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From: rhiann@milton.u.washington.edu (Sandra Hereld)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Blake's 7 Quiz Answers
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:33:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep29.173335.16831
Reply-To: rhiann@u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


Subject: Re: Test you Blake's 7 knowledge


Section 1 ****************************************************
Who said the following? about who? and in what episode? (3 pts each)

a) "The cold-hearted, murdering....let's kill him now!" 
Vila to Blake and Jenna in "Space Fall," about Avon.

b) "She is, after all, a tasteless megalomaniac." 
Sula to Chesku in "Rumours of Death," about Servalan.

c) "Your helplessness brings out my sadistic streak." 
Dayna to Vila in "Sarcophagus."

d) "Lofty disinterest won't save you." 
Blake to Zen in "The Web."

e) " **** has about as much subtlety as a Bulrasian Warg-strangler." 
Vila to Avon in "Traitor," about Tarrant.

f) "I have to get rid of Blake first. You're next on my list."
 Avon to Jenna in Cygnus Alpha.

g) He's strictly a fluffy-cheeked amateur..."
Vila to Cally in "Shadow," about Blake. 

h) "Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron." 
Avon to Zen in "Cygnus Alpha."

i) "Someday, ****, I may have to kill you..."
Tarrant to Avon in "Dawn of the Gods." 

j) "**** can be disgusting all the time." 
Vila to Dayna in "Stardrive."

k) "(*** should be) locked up, or dumped!" 
Avon to Blake in "The Web," about Cally.

Section 2 *************** Poor Vila   *******************
In which episodes did the following happen to Vila?

a) Avon thump him in the stomach?				"Redemption"
b) Tarrant draw a gun on him?					"Moloch"
c) Blake knock him to the ground				"The Way Back"
d) Cally flatten him?						"The Web"
e) Avon attempt to *kick* him					"Hostage"
f) Servalan save his life?					"Moloch"
g) Dayna anticipate and refject an attempt at seduction?	"Death-Watch"

Section 3 ************  Writers = thieves ***************
The following lines are all stolen from the same classic movie

What is the movie:
a) "The Magnificent Seven"

These are the original lines.  What were the B7 adapted lines?
Who said them, and in what episode?

"Sooner for later, you have to pay for every good deed.
b) Avon in "Rescue": "No good deed goes unpunished."

"I was aiming for the horse!"
c) Avon in "Orac": "I was aiming for his head."

They lost, and we lost.  Only the farmers have won.
d) Cally in "Volcano": "She lost, and we lost. Only the Pyroans won."

And the winner is...
Micky DuPree, the first respondent, and the *only* one with *no*
errors.  Congrats!

Thanks for playing; I am astounded how many of you got just one or
two wrong.  I'll post another quiz next week.

        Sandy
--pale--bitter--stout--
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: dzembj@nuge115.its.rpi.edu (Jason Eric Dzembo)
Subject: Re: QL: What Price Gloria?
Reply-To: dzembj@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 16:57:52 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.035552.17271@wixer.cactus.org>, guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:
|> I just finished watching my tape of "What price Gloria?" that I taped
|> off of USA tonight, and I'm wondering: Am I crazy? Or did they cut that
|> show since the last time i saw it? I swear the episode started out with
|> something like this:
|> 
|> GLORIA (outside of bathroom): Sam?
|> SAM (thinking): Alright! I've leaped into someone with my name!
|> GLORIA (entering BR): You better hurry up...etc.
|> 
|> I listened through the whole episode, and I didn't hear anyone mention
|> how cool it was that he didn't have to answer to another person's name.
|> 
|> Ok, this is probably in the FAQ, but since I have your attention
|> anyway... Were the mirror shots with Sam and Gloria filmed at different
|> times, or did Jean Sagal's identical twin Liz help out? I watched the
|> credits, and Liz wasn't mentioned. Liz and Jean were in that show Double
|> Trouble (and they're the identical twin sisters of Katey Sagal from MWC). 
|> 
|> jam
|> -- 
|> ==============================================================================
|> Jennifer Mery |
|> Austin, Texas | guppy@wixer.catus.org
|> ==============================================================================

1)  Yes, USA cut the episode.  No big surprise;  they enjoy doing that.  The
lines you're thinking of were indeed in the original showing of the episode.

