Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.

'Destiny'


Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon  

A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.

Marvel superheroes are discussed over at the MCU thread.

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 - Feb 15, 2010 4:18:19 am PST #12099 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Yeah, the kicker at the end wasn't optimistic. (I'm guessing that the woman who actually survived the virus is going to be key.)


Polter-Cow - Feb 16, 2010 9:30:20 am PST #12100 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Fringe S1 at Best Buy for $9.99!


Strega - Feb 17, 2010 9:22:25 am PST #12101 of 30001

Posting this here because it's the Doctor Who article that I liked best, but a beta of the new 'zine PEP is online here.

The DW piece is about the Time War, and how the various books/audio series and the new TV series are interwoven even when they contradict each other. Perhaps especially then.

It's all evidence that there is one big story. We just can't see it: it's too big. We don't have the perceptions to see all of our own history properly. Likewise we cannot see all of the history of the Time War. All we can see is the way that the stories we do understand are warped and reflected around it.[...]
So the origin of the Time War is the destruction of Gallifrey: it is the beginning, not the end. The battle is to determine whose fractured history leads up to that point; and the prize is who gets the future afterwards.

(Other topics include Grant Morrison, Leonard Cohen, cricket, Scott Walker, how TV makes you sick, The Avengers, & the Lib Dem party.)


le nubian - Feb 17, 2010 6:41:12 pm PST #12102 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

wikipedia has a table of vampire traits:

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Morgana - Feb 17, 2010 6:49:50 pm PST #12103 of 30001
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

I was just skimming that table and then practically did a spit-take when my eyes were caught by "only to female rabbits" and "comical/delicious/tasty snack." My brain was going one direction and then whoosh! suddenly things got yanked totally in another direction.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 17, 2010 7:00:52 pm PST #12104 of 30001
"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 don't recall the vampires in Blade being shown to lack reflections... did they?

And I *know* that stakes were specifically not fatal in Dracula, Stoker made a point that decapitation was necessary afterwards.


Tom Scola - Feb 18, 2010 4:53:49 am PST #12105 of 30001
hwæt

3D Doctor Who trailer to run in cinemas before Alice in Wonderland


§ ita § - Feb 19, 2010 4:39:42 pm PST #12106 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am so jealous of that trailer.

Inspired by Tiger, IO9 has compiled science fiction apologies. The compilation of 10 saying sorry makes me want to watch his run again, badly.


Polter-Cow - Feb 19, 2010 10:20:58 pm PST #12107 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Wow, Ten really is sorry, he's so sorry.


DCJensen - Feb 20, 2010 2:09:15 am PST #12108 of 30001
All is well that ends in pizza.

I was sorry I stuck through most of that series of clips.