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 wish I could forget that episode. I hate Lucious. Partly because he is so very loathsome but also because I don't like the actor (or maybe I just don't like characters he's played in the past). But I kept flipping back and watching.
Kolya deserved a better episode. And a better death that was just a waste of an hour.
In my mind, his name is Unctuous instead of Lucius.
I think my Kolya is the one that M. wrote in Cowboy Days, who is complex and interesting, if still an asshole.
I found Doctor Who 3x5 to be
disappointing.
I really wish they would stop
throwing around the term "DNA" as if it were applied phlebotinum.
I want to like
Martha, but so far they haven't done much to define the character, except that she's Not!Rose.
And I really, really wish the Doctor would
stop approaching the Daleks unarmed without having a reason to believe that they won't shoot him.
The Doctor is supposed to
survive by his wits, not by dumb luck.
Where is the SPN Origins discussion going to be-- here, or Other Media?
Other Media, I think. That's what we did when there were Buffy comics at the same time as episodes.
(Personally, I've decided to eschew the comics, because extracanonical canon will always be problematic somewhere down the line; but that's ancillary to my reasoning on the location of discussion of it.)
I also figured it would be in Other Media, Lee. And I am so not eschewing them because of the... thing with the extra canon stuff.
I mean -- there is going
to be wee Sam and wee Dean
!
Doctor Who
3.5 was interesting.
I'm sort of fascinated and amused by Dalek psychology. They ARE good for smackdowns, though: "You told us to imagine...and we IMAGINED YOUR IRRELEVANCE."
I agree with you, Tom, about the
DNA stuff, which is of course beyond ridiculous, but that's par for the course with this show.
I wonder about the
last Dalek. They've been emphasizing the "last Time Lord" stuff, which does imply another one will pop out of the ether soon enough (but then where will the Doctor find his emo???), and I can't imagine they'll get rid of the Daleks, so that last Dalek has to somehow become more or yet more have to have been hiding out of time or some such thing.
Something else that was surprising was
the Doctor's compassion for the last Dalek. One of his strongest character traits is his pathological fervor for the sanctity of life, embodied in the immortal "Everybody lives!" But his hatred for the Daleks seems to be at odds with that, and it was kind of cool that he recognized that while he really really wanted them dead, he wasn't about to do it himself. Well, this time. Hasn't he basically destroyed them all in each finale? I forget how it worked in the first finale. In the second finale, maybe he just threw them into another dimension?