Spike ,'Potential'
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, sure. Tracker comes to mind.
I knew you'd say that, but I already had two posts in a row, and I didn't want to triple-cereal calling you out.
But now I have to admit that I think Andromeda is worse.
I'm tempted to leave it, just to see if anyone reads the damn things.
Dare you.
But now I have to admit that I think Andromeda is worse.
Worse than Adrian Paul trying to play a mysterious alien and ending up looking like someone mentally deficient? I have a hard time believing that.
I have a hard time believing that.
See, Andromeda has previously interesting characters competing to see whose tongue can go the furthest up Dylan's (and by transparent extrapolation, Sorbo's) rectum. I can't say as I've seen comparable onscreen ego-gymnastics, ever.
Plus, it's nigh incomprehensible. I think that a worse crime than too simple.
Tracker was just bad -- Andromeda started out interesting and then fell apart.
Yeah, but that's why I'm comparing Enterprise to Mutant X and Andromeda. The potential is there. I know I liked Scott Bakula and thought he could act, once upon a time, and there are at least two or three other people on the show who definitely can act.
What I really need is good fic. But surprise, surprise, no one's writing it.
I never thought Mutant X had potential. But there were two eps I solidly liked this season, plus a couple more brought in the HoYay. So much more than I expected when I signed up.
I can't believe all my syndicated sff is going away!
Genre TV just hasn't been the same since Cleopatra 2525 went off the air.
Oh, man, now I'm watching last week's Smallville. 12-year-old Lex is destroying me.
The problem of the static societies?
One thing in favor of staticness is that all the societies we see appear to be very small, isolated groups. There is no synergy that comes from mingling with people from different areas and cultures. Of course that begs the question as to why the population hasn't grown after so many years.
Possibly the limited gene pool only results in a certain percentage of births surviving into adulthood? Perhaps with go'auld eugenics policies resulting in the infirm being done away with at an early age?