And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?

Mal ,'The Train Job'


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.


Laura - Oct 29, 2006 6:20:08 am PST #3219 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

The vote was deadlocked 3-3, with the Sixes casting the deciding 7th vote.

That was how I thought it went down.

The other 5 models are available for future use if/or when needed. The cylons are probably still working out programming issues with those models. Really, if the ones we know are the best of the lot, the cylons have some lovely dysfunction going on there.

Keep jumping. Hee.


JenP - Oct 29, 2006 8:16:39 am PST #3220 of 10001

Juliebird, did he say what he thought the motivation behind boxing up the as-yet-unseen-by-us Cylons is in the framwork of the BSG universe ?


Hayden - Oct 29, 2006 9:46:42 am PST #3221 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

My favorite thing was the "Office Special" that takes place three years after the series and wraps things up.

Damn straight. That was some satisfying and well-earned plotting.

And SA, I hear you on the suddenness of the Kara/Anders break-up. Whole lotta nada.


Juliebird - Oct 29, 2006 9:57:56 am PST #3222 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

JenP, I'm not seeing any reason given for his (and silly me, it was Aaron Douglas, not Tahmoh, who theorized this) belief that all the other Cylons were boxed, except for his opinion that to keep revealing more of them down the line would reek of bad storytelling. Here's the [link] it's about six "page downs" where Aaron and Tahmoh are talking about who they [don't] think is a Cylon.

Maybe I just like typing Tahmoh.

*sings* Tahmoh, Tahmoh, Tahmoh from the Yukon. And now I want to see him dressed up for the Musical Ride


esse - Oct 29, 2006 10:00:24 am PST #3223 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Huh. It never occured to me that they were being permanently broken up. I mean, they're still married, even if he's not carrying her dog tags any more.

Oh, it totally reeked of cutting the secondary character to me. I hate that classic tv trick with a passion.


Polter-Cow - Oct 29, 2006 10:09:53 am PST #3224 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Attn: Colin/CFerg! A friend of mine randomly mentioned you quite favorable today, so I thought I'd pass it along.

Funny story: I got to see an advance copy of this horrid Lifetime movie the other day starring none other than Lara Flynn Boyle. While I was happy to see she's not Skeletor anymore, she showed no emotions at all. The movie had Mark-Paul Gosselaar as the bad guy, for goodness sake. It was so bad. Even more disappointing was that it was based on a book by Anne Rivers Siddons that I read and really like.

The only saving grace was that Lara's husband was played by none other than Colin Ferguson! He was VERY Jack Carter-like in the way he played the role, he was the only one in the movie who could actually act, and he was still So Fine. It made me miss Eureka. Really, he was the only saving grace in what was otherwise a horrible 8 hours of work!


Strega - Oct 29, 2006 3:52:10 pm PST #3225 of 10001

I assumed that Anders will reappear. If they just wanted to get rid of him for budgetary reasons, why wouldn't they have killed him off back on New Caprica?


§ ita § - Oct 29, 2006 4:01:13 pm PST #3226 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Where does he fit, though, if he's not attached to Kara? He's not military (IIRC) nor is he government.


Jessica - Oct 29, 2006 4:42:55 pm PST #3227 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It's addressed (more or less) in the podcast, but to answer in this thread would be spoiling.


Kate P. - Oct 29, 2006 6:20:27 pm PST #3228 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

And, my love for Roslin grows. Maybe not a flawless solution, perhaps true war criminals/traitors are now allowed to walk freely, but what she diverted... *deep sigh*

I agree, I really loved that ending; although part of my love stemmed from the fact that all through the episode, I was thinking to myself, "Hm, this seems to parallel the situation in South Africa after apartheid in some ways," and then they actually went and set up the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, which is the actual same name as the actual committee that Nelson Mandela set up in South Africa to address, and begin to heal, the wounds of apartheid. I thought that was very cool.

Where does he fit, though, if he's not attached to Kara? He's not military (IIRC) nor is he government.

Hm. I didn't see that scene as them breaking up, so much as them dealing with an incredibly difficult and painful situation that impacts the future of their marriage. I don't think we've seen the last of Kara/Anders yet.