Buffy ,'Potential'
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I just saw an ad for "Showdown at Area 51", which will be SCI FI Saturday's movie on the 15th. There's no info on it at imdb; however, I saw an ad on Sci Fi and Gigi Edgely will be in it.
Tomorrow the movie is some kind of giant squid movie. I think.
Tin Man: The reconceptualizing is interesting, but some of the nudge-nudge-wink-wink we're-referencing-the-original dialogue was painful. Alan Cumming is being wasted, while Kathleen Robertson's boobs are putting in overtime (that shot of the flying monkees coming out of her cleavage was awesome).
I assumed the reason the flying monkeys came out of her cleavage was because having her pull them out of her ass would have been too obvious a commentary on the script.
SGA: Didn't SG-1 do this plot? Twice?
t sigh Some good character stuff, though.
I kinda felt let down with the episode. I thought Jewel did a good job as the Replicant and it was nice to see Weir, she was really strong, which sucks since that was the end.
But as soon as I saw the previews I thought of the SG1 episode where there were robots (some sort of construct) that thought they were the real SG1 and going on missions. Actually it felt like a cross between that episode and the one where Daniel (or was it Jack) wakes up "in the future" and the G'ould are lying to him.
Also knew the fake team was going to die, which killed any kind of suspense for the ending.
When I was a wee voracious absorber of comic books, one thing I hated was the imaginary story. Batman dies! Robin dies! Superman marries Lois! Superman marries Lana! Superman has a threesome! (Have they done that one yet?) My objection, as a 9 year old, was that it was was pointless to have an imaginary imaginary story. Weir sees a vision of Atlantis being attacked, but it turns out to be a vision of an imaginary Atlantis viewed from the perspective of an imaginary Weir. My objection to the imaginary imaginary story has not waned.
I haven't seen the SGA in question yet, but I loved seeing SG1 dying--some of my favourite impermanent deaths ever. They managed to make me root for each instance of the team.
I liked "imaginary" stories as a child. It prepared me for AU fic.
Deep Discount [link] is having a buy one get one free sale on Fox/MGM products, including X-Files, SGA, SG1, Bones, Dead Like Me, The Addams Family and M*A*S*H. I had already bought several M*A*S*H seasons for my mother. Aargh.
Is this Press-worthy?
I loved seeing SG1 dying--some of my favourite impermanent deaths ever. They managed to make me root for each instance of the team.
Yeah, that contributed to the problem, unfortunately. SG-1 already did this, and they did it well. SGA, not so much.
I am very pleased that we only have to wait until January for new episodes, though.
Have watched it now, and...it didn't work for me as much. Somehow faux SG1 seemed more earnest and sincere and sadder to kill. Or broken and sadder to kill...like Tasha Yar in that TNG episode where the Enterprise C comes through that hole.
Two Ronons is way to distracting to be able to picture safely for any length of time. And I kinda wanted only one of the Teylas to be pregnant. Did both Ronons have the recent tattooing--the stuff he got when he was hanging with Dacascos?