2)  Yes, Liz Sagal played the part of her twin sister's reflection in that
episode.  Whether or not it's in the FAQL, I haven't a clue.

					- Jason
From: otten@quark.umd.edu (Neil Ottenstein)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: B7: Avon
Date: 3 Oct 92 17:52:10 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

I just finished reading Paul Darrow's book, AVON - A TERRIBLE ASPECT.  I
actually found it quite interesting.  I was wondering, though, how much
of it, if anything, contradicts things we found out from the series.  I
was also wondering how much of it reiterated things we learned about
Avon's life from the series.  Many of the characters had names that were
familiar, while others I couldn't recognize.  

Thanks,

Neil Ottenstein
otten@quark.umd.edu
From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Highlander: The Series
Date: 5 Oct 92 00:37:13 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

No spoilers for the series premiere... just an opinion.

I liked it.

This surprised the hell out of me.

For all those who were severely underwhelmed by his role in War of the Worlds,
Adrian Paul can ACT, and hold his own with Christopher Lambert.  Richard Moll,
as the Kurgan stand-in, was vastly underused, but had a tongue-flappingly
good time.

The series takes place before the first movie, so there are plenty of
immortals roaming about, and it completely ignores Highlander 2: The Quest
For More Money.  That should be a plus in anyone's book.

Just one question for those who saw it... after the end of this episode,
where can they go from here for the rest of the season?
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: will sf channel survive?
Date: 5 Oct 1992 23:28:26 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Oct5.114817.29756@cas.org> sdr57@cas.org () writes:
>My understanding is that about 7 million subscribers have access to it.
>That is more than 3x what MTV started with. Don't write it off yet.

Cable was much younger ten years ago when MTV started.  I'm just guessing,
but there are probably 5-10x more homes with cable now than then, so the
SFC has only 1/2 to 1/3 as much penetration into the market as MTV did.

However, since USA Network owns a big chunk of SFC, they can probably
afford to wait and see if things improve.

Still, I'm skeptical.  SFC's programming is pretty weak, and many cable
systems are operating at channel capacity these days.  I don't expect many
of them to knock off extremely profitable shopping channels in favor of SFC
or the Cartoon Network.  And if they decide to pick one of these, I'll bet
they'll go with the cartoons; it has Ted Turner behind it (has he ever
failed at anything?), and the toy companies probably have bigger
advertising budgets than the folks who advertise on the SFC, so it's more
likely to last.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: KL62%MARISTB@VM.MARIST.EDU ("Ryan, Edmund")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Quantum Leap Premise
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:25:11 GMT

Greetings:

I find the basic premise of Quantum Leap absurd in that Sam
changes lives on a personal level and not on a societal level.
In many science fiction stories about time travel, individual
events have been shown to influence societal events. Even
in Ray Bradbury's story, ?????? (about the dinosaur hunting
time travellers), history was changed by killing a butterfly.
The changes made in the time continuum as in Quantum Leap would
have an eventual effect on society and thereby change history.
Even the most seemingly insignificant individuals you can
imagine eventually have some effect on society.

If the writers of Quantum Leap really understood, they could
have some real fun and have Sam alter history as to improve
the present state of things.

Virtually,

Edmund Ryan
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Subject: Re: QL: Oswald
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 12:30:30 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

tmw4r@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Thomas Munroe Walsh) writes:

> Spoiler (unless you've seen the USA Today article, Scott on Tonight Show,
> etc...)
> 

> 
> Did they ever explain why Sam and Lee's minds initially got mixed
> together?  I realize later in the episode Sam got more of Lee stuck
> inside him when they used the accelerator to try to set things straight
> (not realizing they were sending back Oswald neurons).  "The Leap Back"
> required a lightning strike to mix Sam and Al's minds but was any real
> explanation given this time around?
> 

Actually, I thought the mixing of minds was a good way to maybe get Sam
back home.  When Ziggy used the accelerator he sent more of Oswald back to
Sam.  Was more of Sam sent back to 1999?  Sam's body is there, (although we
saw it as Oswald, same as we see Sam as Sam), so isn't more of Sam returning
home.  Logical outcome use the acclerator to get all of Sam back home, and
put Oswald back.  I thought it was an interesting possibility anyway.


