I only ever saw Dark Angel once, and I thought it was so cool that they were setting up a guy in a wheelchair (a hot guy in a wheelchair) as the romantic interest. Then at the very end some miracle or something happened and he moved his leg or some such and was clearly going to be all better by the next ep. Never went back.
River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.
'Objects In Space'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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brenda m - Mar 12, 2003 10:23:23 am PST #4144 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
erikaj - Mar 12, 2003 10:24:51 am PST #4145 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
yeah, that would've been cool, Brenda.
Theodosia - Mar 12, 2003 10:29:19 am PST #4146 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
FWIW, by the end of the second season, he could walk for limited amounts of time using a power-brace arrangement thingie, which is consistent with real-world current R&D efforts. The series had a lot of stupidity but they actually were pretty good about the guy in the wheelchair. (PS -- the really interesting relationship on the show was Max/Alex, but he doesn't show up much before the start of the second season.)
Theodosia - Mar 12, 2003 10:30:35 am PST #4147 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Oh, and can someone confirm for me -- in the X-Men movie, was Magneto's real name Erik Lennsherr or Lehnsherr? I've got the second written down here, but it doesn't look right.
esse - Mar 12, 2003 10:34:50 am PST #4148 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Then at the very end some miracle or something happened and he moved his leg or some such and was clearly going to be all better by the next ep. Never went back.
He wasn't. His storyline was both simultaneously the most frustrating thing ever, and the one of the more interesting subplots of the show.
PS -- the really interesting relationship on the show was Max/Alex, but he doesn't show up much before the start of the second season.
Well, it was Alec, not Alex. Made more interesting by the fact that he was the genetic duplicate of one of her X5 brothers she had to kill the previous season. I'm pretty sure the reason they brought him back was because of the chemistry between the actor and Jessica Alba.
Man, I really loved the first season (and maybe the first half of the second season).
§ ita § - Mar 12, 2003 10:35:13 am PST #4149 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IMDB has him down as "Erik Mangus "Magneto" Lensherr", except it's Magnus, not Mangus, so who knows if they can be trusted?
Theodosia - Mar 12, 2003 10:42:46 am PST #4150 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
'Alec', of course -- bad memory for names here, which is why I'm double-guessing on Magneto. Of which I may have something to post later today....
Nutty - Mar 12, 2003 10:59:39 am PST #4151 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I do remember a name that sounded like "Lensher", although I have no idea how it's spelled.
D'you know, in XF, there was fanfic about Krycek before we had a canonical spelling of his name? The people who (mis)spelled during that early period were very indignant at being lumped into the later ignorami who just never checked the end credits.
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 13, 2003 10:39:16 am PST #4152 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
amych - Mar 13, 2003 10:41:58 am PST #4153 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Thanks for the link, RL. That was lovely.