You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.

River ,'Objects In Space'


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.


JenP - Sep 10, 2003 7:03:24 am PDT #162 of 10000

And Jadzia Dax.

A partner worthy of Worf (among many other fabulous traits). Amen.


Steph L. - Sep 10, 2003 7:04:51 am PDT #163 of 10000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

"artfully distressed" jeans sell for $70.

Now, Carson from Queer Eye taught me us that you can achieve that look with a cheese grater.


P.M. Marc - Sep 10, 2003 7:07:05 am PDT #164 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

This is also the "acting" method of the girl who plays Marissa on The OC.

Huh. See, I thought she was okay.

Although she looks creepy-old, given that she's an Actual Teen.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 10, 2003 7:08:03 am PDT #165 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Enterprise is a very bad show, but nothing on it is quite so bad as the AWFUL AWFUL REALLY BAD STUPID SONG!!!!!

Oh sing it brother (or please, please, PLEASE - DON'T!). People who complained about the Firefly song? They obviously hadn't heard this piece of crap power ballad.

Grrr, Voyager and Enterprise. Compared to the wrong turns Voyager took, and pretty much everything on Enterprise, Ally McTrill on DS9 doesn't look like such a bad plot move.


Anne W. - Sep 10, 2003 7:11:08 am PDT #166 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

The awareness that what they're writing is a series, rather than an endless set of stand-alone stories-- and the skill to make that work. And things that are meant to be funny that actually are!

Oh, yes. The Bashir-O'Brien friendship had some wonderful moments. I loved the scene where the two of them were in O'Brien's quarters, shit-faced drunk (on real alcohol, no less), and singing "Jerusalem." Their dynamic was one of the most believable guy friendships I can recall seeing on TV.


Consuela - Sep 10, 2003 7:11:24 am PDT #167 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I've seen two episodes of DLM. It just isn't clicking for me

DLM has no uber-plot (that I can tell), and the voice-overs are overdone, but I still like it. It's funny and weird and the deaths are almost always bizarrely entertaining. Also I lurve Mandy Patinkin. I'm not obsessed with it, but I like it enough to watch it every week.

Also, the lead reminds me of Shrift a little bit. t hides under desk


Jeff Mejia - Sep 10, 2003 7:14:58 am PDT #168 of 10000
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Love the thread. I watch Smallville, mainly from a comic-book/mythology point of view. I agree that the show isn't what could be considered a "quality" show, but it does show potential. They seem to string together scenes or even a couple of episodes that hit the mark, then fall back to cheese pretty fast.

I think they can work around Tom Wellings inadequecies as an actor by focusing on the characters around him and how they react, but there is just no hope for Kristen Kreuk. Not only is she a bad actor, but her character just sucks the life right out of any scene that she is involved in.

(Also, go with the Deep Space Nine love. Best.Trek.Ever.)


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 10, 2003 7:15:46 am PDT #169 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Another DLM watcher here, though the addition of Daisy O'Dare, the sporadic subtraction of Roxy, and the wimping out on the affair subplot George's dad was supposed to have are all conspiring against my enjoyment.


JenP - Sep 10, 2003 7:16:30 am PDT #170 of 10000

Enterprise is a very bad show, but nothing on it is quite so bad as the AWFUL AWFUL REALLY BAD STUPID SONG!!!!!

And my oldest sister -- in whom there is not one ounce of sentimentality that I have ever detected -- likes the song. She admitted it to me one day as if she were confessing a mortal sin to a priest (only, I'm a girl, we're not Catholic, and, even though it should, I don't think a single instance of horrendous taste in music is, in fact, codified as a sin anywhere). It was mightily entertaining. "Why? Why would I like the song? I shouldnt' like the song. It's wrong." "Yes. Yes it is. Very, very wrong. Go listen to your old Bob Dylan albums or something."

Customers are too hypnotized by the wall-sized photos of pretty naked people to pay attention to the pricetags that tell them their "artfully distressed" jeans sell for $70.

I felt like a dirty old woman the last time I was in that store, being mightily distracted by the HUGE pictures of practially naked BOYS younger than the nephew for whom I was buying a gift certificate. I felt dirty and like everyone in the store was engaged in underage, group pornishness. Gave me the wiggins, the youngness and oversizedness of them, it did.

He is in a perpetual state of surprise. The world is shocking to a man like Tom Welling. One wonders if he has anterograde amnesia.

Perfect description.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Sep 10, 2003 7:17:06 am PDT #171 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Enterprise is a very bad show, but nothing on it is quite so bad as the AWFUL AWFUL REALLY BAD STUPID SONG!!!!!

Yes, this. And you know the worst part? I live in the same house as someone who likes it! I have to hear it, at least once a week.

strangled noise

claws ears off

A partner worthy of Worf (among many other fabulous traits). Amen.

Clever, funny, smart, pretty... oh, yeah. One of the best Trek characters ever.

Voyager and Enterprise. Compared to the wrong turns Voyager took, and pretty much everything on Enterprise, Ally McTrill on DS9 doesn't look like such a bad plot move.

The one who become something Dax after Jadzia died? Whose name I can't remember, though I think it begins with E? Who ended up with Bashir? Wrod.

(edit:

I think they can work around Tom Wellings inadequecies as an actor by focusing on the characters around him and how they react, but there is just no hope for Kristen Kreuk. Not only is she a bad actor, but her character just sucks the life right out of any scene that she is involved in.

I read this, and tried to remember if KK plays Lana or Chloe. I can't tell, probably because as far as I'm concerned, any character who isn't Lex or Clark isn't worth looking at. With the possible exceptions of Lionel and Pete. Yep. All about the pretty boys.)