Daniel Jackson was human, not Goa’uld. Human hosts also went a bit bonkers when confronted with the immense eeevil memories of the Goa’uld.
Sorry to be pedantic with the apostrophes, but we like naming our pets after cheesy science fiction characters: Teal’c Rya’c(came second, pattern matched so we kind of had to) Worf Ash(as in "name’s Ash … housewares. Good Ash/Evil Ash) Flo’Lrrr(Name is a very long story; second half is from Futurama) Malish(not named after a character, but can’t be left out)
It was no Lost, but Battlestar Galactica left sheeploads of loose threads. The threads they did try and wrap up had little to do with the original direction (and pretty much blew Chunks).
Yes, they did. And it was four episodes actually. Two on Buffy (where they switch bodies) and two on Angel (where he protects Faith from the Watchers).
When Faith voluntarily goes to jail, she becomes untouchable as killing a soul that is attempting to do good is WRONG in the Buffyverse.
Heroes dropped a poor girl off in an alternate universe with a world wide plague and never went back for her. And it was one of the few interesting things going on in that show at the time.
There was an episode of Star Trek: NG in which it was revealed that starship travel was ripping holes in the fabric of the universe or something, and in order to solve this problem, they imposed a galactic speed limit so that starships could go no faster than warp 5 or something.
Also on the Buffy thing – did Buffy not die twice? Shouldn’t there have been another slayer around anyway? Or does the second time she died not count because she died once already? When all the Slayerettes come along, and Dawn is thinking about how she could be a potential, but to be a Slayer it means Buffy has to die… That would imply that every time Buffy dies there should be a new slayer!
They did revisit this idea in the series finale but opened up a new hole, Willow does a spell that instantly activates every single woman worldwide in the slayer line. So its like instead of waiting for the current one to die there are hundreds at once.
Later we see on Angel that not all of these girls were discovered and counseled and some are using their super strength for bad in LA.
Did Willow just fuck up the slayer system for good? Will there be slayers in a century or millennia etc?
Joss Whedon’s “Fray” comics were already considered canon and already revealed that Buffy/Faith were the last Slayers to be called.
But even if you just go by the show, Angel ended a year after Buffy, so we have no idea what the effect of calling all the Slayers at once did since Buffy and Faith were still alive at the end of Angel.
Right, I said that already: Joss Whedon’s “Fray” comics were already considered canon and already revealed that Buffy/Faith were the last Slayers to be called before Fray hundreds of years later.
They could have made it an important part of the story arc in Season 1. Or at least in Season 2 when the sensawunda had worn off. There were a couple of episodes the TCW was in, and as I recall it was somewhere in the far background of the plot for the “9/11” third season. Far back. I think ENT could have used the TCW more in the forefront. But they were doing episodic TV, not chapters in a single story arc.
It’s been a while since the show, obviously. I could be completely wrong here. Wouldn’t be the first time. For example, I thought I was the only person who watched ENT. It seems now there are two.
In the novels it is revealed that the Breen Confederacy is not actually one race but a group of several different races (basically a smaller scale Federation). As I recall, they wear the suits because they wish to minimize differences between member races but only one of the races actually needs the suits to live. To reference another thread, I recall it gave me a Harrison Bergeron type vibe when I read it at the time.
It was a pretty clever way to reconcile the disparate facts the shows had given about the Breen.
I would have thought that the Council would nab Faith while she was helpless in a coma, rather than trying to take down a fully conscious, full-strength Slayer.
Re Buffy’s death and the Slayer line, I always wondered why Buffy had her strength back after dying the first time. If the line passed from her to Kendra, shouldn’t Buffy have come back to life as a normal girl?
Another plot point on Buffy and Angel that was repeatedly forgotten for convenience was the reason for why there was a Slayer. Giles, Xander and other humans repeatedly fought vampires and weren’t ripped to shreds, so if humans could fight vampires, why have a Slayer?
Beat me to it, though I have to believe that if the series had continued that it would have been a major plot line at some point or another; there were certainly enough hints and bits and pieces dropped during what few episodes DID air to indicate a build-up of one helluva interesting story.
Then again, in Serenity…(paraphrasing)
Mal: “You know, you have to tell me your story sometime.”
Book: “No, I don’t.”
I assumed it was decided that if they couldn’t tell his WHOLE story, as planned, that there was no point in going into it.
Another one, though it’s kind of cheating: The very last episode of “King of the Hill”, the nearly-very-last scene, shows Boomhauer’s wallet folding open to show a Texas Ranger badge. Now that explains a lot, but it would have been fun to see that during the actual show.
As I recall,that was originally supposed to lead into the Borg, who were originally supposed to be insectile. However, they discovered that they couldn’t make a insect alien that didn’t look stupid, so they went with the version of the Borg we all know.
Now that explains a lot, but it would have been fun to see that during the actual show.