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Post by billswoman on Feb 21, 2008 6:44:30 GMT -5
I don't suppose he and Sam finally get together in those "Atlantis" eps, do they? That's the main reason it ticked me off about the season ender. Closest they ever got, and it doesn't really count, was in "Window of Opportunity" when O'Neill resigns and kisses Carter. HE remembers, of course, but she doesn't. Granted, they never concluded the 'ship with Chapel and Spock on Star Trek, and left it to the imagination of the fanfic writers, but still.... Speaking of which, the author Ster J on fanfiction.net has a series of Spock/Chapel stories that are REALLY good, in that they're CANON too! It's amazing. She has their "relationship" over the years, during the show, the in-between time of TV show and ST: the motion picture and beyond. If you're an original Trek fan at all, I highly recommend her stories. She knows classic Trek inside, outisde and upside down (like I do). Her "After the Credits" are great. Out of respect for me, she clearly states if any story is slashy in any shape or form. Some are, some aren't. The "ATC" of "Spock's Brain," one of the worst eps of the show, is hysterical and will put that episode in a whole new light when you watch it (if you watch it, that is... I can barely stomach it). It's basically Kirk, McCoy and Scotty telling Spock what happened, and Spock's like... "Yeah, right." Oh, popped GAH season 3 disc 1 in yesterday, got through The Price is Right, started watching DVS (skipped through "30 seconds..." of course), but then got distracted. Sigh. It's amazing how much they get into one ep with DVS, isn't it? I can practically recite that one. Cannot WAIT to watch it on my new computer, instead of this POS DVD player. And I realized yesterday,w hen I was persuing the great caps and captions in "They didn't say that!" that I'll be able to get LOTS more new screencaps, whoohoo!! I'm not retiring my stanford9 photobucket, cuz there're just too many links to images in there, but I'm starting with a new PB once my puter gets here, better organized. I'm consolidating my presence on the internet for real this time, have ONE journal on insanejournal.com and ONE PB (leaving stanford9 as is). I've been wanting to write fanfic more. In fact, tried to yesterday, worked on "Bill & Paula" a wee bit, read one of Jo's stories ("Super"), but alas, I couldn't think of anything substantial to write. Spring break is coming, I'm going to peruse all the challenges and see if any inspire my Muse to wake up and tell me what to do
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 21, 2008 9:21:20 GMT -5
Glad to see you getting back in the swing of things GAH...even if you do still tend to skip through things. As for SG-1, Carter wasn't in those episodes of ATLANTIS. If you watch the 200th episode though, you get to see RDA and Carter become a little closer than ever before to some degree...outside of the alternate Carter and O'Neill in the season 8 closer.
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Post by MyTatuo on Feb 21, 2008 13:03:39 GMT -5
I'm glad you're gonna be at the chat, BW. Getting a new computer but not wanting to download AIM to chat with us ... that's like buying a brand new car, but I can't drive it to WORK, are you crazy?! It might get broken into! Also, I'm glad to see you here more, and that you're trying to jump-start your muse. I'm still waiting for that Scott/Kelly, Harlan/Bill, JJ/Marshall story...
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Post by billswoman on Feb 21, 2008 20:15:31 GMT -5
MyTatuo, I'm glad you mentioned that story! I haven't forgotten it by any stretch, it's just that it promises to be so delightfully convoluted that I'm trying to do the possibilities justice and think it through.
I'm also pondering the GAH-only Cosmic Responding story or stories I want to do (it's currently a crossover with Q from Star Trek). I'm going to edit Q out and just do the CR bit of it, of our team sort of passing a milestone and meeting OTHER teams throughout the galaxy and/or cosmos (wasn't sure just how much power/technology I wanted to give the green guys, seeing as we know they're from Mars).
It's been hard to think about fanfic writing, what with school and all. I tried to yesterday cuz I was taking the day off from thinking about school, but alas, now I've got something due on Saturday, and then a two-chapter quiz to study for for NEXT week.
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Post by billswoman on Feb 23, 2008 11:37:13 GMT -5
Update on the new computer with MS Vista: To put it simply... it's GREAT!! Virtually idiot-proof. I was mainly concerned about getting onto the Internet (I have my priorities, after all). The instruction poster said, Plug this, this and this in, turn on the machine and let it run about 20 minutes, so I did that. Entered a few things like my name and stuff, and it said it was updating. I thought, No way... it's not on the 'net, is it? And darned if it wasn't, that easily! My monitor is a wide-screen 17" flat panel, great resolution! Having bought the extra gig of RAM, I am flying around that computer, no pauses for graphics to paint and such. I've popped in some DVDs (including DVS this morning) and ZOWIE It's so much different from a little dinky screen on my yucky player. I anticipate a screencapping frenzy soon More later, gotta work.
