Oh, and that episode had Bakula sing "Imagine" in a sort of country style, all twangy and forboding.
I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.
Spike ,'Chosen'
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.
Madrigal Costello - Oct 31, 2003 8:35:17 am PST #1656 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
Emily - Oct 31, 2003 8:56:57 am PST #1657 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Hmm. I've found a very bizarre AU Stargate series. Started out weird enough -- alternate universes, a not-organic-but-not-detectably-nonhuman body, a Daniel who's not only not quite Daniel but doesn't even belong in that universe, and a Jack who's the only one who knows but who doesn't tell him, allowing Daniel to think that his memories of Skaara and Sha're as hosts are completely wrong. But now it's entered a 74-part unfinished series with Chronos and the woman who was Amonet's host in this universe and and... it's so weird. Kind of like Mountie Slayer in the intricacy of the secrets and the part where you go, hey, but you did this thing back here, aren't you ever going to bring it up again? Actually, the Mountie Slayer series always does bring stuff up again. This series is actually more like the 3-million-year-old-babe episode, in that it's got a really big (seeming) plot point in the very beginning which it uses to set up a completely different story. For some reason I'm still reading, but it is very strange. I keep hoping Daniel's going to discover the Truth About His Past, but at this point it would probably seem insignificant, since for totally unrelated reasons he's got the fate of billions in his hands and almost every Goa'uld in the universe out to kill him.
And I felt like sharing that with you. It's freaky but fun, but also a little frustrating. I mean, if she never brings up his Amazing Transdimensional Secret then it's a thread that just falls off into nowhere, so I keep reading, but I'm starting to get a little impatient.
amyparker - Oct 31, 2003 9:08:15 am PST #1658 of 10000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
you end up wondering why the hell Sam Beckett wasn't sent back to kill Hitler
If they played that the way Stephen Fry did in Making History, that could have been a riot. (Very short summary: preventing Mrs. Hitler from conceiving made the whole thing worse, as someone subtle, intelligent and Hollywood-worthy took the top spot.)
Madrigal Costello - Oct 31, 2003 9:10:24 am PST #1659 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
I saw one Twilight Zone where a woman was sent to kill Hitler as a baby, only it turned out that she killed the wrong baby. She did kill the child of Mr and Mrs Hitler, but then the nanny in charge bought a replacement baby and the parents never knew - which might suggest something about why he ended up evil.
Dana - Oct 31, 2003 9:14:37 am PST #1660 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Sounds vaguely like the plot of Good Omens.
Madrigal Costello - Oct 31, 2003 9:16:46 am PST #1661 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
There's a bit of similarity - and the idea that there's only so much a human can do to alter what Fate wants. That, or both writers had strong opinions in the nature vs. nurture debate.
DavidS - Oct 31, 2003 9:21:31 am PST #1662 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
One of the premises of Fritz Leiber's Changewar series (which was exactly about two opposing groups that went back in history and fucked with the timeline to eradicate the other) was that forces of history were difficult to divert. Everybody should read The Big Time and somebody should make it into a play too.
Jessica - Oct 31, 2003 9:22:49 am PST #1663 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
To Say Nothing of the Dog comes to the same conclusion.
Madrigal Costello - Oct 31, 2003 9:25:12 am PST #1664 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
Connie Willis's "Doomsday Book" also seems to have a similar theme.
Jessica - Oct 31, 2003 9:33:53 am PST #1665 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Well, they are set in the same universe.