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.
(I don't know what to make of Cain, which I take as a sign that the writers didn't know either. So I'm a neutral vote on that discussion.)
Topic for eggheaded discussion: the not-platinum Six is or is not a parallel to the plot in
I Spit on Your Grave.
The basic scenario is horrifying rapes, followed by un-wishy-washy, systematic revenge. But the movie protagonist killed all of her attackers, starting with the dumbass followers and working her way up to the leader, whereas to date the TV version went straight for the leader (and that a woman).
(Wouldn't I laff and laff if, one by one, Pegasus soldiers showed up dead as Six continued to pursue her revenge. Not that (a) television can really show bathtub castration or (b) the writers are necessarily going to continue with this character at all. But, Joe Bob Briggs and I would find it funny.)
The movie's politics are messy and raw, empowering women to take up the tools of violence only after a thorough victimhood. The TV version has the complicating "I was a robot for the toaster empire" factor, but how much does it hew to its horror-exploitation movie forbear? How is it different?
Discuss.
sighs with Consuela in utter, utter disgust.
You know, Suela, now that I think of it, [spoiler for S9/S10]
there is
SO DAMNED MUCH to be said for oversized purses and neck-up shots.
her acolyte, the guy she sent over to take out Adama and Adama's entire staff.
If she trusted him to take her place, she was a much poorer judge of character than I'd assumed.
And don't forget
overcoats and autopsy tables.
If she didn't know Adama's phone call was to tell Kara to kill her, she's a much poorer judge of character than
I
assumed.
RE SG spoilers: I'm just letting go. I mean, okay, fine, mystically aged kid. Fine. Whatever. You know, I don't actually mind as much as I should. At least it isn't an infant! At least it presumably won't be, you know, hanging around the SGC! At least it's a girl for once instead of a boy!
And hey, maybe at the end of the season Vala will cut her daughter's throat and they'll all go work for the Ori.
I really, really wish the SG-1 writers had taken a hint from SGA fanfic and gone all-penguin all the time instead.
Seriously. Vala's Penguin Baby. An idea whose time has come.
Re Katie's idea re spoiler:
Ooh! Medea! Vala could sprinkle the child's disjointed remains through the Stargate to slow a vengeful Daniel down!
If she didn't know Adama's phone call was to tell Kara to kill her, she's a much poorer judge of character than I assumed.
Well, it turns out that Adama's phone call wasn't to tell Kara to kill her, so it turned out okay, didn't it?
Do you really think her second in command had a quarter of her steel or resolve? I never got the impression she thought anyone at the time could do her job, though I'm sure she'd loved to have had the chance to groom Kara.
I love how Kara was impressed and stuff with her, but when Big Daddy said shoot, she was willing to follow his order. Or at least try.
But edgy as BSG is, I didn't think any of ours would get their hands that dirty.