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Post by billswoman on Feb 26, 2008 4:36:53 GMT -5
I bought a book, Vista Plain & Simple (from MS Press), and it has great instructions on making both slideshows and movies, and adding audio, so my first ever "music vid" will be made this weekend (I hope). I say "music vid" cuz my first effort's going to be a slideshow. Dont' want to jump in too fast, after all. Plus I've already got a gajillion images just for that purpose (Bill, of course). I managed to make one on my old computer with the song and everything, but had no way to save it to post to YouTube Apparently whatever format it saved it wasn't acceptable to that site. Windows Movie Maker looks extremely simple to use. My only conundrum is how to line up the lyrics to the image or video segment on the screen, but others have done it, I'm sure I can too once I learn the program. I think I'm going to hold off on "Don't Cry" by Asia, for Bill and O'Neil, for now. Not really into that 'ship at present. After I get another season of WKRP, I'm hoping to make a Johnny/Bailey video. Sadly, season two hasn't come out yet and I haven't seen any buzz on the 'net about it ever coming out. Darned music royalties any way. Guess I should be lucky to have season one, which includes the turkey give-away ep and the tornado ep, my two favorites (aside from the pilot, of course, with the station's format change).
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 26, 2008 11:32:10 GMT -5
Congrats on the new computer. My wife got a new one lately with Vista. Some things are nice about it, but other things drive me nuts.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Mar 1, 2008 23:22:25 GMT -5
I like SG-1 and while Jonas is not my favorite, I do like him. Too bad you hate the later seasons...Ba'al is great in them and you could have some great videos.
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Post by billswoman on Mar 1, 2008 23:34:59 GMT -5
Yeah, him being in the later ones is about the only thing that would make me watch them.
Unlike most SG-1 fans, I adore Jonas Quinn and I think a lot of the Daniel fanatics diss Jonas cuz Michael Shanks left the show. It's not Corin's fault, after all. I like Daniel and Jonas equally. I mean, come ON, the man read and memorized Daniel's entire library within a matter of days of being at SGC. He's a Haktaur, if I spell that right. I wish they'd expanded on that somewhat. I did a little bit in a story of mine, them doing some research to find out why Jonas's people diverted so much from the Human genome in just 3,000 years or so. I had it be something from their sun.
Thanks for carrying the SG-1 topic over here, I love this stuff as you've probably surmised, as much as I do GAH and Star Trek. Okay, maybe not ST... that's always number one in my heart, 4ever and ever.
Speaking of loving stuff, I've been hoping to see info on an upcoming season two release of WKRP. Sigh. Maybe we should be lucky there was a season one at all, with some original music intact. I'm dying to catch up on it, cuz I promised Johnny Fever I'd write a story with him and Bailey and he's been pestering me to git'r done. There's one episode where they imply Johnny and Bailey spent the night together, and I want to expand on that one. Funny how I love the character but can't stand the actor. They're like night and day, which I guess is a sign of what a good actor Hesseman is.
Any way, one song idea I have for SG1 is for O'Neill. Remember how he was about to kill himself in the movie, but was recalled by the Air Force to help on the Stargate project? I'm going to use John Denver's "Sweet Surrender" for the song. It was written about a soldier who's really depressed, coming back from war, being rejected by his own American people, thinking about ending it all and realizing, "My life is worth the living, I don't need to see the end." It's also one of my 2 favorite songs by him. There's an SG1 video of the other song, "The Wings that Fly Us Home," depicting (IMO) the friendship of Daniel and Jack. I'm thinking about doing the same with Bill and Ralph. The first several times I heard this song, which sadly wasn't till after John Denver died, I couldn't do it without flat-out weeping, the music and lyrics are that beautiful. John's best friend Joe Henry wrote it about the two of them.
The ending, that mentions the wings that fly us home, goes:
And the Spirit fills the darkeness of the heavens, It fills the endless yearning of the soul. It lives within a star too far to dream of, It lives within each part and is the whole. It's the fire and the wings that fly us home, fly us home, Fly us home!
(That ending is amazingly beautiful and makes me know why I love John Denver so much, his voice is incredible.)
