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

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§ ita § - Sep 20, 2008 8:06:28 pm PDT #4779 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

the likelihood of that woman's very existence is preposterous.

You know, I'd been giving the show a good pass for seeming to be paleo...whateverly accurate, as far as google could tell me, but then they pulled out the magic killer dodo worm. The people bits have always been weird, though. I do have a crush on Stephen nonetheless.

I wonder if I should bother reactivating my account and downloading Merlin...I'm assuming "bad" means "worse than Robin Hood." But...ASH!

I think I'll wait.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 20, 2008 8:17:35 pm PDT #4780 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 kind of don't dislike Keller personality-wise so much as completely not buy her as a medical chief of staff, what with the sucking absence of gravitas and leadership skills. If she were a hotshot prodigy surgeon that was interacting with the main characters because she was good at patching injuries up rather than a multi-discipline genius in charge of everything, we'd be golden.

Well, except that the writing is telegraphing her character as the hot trophy babe for authorial insert Rodney so loudly (without actually bothering to, say, let them date before declarations of love got handed down) that Alexander Graham Bell is yelling from his grave for them to tone it down.


Fay - Sep 20, 2008 11:28:31 pm PDT #4781 of 30001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Head's up: Merlin starts on BBC1 at 7:30 pm British time tonight. ASH, Richard Wilson (the doctor from "The Empty Child") and Eve Myles all star, and if the kid playing Merlin looks familiar, it's because he's also a Who alumnus ("Midnight"). Advance reviews are a bit mixed, though.

Oooh! My recently-ex boss's neice, Angel, plays Guinevere in this, apparently! Which isn't to say it won't be pants, but I'm still rooting for them.


sumi - Sep 21, 2008 6:54:33 am PDT #4782 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

And it's coming to NBC mid-season.

Watched Primeval. The raptors were nice. I don't get why the tranqs didn't work on them properly.

I still think that with the bat-rats from the future in the past there would be no humans. Ohh, maybe in a future episode Cutter will discover that his colleagues only look like h. sapiens sapiens and that they are actually rat-bats.


Dana - Sep 21, 2008 10:03:59 am PDT #4783 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Well, except that the writing is telegraphing her character as the hot trophy babe for authorial insert Rodney so loudly (without actually bothering to, say, let them date before declarations of love got handed down) that Alexander Graham Bell is yelling from his grave for them to tone it down.

Yeah, you think? I'm a pretty enthusiastic Rodney fan, but honestly, are we really supposed to buy that she'd pick Rodney over Ronon? Hellloooo, wish fulfillment.

Jewel Staite insisted at DragonCon that it made perfect sense. I think most of the audience disagreed.


Jessica - Sep 21, 2008 10:05:56 am PDT #4784 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Maybe Ronon's a really bad kisser.

(Yeah, I got nothing.)


tiggy - Sep 21, 2008 10:10:11 am PDT #4785 of 30001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

have any of you seen this? it's from DragonCon and yes, that's Jewel Staite. i found it here where the construction of the whole costume is shown. people are so effin creative!


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 21, 2008 10:50:53 am PDT #4786 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

Jewel Staite insisted at DragonCon that it made perfect sense. I think most of the audience disagreed.

I can see how Rodney's good nerdy qualities could appeal to someone more than Ronon's good laconic he-man qualities, despite the obvious inequity in physical appeal. However, since the former are bundled with egotism, hypochondria, and enough whinging to put an Emo 14-year-old girl to shame, there's no way in hell.


Consuela - Sep 21, 2008 11:01:32 am PDT #4787 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Rodney gives me more WFTH moments than any protagonist on any show I've watched in ten years. How do the writers not see this?


Polter-Cow - Sep 21, 2008 11:32:52 am PDT #4788 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

What...fucking the hell?