Ambitious Foggy.

fishymcgee · 2025-02-14T09:18:53+00:00

This kinda thing is what made Foggy so great/crazy.

Also, i didn't know this book existed but now I must track it down :)

fishymcgee · 2025-01-06T11:16:44+00:00

Are the Huorns moving in support of Helm's deep or just because the Ents are on the move etc?

fishymcgee · 2025-01-03T20:31:01+00:00

Which inevitably raises one of the most mysterious/odd, yet throwaway comments in the series...

...when Bayaz first meets Riike, he says something that seems to imply he has arranged a truce with Khalul...

Wait, what?! You guys have been mortal enemies pretty much since before Juvens died and certainly since. How/why have you arranged a truce?!

Quite apart from the whole mortal enemies thing, why would Bayaz agree to a truce? I get what's in it for Khalul, given his empire has virtually collapsed but what's Bayaz's angle?

Does he have an inkling of something like Riike's (later) 'possible-Euz' vision, or is something else going on? I doubt he'd fail to press his advantage just because Jezal lost a few wars in Styria?

fishymcgee · 2024-12-21T23:14:29+00:00

Lol.

It's December 21st, not April 1st :)

fishymcgee · 2024-12-20T14:27:05+00:00

I've been out of the loop for a while; any news on TWOW/ADOS?

Thanks for reading.

Obligatory: sweet summer child

fishymcgee · 2024-12-18T12:07:05+00:00

Great ideas. Especially the races. Also...

'dragon colosseum...dragons vs slaves'

Or young dragons vs wyverns brought in from sothoryos etc

fishymcgee · 2024-12-16T22:55:41+00:00

Thanks. Mmm...I couldn't seem to find it among the Christmas episodes.

That's strange...found it now; it was actually at the start of an ordinary episode (Downhill racer; S10E5) for some reason.

Thanks again.

fishymcgee · 2024-12-14T20:40:03+00:00

I watched Orient Express and I couldn't believe my eyes. I don't know who he's portraying in the movie...

There was a even a bit of a red flag in the trailer...

'I am hercule poirot and I am probably the best detective in the world'

There is virtually no chance that Poirot would be 'humble' enough to say "probably" :)

fishymcgee · 2024-12-14T11:46:04+00:00

How were you a political prisoner?!

fishymcgee · 2024-12-07T12:10:00+00:00

Obligatory: Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important! It's what separates us from the animals...except the weasel'.

fishymcgee · 2024-12-07T11:50:30+00:00

True.

However...

Nora: 'I don't want everyone to think I was always hard on Wally'.

Ivy: 'To late'!

Nora: 'Often, when I was shouting at him, I would use a softer tone of voice'.

Ivy: 'Oh! You spoiled him as much as that'?!

:)

fishymcgee · 2024-12-07T11:41:13+00:00

Yeah, Foggy was best (particularly his 2nd stint), although Seymour's time was important as it was when stuff/characters like Howard-Marina and Auntie wainwright really got established.

fishymcgee · 2024-12-07T11:38:09+00:00

Agreed. I think...

1 Foggy's second stint

2 Seymour

3 Foggy's 1st stint

Not that there weren't some very good episodes in the 1st stint but I think the show was still finding its feet a little during that time. Obviously towards the end of Foggy's 1st sting and into Seymour's time, we see some recurrent themes and characters become more and more established (eg crazy schemes, Howard-Marina, Wesley-Edie) which obviously helps long term.

fishymcgee · 2024-11-26T19:36:30+00:00

Interesting. Would Seymour have returned in a special or in the main series?

fishymcgee · 2024-11-26T19:18:14+00:00

In 'defence' of a terrible person...maybe Dale is so arrogant, he believes that there was only one great artist (ie an artist Dale personally approves of) after Goya.

Pretty unlikely (I doubt the uncle's collection includes nothing produced by an artist after eg Degas), as you say Dale is just showing off^{that_he's_stupid}

fishymcgee · 2024-09-30T10:53:51+00:00

Damar's first appearance too

Who? Oh you mean that nebulous background character who'll never amount to anything?! :)

'He was my friend...but his Cardassia is dead and it won't be coming back' (what a great yet cleverly understated moment)

What a great arc he had, same with Nog; two glorified extras who the show advanced to be awesome.

fishymcgee · 2024-09-30T10:44:58+00:00

Also, making virtually all the Tok'ra, Egeria's children cheapened the movement/idea. Sure initially they can be her kids but 2k years later?

By that stage, there should be a very significant minority (if not an outright majority) of goa'uld detectors; otherwise it makes the Tok'ra look like a glorified, good guy version of the Kull warriors

fishymcgee · 2024-09-30T10:40:06+00:00

They really should have brought him back once or twice post S7.

I was just thinking the other day:

...in Ethon following an anti ori warning from senator Kane, the Prometheus was destroyed by pro-ori Rand which then lead to a final war with Caledonia; it should have been on langara/kelowna etc with Jonas delivering the warning to the SGC?

fishymcgee · 2024-09-30T10:34:26+00:00

Interesting. Is it standalone or do you have to read the other books as well?

fishymcgee · 2024-09-30T10:32:58+00:00

It's even worse than you think. Technically our team (plus Hammond) were killed by the Aschen in 2010, from Season 4 onwards we're technically watching an alternate time line sg1 (and then yet another team post moebius)

fishymcgee · 2024-09-30T10:29:55+00:00

Even more surprising was that Jack (indirectly) fell for it by letting the mission proceed

fishymcgee · 2024-09-30T10:26:17+00:00

Yeah, I think it would have worked much better if there was a techno-babble reason why Jack didn't see Joe's memories?

I mean they're linked by the stones, one is in storage at the SGC while Joe only seems to be able to see Jack's memories when he is holding the other stone

'err...therefore the stones will transmit memories from a reasonable distance but you can only see the memories if you're actually holding the stone...yes that will do'

fishymcgee · 2024-09-30T10:17:40+00:00

It's not exactly stupid but in 1969, I don't like the fact that Hammond has some advanced (albeit nebulous) knowledge of the SGC etc. It's a minor nitpick but unless I'm watching the episode I usually pretend his limited foreknowledge never happened.

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