After I got over my initial "Why the hell does he have a tuning fork?"

I have a set! One for high pitch and one for low pitch. I haven't used them since school, but I'm glad I didn't throw them out, just in case I might have to confront a super-hearing homicidal psychopath in near future.

t adds Curare on the shopping list for the next grocery run

Actually, Curare is a neuromuscular junction blocker and just paralyzes people, and has *no activity* on the cortical function of the brain, so that was stupid science. But not any stupider than Mohinder isolating genes with his laptop and a high school microscope.

In addition, doesn't Curare tend to depress the breathing muscles? Which is why it isn't generally used as a method to immobilize people outside of operating rooms with anaesthetists working hard.

I have a set! One for high pitch and one for low pitch.

t eyes Vonnie warily

There's a randomly large amount of Sam/Peter.

That's hilarious, considering the Gilmore Girls metaness.

I was pretty sure "paralyzes the brain" was nonsensical, but it's kind of lovely in it's meaninglessness, so I embraced it.

There's a randomly large amount of Sam/Peter.

That's hilarious, considering the Gilmore Girls metaness.

I don't even read fanfic and I can't help but fan the flames: [link]

Watched BSG. I couldn't think the paint scene was hot because I was too preoccupied by how nasty it must taste.

Hell yes. The part of me that was thinking "ooh, sexy!" was being completely drowned out by the part that was going "I hope that's not real paint..."

On the one hand, I agree with this (though I'm also liking the idea of her being a human/Cylon hybrid) -- but one of the most interesting things to me about this whole series is how much the Cylons want to be human, and how close they actually are to humanity. So in a way, I think it would be pretty cool for Starbuck, with all her painfully human characteristics and contradictions, to be a Cylon as well; it would prove that there really is no difference between the two. And that would change the dynamic of the show considerably, I think -- at least for me.

I completely agree with this.

Would the ejection have saved her? I guess if she were rescued by a raider, but my impression was that the planet was inhospitable to life for one reason or another.

No, because the reason her ship exploded was because of the planet's gravity -- it collapsed under the pressure. She'd be in an even deadlier environment outside the Viper unless she was picked up by something, or mysteriously wormholed away. (I would laugh and laugh and laugh if she ended up being shot... through a wormhole... and ended up on Earth.)

It strikes me that it would be violating a basic tenet of the creator-viewer relationship to build up a character like that with a capital-D Destiny -- it's like putting a loaded gun on the mantlepiece in the first season and then destroying the house in the third without the gun paying off in the plot. It makes the whole Destiny thing into a McGuffin which is just wrong.

So very much this.

I haven't listened to the podcast yet -- I take it RDM is being an ass?

And since I missed the conversation about Dirty Hands from last week, I liked it a lot. It's the only "issue" ep they've ever done where I've actually believed in the expansion of the BSGverse ncessary to address the issue at hand. (And I think Jane being the writer had a lot to do with that -- you don't spend all those years in the BtVS metaphor-verse without learning a little something about how to write eps that take place in your show while still being kind of about the real world.) I liked the way they worked Baltar into it, and I like pretty much everything the Chief does. (After listening to the podcast, I was a little regretful that we didn't get a Dualla ep like they originally planned -- she deserves a storyline of her own that's not about Lee, damnit! -- but OTOH their Saggitaron/racism eps have not been good, so it's probably for the best that they trashed it.)

I still haven't had time to watch Heroes. MALCOLM MACDOWELL IS LINDERMAN??? That is made of more awesome than I can stand. Malcolm Mac-freaking-Dowell!!!

I don't even read fanfic and I can't help but fan the flames

Oh, I had forgotten about that picture. Helllloooo.

In addition, doesn't Curare tend to depress the breathing muscles?

Yeah. That's how it kills when it's used in poison darts. Respiratory muscles get paralyzed so you can't breathe, then you die of hypoxia.

I can't fathom Sam/Peter. They'd be too busy clinging to each other crying in combined emo-ness to get it on.

I missed a whole bunch of episodes in the middle of Heroes so I am a little confused. Is Peter Claire's uncle or is one or the other of the Petrelli brother's adopted?

Is Peter Claire's uncle or is one or the other of the Petrelli brother's adopted?

Peter is Claire's uncle, as far as we know. However, Claire doesn't know her father's name, so she doesn't know yet that Peter is her uncle.