Sarah Connor Chronicles
@CodenameV: Or they speak Australian.
While the SVU writers continue to try and tease their show's lesbian fans without ever intending to give them anything real, there's another out and proud Olivia I adore.
Olivia Spencer's story, as she slowly fell for and built a relationship with fellow solo mother Natalia, was absolutely beautiful. The Guiding Light writers carefully paced the storyline for a year and a half.
And then the show got canceled, the Censors-That-Be at CBS wouldn't allow a kiss to be shown even after the relationship was consummated, and the story had to be wound up in a big rush. But at least we got a happy ending (something rare and wonderful in lesbian TV storylines).
[cabenson.livejournal.com] summarises it well.
And yay to Olivia in Twelfth night, who falls in love with a woman (I have a soft spot for the modern remake, She's the Man) and to Olivia Dunham of Fringe (there's something odd there about the woman and child she goes home to at night being her sisterand niece, but it leaves room to pair her up with the lovely Astrid) and to Olivia Williams and Olivia Wilde.
What, not a single Dollhouse joke?
Stargate has footage of evil Morena Baccarin controlling an invasion force that they could put up in the meantime. With a bonus fast maturing mystical child storyline. #v
V was my first real introduction to tie-in books (not the first I read, but the first where I thought about them as a marketing exercise and shared universe). This many years later I'm still trying to collect the last one (I'm pretty sure some were never sold here in New Zealand).
I liked the miniseries novelisation, and East Coast Crisis the best.
They also introduced me to the works of S.P. Somtow, whose V books were published under Somtow Sucharitkul. From Thailand, he is a composer and conductor as well as a writer. His sf often plays with the meaning of reality.
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And yes, most of the V books were really bad. #v
John Christopher's Tripods series (books and TV miniseries) were set on a conquered Earth. [www.librarything.com]
@Braves Journal:
Yeah, I've never been able to get hold of City of Diamond, but I love the Ivory books.
@Erinaceus:
Yep,the Xena episode was Been There, Done That. A great comedy ep with lots of Joxer killing. It was also had a Romeo and Juliet theme - escape the loop by stopping the lovers killing themselves.
Yep,the Xena episode was Been There, Done That. A great comedy ep with lots of Joxer killing. It was also had a Romeo and Juliet theme - escape the loop by stopping the lovers killing themselves.
@Charlie Jane Anders:
Depends how much Van and Munter have been smoking.
Depends how much Van and Munter have been smoking.
@Daveinva: Ditto!
I'm trying to imagine islands that small in the Pacific that would have that many roads and that much infrastructure, outside Asia or within ferry distance of somewhere much bigger. Even Hawaii is less built up, suggesting an interesting alternative history leading to this country. Taiwan is that built up, but it's very close to mainland Asia.
I'm also surprised that islands that have been so obviously hospitable to British colonisation had no prior inhabitants, I would have expected at least a few indigeneous place names to have stayed in use alongside all the British reused place names (and there isn't the usual smattering of place names beginning with New that you tend to see in British colonies) (oh - I lie - there's a New London as a suburb of London).
@gargle: And to complete the circle, that woman (Karen Joy Fowler) won a Nebula award for the story "What I Didn't See", which arguably doesn't have anything science fictional in it, but is a giant riff on both part of Tiptree's life and a story of Tiptree's "The Women Men Don't See", which Tiptree refused the Nebula for.
Possibly Mary Gentle's ASH: A Secret History, which google suggests is about 1112 pages. Admittedly it was broken into four books for American publication, but it reads much better in the one book format I got it in. A great read that went by far too fast.
