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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.


Juliebird - Sep 26, 2006 5:58:30 pm PDT #1849 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

And hey, isn't "oh crap" Carter's line? heh.

Speaking of Carter and Bev,

let's do the time warp

I never understood what the heck happened in the pilot, where one minute she's kissing him and the next he's waking up. All I can think is that he fell asleep on her like she said, which I don't buy with the way the scene ended, or that something nefarious happened that we've yet to see pay off. Was it just a bad edit? Am I glacial?


amlai - Sep 26, 2006 6:05:43 pm PDT #1850 of 10001

And hey, isn't "oh crap" Carter's line? heh.

Every time I hear Carter say "oh crap" it reminds me of Darien Fawkes from "The Invisible Man." (Though it is slightly different.)


DXMachina - Sep 26, 2006 6:10:46 pm PDT #1851 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

All I can think is that he fell asleep on her like she said, which I don't buy with the way the scene ended, or that something nefarious happened that we've yet to see pay off.

I've always assumed she drugged him. That's why I wasn't at all surprised when she poisoned Susan #2.


Mikey - Sep 26, 2006 6:17:15 pm PDT #1852 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.

My local PBS outlet was just showing Jeeves and Wooster. Seeing Hugh Laurie playing a twit after seeing him in House week after week--whoa.


DXMachina - Sep 26, 2006 6:20:57 pm PDT #1853 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I saw him play Bertie long before he was ever Dr. House.

Also, this conversation really belongs in Natter, not here.


DebetEsse - Sep 26, 2006 6:21:22 pm PDT #1854 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

See, with the hair and the scruffy, it's almost like a different actor for me. The two shows, together, though, really really want Fry and Laurie to play Aziraphale and Crowley.

And to be glad that House plays piano.

eta: Yeah, I was wondering about the genre-ness.


Kalshane - Sep 26, 2006 7:00:10 pm PDT #1855 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

I enjoyed the episode, and glad they went to a different AI for the killing of red-shirt pizza man. That's one thingy I'm always leary of with AI-gone-bad stories is that the characters always fix the computer and then seem to forget about the fact it went wonky and killed people.

Also, the entire ep, I was waiting for someone to comment on Carter's b.o.

Especially when Carter and Allison hug. I was expecting her to either scrunch her nose up, or else ask "Why do you smell like vanilla?"


CFerg - Sep 26, 2006 7:45:05 pm PDT #1856 of 10001

Okay, I didn't get the Zuul reference when I read the ep. but loved that someone else got it. It made me very very happy to remember it.

Yeah, and beer and coco yums is gross. It makes you pretty distended feeling after a while.

Hammy music. Agree. As always.

it actually wasn't Fargo who came down the ladder at the end - it was just some guy - but Fargo would have been a much better idea.

And we loved the beer move when we came up with it on the day. (Moving the beer away from Carter when he starts to be an idiot) We tried to create a better out for the scene because there was no reason for me to be that obtuse, and then it came off laughing about maybe he was drunk. But we loved it.

And I'm praying that 1rst season syndrome clears up too. We hate the inconsistencies as well. We were SO hand to mouth on scripts that inconsistencies were the "little" battles. And I knew we'd never win a battle trying to slow the Ja-llison trash compactor, so it was just trying to take the sting off stuff.

We will try to fix. We will try. Loved the Stark Henry scene.

!!Vanilla line would have been great!!


lurk soothly - Sep 26, 2006 7:59:06 pm PDT #1857 of 10001

I enjoy Eureka a lot, but I am getting really tired of all the character inconsistencies. Between seasons, could we get a chronology of what was originally supposed to have happened when?

Also, what is the producers' excuse for why the women seem to be taking off their shirts every episode or two, while the men don't? If we are going to objectify people on TV, let's have equal opportunity objectification! I'd love to see Colin in a Speedo!


tavella - Sep 26, 2006 8:01:19 pm PDT #1858 of 10001
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.

I liked the episode, but I'm... bugged... by the indifference to the pizza guy death. Within the wonky attitude of Eureka, I can manage to handwave Jack and Zoe ignoring their personal neardeath experiences and staying in the house. Even though it's completely unrealistic (Jack's going to stay somewhere that nearly killed Zoe?) It's... external. It's weird, but the fact that someone ignores damage to *themselves* doesn't make them unlikeable.

But them ignoring the fact that the house actually ripped someone apart, that makes them look like assholes. They are ignoring damage to someone else.