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X-overs

Well... as you can tell from my comments, I'm not that up on Farscape. I just discovered it this season [along with Sentinel] and am 'way far behind.

Okay... so watching Jack and John go at it *is* plausable. Or Jack and Rygel. That makes my brain melt.

Okay... that does it. I'm gonna have to write this sucker sometime... no doubt about it.

Like I need *another* fic on the list. I've still got 4 or 5 to go out to editors this month or I'm toast. :dead:

<sigh>
 
Originally posted by Anni
I'm impressed!

Max Headroom was definitely a cult classic, but it was shown on UK Channel 4 during a period where I was too poor to own a video, my ex and I used to watch it all the time.

You use a Compaq 366 with all that stuff on it. You're a brave person........

;)
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My other computer is an Apple Performa 6116 with 740MB drive and a dead motherboard battery.

Max Headroom was on here when I was in college and VCR less. The eps I have must be from the summer season repeats.

I think my family didn't have a VCR when MacGyver was on. I was only a kid. But I was in charge of the VCR. Back THEN the idea to tape a TV show was nearly unheard of unless it was a first airing of a blockbuster movie. Tapes were expensive! Else, I'd have Voyagers, Starman, Knightrider, some BBC series called the Tripods. I did once have an extensive collection of Dr. Who tapes. But I think I got funds together for those solely because they sometimes aired them as 45 min eps and were on at 11PM on a Sunday and week to week my Monday afternoons were spent reviewing last week's eps and seeing if I fell asleep through any part of the new ep.

I know tapes of RDA in action will be prevalant. I'm looking forward to that because I have none of him from that far back. My most sticking memorys are rather SG-1 like. Some undergound Indian Jones thing, and something about stopping an acid leak with chocolate and bubblegum? ? And somehow I don't think I caught more than two Legend eps. If I see something from MacGyver I'm going to tap some unaccessed area of my brain and have an expression like I've been hit with a board.

in '85 I was being pegged as a space-loving, science geek. Oh ya. I also have the DVD of 'V.' Marc Singer, anyone?
 
Nerds and Geeks

I understand. If we'd had nerds and geeks back in the late 60's, I'd have been one. Was one, actually. The only kid in chemistry who brought a slide rule to class... and knew how to use it. Was on the Chess Team, all the bands and such, the Science team. Made my own Ham radio and got my license. Got sent to the school office all the time for bringing a transistor radio with me and an ear piece so I could listen to the space launchs. I can remember my dad pointing out Sputnik as it flew overhead.

The closest I ever came to taping anything back then was splicing into the audio line on the TV [all 12 inches of it's black and white beauty] and reel to reel taping the audio feed from 'Star Trek' back when it was prime time.

I never got to see much of MacGyver back then. I was working full time in the hospital. Nobody had a set schedule then unless you had lots of senority so you rotated shifts a lot and didn't see much. the set of tapes I've got someone recorded off of WGN for a friend who decided she didn't want them. I got them for $100 spread out over 4 months. Not bad for over 100 episodes of something I can't get here 'coz our cable station doesn't carry WGN.

Yep... I'm just 'one of the boys' kinda gal from the class of 1970 with her head full of NASA stats, who could send and recieve code at 10 words a minute and was going to be a doctor ... until this whole thing about being a 'girl' raised it ugky head and I couldn't find a med school that would let me in with only a 3.85.

Guys need a 3.5 ... women were required to have a 3.95.

Some things were *not* the good old days. And it was really frustrating as both my parents were registered pharmacists. Until I got my first turn down letter, I never really realized how hard my mom must have worked to get in and go through school. And she was 44 when she had me.
 
Network for MacGyver

I thought it was a major network show. Wasn't it moved to the hour lead-in spot before the Monday Night Football on ABC? I think I know that because Monday is the traditional night for the theater to be black.

You've jogged the memories here. 1985-87. ykes. I missed MacGyver an it's because it' in the section of my memory I've blocked out. It's in there with the time I spent surviving my parent's divorce. I was in South Carolina then. I closeted my self in the high school's darkroom for much of 1984-85 then returned to Chicago, Illinois.

I really, really missed the boat. WGN is Chicago's station. If it rerun there 86-87 I must have been brain dead. Or, stuck in the high school doing theater productions after school. And it could have been on afternoons now that I think about it. WGN had extensive bigger ticket afternoon shows in the 1pm to 4pm block in the 80's.
 
