Random context question: was Michael Shanks dating Lexa Doig the first time and/or the second time he filmed an Andromeda ep? I just realised that I read an interview with him where he said it was a lot of fun, getting to beat up on his girlfriend, and I thought that was the first one, since I thought (stupidly) that Hector kicked his ass in the second. And I was just trying to work out which he was talking about.
We'll be in our bunk.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
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.
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2003 3:57:53 pm PDT #515 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Katie M - Sep 20, 2003 4:11:32 pm PDT #516 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
My heart-breaking grief over the apparent destruction of the Tollan people was somewhat mitigated by the fact that they had a plot hole the size of Mars.
Er, yeah. Well, okay, so, they... didn't have a delivery device?
No, wait! I don't think we ever actually saw the walk-through-things devices get anyone through a shield as such. Just solid matter. So, see, the shields? You can't get through them with the Tollan technology.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Aren't the Goau'ld ships surrounded by those big force fields that repel nuclear explosions like summer rain while somehow inexplicably allowing small forces of soldiers to board them and overcome enemies with vast numerical and technological superiority?
It's the silly armor. Slows 'em down.
Random context question: was Michael Shanks dating Lexa Doig the first time and/or the second time he filmed an Andromeda ep?
Second, yes. I don't know about the first time - maybe that's how they met?
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2003 4:27:27 pm PDT #517 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
maybe that's how they met?
I have a sudden vision of a Vancouver bar where all the ex-pats working on syndicated action films hang out.
And there probably is one, or close to that.
DCJensen - Sep 20, 2003 5:34:41 pm PDT #518 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I have a sudden vision of a Vancouver bar where all the ex-pats working on syndicated action films hang out.
And there probably is one, or close to that.
That might be the Sutton Place Hotel bar where the one guy met Adam Baldwin and Alan Tudyk for drinks one evening and saw David Duchovny at one point.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 20, 2003 5:39:35 pm PDT #519 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I wonder, do the locals get blasé about star customers after a while at those places, or is it that they choose to congregate at places where they aren't recognized and reacted to much in the first place?
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2003 9:17:40 pm PDT #520 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Vancouver's so rife with "these people" that I think the biggest rise that anyone got was David Duchovny, and that was mostly to spit on him. Wait, no, Kevin Sorbo gets that too.
For the rest, NSM, as long as they keep working there, and keeping the film economy humming.
DCJensen - Sep 20, 2003 9:53:30 pm PDT #521 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
There's thinly-disguised Real People Porn for Stargate on Literotica.com.
Someone sent me a link for a howl at the obviousness:
Jane was one of the costars of the hit syndicated sci-fi series "Project: Wormhole." It was loosely based on the movie "Wormhole" from almost a decade before. The movie had done so-so at the box office but very well on video and cable. That caused the producers, who had made box-office blockbusters (like the alien invasion movie "Spring Training" ) and bombs (like the American version of "Gamera"), to license the rights to the concept to a new production company, Chameleon. The show had taken off and was now ready to start it's fourth season under the newer production company. The movie's creators, on the other hand, were busy trying new series' for Fox that never lasted more than half the season.
Okay, that's gotta be the thinnest veil ever.
Gee, what show could this possibly be referring to?
Am-Chau Yarkona - Sep 20, 2003 11:29:00 pm PDT #522 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
If I really got my motivation together, I'd go through a list of episode summaries and tote up the number of car crashes on this show. Smallville must have a big red flag on the maps of car insurance companies in the smallvilleaverse.
Watching the reruns of season one, I'm very close to do this. In the first five episodes, there's at least one an episode and often more.
There should be a chart, or a table, or something.
Theodosia - Sep 21, 2003 3:08:53 am PDT #523 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"
Who bells the cat, Am-Chau?
Thinly disguised RPS doesn't squick me hardly at all -- it's clear that the author(s) and the audience are differentiating between the real people and their literary equivalents. Literature even has a hallowed term for such things: roman á clef.
Madrigal Costello - Sep 21, 2003 5:48:23 am PDT #524 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
A lot of the shows that film in Vancouver are the lesser-ones, those that just have small, but loyal followings - just as the X-Files started out. So there's somewhat less star-struckness. And for actors, it seems like a good place to live since getting work on one show seems to guarantee it on another. I've seen two of the three Stargate actors on the X-Files - it's a bit like how the WB keeps actors in cold storage.