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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2006-04-23 08:09 pm

GIP

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.

[identity profile] siegeofangels.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Shawshank Redemption?
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm. Have never seen that, but it might maybe do, if I read up on the details, although I'm kinda looking for ...

... 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.

[identity profile] siegeofangels.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. Well, not Shawshank then, and I am terribly sorry to have possibly spoiled you. *coughs*

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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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't seen Shanghai Noon neither. I am clearly unlettered in movies. But spoil away! So if Aiden said "How's about Chon Wang and the one that still works in China?" do you think would you know to what he was referring? Because I was trying to find an example of the sick prisoner routine :)

You can't come up with anything for question 1 either, can you? I am very amused.

[identity profile] siegeofangels.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
If Ford said that to me, I would probably get it, but I'm not sure if John and Rodney would. Although they might, and it's better than nothing. And definitely better than the actual Chon Wang method: peeing on silk to make it unbreakable and then bending bars with it.

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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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, but then I could have Rodney look confused and say "What, peeing on silk?" and John smacks him in the back of the head and says, "No, you doofus, like [some other reference I should be able to come up with and am blanking on]" and Teyla gets *more* and *more* confused.


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.

[identity profile] siegeofangels.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Every single week at, like, seven on Saturday I go "ARGH, missed it again!" One of these days I'll find some way to see it.

Rodney crosses his arms. "I am not urinating on your jacket, Major."

[identity profile] mushfromnewsies.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man, I don't know if this answers your #2, but it reminded me of sometime last year, we were in the car listening to the radio, and heard about how an incarcerated murderer/rapist was actually on the run because he'd escaped out his air vent, using the whole bed-sheets routine and everything.

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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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Aah! Don't speak to me of Tooms! Those were the first episodes I ever saw, and I couldn't sleep in my concrete dorm room for days!
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[identity profile] stellar-dust.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
LMAO YES. Perfect!
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
In'n't it? Oh yes.

[identity profile] theemptylife.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
Escapes:

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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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-04-25 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's harder than it seems like it should be, isn't it?

I had both of those already, but thanks.

[identity profile] kidzero.livejournal.com 2006-04-24 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
When the circle around Morpheus was accidentally broken.

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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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-04-25 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, Sandman is apparently required reading. *g*

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...