Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?

'Time Bomb'


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.


SailAweigh - Oct 14, 2006 12:47:56 pm PDT #2721 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

totally succumbed and bought BOTH seasons of Dark Angel

Guilty. The only reason I bought season 2 was because I'm a completist. I quit watching season 2 about halfway through. I feel I should watch the rest, just to say I did.


sumi - Oct 14, 2006 1:04:02 pm PDT #2722 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Okay, it's totally THAT John Barrowman. . . and I think he may wear a kilt in this somewhere. . . (at least it seemed to be him in the preview.)


Strega - Oct 14, 2006 1:09:29 pm PDT #2723 of 10001

I didn't watch Galactica till today because I was reading The End last night and didn't wanna stop. But yeah, the "one hour earlier" thing felt like a "with one mighty leap..." save. Whereas if they'd shown it to us last week, it would have been fine. I'd just as soon have them put that in the second ep, and bumped more of Starbuck's story into this one. Which would have fit with all the baby-hunting, anyway.

The biggest annoyance for me was that last week, Cally tumbles down a hill when she's escaping. So that "Oh no, she's in our line of fire" thing seemed particularly dopey.


Kalshane - Oct 14, 2006 1:18:22 pm PDT #2724 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.

The biggest annoyance for me was that last week, Cally tumbles down a hill when she's escaping. So that "Oh no, she's in our line of fire" thing seemed particularly dopey.

Yup. That and the fact last week (and in the recap) Cally heard gunfire while she was running. Then, last night Chief tackles her before the gunfire starts.


P.M. Marc - Oct 14, 2006 1:21:36 pm PDT #2725 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Guilty. The only reason I bought season 2 was because I'm a completist. I quit watching season 2 about halfway through. I feel I should watch the rest, just to say I did.

If you watch Supernatural first, you stand the chance of having S2 of DA seem suddenly shinier, just because of the Ackles factor.

t waves tiny pom-poms marked "Sam" and "Dean" in the air in an effort to get Sail watching.


WindSparrow - Oct 14, 2006 1:42:01 pm PDT #2726 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.

And "everything has its time, and everything dies" was not, apparently, just about the Daleks. But, since it can't be the Time Lords (It's not Doctor Who without the Doctor, yo), I don't know. Likely something with the human race stepping beyond itself.

Debet, I take it as a meta-message about the essential nature of the show - about the viewers' attachment to each version of the Doctor, and to the various companions. There is a new wave of Doctor Who fans who've known only CE as the Doctor may still be adjusting to the change to DT at this point in the series. The principle applies to other aspects of the show as well, and development of that theme is certainly in the eyes of the beholder - as well I know, having realized yet another aspect of it as I'm thinking out a reply to your statement (and which I shall not elaborate on at the moment for spoileriness).

My question for those who were not sure of enjoying David Tennant's performance as the Doctor - and to whom I said (or meant to, anyway) to give him up to "School Reunion" to prove himself - is, what do you think of him now?


Calli - Oct 14, 2006 2:21:48 pm PDT #2727 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Okay, it's totally THAT John Barrowman. . . and I think he may wear a kilt in this somewhere

It is. He does. And the lucky owner of Cawdor castle gets him to carry her tea tray about while he's wearing said kilt. Since she's the Lady and she also knows where the heck she's going, you'd think she'd go first. I'm pretty sure she's letting JB walk in front of her to check out his ass in the kilt. As would I, were I her. But since I'm not, I just sat here and enjoyed my own view of things.


Theodosia - Oct 14, 2006 2:56:35 pm PDT #2728 of 10001
'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"

Dark Angel S2 gets radically better as it goes on, seriously, and not just Ackles' part, either.


Juliebird - Oct 14, 2006 3:21:44 pm PDT #2729 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

My biggest letdown so far for S3 of BSG is the horrid lack of CKR. Granted, we're only a couple of eps in, but another thing that bugs is there's no multiples of him walking around.

Is this just scheduling difficulties, or is it specific to Leoben's character/model that he enjoys his individuality and doesn't actually like too many of himselves walking around, obsessing over Kara. Maybe it has something to do with his "I am god, I swim in the stream". I hope it's a story-choice, and not that CKR wasn't around that much.

If it's story-specific, then it would seem that he (Leoben) has his own agenda, and doesn't give a fig about what the rest of the Cylon do with the remainder of humanity, so long as he can play house with Kara. Perhaps even they consider him a freak and don't want his model mucking up the already mucked-up works with his new-age mumbo jumbo (Brother Cavil would probably commit fratricide on his ass a dozen times over!).

Still, whatever the reason is, it all boils down to me stomping my feet and whining "I want more Callum!"

eta DA, it gets better? Cuz I had to stop watching early on in S2 due to the crapitudiness (and just downright weirdness) and my eyes couldn't stop rolling over the whole "Eyes Only is deathly allergic to Max's dander."


Jessica - Oct 14, 2006 3:50:15 pm PDT #2730 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I do wish we were being shown other Cylon models besides the 7 we already know. I understand the budgetary constraints on casting 5 more characters (and the additional efffects-work in showing us multiple copies of them), but it doesn't seem to make much sense that there would be 5 human models completely out of the loop on the entire New Caprica venture.