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Day 7: In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.



Vid: Joe Flanigan in 2007 at the Stargate Atlantis Con in Burbank, answering the most important question of the day: "How do you get your hair to stick up like that?"

And he's such a good sport about it! He does sound effects. He does voices. He makes little sproingy motions with his fingers. He says "industrial strength polymer" in a way that's too cute for words. He just seems really comfortable talking about himself, which surprised me the first time I saw it. Because John Sheppard is a known weirdo. Awkward, kind of a loner. Stares a lot. Sometimes we attribute this to Joe Flanigan's inability to successfully mimic a human being. And sometimes we forget Flanigan's there at all because John Sheppard is so fucking weird it seems impossible that it could be intentional. But it is. So it's good to see Joe Flanigan being a human being and reminding us that, for whatever reason, he made the choice to portray John Sheppard the way he did, creating a character so uncomfortable with himself, and the world around him, that we couldn't help but love him. Joe. ♥

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I wasn't going to watch this, not even for David Hewlett, but someone returned it at the library and I had it in my hand and I decided to just check it out myself so I wouldn't have to shelve it.

Turns out I already saw most of Hewlett's part in this in a trailer on Blastr back when the movie was being promoted. It will surprise no one that Hewlett plays an asshole -- a shouty, wild-eyed, mouth-breathing asshole -- but this time he's the kind of asshole that ( spoiler ) He also wears a sleeveless shirt in one scene.

The rest of the movie? It worked as a prequel, but the apes were the most interesting part. The humans were all uniformly boring. I never bought James Franco as a hotshot biochemist or whatever his deal was because he's just too young and pretty and kind of vacant looking. Sorry, James Franco. James Franco's Character's Veterinarian Girlfriend was also boring. She was also one of only three women in the entire movie. One of five, if you count the chimps. Their jobs were, in order of appearance: Nurse, Laboratory Test Subject/Mother, Veterinarian/Girlfriend, Landlady, Inmate/Laboratory Test Subject. Wait wait wait! I forgot two women! The only two women to be on screen at the same time! They were Dates. So, five women in total, seven if you count the apes. Thus ends my examination of feminism in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Conclusion: There isn't any.

Fandom bonus: DRACO. I didn't even realize it was Tom Felton until I saw his name in the credits. He was all scuzzy and American, but still playing a bully.

I watched the first two hours of Alcatraz last night. It's no LOST. It's like, half a LOST. Like a show that's going to raise a lot of questions it probably can't answer and also uses the spooky arpeggio sound effect that LOST stole from The X-Files. But I'll probably keep watching as long as I have nothing else to do. I like the partnership of the blonde female cop and Jorge Garcia. Also, Sam Neill. Who is not old enough for the role he's playing, but still twice as old as the woman he's supposedly dating.

IMDb asks, Did You Know?:

Even though the show is set in San Francisco, and some of the pilot was filmed in the city and on Alcatraz itself, the producers of the show opted to film the rest in Vancouver, mainly because of the much more attractive production rebates than California and the city of San Francisco could offer, much to the chagrin of the San Francisco film industry.

I did know! Because the first hour had Carson in it, and here is a surprise, he doesn't die. And the second hour had Kavanagh. If all goes according to plan, we should see Zelenka soon, and I thought I spotted Sanctuary's Adam Worth on the wall of mugshots. So that's something to look forward to, a nice game of Spot the Vancouver Actor.

Rage of the Yeti: David is adorable, the green screen effects, less so. And it surprises me to say this about a SyFy Original, but it actually made a lot of sense! The creatures were consistent. Their behavior was the same throughout the movie and they didn't acquire any new and baffling powers in the fourth act. Some of the characters had personalities! The dialogue was not terrible! I'm sure you understand that this is high praise for a SyFy Original. Even if that one girl recovered from her pneumothorax with startling speed and little to no medical attention. Or that I was forced to ask, "Which one is the smart brother?"

David gets to play a smooth, silly billionaire and it suits him. There's an entire scene shot from the foot of his beach lounger where I was transfixed by the bottom of his feet, his wiggling toes.

Also, Yancy Butler! For whom I have leftover affection from Witchblade.

So, if you missed it, I'm sure SyFy is possibly still running it even now, in between airings of Abominable and Yetigeddon and Ice Whale. They sure do love a theme day. Also, I made up two of those titles, but, come on, YETIGEDDON? They need to get on that, stat.

Joe looked so good on Fringe tonight! Also I think we saw more of his skin in those opening three minutes than we did during five years of Stargate. His little legs!

( Joe-related Fringe spoilers )

Anyway, it was great to see him on my tv again. And, tomorrow, David's evil snow monkey movie is on SyFy at 9pm; it's called Morlocks and also stars Robert Picardo.

Edit: I was wrong! Morlocks is not the evil snow monkey movie. Instead, Morlocks is a movie about morlocks. The evil snow monkey movie doesn't have a title or a release date.

