Hmm. New Shows.

[mrv3000]

Guess there have been some announcements about new fall shows.

Journeyman: a "romantic mystery-drama" about a San Francisco newspaper reporter who starts traveling through time. Oh bloody hell, a time travel show. splash_the_cat is *still* laughing her ass off that I got sucked into Doctor Who, as time travel plot lines drive me CRACKERS as a rule. And they will get it ALL wrong. They will. Paradoxes will run rampant and if I watch, I'll only end up yelling at my TV that there's no *way* a video recording could exist if SG-1 reset the timeline... *ahem*

Life: a cop returns to the force after serving years in prison for a Crime He Did Not Commit. Where he'll get a young, good-looking partner who he'll be able to pass along prison wisdom. I see many profound conversations over coffee.

Chuck: a thriller about a computer geek who accidentally downloads terabytes of government secrets into his brain. "Dude! There *weren't* any WMDs! And Bush went into Iraq because of the squirrels in his pants?? The hell?"

Bionic Woman: *eyes*

Comments

[havocthecat]

splash_the_cat is *still* laughing her ass off that I got sucked into Doctor Who, as time travel plot lines drive me CRACKERS as a rule. And they will get it ALL wrong. They will. Paradoxes will run rampant and if I watch, I'll only end up yelling at my TV that there's no *way* a video recording could exist if SG-1 reset the timeline... *ahem*

*dies*

*resurrects self*

*dies again a little bit more*

Oh, Michelle. I adore you so. You're so not wrong about the video recording, mind you.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

poohmusings has *tried* to make it work. She even drew a flow chart. However, I remain unconvinced and cry "paradox!!!" every chance I get. *mutters*

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

*points to icon*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It irks me so that you never go nuts so that I can point and laugh. Thank God you post about your "I tripped over the cat and wound up with my body covered in flour, which started a sneezing fit that freaked out said cat, causing an incident involving bacon and a trip to the emergency room" occurrences. That way I can feel half-way to being your equal.

[besyd.livejournal.com]

It could be worse. She could drop a garage door on your head.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

There's always that.

[havocthecat]

I saw the chart! I remember it! *dies giggling*

[scifijunkie.livejournal.com]

See, I read the description for Journeyman, and immediately went to "....Quantum Leap?"

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I didn't even think about that one - my mind went to "Voyagers." :D

[scifijunkie.livejournal.com]

The description I read initially said something about "putting things right", and my mind jumped straight to Sam and Al. wtf, NBC. YOU'VE ALREADY DONE THAT SHOW.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's *totally* Quantum Leap!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

And I read it, and wanted to know if there was a cat involved, since it sounded just like Early Edition.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh right! Forgot about that show.

[aj.livejournal.com]

SQUIRRELS. INNA PANTS.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

TOTALLY THE REASON.

[aj.livejournal.com]

This is my official reason forever more. INNA PANTS.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Bwah!!

[misssara11.livejournal.com]

The important thing to know about Life is that it stars Damian Lewis. It could consist of him reading the newpaper the entire time and I would declare it brilliant just because it's him. *continues making Helen McCory voodoo doll*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I do not know who he is.

*looks up*

I still do not know who he is.

And I don't know who you're stabbing with voodoo pins either. But I'm sure you have a good reason for it...

[misssara11.livejournal.com]

Damian Lewis is best known as Major Dick Winters in Band of Brothers. He's tall, red hair, blue eyes, British and gorgeous. I can't recommend BoB enough. It's a 10-part HBO mini-series and available on Netflix. I still say it's the best thing ever put on television.

Helen McCory is his fiancée. The wedding has recently been delayed as he got her pregnant (again) and she's been quoted as saying she'd "rather be thin and drunk" on her wedding day "than fat and sober". She was originally supposed to play Bellatrix in the new Harry Potter movie but would have been 7 months along with the first baby at the time of filming. She really is lovely but she has Damian and I don't.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Damian Lewis is best known as Major Dick Winters in Band of Brothers. He's tall, red hair, blue eyes, British and gorgeous. I can't recommend BoB enough. It's a 10-part HBO mini-series and available on Netflix. I still say it's the best thing ever put on television.

Oh, I've heard about that series. Good, eh? I may have to Netflix.

Helen McCory is his fiancée. The wedding has recently been delayed as he got her pregnant (again) and she's been quoted as saying she'd "rather be thin and drunk" on her wedding day "than fat and sober". She was originally supposed to play Bellatrix in the new Harry Potter movie but would have been 7 months along with the first baby at the time of filming. She really is lovely but she has Damian and I don't.

