Don't get her started on the bad climbing...
Hah! Don't think you can name-drop me like that and not experience my wrath!
You have no idea -- after that movie came out I wrote up a 17K rant about the awfulness of it, and mailed it off to a dozen friends and relations. God, it was so bad.
On to the topic at hand: I find Paul Gross to be, like Ben Browder, deceptively attractive. By which I mean he looks like a very ordinary guy, if one blessed with a symmetrical face, and you have to be watching him for a while to get how truly talented and subversive and positively twisted he really is. (And I think he's pretty hot, too...)
I really should like Farscape it's got all the elements for me to like it but...I just...there's no click.
Don't feel alone in this phenomenon. On paper Alias is tailor-made for my tastes, but somehow I never managed to get into it.
... but Fraser might as well be able to control wormholes for all the chance and coincidence that swirls around him. His Dad shows up a lot, too.
Hmm. Y'know, the elder Mr. Fraser really corresponds more to Harvey than the elder Mr. Crichton, albeit in a benevolent manner.
If Internet fandom had been around in 1969, Dick Sargent would have been burned alive. I don't even want to think what would have happened to Brian Forster.
I wonder what fan reaction to Patrick Troughton was back in the day?
Paul Gross
But I spend all my time wanting to rip his face off his skull, to remove the smug grin.
It's a gross psychological problem on my part, I'm aware. I just like for actors, like, to pretend they don't know a camera is looking at them, at least a tiny tiny percentage of the time.
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Sort of sad he can't use his own real name, though. Got to be irritating.
Um. why can't he? I always wondered why he changed it. 'Course I first knew Eric Braeden as Hans Gudegast (Rat Patrol), and I'm still wondering why bother changing, once one's reasonably known. I mean, national tv series, pretty well known.
Yep, Scruffy!Bashir (Alexander Siddig) was on MI-5 tonight and I got screencaps.
I'll post them tomorrow...I hope.
Heh. He got to say something about "do we need all this James Bond crap?"
Well, I thought it was funny.
Daniel, I thought it was a funny line, and the "Our Man Bashir" context never even crossed my mind until just now.
I adore adore adore "Our Man Bashir". The writers of DS9 so
got
the nature of the Star Trek phenomenon, and pop culture, and how their characters would define themselves in terms of 20th C ideas and so on. And then they had all these excellent actors to act their hearts out with those ideas.
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Wrod. DS9 is my favouritest Trek ever.
And hey-- new thread! Hi, I was in Smallville because the fic and eight episodes has turned me into a Rosenbaum junkie; I know not of these Souths and Farspaces of which you speak. And yet I suspect that soon I shall know more.
The writers of DS9 so got the nature of the Star Trek phenomenon, and pop culture, and how their characters would define themselves in terms of 20th C ideas and so on. And then they had all these excellent actors to act their hearts out with those ideas.
Yes, and then came Voyager.
shudder
Good lord, I'm away from the computer one day and I wander back and there's a new thread and 134 posts and people discussing all kinds of cool stuff.
Just seconding what was said a dozen or two messages back, the "Militant Separatists" part of MRKS was at least partly tongue in cheek (I speak here as someone hosted on mrks.org). And I see a new Era of Good Feeling in dS fandom going on, certainly amongst a lot of the RayK-oriented writers and fans; in fact, I find most of the fandom an exceptionally pleasant place to be nowadays. (Although I will say that I wandered briefly onto Two Axes, the old hard-core Vecchio/Fraser site, and found the Kowalski-hatred still burning hot in some breasts, alas. Reminded of why the "MS" was partly not tongue in cheek.)
Um--so, clearly, dS is my main squeeze these days, but Highlander is my old flame whom I'm still happy to get frisky with at times, and it's been a huge pleasure watching others discovering it and getting initiated into the Methos-love. Farscape I've never watched, though a lot of my friends keep telling me I'd love it, and I'll have to catch up with it someday.
Smallville ... well, I watched the whole first season, largely so that I could make sense of what my buddies were writing about, but I just couldn't stay the course. I'd actually be very happy to watch The Lex and Lionel Show, but there's all those damn teenagers who unfairly get most of the screen time.
And (topic swerve) having never watched DS9, Saddig was totally unknown to me, but I thought he was amazing on MI-5. Bucketfuls o' charisma.
