Firefly/Serenity
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Dotsie said:
When I was a kid I loved Blake's 7. But I saw an episode more recently & I wasn't really feeling it. Now I enjoy Firefly - sure they're all a bit handsome, but so what? I like looking 
Well, at least when I derail a thread, it is done spectacularly.
Quatermass said:
Dotsie said:
When I was a kid I loved Blake's 7. But I saw an episode more recently & I wasn't really feeling it. Now I enjoy Firefly - sure they're all a bit handsome, but so what? I like looking
Well, at least when I derail a thread, it is done spectacularly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWHLU8fwi80
To save starting a new thread for Fringe, I'll post this here!!
When it was announced Fringe would be moving to Friday nights, fans feared the worst, while the producers of the show tried to spin the news in their favor, calling it a GOOD thing.
But as the title the creators gave the series' first Friday night episode shows, they're well aware of why that night of the week has become known as the place TV goes to die.
The title—which was revealed at the same time it was announced that the show would start airing Friday nights on Jan. 21, one week earlier than we were told previously—will be ...
(Get ready for it.)
... "Firefly."
(Get it?)
Firefly is but one of many series supposedly deep-sixed by the cursed Friday night "death slot," and the fact the writers gave a nod to one of the previous scheduling victims shows they recognize the challenge they're in for.
There doesn't seem to be any other Firefly homage in the episode—which has Christopher Lloyd guest-starring as one of Walter Bishop's musical heroes—but you know we'll be watching to make sure!
(HitFix)
Anyone else watch Fringe? It's abso-bloomin-lootly brilliant!
When it was announced Fringe would be moving to Friday nights, fans feared the worst, while the producers of the show tried to spin the news in their favor, calling it a GOOD thing.
But as the title the creators gave the series' first Friday night episode shows, they're well aware of why that night of the week has become known as the place TV goes to die.
The title—which was revealed at the same time it was announced that the show would start airing Friday nights on Jan. 21, one week earlier than we were told previously—will be ...
(Get ready for it.)
... "Firefly."
(Get it?)
Firefly is but one of many series supposedly deep-sixed by the cursed Friday night "death slot," and the fact the writers gave a nod to one of the previous scheduling victims shows they recognize the challenge they're in for.
There doesn't seem to be any other Firefly homage in the episode—which has Christopher Lloyd guest-starring as one of Walter Bishop's musical heroes—but you know we'll be watching to make sure!
(HitFix)
Anyone else watch Fringe? It's abso-bloomin-lootly brilliant!
Penfold said:
Quatermass said:
Dotsie said:
When I was a kid I loved Blake's 7. But I saw an episode more recently & I wasn't really feeling it. Now I enjoy Firefly - sure they're all a bit handsome, but so what? I like looking
Well, at least when I derail a thread, it is done spectacularly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWHLU8fwi80
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OHzKjLKKY8
EDIT: I'll stop derailing the thread now, guys. But when I derail a thread, it's done in bullet-time to the strains of the Advent Children version of One-Winged Angel.
Hero of Canton flash mob in Seattle 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5yHlP5yQyk
Genius, but ever so slightly cringe-worthy as there are so few of them.
:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5yHlP5yQyk
Genius, but ever so slightly cringe-worthy as there are so few of them.
DaveC said:
Hero of Canton flash mob in Seattle :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5yHlP5yQyk
Genius, but ever so slightly cringe-worthy as there are so few of them.
:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5yHlP5yQyk
Genius, but ever so slightly cringe-worthy as there are so few of them.
Excellent hats though
Jan Van Quirm said:
Bouncy Castle said:
I had the hots for Paul Darrow!
