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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Which ones? The Americans, or the Canadians? Because the Canadians are extensively recycled, and why the hell not. For the Americans, it seems more of a big deal.

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.

But you're ignoring the movies. Ian McKellen and Hugh Jackman traipsed around Vancouver too, just to name a couple. And by and large -- unstruckedness. It's an industry town. There's just less starstruckedness to start with.