Sheena

Thank you for yet another amazing podcast! And for the warning about Disenchantment, that's rather disappointing... Not that it matters to anyone but me who is still sad years later that it's gone and needs a new hobby, but Morena Baccarin's Stargate character was pronounced "Aah-dree-aah the Orr-ih-sigh." ...I'll show myself out.

Seconding John here, this sounds more like Primeval (The Lost World was blatantly filmed in Australia- oh, the wonderful, terrible "British" accents- and there were definitely portals, but not much back-and-forthing with them). I was literally watching an episode of TLW last night, so this podcast totally made my day, even if the show was being referenced as low-quality (I love it to pieces, but... yeah, fair). Thank you for introducing me to this CW show, though, it sounds like the kind of garbage fire I will watch for years. :)

Awesome episode, thank you! Regarding "Skytanic" and the canon, I may be wrong about this, but I believe that "Skytanic" was referenced several times in EHG Mark I, but never actually nominated; the first time it was referenced was in "Episode 12 - Danger Zone" during a discussion about TV favourites of 2010 and that discussion did include 3 clips, so it had a canon-ey quality to it.

I had no idea what a "breton tee" was, so I had to Google it... and I realised that I am wearing one right now. :D Best wishes to the Coles, I hope all is well 'round Thorold way!

Thank you guys for getting me to watch The Good Place, it's amazing and I couldn't be happier that it's finally on Netflix! Side note, not to be a jerk but Bones' first name is Temperance or Joy, not Constance.

I'm imagining all of the things Sarah might've been saying and most of them involve bees, so even during technical difficulties you guys make me smile. :D

...wait, there's an episode of The Mighty Boosh in the canon?

I really enjoyed the podcast- the end sounds a little odd to me, though, is anyone else having that difficulty? And is there a way I can play the file which doesn't have any issues?

Thank you for this article- I used to LOVE the MTV show Engaged and Underage, so I can't wait to see this! :)

Please oh please let there be a "Will Dave Hate This?" segment about a Fuller-run Trek series! :)

Was it 80-year-old prospector?

Hey Dave, I'm not sure if it's just me, but when I try to download the episode via Direct Download link, I get redirected to the download for the previous episode... would it be possible to check on the Direct Download please? I'm really looking forward to hearing it! :)

My husband would echo all of that. :) Seconded! While I do enjoy some of them, they are often very slow burn dramas and if I'm not in the right mood for them, they'll knock me right out. Except for Hell on Wheels, but largely because it's a goldmine for playing Spot the Canadian Actor... and I may have a crush on Christopher Heyerdahl. But yeah, they can be a massive slog. So could I! :) Murder She Wrote is TV comfort food for me, I just love it.

Same! I thought that Bela was a hoot, she was just fun every time she turned up... I was really sad when she died, too, and I think that her story was among the more tragic of the show. And while I'm sure Misha is a very nice person, and I know that he does some great charity work... he was in a film the existence of-which I'm not especially happy (which, I realize, is a me-thing) so no, I don't do the fangirl shuffle over him either. *goes in to Witness Protection* Yes. THIS. So much this! :D I'm of the general view that Sam and Dean are written and acted as being straight as well- I think that Dean and Cass can play off of each other well, but I never really saw where the sexual attraction was supposed to kick in with them. And the fact that Wincest is a thing... it weirds me out, more than a little. Like.. just why, people? They're related! Incest isn't sexy! I'm mostly with you on the ship front too, except that I accidentally (like, my words after the episode were "Aww, they're strangely cute together, that'd be really interesti-- DAMN IT") found myself (for the all of two or three episodes it was of relevance) shipping Cass and Meg. But I haven't shipped any duo/trio before or since- so long as they're hunting, I actually kind of prefer them romantically unattached. *gets massive surgical adjustments to face in addition to going in to Witness Protection*

I was rewatching Flash Forward a couple of years back (not in any order, I just saw episodes available and went on a nostalgia trip) and ran across this... it definitely gave me pause, lol:

