Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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 § - Jan 29, 2005 8:01:54 pm PST #9459 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Her son was fed the super equivelent of a date rape drug and she and pa Kent are dissapointed in his behavior after being drugged

Not to mention that I thought her "marriage is sacred" speech was full of shit. What then is marriage to someone with no religion? I think marriage can be a beautiful thing, but her speech made it sound like "till death do us part" should be enforced at gunpoint.


Consuela - Jan 29, 2005 9:03:33 pm PST #9460 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm with Vonnie -- I liked this ep of BSG a lot, although more for the structure than the story. I did think that scene was very powerful, though. Still, the flashbacks and intercutting of the past and present were what did it for me. Poor foolish Starbuck. And ouch, the way he said he loved her like a daughter and then turned on her when she admitted the truth.

I really really like that they cast someone with an actual body for Kara. I have no idea what size she really is, but she looks like she could really be a soldier. I love that.


Vonnie K - Jan 30, 2005 5:48:28 am PST #9461 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

I really really like that they cast someone with an actual body for Kara.

Oh dear God yes. She's gorgeous and tough and solid--feminine without being girly. I think I have a little crush. Actually, I have a little crush on Roslin, Apollo, Starbuck and the Chief. It's a big crush-orgy in my head!

I am a weak, weak woman because I caved and watched ep. 5 last night and... can I just say once more how much I adore Roslin ? I understand her character is a new creation for this version of BSG. Whoever it was that first thought of the character *and* decided to cast Mary McDonnell is a frakking genius.


Jessica - Jan 30, 2005 6:26:23 am PST #9462 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

"Walk out of this cabin while you still can."

That whole scene just killed me.

I really really like that they cast someone with an actual body for Kara. I have no idea what size she really is, but she looks like she could really be a soldier. I love that.

Yes! This.

The one thing that does bug me about the cast is that there's a huge gap between the old and the young, at least in the military. Did all the soldiers in their 40's die in the Cylon attacks?


DebetEsse - Jan 30, 2005 6:33:56 am PST #9463 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Well, you could wank that the ship was about to be decommisioned, so they'd have better places to put the in-between people than on an outdated Battlestar.


brenda m - Jan 30, 2005 8:20:34 am PST #9464 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I really enjoyed the last Battlestar GaLostica, flashbacks and all. And yeah, that scene with Starbuck and Adama was intense. I thought they did a very nice job with the attitude change after that conversation as well, because it could easily have come off as really forced, and it didn't strike me that way.


sumi - Jan 30, 2005 9:08:33 am PST #9465 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!

I liked the way Clark was with Alicia. I think, that if she had been a little more patient -- there would have been no need for the red kryptonite of roofieness.

I don't get the idea of them getting married -- that's just weird, and yeah, Ma Kent's reaction was stupid. Why wasn't she more angry with Alicia?


sumi - Jan 30, 2005 6:12:17 pm PST #9466 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!

MI-5 - BTW, interesting how they cast someone who resembles Zoe so much to play Danny's love interest (Harry's daughter).


Frankenbuddha - Jan 31, 2005 5:27:18 am PST #9467 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

What kills me is the DS9 episode "Trials and Tribblations" where they firmly establish that yes, in fact, Star Fleet went through a period where that's what the outfits looked like, rather than try and wank it out like it never happened.

And now that Enterprise features very functional, militaristic outfits, you really have to wonder what that particular period in Federation fashion history was all about.

Well, Enterprise also mucked up the Klingons in that "T&T" established that, yes, the Klingons used to look like TOS Klingons (one of the great throaway jokes in that ep - "We do not speak of it!"), and then Enterprise has to go and use the current Klingon makeup. Feh.


Gandalfe - Jan 31, 2005 7:19:31 am PST #9468 of 10000
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

NBC has announced and posted clips from the US version of The Office. About the only positive I can see offhand is that it stars Steve Carell. Although, watching the clips (I think you have to use (or at least spoof) IE), it does look amusing, keeping a lot of the original while still making it American.