Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
Oh, god, that was awful. Really really awful. Not just the movie, but the music! and the clothes! argh!
That said, Ben looked and sounded like Ben, and the scene where he was fighting the Sasquatch was absolutely hysterical.
Give the man his leather pants, already.
Actually, that reminds me. Shooting on the Farscape mini ends next week. No word yet on distribution.
But how great was it that they included the big iconic visual moment from The Six Million Dollar Man? I fell out laughing.
The Stargate movie was on Sci-fi last night. I remember absolutely hating it when I saw it lo' those many years ago; I just thought it was SO lame. And I am not a harsh critic, but it spoke to me not at all. Funny thing? Watching it last night, I was all, "Oh, look! That looks the same as on the show, and that ... and that .. and that ..." I actually enjoyed watching it this time with seasons and seasons of SG-1 under my belt.
Also? RDA is the One True Jack O'Neill. I mean, really. And, Michael Shanks does a really good James Spader doing Daniel Jackson. I mean, you know, he's doing his own thing with the character and has made it his own and all, but some of the mannerisms are just dead on the same. Which I love. That sort of flustered, earnest thing. Actually, that's probably more early Daniel, series-wise, but still. It was pretty striking.
Oh, it's dead-on Spader. Kind of freaky.
Kurt Russell is alright, but RDA is the man. No way I could see Kurt sustaining his performance charismatically.
Russell brought the tortured, but I agree about the sustaining. Jen, have you seen the pilot episode? There even more than later in the series Shanks is doing a dead on Spader-as-Jackson impression.
Shanks-as-Spader-as-Jackson is just plain spooky.
Edited because who the hell is Spade?
have you seen the pilot episode? There even more than later in the series Shanks is doing a dead on Spader-as-Jackson impression.
Yes, I actually just Netflixed Season 1 a little bit ago. I agree, it is uncanny ... and, uh-huh, spooky. And makes me smile, for some reason. Like, there are two Daniel Jacksons to adore. Or something. Whereas I adore only RDA's Jack, though I respect Kurt's (I'm sure he'd be relieved to know that).
Yeah, Shanks's Dr. Jackson is so clearly meant to be the same person, whereas RDA and Russell play almost completely unrelated characters. Which is okay, don't get me wrong -- the locked-up misery of the movie's Jack, even assuming the intervening year held a lot of therapy, really wouldn't have worked for a series.
Agreed very much on the movie/series comparisons. KR did a good job portraying a Jack who had nothing left to live for and who slowly started to emerge from that locked-up misery.
Still, I have to wonder how RDA would have played Movie!Jack, and how it would have differed from Russel's portrayal. I have a feeling that RDA's Jack would have been scarier, somehow.