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Mar 1, 2008 23:39:05 GMT -5
I liked Jonas, but he was the Daniel replacement, not really his own character...similar to Cam Mitchell became the new O'Neill at times. I liked Jonas better in Season 5 and Season 7. That video of Jack sounds cool. If you ever need ideas and what-not, let me know....or if you take requests. I like the 9th and 10th seasons of SG-1, but the O'Neill episodes are pretty good.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Mar 1, 2008 23:44:37 GMT -5
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Post by billswoman on Mar 1, 2008 23:58:26 GMT -5
Thanks, HD. If you'll notice, that article was done almost a year ago, right about when the first season came out. WKRP fans always knew there was an issue with the music. I think the idea of selling the selling of it to that third party company is a good idea, but the guy from Fox has a good point too (kind of like people buying pre-installed software on their computers and even though they're supposed to call the hardware manufacturer for help, they call Microsoft instead). I know at least I, and prolly many more fans, would pay quite a lot if it has the original music intact. Hell, they charge up to 99 bucks a season for Star Trek, cuz they know (most) fanatics will buy it (I haven't, at least not yet).
That's ludicrous, 30 to 40K for a few bars of a song? It's that expensive? I wonder how much of that the actual artists get though, prolly ten bucks.
I'll say one thing: I'm glad they kept the original song during the format change on WKRP, the Hallelujah Tabernacle Chorus singing "You're having my baby." It just wouldn't have been the same with something else.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Mar 2, 2008 0:01:17 GMT -5
I figured you had probably seen it, but I thought I would try.
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Post by billswoman on Mar 2, 2008 15:11:15 GMT -5
Jack/Sam ship - I think I said it best here, from a story of mine (my first fanfic, actually, so please to forgive) ...He had always admired her form, her grace. She was such a warrior, and that turned him on in ways she didn't know. Level III hand-to-hand combat training. Knowledge of many types of firearms and ordnance. Athletic build. He knew she worked out in the SGC gym many times each week, when not working on mission tasks. Scholar and warrior, and still definitely feminine. She managed to remain a lady and an officer in a man's world, and managed with grace and dignity. She was a great leader in her own right, and people working under her knew that. That was one of the many things that endeared her to him, attracted her so to him.
When they'd first met, and he told her it was scientists he had a problem with, not women, she revealed to him she'd spent over 100 hours in airtime during the Gulf War. That was the first stab she laid into his heart and soul. Brilliant and a warrior. Oh my. Gorgeous, too. Blonde, blue-eyed. Those blue eyes, piercing right through him as she looked him over. Did she have any idea what she was doing to him? He loved blondes. Short hair, smartly done for the military life. No nonsense woman, here. Doesn't use coy feminine tactics to get her way. Rose through the ranks to Captain, then Major, then finally to Lieutenant Colonel on her own merit, never mind that her father was an Air Force General. He liked that she never used that for leverage, as some officers had done.Seasons without O'Neill - I tried watching at first too, mainly since the first two eps of season Nine were oriented around Glastonbury Tor and the Arthur mythos. I didn't like the Orii either. I dunno, after Jack left, it just lost its magic for me. Props to RDA though, cuz he decided spending time with his little girl was more important than a TV show. Jonas Quinn - I don't think he was as milquetoast as everyone thinks. His character did change over the season. He was first the rejected and hurt little puppy, feeling the silent - and not so silent - wrath of SG-1 for Daniel's death. But he ends up proving himself quite well, esp in the one where they're underwater and he saves them all (Abyss I think it's called, not sure). He was brilliant, and a hak'taur as we learn in "Metamorphosis." Niirti tested him in that DNA machine and he came out smiling, wasn't bothered by it at all. And then when she's trying to seduce him and asks what he'll do with all that power she's promised, he calmly said, "Kill you." There was more mettle to our man Jonas than people give him credit for. As for watching the Weather Channel, that's one of the main things that endears him to me. I'm a trained NWS storm spotter and all-around weather geek
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Mar 2, 2008 18:30:30 GMT -5
