We all squeeed when we saw it was a Jane Espenson episode!
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
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Theodosia - Aug 22, 2007 4:16:29 am PDT #5712 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Frankenbuddha - Aug 22, 2007 4:17:22 am PDT #5713 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
We all squeeed when we saw it was a Jane Espenson episode!
I completely missed that. Go Jane E!
Jon B. - Aug 22, 2007 4:35:45 am PDT #5714 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
We all squeeed when we saw it was a Jane Espenson episode!
I missed that too!
This was another episode with GREAT characterization, but a plot that needed a lot of hand-waving. The thing that bugged the most plot-wise? We had Gramps!Fargo and Famous-Scientist-Emeritus guy each claiming that one was the assistant of the other and Carter searching for esoteric evidence to figure out what happened. Wouldn't the DoD have pretty thorough records as to the positions of each of them at the time?
sumi - Aug 22, 2007 4:45:44 am PDT #5715 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I missed Jane's name too.
DCJensen - Aug 22, 2007 5:26:25 am PDT #5716 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Also, bad empty coffee cups! Or coffee cups filled with tepid water that no one is afraid of spilling so they handle it casually. (Nah, it even sounded empty like and empty thing when it was put on the table).
I brought this up one other time when the cups seemed empty, and Colin said that they usually have liquid in them. I think they should fill them with mashed potatoes or something.
WindSparrow - Aug 22, 2007 6:10:08 am PDT #5717 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.
I brought this up one other time when the cups seemed empty, and Colin said that they usually have liquid in them. I think they should fill them with mashed potatoes or something.
The gag reel in my head has 'em putting marbles in the styrofoam cups, with the inevitable scene with the lid coming off, marbles hitting the floor, people falling all over, Hepburn/Grant/Bringing Up Baby thing going on. (ETA: Good gravy, I just noticed who posted that comment. Daniel and I are such a geeky, met-online couple. We didn't even bother to have this discussion outside this forum. And let's not go into the whole IMing from the living room to the dining room thing.)
Two things. I wonder what Belle's work in Eureka was. And, I was going to ask why a slap-dash, quonset-hut military installation, backwater town was doing with a jewelry store, way back when it didn't have many of the amenities it does now. But then I remembered that Charlie was growing that diamond. So, is the growing of gemstones for scientific, laser of death purposes Charlie's raison d'etre en Eureka and the jewelry making a happy sidelight, or is the jewelry so brilliant that the scientific lapidariness of Charlie the secondary effect?
Ailleann - Aug 22, 2007 6:14:23 am PDT #5718 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Windsparrow's post reminds me how different we (meaning Buffistas) are as an audience. I assume that's intended to be handwaved, because of course they'd have a jewelry store, and why would we even think they wouldn't?
(The clocks made me think that it was an actual jewelry business, and maybe he just worked there because of his skill in diamond cutting, reapplied for science.)
eta: for gross mis-naming of a Buffista.
sj - Aug 22, 2007 8:02:55 am PDT #5719 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We all squeeed when we saw it was a Jane Espenson episode!
I missed that! I thought I read that she wasn't going to be able to write an episode this season.
Vortex - Aug 22, 2007 8:08:54 am PDT #5720 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
And, I was going to ask why a slap-dash, quonset-hut military installation, backwater town was doing with a jewelry store, way back when it didn't have many of the amenities it does now. But then I remembered that Charlie was growing that diamond. So, is the growing of gemstones for scientific, laser of death purposes Charlie's raison d'etre en Eureka and the jewelry making a happy sidelight, or is the jewelry so brilliant that the scientific lapidariness of Charlie the secondary effect?
YES, this. I meant to make this point. Even if Charlie was growing the diamond for Belle as a sideline, why would he have professionally printed receipts?
tavella - Aug 22, 2007 8:26:02 am PDT #5721 of 10001
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.
Pierre's forgiveness seemed unbelievable; in between morning and night you lose your youth, health, and fifty years of your life, and you just go "living with what he's done will be enough punishment"? There's an entire world of grief that they tiptoed over there. But given that the show is supposed to be more lighthearted than not, I guess that they didn't want to spend too much of their emotional capital on a guest character.
One small thing that I intensely liked: they made a point of Belle not wasting her life while pining over Pierre. No Miss Havisham-ing for her, but dogsledding in Alaska. It reminded me of my great aunt Elizabeth's response when asked why she never married: "It takes a mighty fine man to be better than no man at all."