I found that it looked like the same colour, but it had faded off of the inside of the lips in numerous scenes- happens when one wears lipstick for a while or takes a sip of something- but this is my point, it's inconsistent. The on-set makeup artists shouldn't be letting that happen. Oh, I remember her- I don't refer to her as "Agent Weaver" because I have difficulty enough remembering the main characters' names (until last week, Ward was "The Bland Guy"), so I tend to refer to the supporting and guests cast by nicknames too (Agent Weaver has been "Long Game Girl"). I'm not so much wondering if we'll see her again in the abstract or where she's from, I'm wondering specifically about the comment that Simmons would know where she would go to hide. If they aren't going to address that specifically, it would be a strange comment to just toss out- they could just as easily have cut the transmission off before she said it. I haven't seen CA: WS yet (I believe that I'm up to three attempts to see it which have been torpedoed now, frankly I think I'm just going to go solo on cheap Tuesday next week), so I'll skip the spoiler for now, but hopefully soon I'll be able to read it- I'm very curious! :) Eesh- that's definitely a fair point, I just think that it would have been better left in the comics.

I'd use a different tag if one were available, i just don't want to create an eyesore for anyone scrolling through with my ramblings. I have a tendency to be long-winded, so I've just taken to trying to make the sight of it less bothersome.

Okay, so I re-watched episodes 16 and 17 last evening, then spent the day at work listening to episode 17 on a loop (things that happen when I run out of podcasts...) and tried to keep an open mind about who's working for whom, and I'm more conflicted now than I was before. Bloody long-cons, they mess me up... Anyway, some thoughts on 'Turn, Turn, Turn', relevant or random: So, do SHIELD planes come with a decent sound system, mugs and a means of making coffee/tea, or did Garrett bring some of those with him? ...what? These are the important questions of our time! ;) -I quite liked the "You have to believe me!" "No, I don't" bit because every time someone says the former in a book, movie or TV show, I'm always like "Pfft- no, they don't!" and no one seems to ever come out and say it. -I got a little giggle out of "Boo-yah." It was just cute. :) -[shallowness]I don't know who is giving the orders regarding hair and makeup (whether it's the actual hair and makeup staff, or if one of the producers is saying 'No, we want x to look like this'), but I would really like to have words with that person. I've always found Simmons' eyebrows to be massively distracting (it's like Coulson is supplementing his income purely doing her eyebrows, they're 150% unnaturally perfectly styled and filled in at all times- I expect her to look like she's on TV, but my gosh, YouTube beauty gurus look less done-up), but Hand's lipstick and red hair streaks are worse. I just want to wash her hair out and pull whoever is dedicatedly doing Simmons' eyebrows so that he or she can keep the lipstick from looking like the actress is drinking coffee between takes. I mean, she likely is, and that's fine, but they have makeup artists on set for a reason... May, Coulson and Fitz always have perfectly acceptable makeup, and Skye is clearly wearing makeup (the character, that is, of course all of the actors are), but it's never taken my attention away from what's going on, so it's not that they're incapable of nailing it... *shrug* Iunno...[/shallowness] -When Ward confronts a recently-iced May about going behind the team's backs, he seems legitimately to feel betrayed by the action... but the more I think about it, it could just as easily be because he's impressed (not necessarily in a good way) that she can be so cold and he can't or that he's worried that she may have reported some detail which would lead to someone realizing who he is really working for... hmmm. -Seriously, guys, your whole organization is based on secrets. You have clearance levels for who can know which secrets. Everyone, please dismount your high-horses. -Ummm... wait, Simmons' friend from the Academy, she said Simmons would "know where to find [her]." Are we going to follow up on that one? -I've rarely had anything against Fitz, but I've never really liked him either-- I really liked him this week. Even scared that he's about to be tortured and die, that he's about to watch his friends die and knowing that he isn't sure where his very best friend is- even while crying- he tells off Garrett, picks up a gun which clearly frightens him, and shoots someone. Well done, fella. -The look of realization on Coulson's face when he realizes who Garrett is really working for as well as the breathy line delivery which followed it, like the wind had been knocked out of him, was a nice piece of business. Someone really needs to do a compilation video of TV and movie characters giving up the show of being good and starting to be honest, I love those moments. -Did anyone else look at the streaks on the floor left by the dragged-off agents and think that they less resembled blood and more resembled raspberry pie filling? And finally, I'd like to add my voice to the choir of those not trusting Simmons right now because I am not a crackpot... but I think Simmons is either The Clairvoyant or at least with HYDRA. There are a few things which push me in that direction, the biggest of which is her rather cryptic and otherwise totally irrelevant comment to Trip that she was “getting better at [lying].” If you're just listening to her voice, she sounds very serious about it (like, she's not saying it to be funny). Further, there's a scene in this episode wherein Hand addresses her and says “The worst thing you can do right now is to underestimate HYDRA. They hide in plain sight. They earn our trust, our sympathy. They make us like them.” How fantastic would that scene be if Simmons is the bad guy? Because Coulson, Skye, Ward and May aren’t always likeable to everyone, but it’s hard to find something unsympathetic or untrustworthy about Simmons (or Fitz, for that matter). Additionally, Garrett never identified himself as The Clairvoyant (it was implied, but it may have been implied instead of stated for a reason) and... I don't know, he's a clever guy, but he doesn't strike me as being smart enough to have his fingers in so many pies at the same time. Simmons, on the other hand... he also stated that he isn't a "true believer" he's an opportunist. So it might make sense for him to hold a high position within HYDRA, but it would make sense to have someone supervising the important aspects of his work, too... maybe someone whose loyalties don't shift so easily.

