I don't know how on earth to COMM that, but I really really want to.
I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.
Snyder ,'Showtime'
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.
Ailleann - Aug 15, 2007 9:06:15 am PDT #5371 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Jessica - Aug 15, 2007 9:18:18 am PDT #5372 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Bwah! I never noticed that before.
Zenkitty - Aug 15, 2007 9:39:06 am PDT #5373 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Good-looking muscled guys naked could be funny, or not, depending on context. But good-looking muscly guys are almost by definition at the top of the social heap.
pausing to ponder a heap of good-looking muscly guys
Lowering, say, Stark's, social status with the funny nudity still wouldn't lower him to, say, Fargo's social level. Nor would it lower him to a woman's social level, even if she were clothed - a naked man among women may feel a lot of things, but afraid isn't (normally) one of them.
You're right about Fargo in that he can't choose, but I don't see that as a reversal, just a limitation earned by him being low status.
I didn't say Fargo being naked would be a reversal; it wouldn't. Fargo being more powerful than Stark was a role-reversal.
Few women can manage to be powerful when naked or scantily-clad, unless it's sexual power, and that's very context-dependent. And a double-edged sword.
whereas a naked man's power is more symbolic. It's not that we want to touch his penis, it's that we're scared and impressed by him having one larger than we could ever imagine.
ahahaha! wipes tears Male nudity being powerful is also very context-dependent. Context in that case being sex or aggression.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 15, 2007 9:41:42 am PDT #5374 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
There's a good reason you haven't heard anything good: It's not good. Except for the scantily clad wimmen.
The three major examples of whom could all have been struck from the same mold. I half expect Flash to say something followed by "Isn't that right, Dale?" and have Aura answer "I'm not Dale."
eta: Painkiller Jane has been put out of our misery. [link]
Typo Boy - Aug 15, 2007 11:23:25 am PDT #5375 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK - so I take it that when I decided never to watch (this version) of FG again after the first half hour, I have no reason to regret that decision?
If you are ever in the mood, there was an X-rated animated parody of Flash Gordon some decades ago (Flesh Gordon). It was pretty funny (, and (IMO) actually a decent distillation of the cheezy fun of the original. Don't want to exaggerate - nothing even a little bit subtle - a lot of it is the kind of humor reasonably clever 13 year boys might come up with when feeling horny and frustrated.
Zenkitty - Aug 15, 2007 11:31:49 am PDT #5376 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Flesh Gordon was a classic of its genre.
Jessica - Aug 15, 2007 11:32:42 am PDT #5377 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Huh -- a group of us went to see Flesh Gordon in college together for a laugh, and we all wound up walking out halfway through because it was so boring. (It wasn't animated, though, it was live action. Maybe it was done twice?)
§ ita § - Aug 15, 2007 1:00:27 pm PDT #5378 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Context in that case being sex or aggression.
Doesn't that cover just about everything?
Typo Boy - Aug 15, 2007 1:30:17 pm PDT #5379 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
(It wasn't animated, though, it was live action. Maybe it was done twice?)
No, it is just that I have the memory of a man twice my age.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 15, 2007 3:01:08 pm PDT #5380 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
There was some stop-motion animation in FLESH GORDON of the low-budget Ray Harryhausen school, but it wasn't animated per-se.