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Cable is being wonky. I'm hoping to get it at a later airing.
Cable came back in time for the midnight showing. Excellent episode ... bizarre and offbeat, but charming. And again, the alien menace isn't so much an evil threat as misplaced and dangerous by its presence.
There's been an ongoing theme this season of the danger of aliens among us, and the danger to aliens from misplaced human fear and aggression. The space whale, the reptile people, the invisible thing in Vincent Van Gogh's time. Even the Doctor himself, as poor Rorey pointed out.
It's not that these things aren't dangerous, but they're not really evil. Not like the Daleks, which are, by comparison, almost cartoons. And painted up thusly in fashion colors.
This season reveals itself as more and more brilliant with each episode.
Andi and I thought of Spaced.
Oh, nice. That hadn't occurred to me, but as soon as you said it, I got what you meant.
Victor, we stayed up and caught the midnight showing too. Was that head banging thing new or part of the Whoverse?
Head banging was new, but Ten started "leaking" info in a mind meld with The Madame de Pompadour...
Andi and I thought of Spaced.
Spaced in SPAAAAAAAAACE!
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Victor, we stayed up and caught the midnight showing too. Was that head banging thing new or part of the Whoverse?
Well, it was a novel delivery system, but basically, he's done basically the same thing before. For instance with Reinette in "The Girl in the Fireplace."
The trajectory for the season of Eureka that makes a lot of sense to me is that things do ultimately go back to "normal", if only because we have to get Baltar back then to found the town.
What this does, then, is allow exploration of...stuff: Fargo/Jo, Possible Fargo competence, Carter/Tess, Henry/Whatshername
Fargo/Jo would have interesting implications back in the original timeline. I fear that sending Baltar back would give Allison a City on the Edge of Forever-type moment if they go forward with that ship. What I fear is that living in this 'verse (with whatever her role is) is a path to get her to quit her job at GD and "focus on her family" or some nonsense like that (not that it's not a valid life choice for real people. It'd just be kind of a crap move for the character). I will be interested to see how Shroedinger's Relationship (Carter/Tess) plays out.
But it seems like the real pay-off would be taking the lessons from this universe into the original one. I just don't see them letting Fargo stay the head of GD "forever" (yes, I mean those as quotation marks, not italics).
Oh my God.
I just watched such_heights' vid for little Amelia(note: spoilers through the finale) and I JUST got the connection between the finale and "Vincent and the Doctor".
That connection?
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Starry Night
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Coming to the conversation late, but I really liked "Eureka" although I'm not sure I feel about how everything will play out. I dislike Tess something fierce and am now very surprised to find myself rooting for Carter/Allison. They've built up some real chemistry over the years.
