Giles ,'Get It Done'
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.
So I'm watching Smallville, mostly because there's a lower chance of maggots than on the thing we were watching, and I just watched Lionel get shot to my favorite aria. It feels like they sullied it.
Oh, but I'd forgotten how pretty Lex is. Pretty, pretty Lex. So pretty. Sigh.
I'm watching Smallville, too
James Marsters without the accent is deeply disturbing.
And, thanks to the "his story"/history thing, I have to hate the character.
Well, he is evil....
Which just confirms me in my sense that Stargate, in both its incarnations, holds a mirror up to America's foreign policy in the same way that Star Trek used to, back in the day.
Huh. Because I so don't see this -- at least I don't see that it's a particularly thoughtful or subtle mirror. It's all, "hey, the Genii are like the Taliban the way they hate us, let's have them do something awful and then we can have a morally-complex discussion about the appropriate response!"
It's a reflection of a certain type of American foreign policy, but not a reflection that really informs us particularly well. But then, neither did the Star Trek analogies. t shudders at the thought of the black-and-white people episode
Has SG done the "alternate reality where we're all EVOL" episode yet? Because those are always fun.
They've only done the AU where they're dorks and the AU where Teal'c is still evil. And the AU where they're all dead.
And the AU where Sam had a different rank, briefly, as Daniel tuned the mirror.
<shudders at the thought of the black-and-white people episode>
The space-hippies bugged me more.
Then there was the VisionU where Daniel became a megalomaniac, betrayed all of his friends, and blew up Moscow.
About misogyny - does no one ever throw an insult that doesn't reflect their prejudices? I'm certainly not above going through other people's rubbish to put someone down.