*pats you*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Well. BW at least looks pretty? But then again, mishmashed clips of SG: Atlantis make that show look far better than it actually is, so I could be reaching. But Katee Sackhoff will be in leather and evil, so it could be at least yay-worthy.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Katee Sackhoff is going to play a badguywoman? That could be cool.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Shee iiis.. er, and bits of her are in the trailer here: http://www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/Bionic_Woman/ towards the end. You have to wade through Angst to get there.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I shall have to watch after work.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Ha! Katee is the original bionic woman. Sweet. :D

[scifijunkie.livejournal.com]

Katee Sackhoff whut? What about BSG?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Just as a guest star, apparently. And don't ask. I'm tired of sorting out the lies from the truth with them.

[scifijunkie.livejournal.com]

I don't pay attention beyond my flist to any behind the scenes machinations of any show I watch (like I totally missed when someone called SGA fans 'shrill misinformed lemmings'), so I understand. I don't even try to understand what my flist gets in a tizzy about - the show confuses me enough as it is (goddamn previouslies with the scenes that never aired before).

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

See, Moebius made sense to me! Mostly. There were no infinite loops, at least, which are what break my brain. 1969 is a great episode, but I try not to think too hard about the fact that there is no logical way for the loop to have started. (Hammond wouldn't have given Sam the note if he hadn't helped them when he was younger, but he wouldn't have helped them without the note. OW.)

I'll have to read more about Journeyman, though. Sounds interesting!

Also, the description of Chuck sounds incredibly like the one I remember seeing for Jake 2.0. I didn't think anyone watched that the first time...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

See, Moebius made sense to me! Mostly. There were no infinite loops, at least, which are what break my brain.

No, just an instantaneous paradox. The second geek!SG-1 came into being, there could no longer exist said video tape. They got it right in Window of Opportunity when Jack tried to leave himself a tape recording, but it never worked.

1969 is a great episode, but I try not to think too hard about the fact that there is no logical way for the loop to have started. (Hammond wouldn't have given Sam the note if he hadn't helped them when he was younger, but he wouldn't have helped them without the note. OW.)

*snickers*

Also, the description of Chuck sounds incredibly like the one I remember seeing for Jake 2.0. I didn't think anyone watched that the first time...

It does, doesn't it? No, I never watched that show.

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

See, Moebius makes sense if you assume that every timeline is actually a different parallel universe. Our SG-1 went back in time, creating a new branch in the timeline and therefore a new universe. Their own universe wasn't affected, except in that they weren't there anymore. So they stayed in ancient Egypt, made a recording, and all but Daniel got killed in the first uprising. The present of that timeline had geek!sg-1. That group then went back in time, thus creating a third and separate branch/universe, where they helped with a sucessful uprising and, presumably, grew old and died. The present of that timeline is what we saw at the end of the episode, with the recording, no further need to go back in time, and fish in Jack's pond.

So basically, our SG-1 died in ancient Egypt.

Window of Opportunity doesn't make sense to me -- I just don't get how a finite area of space can be looping in time while the rest of the universe goes forward.

I'm pretty sure the Stargate PTB have never met a theory of time and time travel they didn't like.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

See, Moebius makes sense if you assume that every timeline is actually a different parallel universe.

OMG.

Our SG-1 went back in time, creating a new branch in the timeline and therefore a new universe.

OMG!

Their own universe wasn't affected, except in that they weren't there anymore.

*FLAILS*

So they stayed in ancient Egypt, made a recording, and all but Daniel got killed in the first uprising. The present of that timeline had geek!sg-1. That group then went back in time, thus creating a third and separate branch/universe, where they helped with a sucessful uprising and, presumably, grew old and died. The present of that timeline is what we saw at the end of the episode, with the recording, no further need to go back in time, and fish in Jack's pond.

*gets dizzy*

So basically, our SG-1 died in ancient Egypt.

*sobs*

Window of Opportunity doesn't make sense to me -- I just don't get how a finite area of space can be looping in time while the rest of the universe goes forward.

Time bubble? Or space gnomes.

I'm pretty sure the Stargate PTB have never met a theory of time and time travel they didn't like.

This is very true.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

... and this would be why I never, ever attempt to wrap my mind around the time loop/causality stuff that shows come up with anymore, because it just makes my brain hurt and never makes any sense whatsoever. Heroes has had some of that recently, and I was trying to make some sense of it in my post yesterday, but I should've remembered that it only leads to dizziness and confusion.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Yes! Dizziness and confusion! *mutters*