I've heard - look! It's third-hand scuttlebutt! - that Beneath the Surface was actually going to be shippier originally, but AT and RDA weren't happy with the idea. For what it's worth.

I can't even find the woman in that first inkblot. So very paranoid, apparently.

Should I be worried that I immediately saw the lamp in Plate VII?

I think that there is something very wrong with me.

Damned inkblots.

In on-topic, slightly spoilery news, I just watched the Stargate episode written by Michael Shanks and directed by Amanda Tapping. They're getting quite Star Trek in that regard. Keeping the talent happy, I suppose.

According to epguides.com, they cut a kiss from the episode.

Aha. So they're walking that fuzzy line, are they?

And I wonder why the actors weren't happy... huh.

BTW, does the news that the Jim Henson Co. (or whatever it's called) has sold muppets (such as Kermit) to Disney suggest that they may now have money for Farscape?

Sumi, maybe. But I doubt they'd take money from the sale and just pump it into an entirely unrelated franchise. I think -- and I'm speculating here -- the funding for the mini-series came from outside sources, at least in part, and the mini-series is already in production. So the money was already fronted.

The big question with the mini is where and when it's going to air, and we don't have that information.

Tonight's OC is episode 19 -- are there going to be only 22? Or will there be more? Has anyone heard anything?

TV tome says the ep order from the network was 27 - and so far - including the summer run, there have been 19. So I'm thinking there are gonna be 27 total. Ep 22 is sched. to air on March 10th. That's too early for a season finale.

The episode order is 27. We're still way too close to the end.

We're still way too close to the end.

So true. But at least we know it's coming back next year.

t /Angel-ending bitterness

And there are at least two or three eps that I haven't memorized re-watched.