HalcyonDays

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought most guys (well, I guess white guys and I guess lighter hair coloured guys), that when they first grew a beard, it always tended to be reddish. Like a teenage guy who started to grow a beard, it would always be reddish. It wasn't until a bit later, maybe after lots of shaving, that the beard would darken in colour. I have no idea why I think this....

Really? Wow. It looks like it's his natural colour - like really suits him. I was even thinking, man they lucked out finding a redhead to play Jamie. He should keep it red. And longish. And shaggy. Mmmm....

Gorgeous gorgeous guy, but also seems like a very decent, honourable person. I mean, he seemed to treat Claire respectfully from the get go, and his taking the punishment for that poor girl. Oh, and yes show, you can give me more shots of him with no shirt on. Please and Thank you. A couple of times in the episode Castle Leoch, his voice sounded exactly like Sick Boy from the movie Trainspotting (played by Jonny Lee Miller). Almost identical.

Oh yeah, you are right. I read it as Claire told Randall SHE was a teacher. Not that her husband is a teacher. Duh.

But the one major difference is that the teacher in question is a woman. I don't think back in that time, that women were "allowed" to be teachers or whatever. The teachers were men, and yes, they were educated and could read, but it was not a high paying profession at all. The fact that one had to work as a teacher would actually denote one was a more lower class person. Because they had to work, as opposed to living off of their wealth. At least from the history I have read. Correct me if I am wrong, forgetting something. Most girls - if they received an education - it was only for a few years, then back in the home to "learn" to be a proper wife. So I guess there were some female teachers and tutors for those girls who did get a few years of education - but same thing applies. If a woman had to work, then she was more lower class. But the unblemished pale skin, her ability to read, being a "healer", her bearing all indicate that Claire is more "upperclass."

I just remembered that Mrs. Fitz did comment on her skin. That, and she is pale also, so no hard labour and no outdoor labour either. Athena - that's right! - they want to find out information from her and to do this, are treating her well - at least for a few days. Know thy enemy. At the very end, with the Laird declaring that Claire had to stay in the castle to serve as healer - not so nice. But then, she can bond some more with Jaime, right? *shallow thoughts* What a contrast to Black Jack Randall attacking Claire right away, without knowing anything about her.

That's what she said? Interesting. Had to look it up, but people who suffer from it tend to have very weak bones and are very short in stature. The Laird is resilient, considering the time he is living in. They did a really good job with the effect for his legs I have to say. Poor guy. Forgot about the wife - yes, you are right. Probably from her. It's just when Claire walked into the great hall for dinner, she really presented as upperclass in my mind, and she looked better dressed than everyone else, save the wife. Just compare that to the woman who was accused of "inappropriate behaviour" and Mrs Fitz. I guess I just thought that they wouldn't be giving the nicer clothes to a stranger. Part of it too is that the actress has this regal bearing to her. I noticed that too - especially in shows where everyone is perfectly groomed. her hair was a mess, but looked good done up.

Man, so Outlander airs in Canada three weeks later than everyone else, so I'm that much behind. Castle Leoch aired tonight and man - Jaime is one beautiful man. I have to say, I would be a very weak woman in the midst of that sexy thing.....*sigh* Good episode, much more engaging than the pilot - it seemed to move faster. One thing I thought odd - that Claire seemed to be treated like an upperclass aristocrat. Her clothes, her behaviour, everything seemed to lean to her being wealthy. Why would the Laird have clothing sitting around to clothe someone to give the impression of wealth. That is just what I was thinking. For the Laird McKenzie - I thought that he suffered from ricketts - what was the ailment that Claire diagnosed? I didn't properly hear it. I hope I got these names, right. And Jaime is bloody beautiful and dammit, Claire, get some. Because that is some beautiful man.....

