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7 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Deep Spa... · 0 replies · +9 points

C.L. Moore is one of my very favorite SF writers. By the 1940s-50s, she was writing mostly with Kuttner, but her earlier solo work from the '30s is just frickin' amazing. Read "Shambleau"--you'd think it was from the 1950s or '60s, not 1933. It is so sexually charged, all in subtext given the time it was written, but the mood it evokes is very powerful. And she wrote the first sword-and-sorcery heroine, Jirel of Joiry, in "Black God's Kiss," which is also decades ahead of its time.

7 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Star Tre... · 2 replies · +7 points

Alfre Woodard as Lily might be my favorite one-shot character in all of Star Trek. She is so perfectly cast and performed, and the writers really stepped up their game for her.

This might be my favorite Woodard performance, but I also love her in a smaller part in the Robert Downey, Jr/Elisabeth Shue romcom Heart and Souls, which is a film not many people remember as a great '90s romantic film, but it is just delightful!

Alice Krige is a really good actress as well. This was the first thing I saw her in, but not too long after, she made an appearance in one of the BBC's Sharpe's films, opposite Sean Bean, and she was really memorable there. (Highly recommend those films, btw--Napoleonic war films, with Bean as the former sergeant, promoted by Wellington to officer, dealing with the usual class issues rampant in British period pieces, but with lots of fun action stuff, and hot Sean Bean too!)

Just a few years ago, Krige showed up in a very memorable NCIS ep, playing David McCallum's long lost love, but they aged Krige up for the part, since McCallum is 20 years older than her. She was excellent there, as well, and had equal chemistry with her co-stars in all three roles I have seen her play.

7 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Star Tre... · 0 replies · +4 points

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7 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Deep Spa... · 0 replies · +2 points

Craig Wasson, really?!? I first saw him play Mark Twain in a PBS production of Innocents Abroad back in 1983, and then remember him in Body Double.

7 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Voyager'... · 0 replies · +8 points

Neat trivia about Michael Jordan's return to the Bulls: After he had retired the first time, they retired his #23 jersey, so when he came back, he had to get a new number, #45. The day of his first game, the Pick Four lottery number in Illinois was, get this, 2345! And sooooo many people had played it that it was probably the biggest payout for that particular game in the history of the Illinois Lottery.

(On his 23rd game after his return, though, he was unsatisfied with his playing since his come-back, and he decided to go back to #23, which got him a fine from the league for unsanctioned jersey number changing.)

8 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Deep Spa... · 3 replies · +3 points

Paul Dooley will always be the dad in Breaking Away to me.

8 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'The Next... · 0 replies · +7 points

The last time I saw Wil Wheaton acting was when he played a serial killer in season 4 of Criminal Minds (which just happened to be rerunning last night on Ion, btw!), joining Malcolm in the Middle, VanderBeek, and Luke Perry in their long list of former child actors playing murderers/criminals in rather credible performances.

8 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'The Next... · 0 replies · +9 points

This is on my top ten list for TNG; I just love it so much! The look at the lives of the other people on board who are not-regulars, the mystery of the Cardassian spy, the redemption of Sito Jaxa, the rivalry for the Ops position, and, my favorite, the mentorship of Worf. His obvious affection for her, his concern for her safety in this mission, and then his grief over her loss is palpable throughout the episode.

I also love the snarkiness of Taurik. His banter with LaVelle over their room assignments cracks me up every time I watch this.

8 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Deep Spa... · 0 replies · +6 points

I wish the Carmen Sandiego games were still available! I always loved those--when I worked at the local library in 1992, they were the first big-name computer games I ever played on the library Apple computers (after I was off the clock, of course!).

8 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'The Next... · 0 replies · +18 points

This is one of my favorite episodes of the entire series. As you say, it wouldn't work nearly as well if any other character than Worf were the one switching realities, just because he is so stoic and able to hide his emotions. However, Michael Dorn plays it all so well, from the humor of trying to suss out the surprise party, to his hilarious reaction when Deanna strolls in, helps herself to some hot chocolate (I assume--it is Deanna, after all!), and then sits on their bed.

When Mark says about the Riker-as-Captain 'verse, "This is the darkest timeline!" I said, "Oh, just you wait, if you want dark..." That brief encounter with the Borg-ified 'verse Enterprise is the moment of the entire episode that is burned into my brain, even more than the Deanna/Worf marriage. Frakes really played the desperation of that Riker perfectly.

And continuity--yay! References not just to the Borg, but to his spinal surgery, the Riker/Troi past relationship, Alexander--it's an episode that works best as a final season one, since the time span needed to develop their relationship is vital to making it believable.