Agred that MR is unconventionally attractive, which is why he's attractive. This is why he should guest start on Alias, which has a good track record of unconventional walking sex magnets. Also, he is too smart not to know, and not a good enough actor to completely hide the knowledge, that the writing is terrible. He says his lines as if they all were the denouement of an Agatha Christie mystery. It's the acting equivalent of watching Lucius Malfoy prance around saying "Evil! Evil!"

The XF episode Ice was great fun. I mean, even before the shrinkage jokes and everyone being required to poop in a jar. It was also an example of the things you can do with a production budget of $1.23!

And with "Ice" there's the story about how David Duchovny became so smitten with the dog that he adopted his daughter.

This is why he should guest start on Alias, which has a good track record of unconventional walking sex magnets.

Ooh!

And suddenly I'm imagining MR and David Anders both giving each other their coy little boy looks.

I'll be in my bunk.

Damn. . .. can they be in Spain or Mexico where in certain parts of the day everything becomes Sepia-Toned?

MR's attactiveness, to me, comes out of the buttercream icing way he speaks as Lex and encompasses his physical presence making him look beayoootiful.

Damn. . .. can they be in Spain or Mexico where in certain parts of the day everything becomes Sepia-Toned?

"I'm sorry, shrift's brain is currently out of order. Please leave your name and a short message, and shrift will contact you when her brain returns from the Wibble!Guh! repair shop located in the Special Hell."

Yeah, I don't think MR looks so hot bald, but he works those bland lines with some real skill -- he's going to have a long career if he wants it.

Just rewatched Singularity. I love SG1. They're just saps with big guns. Normally the "chick gets startlingly maternal when presented with a child" storylines bug, but Tapping does a very good job of being really serious with the big guns and the big math, but without making me ever think it's a huge deal for her to be more typically protective.

She's sort of a Zoe in that regard -- her asskickingness isn't a source of angst for her, or something that distances her from her surroundings (her geekery takes care of that just fine).

I love Katie Stuart. I think she did a great job, and it was a shame she couldn't come back as Cassandra. I also loved the group dynamics towards the end when it became apparent that Sam wasn't coming back up, and how they reacted when nothing blew.

Sam definitely takes a page from The Ripley School of Motherhood.

See, I loathed Abyss with a fiery passion. Daniel, asended or not, wouldn't just hang around when his friend was being tortured and killed, he'd do something. Heck, he went nuts when he couldn't help random bystanders.

Actually, that's a lot of what I find interesting about it. Why was that situation different? What was going on in his head? I mean, I agree he's being a condescending git (and let's not forget that his original idea, before offering ascension, is pretty clearly "let's help Jack remember why he's there, so he can tell Baal and then get permanently killed). On the other hand, he's not exactly human anymore, and he thinks he's found the One True Moral Way, which is I think a relief for him. Plus, of course, he is externally constrained.

Anyway, I can see Abyss-Daniel as an extension of real traits he's always had, and showed more and more as the series went on. He always thinks he knows best. It's not unusual for him to choose abstract over personalized morality - look at Scorched Earth, where he's willing to advance the argument that maybe the folks on the ground should be left to die because the germ cells in the sky are the last of their kind, and gee, they're awfully *advanced*, aren't they?

By the time we come around to Changeling he's different, and frankly I think it's Abyss that yanked his head out of his ass, but that's just fanwanking.