Actually one of my favourite episodes from season 2. First we get the beginning of the great Bashir/O'Brien friendship. There is nothing better than O'Brien getting utterly irritated with Bashir, who is doing his best to help out, be useful, make a friend in O'Brien. Paves the way for some really great moments between these two. The premise also - for me it would make sense that the Kellerans and T'lani would want to ensure that no one ever could replicate that biological weapon. However, graciously accepting help from the Federation then killing off that help - yeah, you guys suck. What I thought was strange is that they wanted to kill off Bashir and O'Brien, but those two leaders (I forget the names) are allowed to live. They must have some of that weapons knowledge too. Liked Keiko figuring out that the video recording was faked, though her reasoning was a little flimsy. And how much does that suck - you try to do good by helping out, and your reward is getting killed. Yikes. Good episode overall.

What is interesting is that originally, Dax was supposed to be in a wheelchair, a la Melora. Can you imagine? But the show quite early on realized the limitations that would occur - i.e. it would have be too hard to film and placed limitations on where Dax could go/do - and decided to drop the idea for Dax, but still did the Melora episode anyway.

I think even Nesmiith was affected by it. He did okay for a while, but kinda disappeared after the early 80's. He got the Liquid Paper fortune in 1980. It's amazing to think that one of Nesmith's projects directly led to MTV. He came up with Popclips which in about a year plus, became MTV. Portia - you need to get your good friend to convince Tork to write his biography. From the little I've read (assuming it's true), he had a hell of a time in the 60s and not so much a good time in the 70's and 80's. That's cool that your friend is childhood buddies - awesome. And yes, I may know too much about the Monkees. If there was ever a documentary created that would tell it like is was, no holds barred and no sugar-coating it, it would be fascinating.

I think it's because the "Offspring" can and does manipulate the person in different ways. He wants Sparks and wife to see their child and react and behave emotionally yet normally, in order to do what the offspring needs and also not rouse suspiscion. We've seen (kinda) how the doctors and whoever was in the lab became murderous and violent, Molly, Kryger and adult Katie (I think) got kind of stoned and Sparks and wife relatively normal but emotionally messed up. It could also be that the offspring unintentially affects people in different ways. Like some people who are drunk are obxonious and violent while others are mellow and giggle a lot. I still think it's manipulating to get what it wants. Just a theory.

Love it. Yeah, I always thought he was adorable when I was a youngin' - LOVED the hair, especially season 2 of the show. He was my favourite Monkee. True hippy goodness, quite intelligent and musically brilliant too. It's too bad the negative Monkees reputation forever followed him (and the others) after that - he deserved much much better.

That is a great theory, Neurochick. It's the only way I can logically justify the actions and motivations of Sparks and his wife (and Kryger and Molly on the spacestation). They are all on alien-LSD.

The robot in the cop shop was strange and out of place. You'd figure in the future the technology would allow for more properly sized robots. I mean, this is a time where artificial limbs meld seemlessly with organic material (i.e. the humans). It looked very 1960's for some reason. Especially when they smashed it - I was like, oh look, an old motherboard. Maybe the station's budget is that low that they have to resort to antiquated robots?? The campsite too - the front desk lady even said something that indicated that Sparks would have to use an outhouse or something. Those (cheap looking) globes don't have a working toilet inside? Really? That said, I do like the mix of old and new, but the camp and robot were glaringly out of place. In one of the first episodes, they showed Julie or the other guy working on limbs for Ethan in the lab. I took that to mean that for Ethan to "grow", they would have to replace his physical body with one that is larger/more grown up.

Wait, what? Kryger is dead? When did that happen? Okay, I had some wine last night and watched both episodes but how the heck did he die??? Kryger was the only one with some brains I have to say. He's the only one who knew fully well that alien thing is going to cause havoc and needs to be killed off. I did like the twist of Sparks betraying Yasamoto and taking the baby. But as others have pointed out, it rings so hollow and false to me. Does he (and he equally easily emotionally manipulated wife) honestly think they can just resume life with their daughter as is? Do they think she will grow up and go to school and play with the kids and do kid things and life a new life? It makes no sense at all. Molly's obsession with the baby is equally as illogical. I can only think that somehow the baby is manipulating her emotions and reasoning, since it was her "child". She keeps saying my baby, but is it really? No one is asking this most important question. Is it half human and half alien, or was Molly just serving as a womb, like a surrogate. I guess since the ultrasound showed a human, it's half, but we don't know. All we know is that an embryo was implanted into her womb, and who knows is the alien species may appear quite humanoid. That's what loses me. No proof that the kid really is hers and she's not questioning it. John needs to have a marathon TV and movie watching session to learn how evil does it's underhanded tricks. Lesson one: when someone who "insists" on "helping you" won't let you leave the house - get the fuck out. He is way way too naive. I did like Odin's tactic of engaging Ethan in conversation solely to learn about him. Loved those moments. Now he knows how to shut Ethan down. Nicely done, dude.

