Dear Diary, today my heart leapt when Agent Scully suggested spontaneous human combustion.

[cosmic_llin]

I just found some screencaps of the X-Files episode Avatar - and now I'm weirded out. Amanda Tapping guested in this episode - it's like Sam and Skinner are getting it on! Now I'm very confused, and trying to sort out my feelings towards both Amanda Tapping and Mitch Pileggi...
The weather has been gorgeous today; it seems like we're having an early summer. And I felt all righteous because only four people turned up to German this morning and one of them was me. Even if I did suck.
And hey, I've been super creative today! I wrote loads this afternoon. And I made my new icon, although I'm not happy with it because it's a bit blurry, but I don't have a good program to work on images with.

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[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Arrgghh! AT is an ACTOR! She plays PARTS! Much as I majorly admire Sam, AT is *not* Sam, she's an actor. Like, it's a job. Like cutting hair or coding for an IT company. Erk.

[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

*g* That's why I said it's 'LIKE Sam and Skinner', not actually Sam and Skinner. Shocking, I know. Although I'm a teenager, I occasionally use the word 'like' correctly, rather than as a random addition to a sentence.
And however much you know that an actor is an actor, do you not think that, a lot of the time, there's a particular role that you see when you hear that actor's name? Doesn't it throw you off/make you smile a little when you see someone you already know from one show in something else? Maybe just for the first five minutes...
Hmm. I'm not sure I would claim that Alan Rickman is my 'friend'. I know I lust after him in an hypothetical, imaginary kind of way, but really, I don't know the first thing about him. Except that he is friends with Ruby Wax.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it throw you off/make you smile a little when you see someone you already know from one show in something else? Maybe just for the first five minutes...

I think Jon Pertwee put that to rest for me when Worsel Gummidge came out :-)

~thinks~ Hmm, in the sf/fantasy arena, not really. I adored Chekhov on the dear old original Starship Enterprise, but when Bester first made his appearance on Babylon 5, I didn't think of him as Chekhov. Nor was I - even momentarily - expecting Hugh Jackman to get his claws out in Van Helsing, hee. I suspect that, yet again, this at least partially comes from having known so many actors during my Hollyweird years; over the decades, I've sometimes needed a moment to adjust to the fact that my friend/colleague/neighbour/etc. So-and-so was the person bringing some character or other to life in some famous film or other.

BTW my apologies for not having had the time to join in on the Cosmics discussion about images of female castmembers in sf telly. I've been reading it, though - excellent and (no surprise!) intelligent. Great stuff! Oh, and my mental jury is still out on Stargate Atlantis. I've seen the first four (or maybe five - we went on rather late last night...) eps, and while I think it's absolutely desperately awful, with dreadful scripts and unspeakably poorly-written dialogue, I think I like it anyway!

[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't worry about it, I know you've been busy. When you consider that we have over 200 members and most of them have not posted even once, we couldn't really blame you for semi-lurking once in a while!
Ah, I love Atlantis! But you're right, it's terrible. But good-terrible. I mean, when you think about the first few episodes of Next Gen, some of thme were pretty silly.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

~nods~ TNG was trying to walk a fine line at the start - garnering new fans whilst not offending the old-time Trekkies too much - so yes, much of season 1 was pretty darned wet. But then they hit the ground running in S2...

So much of the dialogue in Atlantis sounds to me like it was written by committee. And it's so shallow and predictable. But dammit, there are stargates in it! How could I not like it?! :-)