Same! While I sometimes like other characters, they're by far the big reasons I keep watching.

Yeah, that's pretty much why I hate it. Although, one amusing thing about the otherwise-terrible Muzak version- when I worked at a call centre some years ago, it was one of the tunes used for our hold music. I was never sure if its inclusion was a joke, a suggestion or just a mistake...

I realize that I may be jumping the gun, but from what I just watched? Welcome to the Tommy Westphall universe, MARVEL universe! You're in good company. :) While I don't think that it would have been in character for May, I agree that she would have made not only a formidable opponent, but a really fun one, too (I do so love May, I'd like to see her get more development)- I had been hoping that at least it wouldn't be Garrett because it seemed so obvious (one of those situations where the casting was the give-away; the first episode he was in, I was like 'Please, let it not be Paxton'), but I suppose that it could have played out worse than it did. And yeah... I'm with ya, Ward is definitely not HYDRA and I don't think that Hand is dead. The aside and the nod before he left made that pretty clear to me- seems like he's there to help root out the traitors on Hand/Coulson's orders. But methinks maintaining that cover is going to torpedo the drink with Skye; this seems like the type of scenario wherein she'll take the Under-Cover-Means-No-One-Else-Can-Know-Including-My-Friends thing personally. Indeed- a case could be made for it being a case of bad writing, however I don't think that killing her, if she is indeed dead, qualifies as "fridging" at all.

Aaaand I know what I'm eating pretty much forever more. :D I'm not a vegetarian or vegan, and I'm a lousy cook, but I saw a video on YouTube where someone made chocolate-banana "ice cream" by just tossing frozen peeled bananas in a blender with some cocoa or raw chocolate chips. I just got a blender, and I've gotta say- it's very enjoyable. Not really a meal suggestion per se, but fast and tasty in a pinch.

Oh my gosh, I missed one that I'm forever having to confess at work! I don't like The Walking Dead purely because I want the main character to die. Basically, as soon as he made the call in the pilot to go toward a densely-populated urban area on the grounds that the CDC was there, I was like "Nooope- that's a terrible reason to do something which, by now, should be clearly apparent as a bad idea. Dude's too stupid to live and he needs to die so that we can have a smarter protagonist." He didn't die, so I decided the show wasn't for me. I've been told that, in the comics, the reason for his going to Atlanta was because his family was there, which I would've totally understood (wanting to find/help/protect family, to me, is an acceptable reason to do inadvisable things within most fictional contexts) and been cool with, but the CDC... nope. I'm glad that so many people enjoy it, though. :)

