 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
IIRC, the Atlantis dude told Weir that the stasis pod was experimental? If so, perhaps what was experimental about it was that it was intended for 10K worth of stasis -- maybe the stasis pods on the Aurora were intended for a shorter-term, and they actually aged the Ancients more than their non-pod lifetimes in the same amount of time.
::waves hands wildly about in what she hopes is a distracting manner::
askye - Oct 30, 2005 3:28:03 pm PST #5061 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I found a link to this...sort of petition on Gateworld (which I never read) to Save Our Atlantis. Evidentally there's a rumor that Amanda Tapping might be involved in the show more extensively but also there's a feeling that the 2nd season isn't holding the same "ethos" as the first season.
There are spoilers for this season and speculation about next.
I'm trying to wrap my head around the way they see SGA because it's so different from the way I see/experience the show.
Consuela - Oct 30, 2005 3:34:58 pm PST #5062 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
You know, I scanned a bit of that, and it made my head hurt so I went away. I really lost it at the post that said, "as a huge Stackhouse fan". Because, dude, I wouldn't know Stackhouse if I was frelling him.
These people are getting way ahead of themselves, getting all worked up about stuff that's pure speculation. Additionally getting all worked up about problems that don't exist. I mean, if you don't like the tenor the show has taken since partway through the first season, maybe this isn't your show. But I am a grumpy woman, so perhaps I should shutup and go watch lots more Due South.
askye - Oct 30, 2005 3:44:47 pm PST #5063 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
They say that we don't know what happened to Bates. We do --- he was attacked by the Wraith and put into a medically induced coma. We don't know what happened after that, but he didn't just go up to the attic and never come back.
Also I've been thinking that inconsistency was a hallmark of storytelling on SG1.