TV

It was. I think ABC, but I'm not sure. I mean Seattle, WA only had a couple of local channels, the big three [NBC, ABC & CBS] plus the PBS channel for quite awhile. In 1985 [I hate to date myself here], I was just finishing nursing school for the Army, getting promoted to E-7/Sergeant First Class and getting ready to start into a pretty major divorce of my own in about a year or so. My son was about 2 at the time and I had him when I was 33.

Ended up going Army Reserve instead of staying active and went to work for Baxter Travenol doing Respiratory Therapy home care.

There's a reason some jobs are salary ... because they can't afford to pay you for all the hours you put in. This was one of them. Other than the SCA [a medieval reenactment group], I had no life. :}
 
I'm not doing the math.

That is so-- um-- interesting that that someone so much more-- mature :blush: is interested in a show like this. You surely fall outside of the intended age range of the show. This sort of fan base, ie the over 18-32 years-of-age, killed Earth Final Conflict's original intent. Network suits were rumored to go banannas trying to figure how to pull more 'kids' in (and I'm saying 'kids' just like O'Neill's sweet way. ) So the advertisers would stay. they dumbed down the show so much so quickly the newsgroup I belonged to disbanded practacally overnight. Yet, SG-1 goes on. better all the time. I guess it' makes the cable fee a bit more palatable... Better make that call to get cable.

I'm 32 and I know I'm still mentally and socially 16 or so, so SG-1 just works for me. With respect, but am I to believe that Showtime's suits actually smarter than normal?

When I was 21 my father married into a family where his new wife had an aunt of sorts that must have been active in science and Pharma-something at the same time we're talking about. I can't remember the firm.

With so many smart people of character, we'll budgeon them into keeping SG-1 going.
 
Age

I've been an SF lover since I can remember... back when books like Asimov's "I Robot' was a first run. I met folks like Harlan Ellison, Puld Anderson and Robert Heinline at SF Cons as a teen. Been a space nut as long as ther's *been* a space program and have always thought 'outside the box'. It's been the fun and the bane of my entire life.

SG-1 facinates me on so many levels; the plain action, the intersocial levels, the psychodynamics of the characterizations and plot lines. I'll tell you. Joe Straczynski ruined me as a viewer and as a writer with his creations and developement of Babylon-5. Things that would seem so simple, like a change in lighting perspective or a body movement took on whole new meanings. Now, when I watch SG-1, I watch it the first time with my 'kid lobe' turned on and then again with my disection lobe going.

Then we have the military aspect of it. these guys do it right! Well, as right as you can do it and still keep a functional plot line or viewer interest. I have to listen a running commentary of my husband going on about the comparitive vurtues of a P-90 vrs the MP-5. [BTW: I prefer the MP-5 myself. Easier to one hand and a good round release with little kick. Good for a medic in the field. IMHO]

I've never really *been* in my age group. Always 'way older than it or younger than it. I mean, I'm looking seriously at going for a double Doctorate in archaeology and anthropology... I'll be almost 60 by the time I get there. I went to Space Camp on year and to a month long dig in Israel the next.

Mentally? Depends on the day. I don't think I'm any one age mentally... just takin' in what happens. there aren't too many curfes life hasn't already thrown at me and the one's I know ae coming are the big ones and I have to go with the flow so there's not much I can do. Physically? Yeah, I'm a bit slower. Hittin' 50 in December, But Rick's only a year and a half or so older than I am and he's doing the Amazon.

Sometimes I just have to sit in amazement at all the things that have happened to me and all the changes in the world over the last 50 some years. ;)
 
My Last post

And my last post just hit the 'Post Number of the Beast'. 666. Wonder if that's good for another alien.:rolleyes:
 
Actually I think there's a couple of us mature people on the forum, jsc and I. I turned 50 in March, and my dad introduced me to Sci Fi when I was about 16. We lived in South Africa and there was no TV there at the time, so I ended up reading lots of Heinlein, Arthur C Clarke and the like and seeing all of the those awful Sci Fi B movies about ants taking over... But I thought that movies like The Day the Earth Stood Still were good for their day.

As a young mum in the 70's I loved watching Dr Who with my sons and I also watched every episode of Blake's Seven. MacGyver I didn't watch, it wasn't shown on a regular basis on UK TV, occasionally they would put a run of it on in the middle of the afternoon during the 80's, but I was in the army by then and nearly always on duty at that time, so I only caught it on occasions.

I do remember the soldiers who were off duty sitting in the rec room and cheering and laughing when McGyver did his magic with impossible items. All I can recall of him is that dodgy hairstyle!

Recently, I saw one of him in Atlantis or somewhere, I think John Rhys Davies was in it, and I laughed all the way through it, because I was mentally comparing the character of McGyver with Jack O'Neill.

