Henry's such a woobie.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
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.
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Cashmere - Sep 12, 2006 5:25:17 pm PDT #1287 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Strega - Sep 12, 2006 5:27:22 pm PDT #1288 of 10001
But putting hardwire connections between a couple of Galactica's systems suddenly opens the door for them to hack in?
The Cylons built a backdoor into the nav program in the miniseries, yes. What happened in S2 was something different. The Cylons transmitted a virus, presumably via the comms. Normally that wouldn't matter, but this time everything (not just FTL and nav) was networked, and the virus spread into other systems before the connection was broken. The Cylons weren't directly issuing commands to the ship via a backdoor, as they did in the mini; they were getting the front door to unlock itself.
I got nothing on the fiber-optic thing, though. That was just goofy.
Jesse - Sep 12, 2006 5:29:37 pm PDT #1289 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dude, that music wished it was 70s porno music.
Jesse - Sep 12, 2006 5:32:09 pm PDT #1290 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, also: Did Colin talk about us in a podcast?!? Dude.
Also, what did they call the anti-shippers of X-Files? NoRoMo or some shit? I could do that here.
DXMachina - Sep 12, 2006 5:32:23 pm PDT #1291 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Also, my knees were aching in sympathy for CFerg and MFrewer.
I was just thinking "Jeffries tubes," cool!
The world domination thing was great. Don't even really have any science quibbles. Although... How many people did the nanos scavenge for carbons? There were a buncha Starks.
Actually, the only quibble is I'm pretty sure we've seen Allison use her cell phone in the GD building to talk to Jack outside of it, which would seem to ignore the EM shield. We're gonna need some wank.
Jessica - Sep 12, 2006 5:33:44 pm PDT #1292 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
See, in the Galacticaverse, they have only three medical tests, and two of them involve looking closely at someone and saying "Hmmmmm....probably not a Cylon." This is why Cylons are indistinguishable from humans according to "every known medical test."
That this society somehow managed to invent both AI and FTL spaceships before the X-ray is just one of life's deep mysteries.
Jessica - Sep 12, 2006 5:37:13 pm PDT #1293 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Although... How many people did the nanos scavenge for carbons? There were a buncha Starks.
I assumed they were hollow.
And Allison's cell phone is um, special. In some way.
I really liked this ep, too. Even the Jack/Allison! Because, see, when they're actually together, talking to and looking at each other, there's some chemistry. When the show is making cute jokes about it, it's annoying. And if Allison and Stark get back together because of it, so much the better.
The "you dream of world domination?" was lovely.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 12, 2006 5:37:40 pm PDT #1294 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Dude, that music wished it was 70s porno music
Damn, after Colin's rant this afternoon I totally spaced on paying attention to the music. I guess I was just astonished that the PDA wasn't as contrived as I was dreading.
The camera stuff was weird, though. What, for instance, was (dead, possibly gay) Larry screaming about? I gotta assume it was Not!Lojack who took him out, but they never showed what happened at the point before assimilation that would freak people out.
Juliebird - Sep 12, 2006 5:46:44 pm PDT #1295 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Jesse, the podcast is here: [link]
and *sigh* re: the new Zoe/Wash, but Henry has the lovely Tamylin Tomita, who'd better come back!
Cashmere - Sep 12, 2006 5:55:22 pm PDT #1296 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
The music isn't that bad. I really kind of like this scene.