-------------------------------------------------------------------
Catherine Beckstead                    ace@kryton.uucp
"Do you want to argue with a can of deodorant that registers
NINE on the Richter scale?"        --Ace, in "Dragonfire"
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From: Edward_Lee_Whiteside@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv,rec.video.satellite
Subject: Highlander Sat feed
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 20:46:31 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

The satellite feed for The Highlander TV series is at 4 pm ET Saturday, 
Telestar 301, Transponder 13.
From: lorenh@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Loren Heisey)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:09:35 GMT
Subject: Epi-Log episode guides
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Quanum Leap: THE NOVEL
Summary: Trees should not have died for this!
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:07:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Oct6.200740.27885
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <fletch.718393340@camelot> fletch@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Lurie) writes:

>	I've just finished reading the new and first Quantum Leap novel.
>I REALLY liked it, but I was wondering if anyone else had any comments.
>IMHO, McConnell did an outstanding job of bringing the excitement and drama
>of the t.v. show to the bookshelves.

Well, I'm reminded of the words of the great Dorothy Parker: "This is
not a novel to be cast aside lightly. This is a novel to be thrown
aside with great force."

In a word (OK, 2 words and an acronym) IMHO, it sucked. It _really_ sucked.

Other than mucking around with several of the most basic ideas of the
premise, and being badly, *BADLY* written (I mean, I hit my
Bulwer-Lytton adverb abuse limit in the _prologue_), I guess it was OK.

>		"NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!"
>		-- If you have to ask who said this, you are culturally inept.
and should have a 16 ton weight dropped on your head. :-)

Sally

Did I mention that I thought it sucked? The cover art was nice.


-- 
Sally Smith (510)790-0608  sallylb@netcom.com (I was sally@tardis.tymnet.com)
I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
From: howie@sunny.dab.ge.com (J. Bruce Howie)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Convention news
Date: 4 Oct 92 21:35:37 GMT
Reply-To: howie@sunny.dab.ge.com
Organization: General Electric - SCSD

Thanks for the info, and I am sorry that I cannot help with the west coast version.
If however there is anything I can do from here let me know.

However it is a good thing that they changed their minds. It is impossible to
get a room in the Daytona/Orlando area during that time (Daytona 500).

I hope that I will be able to come there. Anxiously wait for news.

J. Bruce Howie 
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 INTERNET:  howie@sunny.dab.ge.com   UUCP: ...!uunet!sunny.dab.ge.com!howie
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From: saf@netcom.com (Steve A. Feinstein)
Subject: Re: SciFi Channel:sked???
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 18:37:12 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: na
Keywords: help

In article <1992Sep28.152059.3310@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> tmw4r@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Thomas Munroe Walsh) writes:
>
>Monday thru Friday:
>
>7 AM:  SF Cartoon/Marionette show block (no other details available)
>9 AM:  A genre movie
>11 AM:  Dark Shadows (original series)
>12 Noon:  Doctor Who
>1 PM:  Lost In Space
>2 PM:  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Currently It's the 11am hour in Calif. and this is what is on.  I'm then
assuming that there's only one feed, and the times are based on the
East coast time zone.

>Saturday:
>
[...]

>10:30 PM:  Tales From The Darkside
>11 PM:  Genre Movie
>1 AM:  Genre Movie
>3 AM:  Infomercials

While certianly useful, I'd suggest you not rely too much on this
list.  Last Saturday before the info-mercials started I was watchine
Alien-Nation. This ended at mid-night CDT.  But it was on at 4pm as
well which the list says it would be (actually 7, but that's EDT).

-- 
 Steve A. Feinstein | saf@netcom.com | When a man points a finger at someone
  360 Cowper Street |================| else, he should remember that four
Palo Alto, CA 94301 |                  fingers are pointing at himself.
     (415) 326-8224 |                                          - Louis Nizer


Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: billones@grebyn.com (Jeremy Billones)
Subject: QL: Two-Faced Reviews: Leaping of the Shrew
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:17:10 GMT


Spoilers for September 29th's Episode






















Well, it was advertised as "Sam gets stranded on a deserted island with
Brooke Shields."  Gee, that's what it was.  That's ALL is was.  Half the
people on the Net could have written this one, working from that one
line description.

