TBWWB Terrian King

Sunday, 14 September 2003

Favorite Episode, Favorite Scenes
Some of the comments listed under the last post reminded me of what, IMHO, is the funniest scene in the whole series. It might not be funny to others but it is to me.
In Flower Child Julia and Alonzo are in the dunerail chasing after the Martins while Yale and Devon monitor their progress over gear. At the same time the two are also watching over Danziger in the med tent. Julia and Yale are talking about the way the organism is acting and she makes a statement that it seems to be both keeping Bess and John alive and killing them at the same time. All of a sudden Devon gets this alarmed look on her face and immediately gets up and gives Danziger another dose of medication. In his weakened condition he can do nothing to stop her as she literally forces it down his throat!
Good acting, good direction, great scene.
It makes me laugh every time I see it.

Another favorite scene involves the Danzigers. I think it's at the end of Promises, Promises. The dead Terrian is taken back into the soil by the planet and the crew turns and walks away. There follows a scene between John and True that is done in one long take, no cuts at all. The acting is dead on and perfectly in character. Good performances by Clancy Brown and young J. Madison Wright. I'm always impressed when I see it.
It's this scene and her earlier ones with Tim Curry as Gaal that have me at the point where True can scream all she wants and it doesn't bother me! :)

My favorite episode is Mooncross. We learn more about the Terrians and the planet in that one storyline than we did in all the episodes that preceded it. We learn that the dream plane can keep restless spirits alive and that is probably why the grendlers never looted the biodome. It was never really uninhabited. We met Mary, a fascinating character who made "human" a dirty word.
I've often wondered if Mary would have turned up in the second season as a replacement in the group for the character, the pretty Edenite in the background, who died in AAE. (I mean if the original creators and writers had not been fired but allowed a second season, and the retooling of the show not taken place)
It is my favorite episode in spite of the fact that the narration is done, poorly, by Antonio Sabato, Jr. who also has a major role in the plot. He is not a good actor and his stumbling on some of the words in the voiceover is irritating, but I can overlook his nearly spoiling everything because Kelli Williams, Jessica Steen and Debrah Farentino just act circles around him throughout the story.

Posted by scifi2/terrian_king at 12:26 PM CDT
Updated: Sunday, 14 September 2003 2:43 PM CDT
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Sunday, 14 September 2003 - 8:33 PM CDT

Name: Beverly

"Flower Child" has the most unbelievable plot of any of the episodes, but it does have some good scenes in it. I love the puff pastries line!
I made the effort to watch it today and paid close attention to the scene you mentioned and yes, I laughed, too, even though I knew what to expect. Or maybe because I knew what to expect. I don't know why I never noticed it before, but Devon does get a startled look on her face just before she jumps up and announces to Danziger it's time for his medication again! I also like Morgan getting the courage to save Bess by helping her. To take the organism into his body was a very brave thing for him to do.
In "Mooncross" I love the line by True as she'd scrubbing down Mary's back. "Stop that! It's for your own good!" It makes me laugh to know she's either parroting what her father or Alex Wentworth said to her in the past.

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Monday, 15 September 2003 - 4:58 PM CDT

Name: Kenneth

I also liked all of the Gaal episodes. They were some of the few I saw in their entirety during the original run of the series. I saw parts of the next several episodes and didn't see any all the way through until "Brave New Pacifica."
I didn't know the episodes had names until I ran across a production list of the episodes not too long ago. I was able to go back and write names on my tapes.
"True Steals the Horse" became "Life Lessons," "Morgan's Grendler" became "A Memory Play," "Eating the Grendler" became "Survival of the Fittest," etc. LOL!

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Tuesday, 16 September 2003 - 3:37 PM CDT

Name: Richard

It was a whilebefore I knew the episode names too. and I didn't know all the names ofthe minor charcters either untilyears later. I guess i never paid attention to the end credits butfor a long time I used to wonder who "cameron" was. in TBWWBTK True shouts "hey Cameron, wait up" but it isn't really clear who shemeant, a man or a woman.
one of my favorite scenes is whenBess is goinginto the terrian caves to prospect and Morganannounces he can't go with her and why, so she bolstershis self esteem by thinking ofa way for himto be useful as she goes into the unknown. It sums up the Martin marriage in those few lines.

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Wednesday, 17 September 2003 - 2:07 PM CDT

Name: Allison

I love that puff pastries line from 'Flower Child,' too. Morgan has always been one of my favorite characters to watch because of how he overreacts to everything. I love all of his nervous ticks and wild gesturing.

Other favorite scenes/lines that made me laugh:
In 'Redemption' (the episode with the ZED) when Devon is yelling at Danz over gear to drop his weapon and walk back to camp: "I don't hear your feet moving!"

In 'Water' when D & D's Dunerail is stuck in the sand and the wheels are spinning. Danziger is behind the vehicle trying to push and Devon is in the driver's seat. He's shoving with all his might, but she's got her foot on the brake instead of the accelerator.
The look on Danziger's face is priceless when he tells her, "Other pedal. Other pedal."

I also laughed in 'Water' when Danziger is delirious from dehydration and Devon has no problem at all with smacking him around to get him back to clear thought. She then grabs him by the shirt and roughly drags him to his feet and orders him to get moving again. That woman doesn't mess around! :)

One of the most heart-wrenching scenes for me is in 'Grendlers In The Mist' when True sees her mother for the first time. "Dad, she's beautiful!"

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