Lizardbeth's Tale

Okay, so this is the most inconveniently timed meme/event thingy ever, but since I didn't want to let it pass with NADA, I um raided stargate-caps and I have a little appreciation of Sam Carter, Day 1 for womenlovefest


Sam's thread: http://womenlovefest.livejournal.com/50286.html#comments

For Day one, this is a picspam of Sam from the pilot episode, which really does a fantastic synopsis/base for the character Sam becomes as the show continues. Sam is not the first female officer in a tv show, and not even the first in a long-running tv show (Major Houlihan of MASH is before her, to name one I can think of) but she's certainly high on the list. I was a little too old when I started watching to be inspired, but still I consider Sam one of the backbone female characters of my formative years nonetheless.

Also I have at least one margarita in me. Just FYI.

( Captain Doctor Samantha Carter in Children of the Gods )

So there's a trip through memory lane of a Wee Amanda Tapping. :)

What are funnier than Crazy Charlie Sheen Quotes?

Crazy Charlie Sheen Quotes on Cat Photos, of course!

To continue the comedy theme, last night we managed to lock ourselves out of the house (both MrLiz and I managed to leave our keys inside). IN THE RAIN. *head desk*



( PICSPAM of some my tumblr trucco photos )

Also, I'm a little afraid he's going to be out of work again in March, if this Fairly Legal ratings trajectory continues. Next week they won't have Royal Pains as a lead-in anymore. Really, America, Jersey Shore is not the only place to find hot guys with abs. And he's a great guy and talented, besides. *sigh*

First, Happy Birthday to greycoupon! Yes, it's still the right day, at least here! :)

Second, I did a picspam for twelve_colonies over at picspammy:

Ten Favorite Things from BSG and Stargate SG-1, Side by Side
Mine is here.
And iwishiwerekerry (my partner-in-crime for this challenge)'s is here.

Third, this is my last night here. BOOOOO for the end of vacation!

So here is my promised picspam from that CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE knows as... Knight Club.

It is a tragic tale of the rise of an unemployed actor, who by riding the coat-tails of the rich and famous gets to have everything he ever wanted until he makes the wrong choice because he is as dumb as a stack of bricks and he gets killed. oops. SPOILER!

However, I only care about it because our Tragic Hero has a friend played by Michael Trucco.
The movie opens with their acting class.

(large caps follow, and they break my layout so here's the Format Light link.)

( Derek - the only part worth watching! )

Sadly you can see a glimmer of a better movie inside this one, trying to get out. I have no idea if it was one, but it smacks of being a film school senior project that managed to scrounge up some financing.

Anyway, it can't be all bad when there are screencaps like that, right? :D

It was amusing watching this with hubby, who actually got SO disgusted by Castle's behavior he turned it off at about the 40 min mark. I believe his exact words were, "He's acting like a fourteen year old." Hubby couldn't care less about UST or My TV Boyfriend, so it wasn't my personal preferences coloring it either. I thought the situation was funny since it was played so broadly, but apparently hubby was, um, appalled by the lack of maturity. (MrLiz also can't understand why no one's shot Patrick Jane on the Mentalist yet, btw, so he's pretty consistent about it).

I - of course - continued to watch. Because I HAD PHOTOS AND I WANTED TO SEE HOW IT HAPPENED, DAMN IT.

(Warning of several, large-ish pics under the cut. Beckett/Demming. Oh yes. *g* )

( So here are the promo photos )

And because today is apparently Trucco Picspam day, there are also lovely pics of him in "V" over at cujoy's place.

Speaking of Castle/V --- the epic is now a very scary 15K words. WTF BRAIN? It was a bit strange to watch last night, thinking he's secretly a V, and not actually be jossed in any way... :)

We saw Public Enemies tonight.

SO AWESOME.

If you liked Heat or any other Michael Mann film, if you like film noir (which it's not, not really, but they're sort of related), if you like Johnny Depp or Christian Bale, or crime thrillers, or men in fedoras with BIG FUCKING GUNS SHOOTING THINGS AND ROBBING BANKS, or period pieces, it is so well done. (if you like none of those things? um, possibly not for you)

And okay, the chronology is messed up, so do not take it as history, it's not. But still, it takes advantage of the real history to tell a concise story of Dillinger's crime spree, the girlfriend who rode with him, and how he was brought down (and also the simultaneous rise of the FBI and the spread of nationwide crime syndicates as side stories).

The accents are amusing to track - there's CB channeling Purvis' southern, David Wenham doing American, and Marion Cotillard pretending, well, less of an accent than she has in real life.

But you know what? I have something better. I have pretty pics from the movie.

( MINI PICSPAM! )

"What keeps you up at night, Mister Dillinger?" (asks Agent Purvis)
"Coffee."
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Since Michael Trucco is locked in a battle for survival in a Hottie Survival Poll, I thought I should, y'know, campaign on his behalf.

REALLY REALLY NOT DIAL-UP FRIENDLY.

( VOTE FOR ANYONE ELSE, BECAUSE VOTING HIM OFF HOTTIE ISLAND IS JUST WRONG )

There. Now you can vote anyone else off, with a clean conscience. :)

Speaking of Sam, sort of, I posted Sam/Kara silly AU porn last Friday, if you missed it!

ETA: be sure to scan down the comments as well, since some people apparently need to see even MORE pictures before they are convinced!

Here are the non-kidlet pics from our trip to the bay area, a few scenic ones that I like.

( five good-sized pics )

OMG. The "Faith" Deleted scene at Best Buy (which is apparently not on the DVDs according to Sitrep) features Sam being all angsty on the baseship. (http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/en_US/images/abn/2008/mm/audvid/battlestar_faith.mp4 (RIGHT-CLICK, SAVE-AS)

ETA: I've now put it up at Megaupload.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QSV5RK8O

If you can't watch it, why HERE ARE A FEW SCREENCAPS. (and not awesome clarity, but it's a low-res QT file)

oh, they're too big. so HERE IS THE PLAIN LAYOUT FOR THEM TO SHOW UP BETTER

( oh Sammy why you gotta break my heart EVEN MORE? )

GAH. I WANNA HUG HIM EVEN MORE NOW.

*sniff*

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday DEAR MAMABOOOOOOOOOO!
And here's a clone of Tahmoh for you!

( Here's A PICPAM showing you the fine attributes of your coming gift (Tahmoh clone, Helo version) )

We here at Clones R Us want to apologize for the delay. There have been some unexpected ... difficulties with the cloning process, so we hope this will tide you over until your gift is ready! :D