I still haven't fully processed watching her get shot.
I think that was the goal. It was swift, brutal, and unpoetic. She was alive one minute, dead the next. No warning, no foreshadowing, nada. That footage was as close as I think I've ever seen a television show come to mimicking what actual combat footage would look like.
Paradoxically, the fact that we didn't see the death "live" on the show made it seem much more immediate, since most of us experience combat and its like second-hand, through video footage, just as Bregman and his crew did. Rather than seeing that death as part of a fictional story, it had the feel of something that
actually happened.
Although the fake-out was really annoying, the contrast between the way the two shootings were portrayed was pretty damned brilliant, IMO.
Carl Lumbly (Marcus Dixon on Alias) voices the Martian Manhunter on Justice League
He also played M.A.N.T.I.S. on the short lived live action TV series about the paraplegic who invents a suit and becomes a superhero.
He also played M.A.N.T.I.S. on the short lived live action TV series about the paraplegic who invents a suit and becomes a superhero.
That was him? I loved that show!
Okay, I'm watching the SG-1 ep about some race, and it's like the stupidest episode ever.
It has its moments.
I'm not sure I'm prepared to rewatch to refresh my memory, though.
Okay, I'm watching the SG-1 ep about some race, and it's like the stupidest episode ever.
That the one with Dr. Carter co-piloting with an alien, so she can learn about his fusion engine technology?
I never really thought that one fit into the whole Stargate universe. Or my personal concept of it anyway. So it doesn't rank very far up there on my list of favorites either.
Well, Jack and Daniel are kind of funny in that one, and Teal'c wears a bellhop uniform.
...yeah, I got nothing.
Paradoxically, the fact that we didn't see the death "live" on the show made it seem much more immediate, since most of us experience combat and its like second-hand, through video footage, just as Bregman and his crew did. Rather than seeing that death as part of a fictional story, it had the feel of something that actually happened.
Late - I've been out of town - but that's a really good point, Anne.
Yeah, Space Race sucked and blowed but compared to Avenger 2.0? It was a frickin' masterpiece. I hate that stupidhead "scientist" whose name I won't credit by learning.
I'm trying to watch "Resurrection", except I'm having a wee problem reshaping myself from the puddle of goo I was reduced to by the last scene of Joan of Arcadia. ::grumbles:: Stupid show, turning me into a 15 year-old.