OFF TOPIC: My Dear Billswoman, I see that aside from the wonderfulness of Bill Maxwell and Robert Culp, we disagree on a couple of things related to SG-1. Disagreement: I'm always amazed at shippers, although I do respect your opinion. We all see shows through our own mindsets. But it seems unlikely that Jack and Sam could work out. She was the epitome of everything he DISLIKED in women! Jack liked very down to earth gals, brunettes, quietly supportive, NOT know it all technogeeks, gently and strongly going through life, casual, able to guide him while also able to allow him his work. Everything Sam was not! At the end, when he put his arm around Sam, as Jacob lay dying, it was singularly the most awkward, uncomfortable moment of his life, visible to the audience, outside of his being placed on Baal's spider gravity net again. Sure, he kissed her in the time loop, but that was simply because he was getting crazy going around in time all over again and again! Notice, he did not try to kiss her again! Agreement: The post-O'Neill episodes stank. The inexplicable way they got rid of Jack stank. The Ori stank. Vala stank. Daniel's beard stank. I couldn't bear watching them so didn't after putting myself through two of them. Disagreement: In my opinion, as for Jonas, a more white bread, Boy Scout, boring, lacking in personality, bereft of any internal trauma (which like Jack and Daniel and Teal'c made them SO fascinating), character has rarely been created on television. I was glad when Daniel came back; at least he could in his somewhat weenie boy way, stand up to Jack and the General now and then. What did you like about Jonas? I mean, come on, the man spent his days watching THE WEATHER CHANNEL! That's gotta make for some fascinating dinner conversation..... Mona Actually, I agree with you overall on Jack and Sam. They might have been good together, but so many things were in their way. I agree with BW though that they have good moments. When they were being turned neanderthal after experiencing the dark side of the land of light, O'Neill was glad that she was kissing him, but was confused. Even though he was thinking of Sara near the end of the first trip to Antarctica, he had a good bonding time with Sam. Plus, the 200th episode was a good one for fans of the Sam/Jack relationship. Jack/Sam ship - I think I said it best here, from a story of mine (my first fanfic, actually, so please to forgive) ...He had always admired her form, her grace. She was such a warrior, and that turned him on in ways she didn't know. Level III hand-to-hand combat training. Knowledge of many types of firearms and ordnance. Athletic build. He knew she worked out in the SGC gym many times each week, when not working on mission tasks. Scholar and warrior, and still definitely feminine. She managed to remain a lady and an officer in a man's world, and managed with grace and dignity. She was a great leader in her own right, and people working under her knew that. That was one of the many things that endeared her to him, attracted her so to him.
When they'd first met, and he told her it was scientists he had a problem with, not women, she revealed to him she'd spent over 100 hours in airtime during the Gulf War. That was the first stab she laid into his heart and soul. Brilliant and a warrior. Oh my. Gorgeous, too. Blonde, blue-eyed. Those blue eyes, piercing right through him as she looked him over. Did she have any idea what she was doing to him? He loved blondes. Short hair, smartly done for the military life. No nonsense woman, here. Doesn't use coy feminine tactics to get her way. Rose through the ranks to Captain, then Major, then finally to Lieutenant Colonel on her own merit, never mind that her father was an Air Force General. He liked that she never used that for leverage, as some officers had done.Seasons without O'Neill - I tried watching at first too, mainly since the first two eps of season Nine were oriented around Glastonbury Tor and the Arthur mythos. I didn't like the Orii either. I dunno, after Jack left, it just lost its magic for me. Props to RDA though, cuz he decided spending time with his little girl was more important than a TV show. He came back in the 10th season more and the third season of ATLANTIS. I like the Ori legend and such, but it just sucks that they had to condense it to two seasons and a movie. Had it been given more of a greenlight, it could have been built better like the goa'uld. I hate the Replicators most of all though. The episode you are thinking of is "Descent" where he saves them from the underwater death.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Mar 9, 2008 12:39:25 GMT -5
Are you going to watch the ARK OF TRUTH?
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Post by billswoman on Mar 10, 2008 17:03:32 GMT -5
1. People who don't have their bus fare ready when getting on or leaving the bus.
2. Bicyclists who cry, "Share the road with bicycles!" yet do whatever the heck they want to on the road, disregarding traffic rules.
3. Madonna being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The likes of Deep Purple and J. Geils Band aren't in it, but Madonna is. Go figure.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Mar 10, 2008 18:10:43 GMT -5
I guess you answered that for me about your other thread. I agree with the first two for sure.
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Post by MyTatuo on Mar 22, 2008 17:07:09 GMT -5
Hey, I'm in Washington State! (Closer to Portland, OR than Seattle, though...) I'll be here until Tuesday...
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Post by billswoman on Mar 29, 2008 14:07:03 GMT -5
Darn, MyT, I missed seeing this post! So where were you in WA, down in Vancouver? That's a skip and a jump from Portland, OR.
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