Oh! I was thinking of something that bothered me from the last Doctor Who. If VCRs hadn't been invented yet, where the hell did he get a tape? Although the Betamax joke was funny.
I like pancakes 'cause they're stackable. Ooo, and waffles 'cause you can put things in the little holes if you wanted to.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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.
Vortex - Nov 15, 2006 6:11:59 am PST #3682 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Cashmere - Nov 15, 2006 6:21:22 am PST #3683 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Vortex, he stopped by the TARDIS, so I assumed he got the video tape from a stash there.
Vortex - Nov 15, 2006 6:23:30 am PST #3684 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Oh, I didn't remember the TARDIS stop. I feel better now.
machall - Nov 15, 2006 8:06:29 am PST #3685 of 10001
"Would you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?" - Doctor Who
I want to know how Glasses Guy's organization can find these people, and what that has to do with Mohinder's father's research. I also really hoping that Glasses Guy's organization is NOT an evil conspiracy, because I am so sick of those.
What I'm getting is that they are a government organization or private foundation monitoring emerging genetic changes, but they do not have a reliable way of finding subjects. Shuresh did not work for them so they were covertly monitoring his work on the search algorithm.
The indicators are certainly mixed as to whether HRG's organization is good or evil. It seems that he lives in that moral grey area that most spooks inhabit where the end justifies the means. The fact that he went to the trouble of getting Issac clean in the first place hints that he is one of the good guys. He's not above plunging him back into addiction though if the situation is desparate enough.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2006 7:52:06 am PST #3686 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That guy is no fun at all. I'd like to see what his perfect world of SF looks like.
Dana - Nov 16, 2006 7:53:44 am PST #3687 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Okay, first example in, and he's already wrong. Spock never wanted to be human.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2006 7:59:39 am PST #3688 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm reading through the comments on the first page, and they're more interesting than the article itself.
Polter-Cow - Nov 16, 2006 8:02:07 am PST #3689 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Heh. Some of those I agree with:
Sci-fi writers love to treat “planet” as if it’s a single location. “Let’s land on the planet, where we’ll meet the one settlement of the one culture, and have the one adventure the planet can afford us.” Planets are entire WORLDS. Even with advanced technology, it will take a space exploration crew YEARS to explore and survey a single planet. Even an uninhabited one.
That's always bugged me, but I deal. Because it sure would take a lot of work to come up with entire WORLDS for every single planet you might want to come across.
I'd like to see what his perfect world of SF looks like.
Apparently, a NASA space exploration documentary.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2006 8:09:28 am PST #3690 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love the SG1 episode where Sam deduces they're on an ice planet.
Turns out they're in the Arctic.
DXMachina - Nov 16, 2006 8:17:23 am PST #3691 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Antarctic.
I will say that Stargate is among the worst at that. So many of the planets they visit seem to be just a single tiny village that has maintained the exact same population level for thousands of years. It ain't natural.
I had to stop reading the little snot. It's fiction. Deal with it. SF isn't the only genre that is rife with cliches (or maybe he hasn't noticed that cops always get blown away the day before they're supposed to retire).