Recent content by PillowRock

But, most of the time, you probably are the only one among the people that they meet at that party, or in that office, or whatever. Within the context where you are "filed" in their brain, you are unique, and that tends to be remembered. However, if *all* of the names are "different", then...

That's ONE name, not a whole cast's worth. One or two "unique" names amongst all of the "common" ones is memorable. Having a couple dozen names which are all unfamiliar to the point of sounding like gibberish becomes difficult and confusing quickly. This is for the same reason that is easy to...

I forgive that on the basis of pure practicality, which is why I don't find it "retarded". By the time you include the recurring characters that you would like the audience remember (people who are around for an episode or two, then disappear for 5 or 6 or so before coming back) there are a lot...

The "all" in that statement strikes me as a severe overgeneralization. I've never heard of an Adama or a Starbuck or a Baltar in any classical mythology. And there certainly is not a Boomer running around in any of those pantheons. Really? No reason at all? It never occurred to you that...

Given that we are on a message board for a "genre" TV show ........ Is it really necessary to have that parenthetic identification for Michelle Forbes? Between Cain on BSG, Rho Laren on ST:TNG, a season of 24 as a Presidential aid, a year or two as the primary coroner on Homicide: Life on the...

While those things definitely *can* happen, I think that stating that they categorically *will* happen in every case is an overgeneralization. Not all A-list actors are just themselves (or a single cultivated screen persona) on screen. Look at people such as Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, and...

Certainly. But once the Corps becomes a closed society, it won't take all *that* many generations before most of them are related (at least distantly) to most of the rest of them. I'm not talking about being so tightly inbred that the viability of gene pool is at issue. I'm just saying that if...

In terms of the actual shooting, I think we've already got everything that there is to get. Anything new would be behind the scenes connections to Oswald or Ruby (or both).

I believe that the 200 year period referred to is since humans *verified* telepathy and created the Psi Corps. That would be the point at which selectively breeding teeps with each other would have started, making teeps more or less a closed gene pool. Of course, from some things that we saw...

Does it count as a "glitch" if real world events *forced* it? In the tag at the end of "Severed Dreams", after the hand-to-hand combat with Clarke's boarding troops, we see Garibaldi limping and leaning on a cane, wiht two healthy arms. At the begining of the next episode (which again picks up...

I would have said "distrusts telepaths", and is quick to judge them negatively given *any* reason to. He certainly didn't "hate" Talia.

At your age? What in hezmana do you mean by "at my age" when you're 43? Remember the old villager in The Magnificent Seven! "and as to women ..... I became indifferent when I was 83." ;)

How about the "on the fly translation" jobs? ;) Once, in the late 1980's, I went to a technical conference called "Topographic Applications of SPOT Data" (SPOT being a French acronym for the 1980's French equivalent of Landsat). It was in Quebec; half the papers were presented in English and...

Yeah, well that's translation gets to be a really interesting problem, isn't it ..... when things like rhythm or rhyming pattern are just about as important as the basic meaning of the words. Well, ...... that and trying to figure out what makes sense for cultural reference metaphors. I have a...

The thing is that "purposely annoying characters done effectively" and "poorly done characters that inadvertantly become annoying" are two *very* different concepts ...... and two *very* different lists. A list could very reasonably be made for either concept, but it makes no sense to me to...