Hmmm... I have already mentioned my absolute first and foremost celebrity crush that is Tom Mison...swooning galore. But recalling a movie that aired on TV yesterday - another that I think is so bloody hot, flames miraculously appear... I first saw him in The Mummy Movies. Oded Fehr. My lord - the long dark hair, trimmed beard, and just....YUM. Apparently, I have a type....and they don't seem to make men like the above much anymore (at least from what I've seen recently).

I had the same problem too, blackwing, for the first few episodes. It's because the characters don't refer to each other initially by their full names, so you get lost as to who is who. They never properly introduced the name a character the first or second time they appear on screen. But it will get easier to follow. And stick with it - its quite entertaining actually. To expand a little: Bearded guy who is buddies with Benjamin Tallmadge is Caleb Brewster - I'm adding his last name because he is sometimes referred to as such. Here are the characters on TURN, via AMC. Its linked to John Andre, but you can see the rest of the characters on the right side. Hopefully that will help.

" "Unsportsmanlike Conduct. Fifteen Yard Penalty, to be assessed at the kickoff." - Head Referee at almost every NFL game. *sigh* - Me, during NFL game. Why can't they celebrate! Some of the past celebrations were hilarious. Episode was okay - I guess I am partial to more of the older history.

I think the scheduling for Extant is being modified to ensure all episodes air before the regular Fall TV season starts (and thus competing against Extant). Based on the schedule I've seen, the show's season finale will be September 10th, so mostly finished before other shows start. It makes sense - keep the focus on the show and end with a bang. I do think it will be renewed. It's doing decent numbers for a summer replacement show. Actually, if season 2 starts up in January I would watch. Of course, I cannot think of any other show that I care to watch on Wednesdays.

Oh yeah, kinda of like with the mysteriously dead birds. "They were dead when I got here..." Then Julie would read him a fairy tale - except it would be an original Grimm story, not the sanitized modern ones. I can really see this happening, since in episode one, people expressed concerns about what would happen if a Humanich "turns" against the humans (ala Terminator). Ethen may as well do that by offing Odin (and some of his fellow anarchists) when they attempt to take Ethan out. So now what will John do, or Julie or the rest in the lab? Ethan (if it happens) is a murderer. Interesting.

I don't know - I see Julie being the one to kill Odin. We've seen how bonded and devoted she is to Ethan. If Odin hurts Ethan in any way, Julie will ensure Odin experiences a world of hurt.

Yes, there should be more crew, actually. It look like maybe 80 people or so had been herded out of the ship in the final scene. The Last Ship films on the USS Halsey (DDG-97), who has a crew complement of 257 (officers + enlisted) and the USS Dewey (DDG-105) who has 380 officers + enlisted. So yeah, more people should be on the ship.

The DVD's for season 1 are coming out later than I would have thought - September 16th - so if one pre-orders it from Amazon, you get one week to binge-watch before season 2 starts. Certain episodes are being reaired right now Thursday's but there is no continuity. The whole season needs to be broadcast. FOX should pull an AMC - air a Sleepy Hollow marathon a week or whatever before the show starts.

With Mulder and Scully though, it was almost an afterthought. Chris Carter was so against it and verbalized so many times that they were "friends" that when it did happen it was like, What? The surprisingthing (at least how I see it) is that him denying the romantic aspect of the couple actually improved the show, since it didn't de-volve into relationship nonsense and forced interactions. However, season 7 was my last so I cannot speak for season 8 or 9.