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Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all?

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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.

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SailAweigh - Mar 03, 2007 11:33:08 am PST #7604 of 10001

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I'm being all cool and then.... yeah...

Why do I think this will be the scene that gets put on freeze frame the most around the ita household? And possibly other's.

§ ita § - Mar 03, 2007 11:38:11 am PST #7605 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I want a blooper reel, honestly. I'm sure you all swear like trucker/sailor offspring, and we'll never get to see that because of the rating.

Frankenbuddha - Mar 03, 2007 11:58:02 am PST #7606 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Espensen fit in great apparently. Her episode is hilarious I hear. I think it's about Fargo.

Weeee! This makes me so psyched.

WindSparrow - Mar 03, 2007 1:43:09 pm PST #7607 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.

Espensen fit in great apparently. Her episode is hilarious I hear. I think it's about Fargo.

Which would be more amusing - lotsa Buffy references, or none whatsoever?

Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 03, 2007 3:10:27 pm PST #7608 of 10001

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I don't know about amusing, but none whatsoever would be better. Unless it's in the context of pop culture references that Zoe & friends make about the show from having watched it growing up, maybe.

Authorial shout-outs to their previous work strike me as sickeningly twee in most cases, and it generally comes at the expense of the new show's mood.

Topic!Cindy - Mar 03, 2007 3:30:42 pm PST #7609 of 10001

What is even happening?

Oh, I love the Jane so much. Just thought I'd share.

Cashmere - Mar 03, 2007 3:38:44 pm PST #7610 of 10001

Now tagless for your comfort.

Oh, I love the Jane so much. Just thought I'd share.

As an unabashed Jane E fan, I'm going to share, too.

Jane strikes me as the perfect writer for Eureka--hellaciously smart and bitingly witty.

Nutty - Mar 03, 2007 7:11:20 pm PST #7611 of 10001

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

For Colin's benefit, let me restate the official analysis of blooper reels: All boxed sets must have blooper reels! All! All shall crack up about nothing and laugh like hyenas and fall over the furniture in so doing!!

And film it!

Nutty has spoken.

Sue - Mar 03, 2007 8:31:24 pm PST #7612 of 10001

hip deep in pie

I'm excited for the Eureka DVDs, because I managed to miss a few episodes here and there. I think Space is repeating the series, but I never remember when it's on.

Topic!Cindy - Mar 04, 2007 1:37:18 am PST #7613 of 10001

What is even happening?

The Boston Globe has an article on a conspiracy theory that Lost and Heroes are connected. Assume current season spoilers (but no future ones) for both shows. It's a cute article: [link]

It's all connected?
Fans say there's evidence that ties 'Lost' and 'Heroes' together, but creators don't buy it
By Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff | March 4, 2007

Across the Internet, the screen-grabbing obsessives -- the ones who deal in frame-by-frame analysis of ABC's "Lost" -- were getting in a lather about the NBC hit "Heroes." It had to do with a brief scene a few weeks ago, when Nathan Petrelli, the caddish politician who can shoot into the air like a bottle rocket, grumbled about what might happen if word got out about his powers.

Officials could "round us all up, stick us in a lab on some island in the middle of the ocean," Nathan said. And within nanoseconds, the clarion call clanged out in cyberspace: "Heroes" mentions island! It must be a reference to "Lost"!

Yes, "Lost" and "Heroes" air on different networks, tell different stories, and exist -- as "Lost" producers point out -- in totally different time frames. (The "Lost" castaways live, after all, in the fall of 2004.) But to their most devoted fans, the shows have come to represent a sort of yin and yang of serial TV, in constant battle for the title of the Mystery Show That Does It Better.

"Lost," the word goes, is deeper and more cinematic; "Heroes" is pulpier and better-paced. And the way fans sometimes talk, there seems a cosmic cyber-wish for the shows to somehow merge -- to meld into a single supernatural drama that doles out questions and answers in acceptable weekly doses.

Indeed, some seem to believe it's already happening. One fansite, darkufo.blogspot.com, has posted pictures of a "Gannon Car Rentals" brochure, held by Hiro in "Heroes," and Hurley and Claire in "Lost." It also shows off photos of a suncatcher in the background of a trailer in "Heroes," and a similar, fleeting image from a torture video in "Lost." Some fans have noted casting coincidences: Greg Grunberg, who plays Matt Parkman on "Heroes," had a short stint as a doomed pilot on "Lost."

And on a recent Entertainment Weekly blog, Jeff "Doc" Jensen half-jokingly floated the idea that the Dharma Initiative, a fictional company in "Lost," created the super-folks who populate "Heroes." (He added, "Oh, like they would ever admit it if this were true!")