Well I loved Due South and loved Farscape, Smallville's okay, so I think I'll feel at home here.
Dead Like Me might well be shouldering a few other shows out the way if it continues to be this good though.
I didn't create the troll. I didn't date the troll. In fact I hate the troll. I helped deflate the troll-- All done.
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Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
UTTAD - Sep 10, 2003 4:09:24 am PDT #144 of 10000
Strawberry disappointment.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Sep 10, 2003 4:10:06 am PDT #145 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Oh be fair - the beagle has more than one brain cell. Granted, probably the smartest character on the show, but...
Okay. The beagle is okay. The rest, though? Dead loss. Or, at the least, isn't-it-amazing-they're-still-alive loss.
(Suddenly realised that we're back at the game I used to play with my brother: rank your Trek series. My order's always going to be: DS9, TOS, Voy, TNG, Ent.)
Madrigal Costello - Sep 10, 2003 4:14:47 am PDT #146 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
What I loved about "Our Man Bashir" was that it built on characterization that had been developing for years. In the first seasons he was all into the idea of spies, and had a bit of a crush on Garak, the possible Cardassian spy. To add to the fix, over the years he'd begun to run James Bond style programs in the Holosuite and look for other spies on the station. And even during the ep, it was Bashir's knowledge of the stereoptypes that got him out, like knowing that he could just charm the key out of the woman scientist, but also realizing the downside that only the woman who ended up with him could survive till the end.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2003 4:29:10 am PDT #147 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
I read that he found his real name, Siddiq El Fadil, was too hard to pronounce. And his uncle is Malcolm McDowell.
Nutty - Sep 10, 2003 4:40:36 am PDT #148 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yeah, I suspect it was one of those things where he was just tired of people fumbling his name, and decided to make up a new one. Like Martin Estevez becoming Martin Sheen. I always wondered if stars who change their names sign their checks that way, or if they keep their legal names the same. (I suppose Sheen kept his legally the same, if most of his kids use it.) (I suppose if you didn't, family reunions would be tense and confusing.)
askye - Sep 10, 2003 5:39:20 am PDT #149 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I remember back when he changed his name, I was rather surprised to see Alexander Siddig instead of Siddig El Fadil. I do remember that it was supposed to be hard to pronounce and hard for people to remember. I'm not sure about the hard to pronounce part because I never actually heard his name officially said out loud so I may have been butchering it myself.
Alexander wasn't totally pulled out of a hat, I can't remember where it came from (where are the hardcore Star Trek fans when you need them!) I want to say it was his dog's name but that just sounds to weird.
He was married to Nana Visitor but they're divorced now and they have a son, I don't remember their son's name but it's something unusual. I believe they named him for a musician they both liked.
Dana - Sep 10, 2003 6:02:22 am PDT #150 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Alexander wasn't totally pulled out of a hat, I can't remember where it came from (where are the hardcore Star Trek fans when you need them!) I want to say it was his dog's name but that just sounds to weird.
I think it was a family name, somehow.
He was married to Nana Visitor but they're divorced now
Oh, are they? Clearly I don't keep up with enough of the Trek gossip.
I saw him at a con very early in DS9's run...maybe first season. He was adorable and charming and very nice to all the fans.
sumi - Sep 10, 2003 6:15:38 am PDT #151 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Hmmm, my tape ran out right after the show broke for commercial post quickening -- did anything interesting happen in that last scene? (I'm talking Highlander yesterday -- the Byron quickening which was cheese cheese cheese.)
JenP - Sep 10, 2003 6:45:11 am PDT #152 of 10000
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.
Wrod. DS9 is my favouritest Trek ever.
I'm practically teary at finding DS9 love here. Engaging characters, good actors, interesting stories, arcs, follow-through, humor, epic-ish battles, James Darren, Principal Snyder. I mean come ON. Show rocked.
Also, Tom Welling (sp?) is so pretty. But, do they botox him or something before each episode? I just want to scream, "REACT!!!!" sometimes. He is very pretty, though.
Dana - Sep 10, 2003 6:48:51 am PDT #153 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Hmmm, my tape ran out right after the show broke for commercial post quickening -- did anything interesting happen in that last scene?
It was very short. Duncan shows up at the bar. Joe looks relieved that he's alive. Methos is inscrutably Methos. They have a drink. Methos says that Byron's life had become a tragedy, and Duncan says, "And we all know how those end."