*rolls up sleeves for crazy-long post* I tried and I tried to think if I had ever come up with alternate lyrics to a TV show theme (or if someone in my family had so I could thieve it), but while we had added lyrics to some songs (we sing "Have a banana" during the pauses in How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?), we didn't change any for theme songs. And then it hit me: I didn't come up with them, but I sure did sing them on the yard at school as a kid, because everyone did. They were: The Addams Family started When Uncle Fester farted They really are... an offensive word starting with an 'r' ...the Addams Family! --and (I'm cutting for some violent content)-- So there ya go, I am nowhere near as creative as I thought, and I sang disturbing songs as a child... hmm. :S I think that my favourite song-used-as-a-theme-song would either be "Bad Things" for True Blood or "Worry About You" for Kingdom Hospital; the former, I felt just fit the show nicely, and the latter I just thought was really, really pretty (full disclosure: never even seen an episode of that show, but I used to watch the opening bit just to hear the theme song). Bonus points for both for being very sing-a-long-to-able. They aren't the theme songs to their respective works per se, but "Blood Theme" from Dexter, generally used over the closing credits, and "Prologue" from Battlestar Galactica, used during part of the show's intro (the "The Cylons were created by man..." bit) are favourites of mine as well. Another not-quite opening bit which I really enjoyed was the theme song to Sanctuary... but not the version which aired on TMN/Space/Syfy. I think my favourite overall would be, oddly, Emily of New Moon. Very haunting, very pretty. And if not it, then Doctor Who, which is just so darned fun and catchy. Runners up for me come from all over the place (I'll spoiler cut for length, I'm afraid that I'm something of an indecisive rambler) Oh, and I love Brooklyn Nine-Nine's because I can't not dance to it. It's like a disease. For themes I don't like, I find M*A*S*H's theme rather annoying, I could do without Roseanne's (very grating to me), I don't care for Archer's theme song and I curse the opening theme to Coupling (so annoying).

Same! :) I had seen some SG1 before, since my husband borrowed the entire series (at the time) on DVD from his parents, and I thought it was okay (I liked Jack, but had mixed feelings about Teal'c and Carter)... until season nine started and I got hooked. I went back and saw the rest of the series and loved it, but season nine was my in. I think that might be why I like Vala, Cam, Landry and Carolyn more than many other fans... On a similar topic? I found the Ori a far far better villain than the Goa'uld. I mean, I love Ba'al (even after everything he did to Jack- there's just something about a bad guy who knows he/she is evil and relishes every evil second of it), but I never found him or any of the other Goa'uld really threatening. The Ori, on the other hand, legit scared me. Other unpopular TV opinions? I really enjoyed the BSG series finale- it may have helped that I knew why the Starbuck thing went down how it did and that I knew what the final scene would be (it won be $5, actually). Space aired a special (can't recall the name) in between halves of the final season which included several guests. One of them was a theology prof (I want to say from Ryerson...? Maybe UofT) who explained what Starbuck represented using Mormon theology, and basically said that, if this was to be followed, she was in a post-death stage of being (again, terrible memory, so I'm afraid that I don't recall the name). So when she disappeared at the end, it totally made sense to me. As for the bet, Airlock Alpha said the final scene would be in Times Square in NYC (a bit of the rest of it they got wrong, but they said Six in the red dress in Times Square), so I told a friend (I issued a spoiler warning, he asked) who said he didn't think it was true and bet me $5 it wasn't. Neither of these are universal reasons, certainly, and I understand why people didn't care for it, but they just happened to work for me. :) I didn't like TNG's finale at all. I just thought it was a boring, unremarkable episode. I think DS9 was by far the best Trek series, and while I love Picard, no one trumps Sisko as best commander for me. While I liked her just fine on SG1, I really hated Dr. Weir on SGA. I much prefer seasons four and five because she's no longer in charge- actually, I should say that I did like her on SGA, but only as a Replicator. And I should point out that I really like Torri Higginson, I think she's great- just Weir bugged me. I loathe Xander Harris (he never held himself to the same often very high standards he set for everyone else, then complained about it) and I never forgave Joyce Summers for throwing out Buffy and then blaming Giles for her running away. When she died, I was touched by the feelings of those around her, but I didn't mourn her passing at all. I don't like post-Russell T. Who pretty much at all. I love Steven Moffat's writing for one-offs (my three fave episodes were his) and in sitcoms (love Coupling so very much), but my gosh does he get repetitive quick, and his female characters... well, could use some work (and yes, I'm aware of the hypocrisy in praising Coupling while condemning his portrayal of women in Who, lol). I really enjoyed the last four seasons of The X-Files- not for Mythology reasons, but six/seven for stand-alones and eight/nine for character development. I actually really liked both Doggett and Reyes and ship them harder than I ever did Mulder and Scully. I stopped watching Lost mid-season three, but I never understood the appeal of Jack. I always thought him bland as toast. I've never found How I Met Your Mother funny. Not once. I wish I did- I quite like most of the cast, and I enjoy all sorts of sitcoms- but... just nothing. Not a smile, even, and I'll laugh at just about anything. I have no idea why.