OK, the producers of Atlantis are going to have a difficult sell trying to convince me nothing slashy is intended in the way of McShep with Torri Higginson and Rachael Luttrell giggling about McKay being jealous of Omnipotent!Barbie on the "Sanctuary" commentary. It's not just the fans who are seeing it, Wright and Cooper!

Hee!

And damn, I was in the used DVD box set store (aka Newbury Comics) yesterday, and forgot to look for SGA which I've been meaning to acquire....

Does anybody want to explain to me what BAD WOLF is about? Is it a running joke in the series, or else a British-thing that I just don't get?

Does anybody want to explain to me what BAD WOLF is about? Is it a running joke in the series, or else a British-thing that I just don't get?

You'll see....in time.

I just bought the Doctor Who script book. It's not as spectacular as a Buffy script book, but it's well worth having, with the usual snippets of dialogue that never made it to the screen. I admit, I miss Joss's stage directions; Davies's are more businesslike.

I just have to delurk to share some SG1 watching stuff, since nobody in my RL has any interest.

I've been working my way through every season of SG1 since December or thereabouts. I confess I got interested with the whole Ben Browder thing, and then enjoyed season 1 enough to carry on.

So last night I watched Season 7 Heroes. So very broken now. Damn them. Once the key moments happened I remembered reading the discussion here about it. I mean, I knew that Fraser was going to die this season. I figured out in Heroes Part 1 that it was probably going to happen pretty soon. (Fraser being all flirty and date-getting with the journalist guy? so doomed). But I still fell for the O'Neil fake-out - for a little while, anyway. And then once I realized I just started crying and couldn't stop. DAMN them.

In other S 7 news, re Lost City: Who the hell is that? That is not Elizabeth Weir. (I've watched the s1 DVD of SGA and random s2 episodes. I like Torri Higginson). Don't know what happened to change that casting, but I'm glad for it.

Will be picking up s8 SG1 today. Anyone know when the s9 DVD's are going to be coming out? (I managed to catch the last 4 or 5 episodes on TV. Bouncing back and forth between Browder and RDA was giving me whiplash, though. I want to see the begining of the season).

ETA (and overexplain because I'm a dweeb): I "fell for" the O'Neill fakeout in the sense of thinking it was really really bad for him but there would be some miraculous save, since I'm not a moron and do realize he is still making appearances on the show and stuff.

Don't know what happened to change that casting, but I'm glad for it.

And there you have the triumph of chronology (a la the people who liked Inara fine if they got to see Firefly in order): Those of us who met Weir as played by Jessica Steen liked her fine, and were boggled to see Torri Higginson's interpretation. I still prefer JS's presentation of the character--she's sharper and savvier, less patrician. Ah, well--nothing to be done about it now.

Part of my issue with Weir as played by Jessica Steen, I must confess, is that she looks and sounds too much like Carter. In the very first scene, when Weir is trying to catch a cab and the camera comes at her from a distance, I thought it was Carter.

But yeah, I'm probably biased because I've seen too much Higginson as Weir. Also, was time for a brunette.

One of the Doctor Who writers:

"You come across the occasional nutter who will talk about Russell's gay agenda — I imagine he keeps it in a pink folder in a special leopardskin safe — but this is possibly the most heterosexual Doctor we've ever had," Mr. Moffat said. "Clearly, Russell's gay agenda is to turn everyone straight."

Hee. By the way, Russell T. Davies is on record as being a stone Joss Whedon fan and being proud to have once shaken his hand.

but this is possibly the most heterosexual Doctor we've ever had,

I don't know that I'd say that exactly, though he's the first Doctor that's registered as a sexual being at all to me. Maybe he dresses straighter than the rest (definitely compared to One and Three, anyway)...

I think that's the point the writer was making, Matt; the Doctor's pretty much been asexual before. So a Doctor who kisses both a guy and a girl is still more het than a Doctor who stays home at night with the Sonic Screwdriver.

I like Three's wardrobe a lot.