I have blocked that episode out -- tell me more about this shirt conundrum ...
This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
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§ ita § - Mar 16, 2004 6:16:37 pm PST #4411 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Consuela - Mar 16, 2004 6:25:33 pm PST #4412 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
God, it's so stupid.
Scorpy takes them to Katoya, who is a master of mental arts, with the intent of teaching Crichton how to resist the Scarrans. Crichton gets stuck in a cage made of a metallic grid, too small to stand in, with a hibachi built into the floor.
The key to the cage is periodically dropped from the ceiling. It falls into the hibachi but Crichton can't take it out of the coals without removing the red-hot grid above it.
Every single fan watching this said, "Take off your shirt and wrap your hands in it to remove the grid!" He never ever does. Instead, after a gazillion iterations, he picks up the red-hot grid in his unprotected hands, screaming, and then pulls the key out of the coals.
PhD in cosmic theory. Designed his own space ship. Survived living with Rygel for 4 years. Deeply, deeply, stupid.
Browder's explanation was that Crichton would burn his back on the wall of the cage if he took off his shirt.
Also? Crichton is supposed to be the free-thinker. His whole life is one big Kobayashi Maru trick. In this episode, he does exactly what he's supposed to do.
Deeply stupid.
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2004 6:27:52 pm PST #4413 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm assuming, as aired, his back was in no danger?
Did he have socks, perhaps? Boxers?
Consuela - Mar 16, 2004 6:32:42 pm PST #4414 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I believe he was barefoot. But I've tried to purge the memory of that episode from my mind.
His back was in no immediate danger, and besides, if he'd managed to get the key, he'd be out of there. Not to mention, many more nerve endings in the hands, and hands are pretty useful. It was moronic.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 16, 2004 6:37:36 pm PST #4415 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Huh. That may be more deeply stupid than the Sunnydale police. Wow. I missed that it was like that when I read that particular synopsis.
Consuela - Mar 16, 2004 6:56:01 pm PST #4416 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, IIRC, that particular episode was written by the same guy who wrote A Prefect Murder and WSS #3, both of which were problematic (and probably seriously doctored by others just to make them filmable, but I'm guessing here). They were desperately short on writers.
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2004 7:03:17 pm PST #4417 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I need to take a moment to say that not only do I love how Teal'c neither flinches nor moves quickly out of the way, but in Upgrades where the mountain starts blowing up, and everyone, including the evil Jaffa, falls down?
Not our boy.
DCJensen - Mar 16, 2004 9:05:16 pm PST #4418 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Teal'c also managed to stay up when the deceleration from hyperspace occured the first time they showed it.
Thomash - Mar 17, 2004 2:42:40 am PST #4419 of 10000
I have a plan.
Teal'c has principal character powers.
Theodosia - Mar 17, 2004 2:59:51 am PST #4420 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Teal'c is da Man.