With Jamie Bamber AND Freema Agyeman!
Is it actually worth me breaking my near-total* moratorium on UK TV for?
*I watch Doctor Who, Torchwood and Being Human. And those via the internet.
Gunn: You ready? Fred: Is no an acceptable answer?
'Lineage'
Jossverse 1: Emotional Resonance & Rocket Launchers
TV, movies, web media--this thread is the home for any Joss projects that don't already have their own threads, such as Dr. Horrible.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 26, 2009 8:05:01 am PDT #2034 of 5827
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Jon B. - Sep 26, 2009 12:27:01 pm PDT #2035 of 5827
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I wonder if he is the one who came up with the whole mind-wipe, switch-out personality thing or if he refined the idea. Or if he just does it really well. Do we know?
It's explained in Epitaph 1 that Topher didn't come up with the idea but he figured out a way to make the process go much faster. It used to take hours to do an implant and now it takes minutes.
quester - Sep 26, 2009 2:38:50 pm PDT #2036 of 5827
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Ah, thanks, Jon. I've been meaning to watch it. It's on iTunes. Guess I better get at it.
That makes me feel better about Topher. He's a geek, but not an evil genius.
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2009 2:52:26 pm PDT #2037 of 5827
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Sepinwall put it really well:
He's worked so hard and so fast proving he was the smartest kid in the room that he's only now coming to realize he should have slowed down to ask "Should I do this?" before he asked "Can I do this?"
erin_obscure - Sep 26, 2009 3:41:22 pm PDT #2038 of 5827
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I don't like Adelle's new haircut. It makes her look far less scary-authority person and too vulnerable. Topher, OTOH, suddenly pinging me as super hot. Maybe it's the tight tshirt?
Vortex - Sep 26, 2009 4:14:13 pm PDT #2039 of 5827
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Topher, OTOH, suddenly pinging me as super hot. Maybe it's the tight tshirt?
or the conscience?
Calli - Sep 26, 2009 4:56:13 pm PDT #2040 of 5827
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Biceps and a conscience can be a powerful combo.
Fay - Sep 26, 2009 5:21:22 pm PDT #2041 of 5827
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Biceps and a conscience can be a powerful combo.
...that actually summarises a rather wide swathe of the fictional men I go thunk over.
considers
Well, no - there are also funny and the geeky. But the biceps-and-conscience crowd are certainly scrumptious.
This opening ep is sounding v. positive! Yay!
(Seska, I don't know about Law and Order: UK - from what I remember, they basically invented an AU Justice System, since our own doesn't mesh with the way things work in the US, upon which the structure of the show hinges, so...possibly not worth watching if you're mostly TV-avoidant? But, fwiw, I have a real soft spot for the Horatio Hornblower series, in which you can admire Jamie Bamber playing Hornblower's adorably puppyish, heroic (and epileptic) BFF Archie, who, other than possessing (secret) biceps and a conscience, is pretty much the anti-Apollo.
But YFondnessforswashbucklingperiodpiecesMV.
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2009 10:11:57 pm PDT #2042 of 5827
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't like Adelle's new haircut. It makes her look far less scary-authority person and too vulnerable.
I don't like it either. The long hair was sexier. And the stuff you said too.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 26, 2009 11:50:18 pm PDT #2043 of 5827
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I don't like Adelle's new haircut. It makes her look far less scary-authority person and too vulnerable.
Is that maybe the point? After Epitaph One, I think we're meant to be moving towards sympathising with her. This is going to take some hardcore writing to effect, of course. She doesn't seem to have a single sympathetic character trait at the moment.
so...possibly not worth watching if you're mostly TV-avoidant? But, fwiw, I have a real soft spot for the Horatio Hornblower series, in which you can admire Jamie Bamber playing Hornblower's adorably puppyish, heroic (and epileptic) BFF Archie, who, other than possessing (secret) biceps and a conscience, is pretty much the anti-Apollo.
UK TV-avoidant, that is. I love me some American TV. Hmm, maybe I'll see if I can find the Hornblower thing sometime. Bamber is a pretty pretty boy.