askye, you fell afoul of what my friend William December Starr first called 'Spock's Brain Syndrome' -- a correllate of Murphy's Law that states if a non-fan asks a fan to show them a random episode of a favorite TV show (for instance Star Trek:TOS) it will almost always be showing something like "Spock's Brain".

(This was back in the pre-DVD days, these days it's much easier to acquire a =good= episode like "Hush" or "Our Man Bashir" for toaster-acquisition purposes, but if you rely on random chance/scheduling, you up your chances of ending up squirming in your seat as the stupidest, most watch-from-the-hall episode of your favority show plays on.)

As You Were. I tried to introduce a friend to Buffy, and it was As You Were. I didn't even bother trying again.

The Twinning on Farscape was cool and well done and made sense.

It still wasn't as cool as finding Bashir in the Dominion prison camp wearing the pre-First Contact uniform. That was a mind-frell.

Alexander Siddig/Siddig El Faddil - I remember an interview where he explained that in his culture, names weren't exactly fixed. Siddig was a family name, but his father used a different surname for the immediate family for some reason. And Alexander was the name that he used when he started school as a boy in England. I think one of the reasons he dropped the El Faddil was that his father had died, and he didn't feel the need to keep it anymore. Oh, and he and Nana Visitor named their son Django, and Visitor had a son with her first husband named Buster.

The Ezri thing was unfortunate, though mad propz to de Boer and the crew for doing as best they could with Ezri, even though they only had a season, and were desperately trying to make her seem completely different from Jadzia, but still a Dax, and still worthy of fan love. And a lot of it came from contract disputes with Terry Farrell, and the fact that she'd been trying to leave the series for years, but saved her actual departure until just before the end of the 6th season - but delayed the announcement so the writers just barely had time to write her death.

Consuela: I read an article about DLM and thought it sounded good so DLed a couple of episodes. I was impressed enough to get the next nine of them. Reminds in atmosphere of Northern Exposure.

I missed Roxy this week, but then didn't she have a lot of screen time recently? There was the leg-warmers bit, and the business with the wackjob in the underpass.

Loved Roxy grabbing the guy out of himself.

Was wondering what happened to the affair as well, but figured it would crop again at some point. Wasn't too happy with Daisy either. I mean good performance and all that, but an amazingly irritating character. Liked what they did with her and the artist.

Could I tag this?

Er. You want to tag me? Go for it! (If not, cold medicine! I blame everything on it these days.)

I can see why people would find MR attractive, he just doesn't do it for me.

I thought he was all right but nothing to squee about -- until I got dragged into a hotel room and forced to watch Smallville. His hips move like sex, and he's got a nice voice, and his facial expressions are sublime.

So, yeah, now I'll do any number of embarrassing fangirl things in his name.

MR has sort of the opposite of the concrete-block going on. He can convey the most absolute of lust for any character - Clark, Jonathan, even Martha - right down to a block of concrete.

His hips move like sex, and he's got a nice voice, and his facial expressions are sublime.

It's as I suspected then. All I need now is someone to force me to watch Smallville...

On the subject of the Enterprise theme, I love it! In a kind of ironic way. I just love that the theme music is this huge fanfare piece of music, and then the show is just 45 minutes of nothing happening.

It makes me chuckle.

MR has sort of the opposite of the concrete-block going on.

Oh yeah. If he looked at a concrete block the way he looks at Clark, I'd be all about a Lex/Concrete Block Fuh-Q Fest.

God, some days I really miss watching that man fondle pool cues and drink from long-necked water bottles...

Edit: Sneezing multiple times in the middle of writing posts? Doesn't help my spelling.

Speaking of Enterprise, Salon has an article about the show today. It's laudatory, although not blind, and seems to think that the season shows promise.

You're still not getting me to watch it, though.