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.
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Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
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And just to throw it in: I believe Tory said "Can't get no relief" while puking.
Yes, right after, when she looked in the mirror. She didn't sell it, though.
I'm starting to wonder if those of us who were spoiled are, on average, more satisfied than those of us who remained unspoiled. I know that's hard to determine, but it's an impression I'm getting.
Which is the human condition, and honestly... I think that is the plan.
Very nice, Strega.
They are guessing and second-guessing what they are supposed to do -- they don't know who/what designed them or what their purpose is.
Also, they're always having to second guess humans, and they're machines, so the humans are confusing the hell out of them. I don't know if it is better or worse for the Cylons who have felt love.
Though I would have gone with "I Am the Walrus," personally.
Somewhere else I saw someone wishing "Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" was the song.
Would have gone with the anvilly "storm's a-coming" thing they had Helo say in the previous episode.
That reminds me of Sports night.
DAN
Rebecca isn't here, Isaac isn't here,
there's a strangeness about this day.
DAVE
30 seconds live.
DAN
Eli's coming.
CASEY
Eli?
DAN
From the Three Dog Night song.
CASEY
Yes.
DAN
Eli's something bad. A darkness.
CASEY
"Eli's coming, hide your heart girl."
Eli's an inveterate womanizer. I think
you're getting the song wrong.
DAVE
In ten--
DAN
I know I'm getting the song wrong, but
when I first heard it, that's what I
always thought it meant, and things
stick with you that way.
Would have gone with the anvilly "storm's a-coming" thing they had Helo say in the previous episode.
That sent my friend into a whole "Eli's Coming" place.
t /Sports Night
I'm starting to wonder if those of us who were spoiled are, on average, more satisfied than those of us who remained unspoiled. I know that's hard to determine, but it's an impression I'm getting.
I was unspoiled, and I loved the finale. (You knew someone was going to respond with that as soon as you hit post, right?). It was trippy and weird, and I had a ball watching it.
Ha! I kind of love that about us.
It's kind of a corallary of the rubber glove! AIFG! phenomenon (mah-nah-mah-nah
sorry
).
Buffista A: You know one might surmise that it's just us northern buffistas who like to wear rubber gloves and pretend we're chickens.
Buffista B: No! I grew up in West Bumfuck Alabama and me and my cousins would do that all the time!
De-lurker: Delurking to say, I'm from Azerbijan and we have a cult of rubber glove wearers.
Buffista A: Huh.
Hee. I tried to use But My Experience Contradicts That in conversation the other day and I had to get all eyerolly that my meatspace conversationalists don't have the oh-so-convenient Buffista shorthand down.
Hey guys. About the question of who left the note -- I wasn't thinking so much in the sense of it being an important question that needed to be answered, as an old plot thread that might be picked up, and now had possibilities it hadn't before.
But the discussion reminded me of something I'd been thinking about for quite a while....how we tend to come up with highly complex theories to explain what we're shown on the screen, overlooking that the people who make the show have much less time to think about this than we do, since they're so busy, y'know, making the show.(I'm thinking of stuff like Giles=Ethan, and "It's Angel pretending to be Angelus", neither of which I think were proposed too seriously, but I've seen people elsewhere come up with similar theories and get bent completely out of shape when the explanation was much simpler.)(I once had a friend give me an impressive rant on the temporal mechanics of Sailor Moon.)
t /abusing parentheses
And of course, shows like Jossverse and Heroes and BSG encourage this , because sometimes there
are
spoilers in plain sight, or complex allusions or metaphors. People pick up on that, and get into the habit of assuming
everything
fits into a pattern, when sometimes it just seemed like a good idea at the time.
And I'm about to start rattling on about my Theory of Joss, so I'll shut up now.
(PS, does anybody else remember "Ivanova is in league with the raiders"?)