Jan Van Quirm said:
With Jon Pertwee or David Tennant? Must have been Jon if it's UNIT I suppose - he must have been a 'red shirt' in that? so I missed him and UNIT's uniform doesn't float my boat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIvB_2LukkY
PMSL - well he had about 2 close-ups and really rivetting dialogue (in that clip)! I was like 8 or 9 - 11 at most (and possibly still hiding behind the sofa) and that was almost 40 years ago. I did not notice him 'cos he was
1) wearing beige - UNITs uniforms sucked
2) he was speaking like a posh git and being polite
3) wasn't wearing leather
No, I didn't remember him in that, so sue me He can't have been in that timeline for long though - there was the Brigadier, Capt Mike someone who was a fair-haired Eton type and fancied Jo thing (Katy Manning) and Serjeant Benton who was hanging out with Hawkins during the search as the friendly muscle, who were the regular UNIT players. The uniform's even lousier than I remember it :twisted:
My point with the soap, was that it was like last year and he's still bloody sexy as hell
I was like 8 or 9 - 11 at most (and possibly still hiding behind the sofa) and that was almost 40 years ago. I did not notice him 'cos he was1) wearing beige - UNITs uniforms sucked
2) he was speaking like a posh git and being polite
3) wasn't wearing leather
No, I didn't remember him in that, so sue me
He can't have been in that timeline for long though - there was the Brigadier, Capt Mike someone who was a fair-haired Eton type and fancied Jo thing (Katy Manning) and Serjeant Benton who was hanging out with Hawkins during the search as the friendly muscle, who were the regular UNIT players. The uniform's even lousier than I remember it :twisted: My point with the soap, was that it was like last year and he's still bloody sexy as hell
Jan Van Quirm said:
PMSL - well he had about 2 close-ups and really rivetting dialogue (in that clip)! I was like 8 or 9 - 11 at most (and possibly still hiding behind the sofa) and that was almost 40 years ago. I did not notice him 'cos he was
1) wearing beige - UNITs uniforms sucked
2) he was speaking like a posh git and being polite
3) wasn't wearing leather
I was like 8 or 9 - 11 at most (and possibly still hiding behind the sofa) and that was almost 40 years ago. I did not notice him 'cos he was1) wearing beige - UNITs uniforms sucked
2) he was speaking like a posh git and being polite
3) wasn't wearing leather
Jan Van Quirm said:
No, I didn't remember him in that, so sue me
That was the original UNIT uniform, and it was changed partly because Nicholas Courtney (the Brigadier) hated it too.
Actually, although I thought I did see Benton in the search party, I was pretty sure John Levene, and the character of Benton, didn't return until the next story, The Ambassadors of Death. He's not even credited as an extra, to my knowledge. And I've checked.
Jan Van Quirm said:
My point with the soap, was that it was like last year and he's still bloody sexy as hell
He still has the 'chocolate mousse' voice - and the chocolate's Belgian - with a hint of chili
For an older lady he's still absolutely fine, even with the gut (we can't be that fussy obviously), but it's still the voice and the narrow-eyed sneer/stare/disdain He's better at that than even Clint Eastwood! I can't like Clint like 'that' 'cos my Dad was the spit of him (only much shorter) when they were 25
The Uniform? Yeah, it went forest green I think but it was still pants - I think it's the beret Benton was with Capt Hawkins at the beginning of the clip when they were searching the building they found Liz in. Very, very young though
For an older lady he's still absolutely fine, even with the gut (we can't be that fussy obviously), but it's still the voice and the narrow-eyed sneer/stare/disdain
He's better at that than even Clint Eastwood! I can't like Clint like 'that' 'cos my Dad was the spit of him (only much shorter) when they were 25 The Uniform? Yeah, it went forest green I think but it was still pants - I think it's the beret
Benton was with Capt Hawkins at the beginning of the clip when they were searching the building they found Liz in. Very, very young though
Jan Van Quirm said:
He still has the 'chocolate mousse' voice - and the chocolate's Belgian - with a hint of chili
For an older lady he's still absolutely fine, even with the gut (we can't be that fussy obviously), but it's still the voice and the narrow-eyed sneer/stare/disdain He's better at that than even Clint Eastwood! I can't like Clint like 'that' 'cos my Dad was the spit of him (only much shorter) when they were 25
The Uniform? Yeah, it went forest green I think but it was still pants - I think it's the beret Benton was with Capt Hawkins at the beginning of the clip when they were searching the building they found Liz in. Very, very young though
For an older lady he's still absolutely fine, even with the gut (we can't be that fussy obviously), but it's still the voice and the narrow-eyed sneer/stare/disdain
He's better at that than even Clint Eastwood! I can't like Clint like 'that' 'cos my Dad was the spit of him (only much shorter) when they were 25 The Uniform? Yeah, it went forest green I think but it was still pants - I think it's the beret
Benton was with Capt Hawkins at the beginning of the clip when they were searching the building they found Liz in. Very, very young though
I always thought of Paul Darrow as being like a higher-pitched Alan Rickman. In fact, the first time I can recall a performance of his (besides watching bits of Doctor Who: Timelash) was him playing the evil wizard Zarok from the video game Medievil.