I tried hard to figure out what I could say to review this episode.  I
could complain about the reverse leap: "Sam, everything was OK until you
leaped in, but now you have to fix what you screwed up."  But amazingly
enough, Sam really was there to "do" something different... not get
rescued.  Which is what he did.  So I can't complain about that.

Acting?  Well, Brooke Shields is no great thespian, but has never
pretended to be one.  She played the role she was supposed to play (the
one she usually plays, the only one she'll probably ever play), and
played it as well as one might expect anyone to.  Now, if it had been
Marlee Matlin he had been stranded with...

Writing?  Bah.

This episode in no way deserves a B or better.  But to give it a D would
put it down with some pretty lousy company.  So it settles into a C.
Sea Bride, but without that special flair you look for.

Next week - hey, the writers may be keeping Blind Faith in continuity
after all...

Jeremy Billones				billones@grebyn.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host)
Subject: Re: QL: Where'd he leap from?
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 14:00:37 GMT

c164-aa@po.berkeley.edu (Paul DuBois) writes:

>Just a simple question here.  I didn't recognize the scene from which
>Sam leaped at the beginning of the most recent "Taming of ..." episode.
>It definitely wasn't LHO.  Was it a real episode, or was that snippet
>filmed just to be an opener?

Any time he leaps from a episode without a trailer, the next show shows
a mini-leap inserted to keep up the pattern.

Usually after a 2 parter they are trying to leave a message so they don't
want to 'spoil' the message by having it end with a different clip.
The running example is the comedian he jumped into after the previous
two-parter.  After that episode people were asking as well when it
would be shown.

-- 

Very grateful guest of Openage - the best SCO service shop in the area
************* my views represent no one - not even myself. ****************
From: detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: The Highlander TV series begins 3 oct 1992
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:26:00 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

It started 10-2-92 on WWOR-TV Channel 9 in NYC.


-- 
---------------------------------
     David De Trolio
---------------------------------
(detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
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From: bau55536@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Larry Combs Jr)
Subject: Re: Highlander TV Series Station List
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 04:37:00 GMT

Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the listing:
Chicago   WPWR/50  6:30 P.M. Sat
Doesn't this conflict slightly with STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION?????

					Please Flame me at:
					  b-uffelmann@uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: pjm6z@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Dave Lister)
Subject: Re: Highlander: The Series
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 03:18:37 GMT

In article <15889@umd5.umd.edu> jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) writes:
>No spoilers for the series premiere... just an opinion.
>
>I liked it.
>
>This surprised the hell out of me.

I'll second this.  I was watching it with my two other apartment mates and
we were all expecting the worse.  (We were all suckered into seeing Highlander
II and boy what a disaster).  Anyway, it was a welcome surprise.

>
>For all those who were severely underwhelmed by his role in War of the Worlds,
>Adrian Paul can ACT, and hold his own with Christopher Lambert.  Richard Moll,
>as the Kurgan stand-in, was vastly underused, but had a tongue-flappingly
>good time.
>
I too was surprised by Adrian Paul.  He was able to act and handle a sword 
very well.  Richard Moll on the other hand was disappointing, if you look
at the sword fights between Duncan/Connor vs. Slan it is very obvious
that they had to speed up the sequence.  Obviously Richad Moll was a little
clumsy with the sword.
>The series takes place before the first movie, so there are plenty of
>immortals roaming about, and it completely ignores Highlander 2: The Quest
>For More Money.  That should be a plus in anyone's book.
>
>Just one question for those who saw it... after the end of this episode,
>where can they go from here for the rest of the season?

I think that there are a lot of things that the show can do.  From the
opening credits we have seen seens with Duncan in Cival War times
and in a couple other places.  I think they can have entire show dedicated
to him at one time in the past, perhaps as a tie into what was happening
in the future.

