Interview with CKR - mostly about BSG. (Not spoilery for season 4.)
Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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.
sumi - Dec 27, 2007 9:38:09 pm PST #9134 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
evil jimi - Dec 28, 2007 2:19:59 am PST #9135 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Ahem'd and watched the DW xmas special yesterday. I liked it all and the cheese was superior quality cheddar, not crappy processed cheez. I especially liked that RTD let the biggest prick of the group live. A very British touch, I felt.
JenP - Dec 28, 2007 3:22:29 am PST #9136 of 10001
I'd argue that it occasionally rises to the level of great television, as in the case of "Blink" and some of the 9th Doctor episodes.
Agreeing with this. And can I just say that when I saw the host angels, I got a tiny jolt of OMG angel/statue things, they could be cousins of the ones from Blink, oh no! Ahem.
I enjoyed the special overall, and I was not bothered by the cheese. I loved the little cyborg who would not let his name be shortened. Thought the thing between Astrid and him was cute. Thought Astrid and the Doctor had good chemistry... so, of course, her fate was sealed. Loved seeing the actors from As Time Goes By (Geoffrey ?) and, oh, I can't remember the name... but Mr. Bucket. Also thought Kylie did a good turn as an actor .
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2007 4:22:46 am PST #9137 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've read complaints on LJ about RTD killing the fat and black characters, but he killed the nice characters, pretty much. The least likeable two (one very much so) were the ones that survived.
That's no accident. I am more reticent than most to ascribe racism to casting decisions and who dies and who lives, it seems, but this struck me as something totally different from the black guy not making it to the end of the horror movie.
I mean, if black people *never* die, the kittens have won, and it's still racist out there.
sumi - Dec 28, 2007 7:21:36 pm PST #9138 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
According to this blog Universal HD is going to be playing ALL of BSG starting in January. (The blogger saw a promo to that effect.) Has anyone else heard this?
sumi - Dec 28, 2007 9:51:05 pm PST #9139 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
British promo for Torchwood, Series 2 - and over on TWOP they say that it's going to start in the UK on the 17th - but it's still kind of up in the air.
Also, I haven't been over to the BBCA site but somebody thought that they were in the midst of re-doing it.
Fay - Dec 29, 2007 4:26:54 am PST #9140 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oh yeah - very much agree with ita on that one. I have to say it didn't actually ping me at all from that point of view - other than to be rather pleased to see another multiracial relationship. I definitely didn't think the black guy was doomed for being black.
WindSparrow - Dec 29, 2007 4:43:34 am PST #9141 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.
ita, not that my bullshit meter is necessarily trustworthy on these matters, but I have to agree. It really did feel like a kill-off-the-likable-characters moment that was color blind. A number of characters bought the farm, and one of them happened to have dark skin .
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 29, 2007 5:54:00 am PST #9142 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
I think the new Dr. Who series has more color-blind cred than almost anything that's shot in the US. Well, maybe excepting Grey's Anatomy, but when I happen across that the only color I see is red .
sumi - Jan 02, 2008 4:32:13 am PST #9143 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!