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X-Files, Foyle's War...
Mmm. Marathonned some season one X-Files. There's nothing quite like very early stupid!cute to make you remember why you liked a show. I find, as long as the Conspiracy isn't there, I like XF. Pity it collapses under its own weight later on.
And Scully's dad is General Hammond.
Cue bad crossovers.
Leoben was in an episode, too. Which means you can totally have Cylons on Earth during season two. And Scully and Mulder find the Cylon conspiracy... Or maybe Leoben just converts Scully to the Way of God.
Saw Phoebe Green, too, and was reminded of the fabulous What God Has Joined Together which is an XF/Excalibur crossover, with the Uncreated (who, really, should run into the Cylons... ooh, three-way crossover). And was one of the first crossovers I ever read. Pity Luba and Roberta never finished it. Sigh.
(also, saw Badger, but I kept calling him Weasel, and if they ever DO a Deadpool movie, Mark Sheppard should SO be Weasel)
I randomly got the first episode of Foyle's War from the library last week. Really liked it, it's set during WW2, and the politics and interpersonal strife is just done incredibly well (and, er, makes the stuff on BSG look complete crap, sadly). So I got the next three eps.
And now must wait until I can get season two. Since, er, WWC is this weekend, and I can't marathon eight hours before then. Really.
I've also found a new Sam to love. Samantha Stewart, Foyle's driver, is rather lovely. She's cute, perky, bluff, not particularly good at being sneaky, tall, smartly-dressed. And has no qualms about hitting people with lead pipes.
I feel certain that they put the lead pipe (or whatever it was) scene in just to snag me.
She's also snarky at times. (her meeting with Foyle's son was marvellous)
*happysigh*
The mysteries themselves are full of drama. Lots of emotion and passion, things of that nature. They're really well-done. And, as I said, the interpersonal stuff is just incredible. England during wartime is so beautifully-drawn, when bombs might fall at any moment, or an invasion occur. And I love that they weren't afraid to show every side of humanity, so you get the nazi sympathizers, the communists, the people who hate without question, etc, and there's no clear-cut message of them saying, "OMG, this is right! And this is wrong!"
Well, justice is about the only right, really. Finding out the truth and bringing murderers in.
And Sam has great legs.
And Scully's dad is General Hammond.
Cue bad crossovers.
Leoben was in an episode, too. Which means you can totally have Cylons on Earth during season two. And Scully and Mulder find the Cylon conspiracy... Or maybe Leoben just converts Scully to the Way of God.
Saw Phoebe Green, too, and was reminded of the fabulous What God Has Joined Together which is an XF/Excalibur crossover, with the Uncreated (who, really, should run into the Cylons... ooh, three-way crossover). And was one of the first crossovers I ever read. Pity Luba and Roberta never finished it. Sigh.
(also, saw Badger, but I kept calling him Weasel, and if they ever DO a Deadpool movie, Mark Sheppard should SO be Weasel)
I randomly got the first episode of Foyle's War from the library last week. Really liked it, it's set during WW2, and the politics and interpersonal strife is just done incredibly well (and, er, makes the stuff on BSG look complete crap, sadly). So I got the next three eps.
And now must wait until I can get season two. Since, er, WWC is this weekend, and I can't marathon eight hours before then. Really.
I've also found a new Sam to love. Samantha Stewart, Foyle's driver, is rather lovely. She's cute, perky, bluff, not particularly good at being sneaky, tall, smartly-dressed. And has no qualms about hitting people with lead pipes.
I feel certain that they put the lead pipe (or whatever it was) scene in just to snag me.
She's also snarky at times. (her meeting with Foyle's son was marvellous)
*happysigh*
The mysteries themselves are full of drama. Lots of emotion and passion, things of that nature. They're really well-done. And, as I said, the interpersonal stuff is just incredible. England during wartime is so beautifully-drawn, when bombs might fall at any moment, or an invasion occur. And I love that they weren't afraid to show every side of humanity, so you get the nazi sympathizers, the communists, the people who hate without question, etc, and there's no clear-cut message of them saying, "OMG, this is right! And this is wrong!"
Well, justice is about the only right, really. Finding out the truth and bringing murderers in.
And Sam has great legs.
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My favourite bit in that first episode is when Foyle slam-dunks Edward Fox.
There's one episode with David Tennant in it.
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Yes! He was on-screen for all of a minute when I looked him up on imdb and said, "Oh, look, it's the next Doc" to Timey. Which made her say, "I knew he looked familiar!"
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ITV have been rerunning it for a few weeks now, but I am desperate for new episodes. Hopefully this is a prelude to some new ones starting.
I like it so much I keep threatening to buy it on DVD, but they are ridicously expensive.
How far have you gotten up to?
And BTW a Foyle's War/BSG x-over?
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Erm, just through series one.
...Oh, what a scary thought. Depends on how long ago Earth left Kobol, I suppose.
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Leoben is Callum Keith Rennie, awesome Canadian actor. The old joke is that there's only a very, very finite number of working actors in Canada at any one time, so they all get recycled throughout all the shows filmed there, hence the look-a-like casts. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719678/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8c291cmNlaWQ9bW96aWxsYS1zZWFyY2h8cT1jYWxsdW0ga2VpdGggcmVubmllfGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=1;ft=5)
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Oh, I know. It was just simpler to type Leoben for maximum crossover effect (he played a guy named Tommy, who was shirtless).
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I know, but I'm trying, and realizing I'm failing, to impress the State of Callum on the BSG people. Taking my business elsewhere, never to be heard from again, so no worries..
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*brain whimpers*
Actually... Heh. It's a good transition.
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*randomly friends you*
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*friends back* Er... welcome to the insanity?
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The only good thing about Space is Harry Maybourne being a random scientist.
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Also, I adore Sam ('can I come' was like, my favourite question when I was kid, going all over the countryside with my mother). And also Foyle, because he's all with the justice and compassion, but without the mushy.
It's really hard to peg the best thing about FW, because it's just all so good. The setting, the people, the mysteries... *glomps it*
It's even got a teeny fandom, hee. (Mainly a messageboard (http://www.nothing-fancy.com/forum/index.php?c=3&sid=c63bd5313ebea69d7302d533cfd88270)/website (http://www.foyleswar.com/) and
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I noticed they were showing Driven to Distraction! Season three Morse, or something. They should dump it and show FW instead.
Without the mushy! Yes, exactly. I love that it's all very dry with him, he's not trying to put any agenda through except getting justice done. Fabulous.
Sam... But it's the legs.
Ooh. Huh. *adds to list* *sigh* So many comms, so little time.