Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.

'Shindig'


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.


sumi - Aug 07, 2006 10:46:36 am PDT #9954 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

( continues...) difficult. You just feel for everybody.

Q: That’s part of the joy of the show.

Olmos: It is. Everybody loves it. They love that tension, they love to go, ‘What’s he going to do now?’ It’s amazing. I am so lucky – I am a true believer in the program. I believe this is one of the greatest programs I have ever been involved with in my life and that I have ever seen on television.


sumi - Aug 07, 2006 10:50:15 am PDT #9955 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

SG1 and SGA ALWAYS goe on an extended break from Sept - January. So, this isn't new.


§ ita § - Aug 07, 2006 10:58:05 am PDT #9956 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Did Billie do accents in either of her appearances, or did she sound like her Dr. Who self?


sumi - Aug 07, 2006 10:59:35 am PDT #9957 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

In the one I saw - she sounded like herself. . . but I think that they were supposed to be someplace that isn't London.

Maybe someplace close enough to London but not!London that the accent wasn't a worry?

Nobody seemed to be other then generic British except for Don (John) who was Scottish and that guy who was in Murder Prevention Unit and is Irish.


Strega - Aug 07, 2006 10:59:44 am PDT #9958 of 10001

I love Olmos so much.


Kathy A - Aug 07, 2006 11:15:54 am PDT #9959 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

They were (mostly) playing on-air TV personalities, so having your generic BBC accent wasn't too far off the mark.

As for EJO, I was just rewatching my tape of (most of) the first half of BSG S2 last night, and was loving his performance so much. He's such a good actor, and can bring on the Adama Glare of Death when called for (the last ep I watched was "Pegasus", when it was in full force!).


Kate P. - Aug 07, 2006 11:46:38 am PDT #9960 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

SG1 and SGA ALWAYS goe on an extended break from Sept - January. So, this isn't new.

OK, good to know. Thanks!


Morgana - Aug 07, 2006 7:17:25 pm PDT #9961 of 10001
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

Not to go from the sublime (BSG) to the not-so-sublime, but is anyone else out there watching Blade on Spike TV? I've been enjoying it more than I thought I would. I won't claim Emmy (or Peabody)-caliber acting, but it's turned out to be a lot better than expected. I've been impressed that the episodes are forming one continuous, layered story rather than consisting of individual standalone eps. Currently the season is about 7 or so episodes in, and has introduced Blade's vendetta against a wide range of vampire "houses," his ally, a newly made vampire within one of the houses, and a lot of political intrigue amongst the houses themselves. (One of the house heads is a young girl, who reminds me of the girl in the white room at Wolfram and Hart.) There's an FBI agent tracking some of the killings, who seems to be inching closer to the realization of that they might have been caused by ... some sort of monster. All in all, it's been a satisfying way to fill an hour. The commercials are a trial (again, Spike TV... thank God for fast forward on my VCR).

I did have a question -- when vampires are killed, they turn to dust. There are more pyrotechnics than when Buffy dusts them, but still, dust is the end result. Is this part of vampire canon? I thought Joss had Buffy's vamps turn to dust so that the screen wouldn't be littered with bodies and so she wouldn't look like a budding serial killer herself.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 07, 2006 7:21:48 pm PDT #9962 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

The first Blade movie came out in 1998 with essentially the same immolation/death effect that the series uses. Buffy first aired in May 1997—I'm not sure if it had aired before the decision to have dying vampires go poof! was made for the movie.


Strega - Aug 07, 2006 7:54:59 pm PDT #9963 of 10001

I was channel surfing and caught a few minutes of Blade. The stuntwork seemed good. And that's all that I saw, so. But I've never seen the movies so the show doesn't have much drawing power for me.

I think the, er, poofing is a common part of the mythos. From Dracula:

But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Though Lucy doesn't turn to dust when she's given the Extraordinarily Freudian Stake. I think the idea is that decomposition makes up for any lost time.