Chicago: Malort Cocktail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchwood

Sorry, they deal with mostly extraterrestrials, not necessarily paranormal stuff.

whoah wait i think i actually missed the pilot

the first episode i saw was the one where there was 33 minutes between each jump

yeah you missed the pilot, smooth move ex lax

Going back to the post office talk, the worst was when we did mailers to the press, because I'd always have to send out multiple packages (CD plus press kit) at once. Usually it wasn't too many, but after the remix album came out last year, we did a national press blitz, and I showed up to the post office in the Merchandise Mart with a trash bag full of like 100 envelopes.

See, I think my wife actually has a higher tolerance for this stuff than she is ready to admit. She always goes on about how much she hated X-Files, but she is addicted to Fringe. They both seem pretty similar to me, at least irt the paranormal/weird shit going on.

Ha, Kr loved X-Files but is also I think kind of embarrassed about it, because she was like 13 when it was on.

the pilot is....a miniseries? please halp guys, i need to know how the rest of my academic career will be ruined

right, i thought the fringe was the lame '00s version of x-files

I think I'm ready for BSG, even if phrases like "CGI space battles" give me serious pause.

Alllllllllllllssssssssssssooooooooooo there are a lot of badass women on the show, which is nice, and Mary McDonnell plays a v. badass, hot, older woman who wears business suits in space and will toss you out of an airlock as soon as look at you, which is pretty delightful.

http://www.daemonstv.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/nup_107035_0234.thumbnail.jpg

there is something about her delivery that is soothing and also, like, weirdly nasal

I think I'm ready for BSG, even if phrases like "CGI space battles" give me serious pause.

Hahaha. The "CGI space battles" on the one episode of Babylon 5 my friend made me watch was nearly enough to put ME off sci-fi forever.

I tried to love Fringe but it was just so formulaic that I just stopped watching it and didn't even notice until just now when I read about it on this thread.

Yeah, Evan, you missed the pilot, which you should go back and watch since it sets up a lot of important foundation for the whole thing. 33 is the first ep of the first regular season.

see, i'd been running on teh assumption that all of the back story i'm missing (who are the cylons, why does gaius see one all the time, etc) were going to be revealed to me over the seasons, as a mystery. now i'm guessing that all that shit is in the pilot, huh

xp

haha, i bet it will also undermine one of the neatest "devices" in the first season: the whole helo is on caprica w/sharon. i understood it to be flash-back for the entire season and then it's like ~bam~ tricked ya it's been happening concurrently the entire time!

The "CGI space battles" on the one episode of Babylon 5

those were infamously terrible

(yes, i just admitted to watching babylon 5)

I kinda like Fringe, but mostly because of Daniels and all the other Wire cameos and because the crazy scientist guy reminds me v v much of my father-in-law.

ugh babylon 5 blewwwwwwww

i also feel weirdly guilty about not getting into firefly (for reasons i believe i've stated before)....it's like it ~should~ be right up my alley, but whatever

xp tried watching fringe and that it was garbage. a cheap assembly of myriad, better shows

the whole helo is on caprica w/sharon. i understood it to be flash-back for the entire season and then it's like ~bam~ tricked ya it's been happening concurrently the entire time!

waht, i don't remember this

no, see, that's the thing. it didn't happen! i'm guessing it was established in the pilot that helo was downed on caprica w/sharon and that everything that was happening was going on at the same time. i just thought that it was a flashback because, you know, TWO sharons

The pilot doesn't fully explain everything. You don't find out why Gaius sees a Cylon until the series finale and you don't find out who the Cylons really are until the end of season four.

GUYS you are getting into spoiler territory for JVC, but Jordan he's talking about something that was ongoing throughout the entire first season so you should really remember it.

ah, ok, stop talking about it, NO SPOILERS (<--- which is why i'm not reading the ILX threads devoted to BSG)

And Evan you need to watch the pilot, stat.

Another reason not the read the ILX BSG threads is because there are like three people who shit all over the show like it's their fucking job, basically shutting down any possibility of there being any discussion of the show that doesn't revolve around why it sucks.

DLing

btw i <3 u starbuck

first season was so long ago

You don't find out why Gaius sees a Cylon until the series finale

but this was only a couple weeks ago and i don't remember an actual explanation!

I didn't see it coming at all when Gabriel Byrne bites the gymnast/patient in the neck and it turns out that he is a colonel in the army of the undead.

that was explained in the webisodes

Hey, the gal who acted in my radio-show play is now on Scrubs and is funny on the webisodes (haven't seen the real onez).

i am basically DLing 8GB of video at the moment

I am trying not to read this thread because I am somewhere in the middle of season 2 of BSG and I fear spoilers. It is hard.

Yeah, I may want to watch it, too. I didn't even read the Obama article in last week's Onion.

There is only one really spoilery thing here, and Dr. Johnson, it is of something that you already know about if you are in the midst of season 2.

Definitely wise to avoid that Onion article, though.

Okay. I have actually been unable to totally 100% get into BSG as of yet, perhaps because my girlfriend won't watch it. I feel like I just need to take a whole day and watch like 4 dvds worth or something.

girlfriends are lame

I thought Jeff posted that too!

srsly do you even read past the first few words anyone writes

seriously i didn't actually think jeff posted it
i meant that before i reached your username i thought "jeff"

i apologoze for any inconvenience

Yes, to be fair, it was awfully Jeff-like.

And I, like Jesse, thought "Jeff" until I read a bit further and realized it was not Jeff.

going forward please identify yourselves at the beginning of a post

you first

YES

I have an interview back at the Pr3ss next week.

Awesome, congrats.

Alright Dan!!!

I have to write an order denying a petition for attorneys' fees, and I have to reference three different petitions and two different hearings attended by three different attorneys from the same firm, and it's not entirely clear which of the three attorneys performed or failed to perform which actions that, taken as a whole, lead to the decision to deny the petition for fees and the end result is that I am going into a passive voice coma.

A passive voice coma is being entered by me.

Also it's funny how saying, "Again, no evidence was offered in support of the motion" is kind of neutral, but if you say, "Once again, no evidence was offered in support of the motion" it's kind of like a little implied FU.

Actually I think "again" is a little FU by itself, and "once again" is a touch too far.

Like you're taking your FU and putting a frilly little hat on it.