The one obvious thing that can and should be donw with the show is the
end.  I think the best way to end the show would be to bring back
Clancy Brown as the Kurgen and Lambert again and have it end with the
Kurgen killing Duncan and leading into the very beginning of the first
movie.

I once read somewhere that they were planning even a third Highlander movie,
according to the article the tentative title was Highlander III:The Magician.
This article was written back before Highlander II was such a flop so who
knows.  But, the best way to heal the wounds and allow for setup for a third
movie could be a show like this.  Maybe they wanted Connor to be able to
bring back another immortal besides Ramierez and Duncan will be the 
candidate.  In fact the show could even heal the wounds of the Zeist
disaster if they could get all the heavy weights from both movies (Connery,
Lambert,Brown and Ironside).  Who knows but I am looking forward to the 
season ahead.

Dave Lister
lister@virginia.edu

-- 
"On the one hand we have Holly a computer with the IQ in excess of 12 thousand
 who has a total grasp of astrophysics.  On the other we have Lister, who, and
 let's be fair, is a complete and total gimp."
From: mstephens.520@postman.gsfc.nasa.gov (mark stephens)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Anyone getting the SciFi Channel in Stereo?
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:50:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: nasa/gsfc

On Cable TV Montgomery, Maryland, near D.C., we don't get it in stereo but
do get USA in stereo (?, now I have to recheck).  This is based on my Sony TV's
stereo indicator light.

And speaking of the Cartoon Network... does anybody know if they will be showing 
some of the newer animation from Japan?  I saw some of this at the World Science
Fiction Convention (Orlando) and it was, how should I say, not bad!  I do hope to
see some with English subtitles.  The Sci-Fi channel is also expected to carry some.


    mark

In article <1992Oct1.150709.25547@mr.med.ge.com>, bartlone@gemed (Mike Bartolone 5-4266) writes:
> 
> 
> In article <BvEGC3.CCp@ais.org> alb@ais.org (Alan Brushaber) writes:
> 
> 
>      We don't seem to be here in Ann Arbor. Although it won't matter for most
>    of the old material they're programming, it would be nice for the newer
>    stuff. Isn't the S-F channel owned by the USA Network - we don't receive
>    that channel in stereo either - maybe they just don't intend to support it.
>    Anyone know anything about this?
> 
> West Allis and New Berlin WI are both getting SFC in stereo..and in 1hr and
> 30 minutes (approx. 11:30 am CST) we will be getting the Cartoon Network
> as well...)
> 
> --
> ##############################################################
> ## bartlone@last.med.ge.com 08:00-17:00 Mon-Fri my opinions ##
> ## are given to me by my boss...after that they are mine... ##
> ## except when my wifes decides otherwise...                ##
> ##############################################################
> 
>
From: smartin@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (steven.c.martin)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: No vowels, One syllable
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:02:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewsm.1992Sep30.200230.21444
Organization: AT&T

From article <DV0wRB1w164w@cellar.org>, by kml@cellar.org (Scott Tiger):
> Given that we've beaten the one-vowel, two-syllable puzzle into the ground,
> how about a no-vowel, one-syllable word.  I know of one in Webster's.
> I does not contain an A,E,I,O,U,or Y.
> 
> Any takers?
> 
   How about "cwm" - a natural amphitheater.  
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
From: wang@math.psu.edu (Feng Wang)
Subject: Re: An ancient Chinese puzzle
Reply-To: wang@math.psu.edu
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 20:46:36 GMT

In article J46@hplabs.hpl.hp.com, potamian@hpl.hp.com (Spyros Potamianos) writes:
>Well, I am 30 years old, but I'll give it a try...
>
>Take a tank big enough to squeeze the elephant inside, fill it with water,
>convince the elephant to take a bath (this is probably the hardest part...),
>measure how much water is displaced (i.e. measure how much the water level
>rises and multiply it by the surface of the cross section of the tank),
>calculate its (i.e. the displaced water's) weight, and voila!
>
>Of course in order for this to work the elephant must float, which
>(fortunately for these cute mammals) is usually the case...
>
>Spyros "good, I am as clever as a 10 year old" Potamianos
>potamian@hpl.hp.com



Close.  Nice try.  But I think what the boy did was much easier......