My mental notes look an awful lot like your mental notes. And Bruce is The Grim Sexy. And Tim is...

Oh, hell yes, and Tim...

Tim.

Oh, Tim, Tim, Tim.

We're not even going to touch on Babs or Canary at the moment. I've got way too much to do before bunktime.

Yes. And likely taking me with you.

Tim, Tim, Tim. Dick Dick Dick. Bruce. Clark! Wally! Kon! Bart!

We're not even going to touch on Babs or Canary at the moment.

Babs. Mmph. That is one smokin' hot librarian.

Andromeda was pretty good--or at least watchable--for the first three seasons. Sorbo wasn't that fucking annoying, Harper was a woobie, Tyr was....nguh. There were sexy guest stars, James Marsters, Michael Shanks, Chris Judge. But right about the third season, my mental filter cuts off and goes straight to A Warrior's Recreation.

Tim, Tim, Tim. Dick Dick Dick. Bruce. Clark! Wally! Kon! Bart!

Scored at Target: Batslash kit the first Batman/Nightwing.

(They have these two pack action figure sets of Bats. The other one I saw there was Bats/Supes.)

I blinked at Paul and said "see? they even PACKAGE them together."

C'mon! Aquaman is strong but he's not in a class with Namor who is supposed to be just a shade below the Hulk and Thor, and could go toe-to-toe with the Thing.

Which means he can lift about 85 tons. I posit that Aquaman might very well be able to do this, yet still seem ungifted with superhuman strength when on a team with people who can juggle cruise ships like Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Martian Manhunter.

Andromeda was pretty good--or at least watchable--for the first three seasons

I'd give it to midway through season three. It was fun for the start of the first season, then started showing actual promise, and then midway through season 3 Sorbo said it was too complicated, fired the brightest guy on his staff, shifted to episodic, lost his good writers.

And now, this season? Shifted right back to arc heavy, but this time with a focus on kissing his ass.

And now, this season? Shifted right back to arc heavy, but this time with a focus on kissing his ass.

Yeah, that's what I didn't get last night. I was wondering why the hell there was an arc after everything Sorbo and the other PTB there had said against them. (Although maybe the move to SciFi changed their minds about it. I have to admit, it is hard to follow an arc on a syndicated show when your local station is moving it to a new time slot every other week. We got the last season of DS9 at 1:00 am Monday mornings. Most of the time.)

"The World Turns All Around Her" first aired last November. The switch back to arc was made a long time ago. Not sure when they committed to the Sci Fi Channel.

then midway through season 3

Season 2.

Watched a little bit of it last night. The whole Tyr thing is much less impressive with the new hair.

Also, is Lisa Ryder leaving the show? And since when does Harper hate Tyr? I almost needed to go off and read The Recreation of the Warrior to console myself.

So I wanted to make a brief apology to the Boxed Set denizens, Stargate fans, Andromeda fans, and ita in particular.

When I was making my arguments in the Lightbulb thread about having a pop culture core focus of b. org, and raised the issue of a general TV thread, I used Boxed Set as an example of a series of compromises which had created an ungainly but unacknowledged genre TV thread.

I went back and edited one of my posts:

"Grandfathering" in this instance becomes the handwave. Stargate is not mentioned in the thread title or header [edit: okay, it's in the header only] or slug. Previously "grandfathering" referred to Threads We Had At WX With Their Own Culture. Now we're using it to institutionalize what was basically thread-drift.

edited to change "you're" to "we're" because I'm talking more about the group decision that lead to Boxed Set, not just how ita uses it.

Closer to the actual point I wanted to make were these comments:

Let me just add again, I'm not that hot about this topic. (Though it may sound like it.) The inconsistency bugs me and I'm trying to point out what I think are the logical problems with arguing against something like a general TV thread, when you've got (what I consider) an elephant in the living room.

Farscape/due South/Smallville is the defacto genre TV thread. The most active discussion there is about Stargate. I don't really see the virtue in pretending that it isn't a general discussion thread for science fiction/fantasy TV. (I consider due South Magical Realism, or a subset of fantasy.)

But I think in trying to make my point, I came off like a whiny bitch implying "Well, everybody over there is fudging the rules to get what they want and I'm not getting what I want."

Which I did not mean to imply. Nor is it something I believe. It's really just the elephant-in-the-living-room factor I mentioned above.

Anyway, I'm sorry for using this thread as an example in a pointed way, and apologize for any implication of weaseling. I got no beef with Boxed Set.