#228: Stargate Time Travel (2010), FSL 2.0 Round 4

It was good to see jounalism so enlightened, we have space travel, telepaths, won and lost galaxy spanning wars but a bit of cleavage still has the power to rock the world of 23rd century man:)

Taking nothing away from Teryl of course, gorgeous woman and yes her eyes are her best feature and would really love to see her in more stuff, she played the mom role in Kyle XY to perfection.

Archer is on FX baby.

//youtu.be/yNfeQ298L_8

I remember a similar story from the set of SG-1. One season (I think Season 5), she voiced an Asgard, and she was on set for when they were shooting those scenes, and they eyeline indicator was in about the same place. :stuck_out_tongue: I’m sure it was discussed in the commentary, but I don’t remember which episode off hand.

EDIT: Wait, found it. Here’s the note from the Stargate Wiki

Teryl Rothery (Janet Fraiser) does the voice of Heimdall. According to the episode audio commentary, Rothery performed her lines onset to help give the actors a reference point. However, Richard Dean Anderson, Chris Judge and Rothery could not keep a straight face as the eye line they were given was a blinking light in Rothery’s chest.


Edited because the other site wouldn’t hotlink…

On the discussion of a taboo of sex on TV/movies being more in the US than other places- I think that’s true when compared to certain countries. I think large sections of the 2/3rds World see the US as much more loose in that regard, as compared to their own cultures.

I found the discussion of the comparison of this SG1 episode to the China 1-Child Only policy interesting. But I think there is a key difference here. Separating out the issue of forced abortions in China, I see a place for limiting the number of kids, offering incentives to have fewer. When you are dealing with ramped Malthusian population growth, as we are on this planet and particularly in China and India, with limited resources and a large poor population, it makes sense to try to limit population growth in order to continue to feed and provide for everyone without causing an environmental catastrophe. (Too late.) This is separate from and far preferable (morally) to killing people already living. Although it is possible today to feed everyone on the planet with better distribution of resources and a more just economic system with the wealthy countries cutting back, we have now passed the point where we can feed everyone and not take from the environment, killing off species. Whatever we can do to stave off the coming environmental apocalypse- whatever we can do morally- should be done, imo.

I remember the first one I saw was LadyHawke, just after I turned 13. I was so proud of myself for going off to see a movie by myself! :wink:

Not sure if anyone here follows PHD Comics, but the latest is a really great tie-in to ComicCon:

You know, it’s interesting that both the MPAA and the question of why comic have a reputation of being “Just for Kids” came up in the same discussion.

The development and history of American comics was shaped in it very early days by a man named Werthem, a book called The Seduction of the Innocent, a Congressional Sub-Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, and a hastily convened preemptive attempt at self-censorship known as the Comics Code Authority.

Check it out on Wikipedia. It’s interesting stuff. Werthem basically claimed that comics were a major contributor to juvenile delinquent behavior and started a campaign against examples of gore, sensational crime stories, good girl art, and alleged homosexual subtext in American comics. Parents were scandalized enough by his book that the government convened a sub-committee. The mere existence of a committe alarmed publishers enough to censor themselves voluntarily.

The Comics Code was preferable to the MPAA in one respect, I suppose, in that it did have written rules. They were arbitrary, byzantine, and restrictive, but they were rules. Imagine, if you can, a rating system that only has two categories:

1.) “G”
…and…
2.) “Not frakking likely to ever get published or see the light of day”

Prior to 1990, comics came in two flavors: “Comics Code Approved”, and “Not carried by any of the major distributors”. Since 1990, the Comics Code Authority has gradually waned in influence. In 2001, I think it was, Marvel stopped bothering to submit their comics for approval in favor of their own in-house rating scheme with categories like “All Ages”, “Teen”, and “Mature”.

At the height of it’s influence however, the Code prohibited all sorts of things including vampires, zombies, werewolves, implied corruption within the police or judiciary, any implied sexual perversion, disrespecting the sanctity of marriage, distorting the proportions of the female figure for the purpose of titilation, and any story where criminals are allowed to go unpunished.

Prior to the introduction of the Code there were horror comics, western comics, crime comics, detective comics, monster comics, and romance comics. After the code, basically only superhero comics and a few romance comics survived.

American comics have a reputation of being just for kids, because between the late 40s and early 90s they were geared towards a restrictive code of censorship that was design to protect the kiddies from anything salacious. Even since then, some of the dark, “grim & gritty” comics with over-the-top depictions of sexuality and violence could be seen as a reaction against the expectations that were in place for so long: the pendulum swinging back too far and too hard in the other direction. As an art-form, comics are capable of being more than just superheroes and more than just “for kids”, (and don’t get me wrong, I like both), but their history in America has been shaped by public preconceptions going back to the forrties.