Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?

'Time Bomb'


Boxed Set, Vol. IV: It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that.  

A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi or fantasy) 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.


Liese S. - May 10, 2007 7:55:18 pm PDT #1161 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Aaaarrrgghhh! Aaaaahhhh! Arraaagrraaahhh!


§ ita § - May 10, 2007 8:10:28 pm PDT #1162 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hee.

I mean ow, but I also mean hee.


Liese S. - May 10, 2007 8:15:25 pm PDT #1163 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Lee - May 10, 2007 8:17:39 pm PDT #1164 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Skipping to the end to say

a)OMG

b) DAMN YOU KRIPKE


P.M. Marc - May 10, 2007 8:18:54 pm PDT #1165 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

See, I knew from an interview that they were going to do something Very Mean and Bad in the last scene.

And from the promo, it wasn't hard to guess what. Which made it less a matter of what, more a matter of how next week will deal with it.

Loved seeing Ava go darkside. It made me strongly desire to see Ginger Snaps again. Because she's so freakin' good at it.

Did they really have to make a black guy the ultimate muscle, though? Did they really feel the need to have a dead lesbian? One doomed to kill by touching? I am making a wee frowny face at them right now.


Lee - May 10, 2007 8:29:00 pm PDT #1166 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Did they really have to make a black guy the ultimate muscle, though? Did they really feel the need to have a dead lesbian? One doomed to kill by touching? I am making a wee frowny face at them right now.

I was too.


Liese S. - May 10, 2007 8:32:06 pm PDT #1167 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Okay, we are done West Coast, right? I'm on your time now, but I was all worried I'd just posted episode analysis in the middle of your watch & post. I'm always so confused because I'm on satellite and I never have any idea what time zone my locals are in.

So, reposting now...

I was going to make a weebl & Dean icon, but after all the sad I can't.

I was so glad to see Ava (and okay, Andy) back, but they were with us for so short a time! I felt whiplashed by it. Ava's not missing! But in trouble! But turned evil! But dead! I wish I'd had more time to deal with her storyline.

However, I find it plausible and not unsympathetic that she's have gotten to the point where she is. If she really had been there for all five months, kill or be killed that whole time, I can see where you'd get to the point where kill seemed like a reasonable option, especially if it turned out you were good at it.

In a sense, if you had the skills and the YED motivation, it would almost seem like suicide not to kill. Which, yeah, probably right where the YED wants you. Which it was, in the end, for Sam!

Oh, Sam, Sammy, please be not dead Sammy! Also, I was all, pressure on the wound, Dean! But, if dead, maybe anguished hugs more appropriate. Please be not dead, Sam!

And also, why didn't you pick up both weapons when you realized you were fighting and decided to go for it? 'Cause leaving the knife there was just dumb.

Lots of new information in this ep. How reliable a narrator do we think the YED was being when he showed Sam his babyhood?

Also, totally agree with PMM about the stereotyping. At first I was all, great, the black guy's the redshirt. Then he wasn't. Then the lesbian went all schmuck-baity. And I rolled my eyes forever. Because it would be Wrong to Touch Another Woman, and in the end she must Hang for it. Then I was hoping for partnership and a relationship outside of his brother's with someone who had power like him and also understood the internal struggle in a way Dean never will. But no. Because Minorities Can Not Be Trusted and it's always possible they will Stab You In The Not-Metaphorical Back. Pfah, I say to you.

But it sounds a little muffled when I say it because I'm saying it through all the rest of the episode flail.


Lee - May 10, 2007 8:39:24 pm PDT #1168 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I am going to miss Ash, and Eva, and Andy, and the Roadhouse. I realize now that I should have expected it, after last year's killing off of Jim and Caleb, but DAMN.

Especially with Ash and the Roadhouse.

I refuse to believe Ellen is dead until I have to.


Lee - May 10, 2007 8:53:08 pm PDT #1169 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

So the set up for next week/season:

(given that Sam is of course, NOT DEAD)

Where is Ellen, and is she pissed enough to be anti-Boys?

What about the other generations?

How did Mary know the demon?

Where is the YED getting his Army, how close is he to having it ready, and why is he raising it?

What else is there?


Polter-Cow - May 10, 2007 9:12:33 pm PDT #1170 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Ray Voodoo Tatum!

sumi, was it?? I thought so!