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   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "V"  wrote   
   > "Sean Carroll"  wrote:   
      
   >> I know a lot of Chase and Cameron fans are right up there with you on   
   >> feeling they've been a bit slighted. There should be a lot more Cameron   
   >> in   
   >> tonight's ep, at least, to look forward to. (Though personally, I really   
   >> wish she'd go back to the dark hair. And then seduce Cuddy and 13. You   
   >> may   
   >> say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one ...)   
      
   > Cameron was so much prettier with dark hair.  She's just not that   
   > great as a blonde.   
      
   I've heard so many people say the same thing. It's unusual -- I'm used to   
   being the only one who thinks a blonde isn't anything all that special   
   compared to a brunette. #8^)> I wonder if Jennifer Morrison knows how   
   unpopular the new hair is. Maybe we can get a letter-writing campaign going   
   to convince her to change back.   
      
   I'm just so glad that GA jettisoned the blonde look before she did IWTB. It   
   would be just wrong, wrong, wrong to have Scully be anything but a redhead.   
   I don't care if it's from a bottle. It may not be her *original* hair, but   
   it's her *real* hair, and that's the story I'm stickin' with!   
      
   >> I have no idea if it's true or not, but I've heard rumours here and there   
   >> that they've at least thought about eventually bringing C&C back   
   >> full-time,   
   >> and somehow combining the two teams or something like that. We'll all   
   >> just   
   >> have to wait and see.   
      
   > I'd like to see that--Chase's eyes are gorgeous, but I want to see   
   > more of the whole package. ;)   
      
   Ever seen the gag reels on the DVD sets? There's one fantastic outtake from   
   'The Mistake' that has Jesse Spencer and Hugh Laurie right up in each   
   other's faces yelling, when all of a sudden Hugh starts ad libbing: 'Listen!   
   I respect you hugely as an actor and a human being, but I'm not gonna stand   
   here and take this mindless fucking abuse day after day!' Jesse starts   
   laughing, and then after a beat Hugh looks back at him and goes, 'The hair   
   is adorable! I don't deny that! The figure is svelte!' Then everyone just   
   starts cracking up. It's a totally slashy moment -- almost Mulder/Krycek   
   quality!   
      
   >> Whoo-hoo! ... been watching the XF Season 8 mytharc eps today for the   
   >> first   
   >> time in years ... just passed the Doggett/Krycek fight scene in the car   
   >> in   
   >> 'DeadAlive' ... goddamn, I love that shit!   
      
   > I need to do a rewatch of XF eps--especially my favorite MOTWs.  Seems   
   > like Sci-Fi quit showing them. And yay--Bones finally comes on when I   
   > can be home to watch it, instead of having to tape.   
      
   This is why Tempe invented DVDs! (I just checked and Bones S3 is finally   
   out -- I've been annoyed for a long time by the fact that I could only find   
   S1 and S2, even though we're now in S4, while they made a special effort to   
   make sure all 4 seasons of House were out before the current S5.)   
      
   And whoa, did you just say 'tape'? Is that just a habitual expression for   
   any method of recording something, or do you mean as in actual old-fashioned   
   VHS?? If the latter -- Jeez! I'm so sorry!   
      
   I can't imagine going back to life without a DVR and a DVD recorder. The   
   only reason I've had any contact with videotape these last couple of years   
   is when I've worked on transferring some of my hundreds and hundreds of old   
   tapes onto blank DVDs. (I bought a combo DVD/VCR so I can do so as   
   efficiently as possible. I see no reason whatsoever to continue to have an   
   independent VCR at this point, since that's the only thing I use it for.)   
      
   I'm down to only 20 tapes left to finish transferring. Everything else is   
   now in a landfill somewhere -- which is the right place for them,   
   considering how crappy the quality so many of them was at after countless   
   generations of redubbing to put them in order and get rid of commercials,   
   not to mention normal deterioration simply from too much time and/or too   
   many replayings. Most of my old XFs were completely unwatchable -- hence why   
   I made it a specific point during the short period of time I had a job last   
   year to buy all 9 seasons on DVD at the earliest opportunity. Other stuff I   
   can't buy or haven't yet bought on DVD, I can at least transfer onto a   
   self-recorded DVD, which will at least keep them from deteriorating any more   
   than they already have. And anything that comes on now that I want to   
   record, I can just press a button and get it magically saved on my cable box   
   in digital form, ready for immediate transfer to DVD with no noticeable loss   
   of audio/video quality whatsoever. Oh, technology is a beautiful, beautiful   
   thing.   
      
   But I digress. Yeah, just the past couple of weeks I've been struck with a   
   good old-fashioned compulsion to do XF marathons. Just the other day I   
   watched 'Essence'/'Existence' -- which were a lot more entertaining than I   
   remembered them being -- and the NIHTs (which aren't all that bad, but still   
   not anywhere among my favourites, either). In the days before that I watched   
   the entire rest of the S8 mytharcs, for the first time in years. (Another   
   pleasant surprise: I remembered 'Per Manum' as being a real crapfest, but   
   now, being used to the whole pregnancy thing, I find it's not all that bad   
   after all. The conspiratorial elements were more than good enough to   
   outweigh the natural revulsion I feel at having to witness Scully ask Mulder   
   for his sperm.)   
      
   I also watched a bunch of *really* old eps the other day. It started when I   
   was so incredibly drunk and stoned that I got the sudden impulse out of   
   nowhere to watch 'Ice' and 'Fallen Angel'. That led into a bunch of other   
   classic S2 and S3 eps over the next few days, like 'Blood' and 'Aubrey' and   
   'Our Town' and 'Grotesque'. And even some mid-period ones, like 'Drive'. (My   
   usual MO during these sorts of marathons, when I'm not going in order   
   through all of them, is to simply pull out my printed episode list and stare   
   at each page until I see an episode that randomly strikes my fancy, for no   
   discernable reason whatsoever, and go 'Ooh! Yeah! I wanna watch THAT one!!')   
      
   Also been watching all the commentaries on the DVD sets -- most recently,   
   'Triangle'. You'd think that listening to CC going on about camera angles   
   and special effects and behind-the-scenes stories would be distracting, but   
   I was able to listen to that and keep track of what was actually happening   
   in the episode at the same time, and I finished with a whole new remembrance   
   of why I loved that episode so much when it first aired. The same thing   
   happened with 'The Post-Modern Prometheus'. (A lot of these commentaries   
   feature Kim Manners, too, so watching them feels to me like a sort of   
   tribute.)   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
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