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| Lacey |
 Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:24 pm |
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Quote: Lacey, re your location, are you the cybernaut formerly known as Pambula?
nope. I don't belong to many forums and I tend to use the same name (I'm confused enough without giving separate names to my personalities).
I agree about the ideas though. Even fun characters and good writing can fall short if the plot has been recycled too many times. I think that's one of the many reasons so many of us like Buffy. While the themes that showed up in individual epispodes may have been tried and true, the base of the story was unique. And, while today butt-kicking female leads are starting to look like the norm (does every female in television now come equipped with a black belt?), at the time Buffy aired female action leads were still far and few between. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:53 pm |
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You know the pendulum has swung far when even the twiglike Keira Knightley is allowed to beat the tar out of heavy-jawed mesomorphs.
I guess the logic is that women have a lower center-of-gravity and so can out-leverage all the topheavy dudes. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:32 pm |
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bart wrote: Lacey, re your location, are you the cybernaut formerly known as Pambula?
bart,
Pambula was here for a while under the name Jynx, but she left several months ago. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:14 pm |
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| I think we were unfairly mean to Pambula and I'm sorry she's gone. Even though she mentioned her happiness that the idiot Bush had been re-elected which was bound to rub a lot on here the wrong way, the response was uncalled for and insensitive about her condition. It was certainly not a high point on these forums. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:52 pm |
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She flirted with me constantly online, and generally fogged my glasses. So I'm a bit biased and inclined to ignore her partisan positions. It's like Charlie Sheen, in 2/half Men talking about how crazy chicks are really hot in bed, just make sure you can see their hands at all times.
Not that I'm saying Republican equates to crazy.
Though lately I've been tempted. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:54 pm |
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| Anyone here watch Arrested Development? I was inclined to ignore it, but watched about four eps this fall and found it surprisingly original, well-written, and just insanely funny at times. I don't generally like the handheld camera work, but was able to overlook it. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:18 pm |
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| The copy of Serenity that I pre-ordered from Amazon arrived today. Apparently it has 20 minutes of deleted scenes and outtakes. I'm looking forward to seeing what there is. Too bad I have to go out for the evening. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:07 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I think we were unfairly mean to Pambula and I'm sorry she's gone.
I agree. I think the same about Lissa and Marilyn, and I'd like to see all three of them back here. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:14 pm |
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| I can't figure out what Marilyn found that I couldn't see and I wasn't here when Lissa left, though I do know about it second hand, but I'd like to see them all back also. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:06 pm |
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Bart,
I thought the first two seasons were great, the premiere this season the best ever...then it all went downhill.
But Alternative Universes is a sci-fi/fantasy forum. This is a conversation for So What's On... |
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| dlhavard |
| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:03 am |
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I have a bit to add. Picked it up from SCIFI.com
Jolene Blalock of Star Trek: Enterprise will guest-star in an upcoming episode of ABC's hit Lost.
Blalock was supposed to guest in the second episode of the current season, which was originally Sawyer's (Josh Holloway) backstory. But the episode was swapped for a Michael (Harold Perrineau Jr.) flashback.
Blalock will appear as a woman from Sawyer's past. The monster is also coming back very soon. Lost returns with new episodes in January. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:00 pm |
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| Glad to know the forum parameters. I saw "alternate" and took that to mean generally anything unusual or esoteric, so maybe a broader category than just SF/fantasy. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:01 pm |
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dlhavard wrote: I have a bit to add. Picked it up from SCIFI.com
Jolene Blalock of Star Trek: Enterprise will guest-star in an upcoming episode of ABC's hit Lost.
Blalock was supposed to guest in the second episode of the current season, which was originally Sawyer's (Josh Holloway) backstory. But the episode was swapped for a Michael (Harold Perrineau Jr.) flashback.
Blalock will appear as a woman from Sawyer's past. The monster is also coming back very soon. Lost returns with new episodes in January.
DL - Thanks for all that info. Does this mean you are (like Michael, Jin and Sawyer) back on the island now after trying to escape? Withdrawal symptoms too tough to handle? |
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| grace |
| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:42 pm |
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Speaking of Lost, I got the Riverworld books 2-5, which bart referred to as having a striking similarity to the Lost plot. (I had already purchased Book 1 during the "one for you, one for me" winter solstice gift buying spree.)
I've just started Book 2, so I don't have a good foundation for a full-blown comparison; but while I see a couple similarities, it doesn't seem like the Lost writers read the books and became "inspired" by them. In other words, it's not outright plagiarism, which in TV World, I find quite refreshing.
And, RIP to Jenny Calendar's Uncle Enyos, Vincent Schiavelli. This makes, what, three fora where he's been mentioned? |
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| sioux |
| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:10 pm |
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| well I will say that all the obits were talking about the droopy eyed guy from Ghost - I got who that meant but I was thinking ....I know him from somewhere else!!!! So I went to IMDB and realized he was Jenny Calendar's uncle. Until I got his Buffy cred I couldn't rest. The guest shots there, especially without makeup, are ...memorable. |
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