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Look what showed up on my flist, stellar_dust! And as a bonus, it's a a total ripoff of practically a crossover with The Librarian!!
And, uh, while I'm at it, two questions for the flist:
1) Can anyone give me any occasions in SGA when a native of the Pegasus galaxy speaks in a language other than English?
2) And, I need allusions to famous escapes. From TV, movies, books, history, myth, whatever, so long as any reasonably literate, reasonably fannish person might be expected to get the reference. (Especially if the escape strategy consists entirely of 'lure the guards inside the cell, conk them over the head,' or something equally simple-yet-effective. Or something comically byzantine, that would work too.) The captives must not have any outside help, or have made any prior arrangements. I *know* I ought to be able to come up with a bunch of these, but most of the ones that come to mind involve help from confederates who are still free.
And, uh, while I'm at it, two questions for the flist:
1) Can anyone give me any occasions in SGA when a native of the Pegasus galaxy speaks in a language other than English?
2) And, I need allusions to famous escapes. From TV, movies, books, history, myth, whatever, so long as any reasonably literate, reasonably fannish person might be expected to get the reference. (Especially if the escape strategy consists entirely of 'lure the guards inside the cell, conk them over the head,' or something equally simple-yet-effective. Or something comically byzantine, that would work too.) The captives must not have any outside help, or have made any prior arrangements. I *know* I ought to be able to come up with a bunch of these, but most of the ones that come to mind involve help from confederates who are still free.
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... well, John and Rodney and Ford are planning an escape by talking entirely in pop culture allusions in order to keep the guards from finding out. So, uh, preferably a strategy that takes only a few days to carry out, I guess.
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I'm totally blanking on escapes. They all take too long, I think, and the only other one that comes to mind is Shanghai Noon ("The sick prisoner routine still work in China? Because here it's been done to death.")
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You can't come up with anything for question 1 either, can you? I am very amused.
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The fact that I can't think of anything for question 1 doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't any examples; I've really only seen the latter half of season 2, and spent most of those episodes staring at Joe Flanigan.
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You haven't seen S1?! S1 is brilliant. It's in syndication now - I watched 'Brotherhood' on FOX 5 yesterday afternoon, and I had forgotten just how good it was.
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Rodney crosses his arms. "I am not urinating on your jacket, Major."
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Of course, my first thought was of slimy liver-eating mutants, even though our particular mutant kind of got sucked up an escalator shaft. Hee.
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1) Return of the Jedi - if you count Luke as being a fellow captive...the fact that he planned for his capture is irrelavent.
2) Hitchhiker's Guide - Ford and Arthur escaping the Vogons through the wonders of Improbability.
Cant think of any more...I am shamed..
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I had both of those already, but thanks.
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If you don't get it, it's probably of no use to you.
Some guy named Houdini did escapes, I hear. ;)
About every third episode of Star Trek had an escape of some kind. Kirk always used that goofy but cool triple strike move on the guards - stomp the foot, punch the gut, and clock him over the head.
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I need to watch some ST:TOS again - I know you're right and there were lots of cheesy escapes, but most of the TOS specifics I remember are from Diane Carey novels, not episodes...