Richard Dawkins is going to guest star on Doctor Who next season!
(The article is just about the most incoherently written thing ever, but I figured I should provide a link if I was reporting news.)
[eta that there are some spoilers towards the end]
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
'Destiny'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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Jessica - Apr 07, 2008 10:22:23 am PDT #1581 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tom Scola - Apr 07, 2008 10:30:56 am PDT #1582 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Does the article mention who Richard Dawkins is married to?
Jessica - Apr 07, 2008 10:33:22 am PDT #1583 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Naturally:
He didn't have the nerve to ask the professor to slip on a latex mask, it seems: Dawkins will appear as himself. "His wife, [the actress] Lalla Ward, used to be a companion of the Doctor. The gays loved her."
(The quote is RTD.)
amych - Apr 07, 2008 10:34:52 am PDT #1584 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It does, Tom.
(And the spoiler at the end made me go HA! Also, a note to the 'phobic: Said spoiler is alluded to in the title of the episode in question, so if you're quite sensitive, you'll get unwanted hints from the likes of episode lists for part of the season. Forewarned, etc.)
Fred Pete - Apr 07, 2008 10:38:25 am PDT #1585 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Non-spoilery bit from Jessica's link:
Davies was born not too far from the birthplace of Tommy Cooper in South Wales, and seems to have borrowed his chuckle from that melancholy-jolly comic.
It's probably just coincidence, but interesting parallel with Gwen Cooper.
Maria - Apr 07, 2008 10:49:06 am PDT #1586 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
But I don't think there's anything out of character in him being more than a bit tired of watching other people dying for/because of him.
Eh, I'm not sold on his epiphany. (Dear god, we're using that word again!) It's tough to tell if he is sincere or just trying to survive with his head still attached to his body.
I'm hoping we don't hear too much of Starbuck shrieking. It hurts my ears.
Polter-Cow - Apr 07, 2008 11:09:24 am PDT #1587 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But didn't you hear, Maria? THEY'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!!!!!!
(I actually find the shrieking appropriately unsettling, but I totally understand your reaction.)
Maria - Apr 07, 2008 11:11:46 am PDT #1588 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
But didn't you hear, Maria? THEY'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!!!!!!
I think even the Cylons heard. And I'm not talking about Sam, Tigh, Tori or the Chief.
sumi - Apr 07, 2008 12:29:27 pm PDT #1589 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I think that Baltar is just trying to keep his head attached to his body.
Back to Torchwood: when I saw Andy one of my first thoughts was, "hey, why wasn't Andy at Gwen's wedding," so I was particularly pleased that they addressed that immediately.
brenda m - Apr 07, 2008 1:02:55 pm PDT #1590 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
BSG:
Remember, though, that he already half convinced himself he was a Cylon. This is a man who does not like to be on the outside, to not have a place, have prestige. He's also probably more alone and more broken now than he's been since the show began, really. On New Caprica he may have been hated, but he was the President, he had a role. On trial, he was a pariah, but he was also center of the show, the Big Bad. Now? He's nothing.
Thrust into politics, it didn't take him long to get up on his high horse, acting - and feeling - like he knew better than Roslin. Alone with the Cylons, he was their long-awaited mystery. He was the outrageously misunderstood and ill-used political prisoner, getting ready to head off on a book tour.
Now? Yeah, he saw how ridiculous and freaky it all was. And he was acting, giving them what they wanted.
But. How wonderful if it were true, if he
were
some kind of messiah, if he did have a place and a role and could heal and be loved and respected again? [And Roslin everyone would see they were wrong wrong wrong.] And of course he knows it's not true, but it
could
be, couldn't it? Maybe just a little? And, hey, if he has some lovely ladies on the side and for all I know maybe figures a way to turn a profit and...
By the time you even get to the end of the sentence Baltar is waay ahead of you. His most credulous audience member has always been one Gaius Baltar.