For some reason (and I don't claim there's any logic to this), I'm willing to believe in floating bucket trucks and fire freezing as new and different technology unique to Eureka. It's when you start fiddling with the ordinary, like electricity, that I get twitchy. I also may have started picking apart that particular thing because it seemed so desparately forced to put Jack and Allison together.
Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?
'Out Of Gas'
Boxed Set, Vol. III: "That Can't Be Good..."
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.
Ginger - Sep 07, 2006 7:47:54 am PDT #1096 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Frankenbuddha - Sep 07, 2006 7:52:23 am PDT #1097 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I also may have started picking apart that particular thing because it seemed so desparately forced to put Jack and Allison together.
This, although I have to say this bit was one of the few times I actually enjoyed any of this type of interaction between the two. Would that the cow had been there too (especially if it was at the moment where Jack suddenly got REAL uncomfortable looking).
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2006 7:53:37 am PDT #1098 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought they both played it well for a scene I hated, and it almost made me wish that a) there'd been chemistry preceding this moment and b) that it wasn't so much the thing you do with two attractive leads.
Power to, it occurs to me, SGA for doing nothing of the sort.
Hmm. Not much talk of Eureka slashing. I wonder why not?
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 07, 2006 8:06:24 am PDT #1099 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
I think Colin reads pretty solidly heterosexual, thus impeding any slashing.
Ginger - Sep 07, 2006 8:08:35 am PDT #1100 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think we'd have to slash Fargo and a robot.
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2006 8:15:51 am PDT #1101 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think Colin reads pretty solidly heterosexual, thus impeding any slashing.
Here, or in general? Because I'm thinking of Night Sins and Opposite of Sex at the very least.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 07, 2006 8:22:57 am PDT #1102 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I could see Henry being slashed, but not with anyone on the show yet, at least not as they've been depicted so far.
If I had my druthers, though, he and Jo would end up a couple.
DXMachina - Sep 07, 2006 8:35:16 am PDT #1103 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
No, Henry belongs with his true love, the one whose memories were stolen.
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2006 8:41:23 am PDT #1104 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I ship the ship DX ships.
Besides, Jo and Henry together is too much competence in too many areas. If they did not take over the world, their kids surely would.
WindSparrow - Sep 07, 2006 8:55:43 am PDT #1105 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I still think that she's superfluous. not saying that the actress is bad or even that their scenes are bad. Just doesn't seem necessary.
Zoe seems way less superfluous than the obligatory and bald-faced attempts at forcing a romance between Jack and Allison. Zoe, as a way to establish Jack as a regular guy with regular guy issues, may also be used on occasion as a form of peril which guarantees Jack, as a lawman, will get angry and effective rather than paralyzed with fear in response to.
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Besides, Jo and Henry together is too much competence in too many areas. If they did not take over the world, their kids surely would.
Yes, but the world would be a smarter, prettier place, and by extension, happier. Although it had not previously occurred to me, I now yearn for this ship, and the world it would make.