Thanks. Yeah, that ringtone ad was fucking annoying - I had to mute my iBook.
Improbably, all this is happening on the Sci Fi Channel, best known for reruns of Knight Rider.
I dunno - I think the SciFi Channel is now best known for Mansquito.
Buckle up, kids! Daddy's puttin' the hammer down.
Spike ,'Touched'
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.
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2006 6:39:45 pm PST #6811 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kalshane - Jan 26, 2006 6:50:22 pm PST #6812 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Of course, they took it back and I guess that the Smallville folks haven't heard of the new Superman canon either. . .or maybe the old canon is the new canon.
I so would have preferred if they hadn't taken it back. And I say this as someone who doesn't hate Lana. There was so much more potential in Lex causing Lana's death for Clark and Lex's enmity and Lex finally going full-on evil.
I'll miss Jonathan, but Annette O'Toole's portrayal of Martha's grief is what really made it hurt.
At least we didn't lose Chloe.
Betsy HP - Jan 26, 2006 6:59:21 pm PST #6813 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Oooh! A young Jason Isaacs is in "The Lady and the Tiger"! (Highlander Ep)
Calli - Jan 27, 2006 3:41:19 am PST #6814 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I watched Smallville last night for the 100th episode. I was hoping that Jonathan would be the one to buy it (since I knew A&M would never let Lana die permanently). There was the same frustrating blend of good and bad acting, interesting filming and bad special effects, fun parallelism and lousy dialog that I remembered from back when I used to watch regularly.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 27, 2006 3:54:01 am PST #6815 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Improbably, all this is happening on the Sci Fi Channel, best known for reruns of Knight Rider.
It's like FARSCAPE and MST3K never happened. Harumph, I says. Granted, MST was picked up from another network like STARGATE was, but it was the reason I first tuned into Sci-Fi for anything but the old movies they used to show.
§ ita § - Jan 27, 2006 5:37:49 am PST #6816 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's like FARSCAPE and MST3K never happened.
You're looking at it from the inside. I think they're not.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 27, 2006 5:44:17 am PST #6817 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
Yeah, I don't think my own THEY KILLED KENNYFARSCAPE! THOSE BASTARDS!!! reaction is one that's typical of the general viewing public when they hear the SciFi Network mentioned.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 27, 2006 5:53:06 am PST #6818 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
You're looking at it from the inside. I think they're not.
Are the ratings for BG that much better than for FARSCAPE? I ask because I genuinely have no idea. Or is it the name recognition factor vs. actual content of show (i.e. cheesy 70s show gets a classy remake) that's the difference?
Granted, Sci-Fi never re-ran a show that pinged my radar, so I never perceived it as a re-run oriented station, so, yeah, I'm probably not the norm.
Oh wait - they did Trek TOS for a while, didn't they?
Nutty - Jan 27, 2006 6:00:04 am PST #6819 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Frank, you've never been unemployed with cable, have you? Yea, verily, that's how I caught up on Quantum Leap reruns, Lost in Space reruns, and a bunch of other stuff.
Actually, as a data point on Sci Fi fame, my flatmate is into SF, but only now and then. (Really, she's a Captain Picard fan, and reads George R. R. Martin, and that's all.) She asked me the other day if I'd heard about this show Battlestar Galactica, because some of her classmates had been telling her about it.
The fact that she'd never heard of it till middle of its 2nd season says one thing (she's not hugely media-conscious outside of her predefined interests). The fact that non-SF-fan law students are telling her about the show now says another.
(I don't think it's her kind of show, in the final analysis; although she wouldn't be much bothered by the logical lapses, and would eat up the quasi-incoherent politics, the dark tone would tend to be a turnoff.)
tommyrot - Jan 27, 2006 6:05:07 am PST #6820 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Are the ratings for BG that much better than for FARSCAPE?
BSG is the SciFi Channel's highest rated original programming show thingie. Dunno what ratings Farscape got.