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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I liked Colin Baker. Because he was such a jerk. I know, it's a shock for me to react that way.
But really. I thought it was interesting. I had only seen Tom Baker & Peter Davison, and Davison really was a bit too squishy and nice. So a selfish, half-psycho Doctor kind of made me go, "Oh. Well, this is different." And the effect that had on the formula was sort of intriguing -- I seem to recall that the stories shifted so that a lot of the plot was simply designed to overcome his, "Yeah, boo-hoo, we've all got problems" attitude.
And then a bit later PBS started airing some of the very first episodes. I was amused to see that Hartnell's Doctor was rather similar to Colin Baker's.
I liked all of the Doctors except Colin, though I only saw a little of Sylvester McCoy.
Behind the Scenes of "Time Crash."
"If I could show this to my eleven-year-old self...he'd melt."
Lucas, Julian...okay, who was Lucas?
Half-brother, I think.
yes, Lucas is Lex's half brother, the mother is Rachel Dunleavy, a crazy woman who was played by memfault! (the woman who played Rachel Dodd in a short lived sitcom in the 80s). She kidnapped Lex because she thought that Clark was Lucas. Lionel set up a fake adoption agency that "placed" Lucas and Clark with the Kents. Which is how he got the Rosses to sell the creamed corn factory to him and ruined Smallville
t /former Smallville fan
Huh, hardly any SGA talk.
Well, I have to say that I was pleasantly impressed. These people can learn from their mistakes!
Perhaps they're not too stupid to live, after all.
Also, yay Carter!
Dammit, I dozed off less than 10 minutes from the end... curse the comfy sleep-inducing sofa! What happened after the seer collapsed and gave Teyla that vision of the hive ship being blown up?
I don't think it's possible for a sci fi show to love itself as much (and as well) as Doctor Who self loves.
Bless, as Fay would say.
SGA is whatever--that fake cliffhanger from last week was poorly served. If we weren't supposed to already know she's pregnant, leaving it like that was clumsy. And if we were, why end last week's ep in the middle of the exchange?
What happened after the seer collapsed and gave Teyla that vision of the hive ship being blown up?
Second hive ship appears and they've cloaked the unshielded city and then hive ships blow each other up without (apparently) telling anyone where Atlantis is and McKay goes back to work on the virus and Carter gets a decent evaluation despite having gambled with invisbling the city instead of shielding it.
Peter Davidson had the unfortunate luck to follow Tom Baker as The Doctor.
nods
For me, The Doctor really is, and always will be, Tom Baker. He's my personal quintessential Doctor.
He was then replaced by Colin Baker whom nobody liked.
See, I liked him. And I felt just dreadful for him, because he had to fight against that bloody idiotic pantomime dame outfit they'd saddled him with. It was during the Colin Baker years that I bought and read all the novelisations (75p a pop, iirc) and thus was all backstoried up for my fannish love of the show.
And then Sylvester McCoy came along, and I could never get past the fact that he'd been a sort of comical presenter character on a vaguely educational kids' show called - er, possibly
Jigsaw.
::sighs::
Why oh why don't the DVD stalls in Bangkok stock New Who Season 3 yet?
I think Omar explains my feelings well:
Things taken an even stupider turn when we find out that Boy Editor is actually Lex's dead brother, Julian. Now, here's the thing: if Lex had cloned him from his dead brother's DNA, cool. That's interesting. But instead, we get a badly written, weak-sauce explanation that Julian never died: it was all a Papa Luthor ruse and Julian's been alive this whole time, given up for adoption in secret. Lex has helped him get to where he is, career wise, and wants to keep his identity a secret. Which makes absolutely no sense and really screws up the show's continuity. And isn't Boy Editor way too old to be Julian? Dammit, show. Just when I thought we were going to be friends again. Grrr!
Maybe his "adoption" and life are a ruse. He is a replicant with planted memories!
t /Blade Runner
