When Large Hadron Colliders fail...

[fajrdrako]

Those of us who enjoyed Torchwood: Lost Souls last week and who eagerly watched the video of John Barrowman's visit to CERN last year, found our ears pricking up at the recent news that the Large Hadron Collider had to be shut down for parts replacement.

Obviously it has to do with the missing scientists and the invading aliens that Captain Jack and Ianto Jones, Ambassador from Wales (and his lovely wife) rushed to deal with. Nice to know it's all under control now.

I love it when reality and fiction collide.

So to speak.

Comments

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Well, only a magnet had to be replaced. Our heroes got there in time!

Haven't had any TW available since season 1. Don't have time, now, anyway. I'll go looking for it later.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

only a magnet had to be replaced. Our heroes got there in time!

Gives me a happy sense of security, it really does.

Don't worry, Torchwood will wait for you. It isn't as if I'm just rushing through Buffy. (No time, no time.) And Lost Souls will be coming out on CD so even if/when the BBC stops offering it for free, there it will be.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

They were still saying it's going to be out of action for a coupl eof months though :(

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That's science for you. Things just don't stick to schedule as planned.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Speaking of that particular ficton, I finally got to see "Partners in Crime" last night. Fun for the most part, aside from poor Stacy's fate.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I forgot that it was on last night - I'd meant to tape it. Oh well. I really enjoyed that episode, especially the moment when Donna and the Doctor saw each other across the Nanny's office and started miming messages to each other.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

That...was just absurdly amusing. I'm not even quite sure what they "said" and I'm afraid to do a Wiki run in case it turns out to have been random gibberish.

I likely will look it up, though.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It wasn't random gibberish. It was brilliant. And it was almost all Catherine Tate's doing - it wasn't scripted, they just told her to make it up as she went. You have to do a certain amount of lipreading, but it's very clear what they're both saying. It just gets funnier when you watch it again.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

As I've since learned, as far as the directions Tate and Tennant were given are concerned. I look forward to taking another look at "Partners in Crime" down the line.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

I am so ashamed of the fact that I did not even think of that when I saw the headline. In my defense, I had not yet been out of bed for ten minutes.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well, now you know what happened!

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it wasn't anything Torchwood couldn't handle, although as usual Jack made it up as he went along. I do wonder, however, if HIS bicycle had a bell....

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

as usual Jack made it up as he went along

In his own inimitable style. He learned it from his mentor, the Doctor. "I've no plan and that scares you to death..."

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Obviously! That's of course my thought, too. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Such fun.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I love it when reality and fiction collide.

Hee. You just made a science-geek joke. I am so proud of you!

(And I do, too.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

And sometimes it happens that way - makes me smile.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Look! Up in the sky of the Great White North! It's a bird... a really, really colorful budgie!? No, wait, it's the budgies' mama -- Superman's cousin, Kara!

I finally watched the Season Three ender of Battlestar Galactica last night. I utterly loved the final fifteen minutes! Such utter sci-fi self-indulgence! I could have done without the Jimi Hendrix song lyrics, but even so: not a bad choice at all, and adding tremendously to the "wha'fuck???" aspects of the whole thing.

I did love the last several seconds, with the abrupt pan-out which first put their entire galaxy in sudden, puny perspective in relation to the whole of reality in general, and then did a flip (literally as well as figuratively) to home in on Earth. Gadzooks, I did love that.

But I hear I'm in a minority! hee.

And thank you again for the Season Four episodes. Got to the point of Kara's freak-out in the second ep, so far. I am vastly impressed by her progressing unhinged-ness. I think Katee Sackhoff is deepening that role in amazing ways.

Also -- I finally watched the last six or seven or eight of Season Three (I remember, I'd put it aside to save them for a special day! well, I then realized [midway through S4's second ep] that I kinda didn't know some salient things and should go back) and I am feeling utter distaste and revulsion for Roslin. She is acting like a fascist. And she freaks me out by strongly resembling my current plant manager, brrr, how's that for an uncanny parallel. Also, I am quite liking Baltar now -- in fact, I'm pulling for him. Scary.

I like this show. It lets me think.