It's no wonder David Hewlett's our nerd god. Check it. Last two tweets:

Found old Sinclair computer. Like I'm going to get anything done this week! Other than writing more RPG text adventures in BASIC that is? (link)

Morris Minor battery charging... I had a bigger engine in my first motorcycle ...but the moggie is SO much cooler ...plus two extra wheels! (link)

But seriously, he had a motorcycle?! I hope this was during the eyeliner years. Can you imagine? Mmmm.

Poor Joe, he got stuck in the ubiquitous Indian Revenge ep. No sci-fi show has ever done a good job of that. Buffy's version was funny ("Bear! You made a bear!"), but still factually inaccurate. At least it wasn't the voodoo ep? Poor Joe. Still, he looked hot. That jacket and jeans and white shirt combo never fails. And his FACE. And his dramatic POINTING. Oh, Joe. Yes, I was laughing, but ONLY BECAUSE I LOVE YOU.

Someone needs to submits caps to face_of_joe because this episode is filled with joeface. He rolls his eyes!

His name, in case we ever need a super rich, Indian artifact collecting Flanigan, is Jeffrey Weaver, and he has a penthouse and daddy issues. He also maybe owns a hospital.

It really is a shame that so many of you had to come in on this episode. The show is usually much smarter and not so much about fetishizing American Indian culture. I swear. Consider giving it another chance? I mean, they didn't even go down into the warehouse this ep! The warehouse is filled with fun things.

And there's Claudia, who continues to be awesome. I love her pointy face. She totally looks like a Kristen Bell/Allison Mack mashup. Am I right?

The Closer: there was just not enough David! And is his mouth getting even slantier? God, I love him. It's up to us to make sure his character gets a nice showing in future crossovers.

Future crossovers which may or may not feature GAY DANCE PARTIES.

There are so many directions to take this. For the record, it's unlikely that I will be taking any of them. I just like noodling around with the idea. So if you find yourself with, say, a cliche_bingo card and/or a love for Hewligan and/or some spare time on your hands and/or absolutely no story ideas, try one of these! They're organic.

Warning: All I know about Brendan Dean, I learned from fanfic.

( two ways it could go )

The most important thing to keep in mind is this: Brendan Dean looks at Jerry, all neat and clean, his hair parted just so, the knot in his tie perfectly centered against his collar, and Brendan just wants to get him all rumpled and messy.

So, it looks like Hewlett's FBI agent will not be kicking down doors and staking out abandoned warehouses. From his tweet today:

Okay no badge or gun, just a suit and a lot of paper to deal with...Paper?! What the hell do you do with paper?!

He's going to be Agent Moore on The Closer (which I actually watch, so yay!), maybe he'll be a nebbishy guy clutching an armful of papers, or an angry hardass...clutching an armful of papers. Now to get Brendan Dean to Los Angeles on a case. OR on a vacation! Except, as befalls all fictional law enforcement officers on vacation, he stumbles onto CRIME and is locked up by the local cops, then hauled in for questioning by the FBI, and is forced to team up with the nebbishy hardass Agent Moore (in charge of all the paperwork) to clear his name! Someone get on this, seriously.

And, in case you didn't see, in my last post on this subject, chkc left a nice sketch of our boys practicing interagency cooperation. And, yes, it's work safe, it's not nearly as dirty as I made it sound.

So I heard on the intertube that this movie wasn't terrible, which finally made me hunt it down. And it's not terrible. As movies go, Where the Heart Is is wacky yet harmless.

This is, of course, the one where David Hewlett's all tarted up like a cupid. But before we even get to that, there's so much more to appreciate about Hewlett's wardrobe. He's got feathered hair, wears a tiny black fedora with a red feather in it, has a wide assortment of ties (including one very wide tie with what looks like a nude on it), and a pair of tight acid-washed jeans with hearts and words painted on them. A pair of jeans that we later see his sister wearing. Not to mention his bike shorts, his blue suit and red sneaker ensemble, and his odd love of scarves.

David plays Jimmy, who is a freak. A big, giant freak.

Here's what we know about Jimmy:

• dropped out of Harvard


• rides a bicycle


• designs video games


• thinks computers are "the future of the world"


• says he can sew


• called his fashion designer housemate a fag


• isn't afraid to roll around on the floor of the stock exchange with his pal Tom

And then there are the cupid scenes: his powdered face, his curly blonde hair, his rouged cheeks, his red lips, his hairless chest, his little nipples! The feathered g-string and strap-on wings! Plus he spends a good fifteen minutes running around like that -- even stops to make a phone call and cut the shackles off a homeless magician.

The weirdest thing about this movie, though, was at the beginning I didn't even recognize Hewlett's voice; he sounds so young! But he also might have been putting on a funny voice just to aggravate Dabney Coleman. Either I got used to it or he started talking normally, which brings us to the part where he's tangled in yellow fabric and falling down a staircase and he pops up and starts yelling about how no one warned him there was going to be "Bang-fucking-cock in the hallway." I had to rewind that a couple of times because he really does say "bang-fucking-cock" but, sadly, he's talking about Bangkok, despite how suggestive that sounds. Still, that might come in handy, if anyone ever needs a clip of Rodney McKay saying "fucking cock" for, you know, creative artistic purposes. Cough.