I don't always feel 50, but if I've sat up till late playing Diablo 2 Expansion over the battlenet with my son, the next day I feel about 150. Mostly I don't feel any different inside to when I was about 18. But phsyically time and medications are taking their toll!

:)
 
Well, i'm standing corrected on who's hanging out here.

I can relate to the sf reading. That might be a key to why we stick by this show. I lean a bit more to the magic side of pulp SF these days. Back when the market was all spacecraft books I was reading lots. But, not a lot of the 'classics.' I've an extensive library of paperbacks I used to escape from what I was never couragous enough to change about myself and my life. They are a pain to pack up and move, too.

Speaking of the Number of the Beast, that was a book that I couldn't get through. I think I tried twice.

And are you talking Atlantis the animated film? or is it somethign else?
 
Atlantis

I'll bet you thinking of 'The Lost City of Atlantis', the MacGyver movie - one of two RDA made after the show. the other was 'Trail to Doomsday', if I remember right.
 
Yep, that's the one....... I saw it a few months ago and had a blast comparing the two characters....... It wasn't really badly done, it's just that it seemed a bit surreal to see him as he was then and be in the middle of watching him in Stargate.

:D
 
Re: X-overs

Originally posted by Rowan
Well... as you can tell from my comments, I'm not that up on Farscape. I just discovered it this season [along with Sentinel] and am 'way far behind... so watching Jack and John go at it *is* plausable. Or Jack and Rygel. That makes my brain melt.

Okay... that does it. I'm gonna have to write this sucker sometime... no doubt about it. Like I need *another* fic on the list. I've still got 4 or 5 to go out to editors this month
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You have editors that proof your stuff? :eek:

I joined FarScape with the first DVD that was released in the US. So I'm stuck in season one as well. I'm told that John C. had a bit of a rambo revisement on the lines of Daniel this year. He got out of the orange jumpsuit and into leather.

I see that I brought you around with my l33t fic kung fu powers :karate: I think we could take this sort of idea either to the extreme humor side and spoof it or a serious mission.
 
Originally posted by Anni
that it seemed a bit surreal to see him as he was then and be in the middle of watching him in Stargate.

:D
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Oh okay. I get your'e talking about now. Not somethign I could go out and see. And I sort of need that. I've had to stick with pictures on the Internet from the MacGyver sites. there a French or FrenchCanadian site that has a few intresting pics.

Not many actors you can have this experience with. The only other one coming to mind that's had a hiatus similar to RDA is --- drawing blank--- He's an actor that's got the nerve disorder... He was on that sit-com way back and then had the time on Spin City.

Oh, if you think young RDA is yummy, I think you'd love the third fic on my site. :rain: Just fill in the blanks I've left.
 
Actor's and writing

Michael J. Fox.

As for writing, yep I have editors and proofreaders. I submit to fanzines and have been a published author for the last three years in gate fan ficd. Now... I don't get any money for it, but it's good fun all the same and a rush when you see your name in print. At least on something other than a technical paper.

I'm pretty strict with who I submit to. I no more want my name in a flaky publication than an editor wants a flaky story, so there are only about 6 I sub to on a regular basis. Had 4 stories and 2 poems come out this year at MediaWestCon [had 6 stories, 3 poems and 1 filk song last year and another at Rocky Mountain Con].

On top of that I'm working Gatecon this year.

I don't overbook myself. Really I don't. ;)
 
fanzine

Are they electronic or paper fanzine?

Do you find you get responses? When I was submitting XF stuff it got lost in the shuffle. Now I just put stuff up on my site and wait. I still don't get responses...

I dread the alternative that what I do is <urgovoice>very, very, VERY bad</urgovoice>

M. J. Fox is the guy. I'm sure season one of Family Ties and last season of Spin City would make folks swoon.
 
fic

Uh... I have stuff in paper print, on some of the archive sites and wil be putting my own site online here, hopefully... if the HTML doesn't kill me first.
 
web

Right now I'm just trying to figure out two things.

#1: Why I can't get a recursive call back more than one sub-directory in depth. [ex: ../root/sgfan/sgfan.html is okay. ..root/sgfan/sgwrite/sgwrite.html barfs]

And #2: An easy way to take Word7 files and move them into code *without* using Word andthe html it creates seems to mess things us.

And I'm using a piece of freeware AceHTML 4 as I can't afford a real codeing program.

{{ Feels like I'm back where I used to crash the mainframe in school...}}
 
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am i drunk? hallucinating? are you joking? is this one of o'neill's strange jokes?

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ahem
 
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