Torchwood 2.09: Best wedding episode ever! It reminded me of the Angel episode "Expecting," but it didn't suck. And I was actually fooled when the shapeshifter was disguised as Jack. This season's really shaped up to be a lot better than the first, but I'm not gonna get too excited about next week's episode, written by Peter J. Hammond. His "Small Worlds" is still my least favorite episode of the show.
Zoe: Captain will come up with a plan. Kaylee: That's good. Right? Zoe: Possibly you're not recalling some of his previous plans.
'Safe'
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.
Invisible Green - Mar 05, 2008 6:26:47 pm PST #819 of 30001
Laura - Mar 05, 2008 6:31:20 pm PST #820 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Torchwood 2x9: Rhys is such a keeper! Lots of fun stuff. Ianto shopping for the wedding gown. The parents were wonderful. Big Gun. Just so much fun. Next week looks like it could be quite creepy, but it is subject matter I find creepy anyway. Eeep.
Juliebird - Mar 05, 2008 7:02:09 pm PST #821 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
This made me laugh about NA:
Think of it as "Life meets Highlander: The series" without the swordfights and the good writing (Life, not Highlander).
Fay - Mar 05, 2008 8:34:54 pm PST #822 of 30001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I think the thread originally started for the hoYay and the porn, and it was kind of a coincidence that the SciFi stuff (i.e. Smallville, Highlander) were slashtastic.
This. Nobody sat down and said 'Hey, let's build a single thread for discussing current genre TV that's not Jossverse!' - this thread is what we got when we squashed several existing threads together, on the basis that the shows that were being discussed were mostly being discussed for the slash by mostly the same people, and because we were trying to cut down on the total number of threads at that time. Sure, Smallville was airing, as was SG:1, but Farscape, Due South, Highlander etc were not - and our engagement was primarily with the texts as sources for fanfic. Slashy fanfic, for the most part. It was all about the HoYay.
t curmudgeon
You folks with your non-slashy appreciation of TV are most definitely welcome, and these days the place involves far less porn than was present in the days of the Pansexual Prettyboy Orgy collective, but make no mistake - Boxed Set started out as a place where all the fic-reading and fic-writing slashers' threads could be condensed into one.
Gradually, since there's no longer fresh Jossverse stuff to discuss, the nature of this section of the board has changed, and other shows have been given their own threads for watch'n'post type stuff. That's fab. But that's not how this thread was conceived.
(And I do agree that, even were it not so, Due South is highly quirky magical realism, with plots hinging on messages from dead people and magical deaf wolves. Sounds like genre to me. But regardless of its genre-ness - it's a SLASH fandom. And that's why it's here.)
t /curmudgeon
sumi - Mar 05, 2008 8:44:40 pm PST #823 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Fay - you know that we hope for a new Jossian show in the Fall or perhaps the Spring?
§ ita § - Mar 05, 2008 9:36:02 pm PST #824 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You folks with your non-slashy appreciation of TV are most definitely welcome
I don't want to let that fragment of sentence stand as if welcome has been granted to non-slashers. Boxed Set is now a sff thread and was discussed in those terms as early on as the merger.
DXMachina - Mar 06, 2008 1:48:18 am PST #825 of 30001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
What ita said. Also, the Farscape thread was mostly non-slashy even before it joined Boxed Set.
Kevin - Mar 06, 2008 2:50:14 am PST #826 of 30001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
One thing I think Buffistas would really benefit from would be a change history log. When something is voted to be changed, a log is put on a page about the change. Therefore people can easily see history of board changes.
Emily - Mar 06, 2008 3:59:51 am PST #827 of 30001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
the Pansexual Prettyboy Orgy collective
Sniff. Those were the days.
Jessica - Mar 06, 2008 4:05:53 am PST #828 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
You folks with your non-slashy appreciation of TV are most definitely welcome
Gee, um, thanks. Speaking as someone who doesn't read or write fic and yet was an active member of the pre-BS Farscape thread and has been reading and posting in Boxed Set since day 1, it's so nice to know I have your approval to post here. Really, I feel so much better now.
And as ita and DX have already pointed out, the Farscape thread was never particularly slashy or ficcy, nor was the SG-1 discussion going on in whichever thread that was. The "Hey, maybe we should just have one SF/F TV thread" conversation happened very early in the "Should we merge DS/FS/Smallville?" negotiations, and most certainly predates the creation of this thread.