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I know there are some nice stories that centers around the Dean/Cassie relationship, but I just cannot get past that episode because of 1) KILLER RACIST TRUCK, and 2) the girl who played Cassie was also Isabelle from 4400 and I *loathed* Isabelle, and 3) have I mentioned the KILLER RACIST TRUCK? I wish I could get past it because it has half-naked Dean in it, but alas, no.
Yeah. Route 666 is what one might call a low point (midway through, when I started to do math, my head started to explode, so I turned off my brain), but the idea of Cassie sheds interesting light on Dean, so I'm willing to sort of overlook the huge sucking sound for the additional info there.
And the half-naked Dean.
It sounded really familiar, like it was a deliberate parrot of a piece of music I knew.
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is the first one I thought of -- same repeated three-beat chord.
On the podcast (recorded with a college class he had lectured last week), Moore said that he had put Beethoven on the temp track and they decided to stick with classical music for all the basestar scenes.
He was also asked about Lee's rapid weight loss, and basically just said it was something they meant to address while writing the early eps, but those scenes were always the first to go when editing them (either before or after filming, I don't know), so finally he just decided to have him skinny for the rest of the eps and filmed a pickup of the scene with him weighing himself and Helo commenting on the newly-reabbed Lee.
Also, the Minority Report similarity was acknowledged as being a conscious one.
Hee. I have heard about this, and I am interested in seeing it for myself. It sounds awesome.
It's like "The Black Market" of SPN. Well, OK. I think "The Black Market" was actually worse, because at least SPN kind of acknowledges the cheesy place from which a lot of their MoTW plots come from. And I haven't seen the other much-maligned episode, "Bugs", so it may not even be the lowest of the low point.
I actually recall liking "Bugs" quite a bit!
And the guy who played Travis in "Bugs" was Connor in Exodus and Collaborators!
Oh, really? I call him Aragorn.
I remember not being squicked by all the, uh,
bugs
in "Bugs" because I was too busy laughing at how they were warping the space/time continuum.
Oh, really? I call him Aragorn.
Hahaha. That's the squirrelly shaggy-haired guy in the tribunal who lost his son to the Cylons, right? I vaguely see the resemblance.
My favourite one-off character on SPN so far would be Sheriff Kathleen from "The Benders", because she was kickass and complex, and was played by the splendid Jessica Steen. (I still have mournful thoughts about what Weir on SGA could have been like had Steen stayed on. I mean, Torri Higginson is not *terrible*, but Steen is just a league ahead.) Are there any good stories around where the boys run into Kathleen again? I'd totally read that.
That's the squirrelly shaggy-haired guy in the tribunal who lost his son to the Cylons, right?
The same guy who plays the new Genii leader on SGA? Hell, what is his name...Ladon. maybe?
what is his name...Ladon. maybe?
OMG! I KNEW I saw him somewhere before! Ahhh, Vancouver.
