h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You're thinking of Joseph Fiennes. The Fiennes brothers are so talented. I just love Ralph. And yes, I like Ben Affleck too! Plenty of drool to go round.

I've just had a look at my old journal entries but the very long one about actually meeting Ralph Feinnes hasn't yet returned so I'll repeat the story and relive the memory.

In the summer of 2000 he was in simultaneous productions of both Coriolanus and Richard II at the converted Gainsborough film studios in Shoreditch. I went with my usual theatre going companion, my best friend, who teaches drama. The tickets were hard to get but after we had seen his marvellous Richard II we knew we had to see the companion piece, so, despite the cost , we got Saturday matinee tickets for that too. Also brilliant.

My friend is a smoker so after Coriolanus she wanted a ===~ before we got a cab back to where my car was parked. Most people had gone from the area by then but as we were standing there a car slowly drove past with Ralph in! He stopped to sign autographs for some other people and my friend and I nudged each other and went over to speak to him too. He was happy to sign our programmes. We told him how much we had enjoyed both productions and he was sooooo nice! Quite shy we thought too, despite having the most tremendous stage presence in both plays. But such beautiful blue eyes.*swoon*

This isn't me, but it seems like someone else who saw the production took pics. It will give you an idea of the setting. Not a conventional theatre at all. http://www.santer.freeserve.co.uk/cori.htm
The production then toured the USA and it seems he met quite a few fans. http://ralphfiennes.hypermart.net/ralphencounters2.htm

I am going with the same friend to see Sean Bean in Macbeth so we might contrive to meet him too.

Cor!


I think Coely deserves "drooler of the week" award.



Well done, girl, keep up the good work!


*goes off to read the backlog*

I doubt I shall be allowed to wait by the stage door for Mr Bean , although I have pointed out to the menfolk that Samantha Bond (Miss Moneypenny in the Pierce Brosnan Bond Films) is Lady MacBeth. They aren't prepared to be Stagedoor Johnnys and want to get off to the pub asap!

So coely you may have to do double duty and lurk by the door on my behalf too.

Man oh man, Coelacanth, that's exciting! Thanks for the links.

Dinotopia ended tonight, but it was good.

I managed to catch the end of Farscape on sci-fi and it was the one where Crichton died.



I wish the new series would hurry up!

Let me see, new Stargate on Wednesday, yes? And the last ever ~ever~ X-Files on Thursday.





I wonder if Doggett & Reyes will get their own show?

Did I tell you that Col phoned?
We have a lunch date on Wednesday.

Dad came to lunch today and between the rowing and Scrapheap Challenge, we watched Stargate. He had never seen it before, so it took some explaining!

Many years ago my parents met the Fiennes' parents. I must ask Dad how it came about, I don't think they are an Army family. I do remember Mum saying that they were an unusual family.

The series opener of Farscape fourth season was on BBC2 earlier. I missed most of it because I had been out and missed the beginning.

I had no idea what was going on, it didn't seem to bear any relation to the last series, although the ship and pilot were dying.

Anyone else catch it?

Crichton had been rescued by an aged Leviathan and her pilot, who came to the burial grounds to die. He spent months growing a beard and doing wormhole calculations.

Then the red-haired woman showed, chased by a mercenary crew who wanted to raid the Leviathan's neural tissue. Later Chiana and Rygel showed, and then the power for my block of flats went out

We're going to see if we can find the episode online and watch the end.
















It's a conspiracy, I tell you.

I MISSED NEW FARSCAPE????????????????????????






They better repet it on the sci-fi channel!

I was tearing tiles & wallboard off my kitchen walls!

to bury head in sink & turn on cold tap*

How do you think I feel? I remembered it was on and everything, and I _still_ missed the end of it!

*sulks*





I never saw ONE trailer for it.....what's wrong with the BBC? It's the best show on tv!

I only came across it by chance, GB, I missed the first 15 minutes of it and the rest didn't make much sense, even with The Prophets help .

I'm sure there were no trailers for it, or any kind of write up in the Radio Times.

They slipped it out rather quietly, but then they always do with genre programming. This is why I keep a weather-eye on the BBC Cult website.

Caerwynn; if you like I can post a more comprehensive summary of what I saw to your website.

Home space, even. Obviously if you have a website I can't post to it, but I am a very confused person sometimes.

Heck; I can't even post to _my_ website, as the server has vanished completely and without warning.

There were definately no trailers.

They're complaining about it on the BBC whinge thread at Ask h2g2.

Among other things.

Feel free to post an entire storyline here, Prophet, 'cos I ain't gonna miss next weeks episode and I'm going to be awfully confused..

Okay then; bearing in mind that this does not have the end of the episode yet:




















Crichton Kicks

A bearded Crichton sits in his module pleading with Pilot to allow him back aboard, apologising for obsessing about the return of his
friends, and finally shouting to wake 'her Ladyship'. The Pilot he is
speaking to is an ancient female, aboard the dying leviathan,
Elack. Elack and her pilot rescued Crichton some time ago, finding him drifting in the Leviathan graveyard when they came there to die. Now they are almost spent, and when they die so will Crichton, having no fuel remaining for his module.

In the interim, Crichton has been working on his wormhole theory,
scrawling calculations across a line of crates in one of the holds,
teaching a DHD to play the 1812 Overture, and going just a little more nuts. He has just about completed his calculations when a small ship crashes through the docking bay, knocking his calculations all over the shop and disgorging an attractive female alien. Crichton smiles at her and points a gun in her face.

The alien, Sikozu - or Sputnik, to Crichton - tells him that she is
being chased by people who kill on sight, and asks him to talk to her
so that she can learn his language; her brain can not support
translator microbes, it seems, but she is a fast study. He introduces
her to Winona (I mean, literally introduces her to the gun like they
were at a party or something), but consetns to talk - or at least rant - at her.

Elack is then attacked by Grundiks, who zap her systems and launch gas grenades into the Leviathan, forcing Sputnik and Crichton to take
cover in the Farscape Module. The cockpit is a sealed environment, but a little cramped, although Sputnik might be looking a little too cozy for your tastes there, Droolers. Or just cozy enough; depends what you want.

Anyway, her proximity snaps Crichton into a weird Baywatch fantasy,
where Harvey - wearing a Hawaiian shirt over his thermal regulator
suit - taunts his 'primitive' urges, but seems to suggest he go for it if it will let him get focused again. He is supported by a fantasy Aeryn - and if Crichton's fantasies keep accurate time, her appearance suggests it's got to be getting on nine months since 'other John' knocked her up.

The mercenaries come on board, and Crichton flees to wake the stunned
Pilot. Sputnik explains that the mercenaries are seeking to harvest
the valuable leviathan neural tissue. She became a Leviathan expert in three months to lead them here, and helps him wake Pilot. Crichton
then 'negotiates' with the mercenary leader, each offering the other
safe passage if they leave now. He then shouts at them a bit, somein
Klingon, and caps off with Winona, assuring Sputnik: "A show of force; only thing Klingons understand".

They hide in the bowels of the ship as the Grundiks release their
'doggy'; a vicious, fast-moving mutt with razor teeth and a mean
attitude. Crichton holes them up in the central chamber for an ambush, along with the DRD, 1812. Unfortunately, a comm signal from Chiana gives them away, and a standoff ensues. Using 1812 to attack the Grundiks from behind, Crichton facilitates their escape, and they meet up with Chiana and Rygel in the hangar. En route, Sputnik loses a hand to the doggy.

Chiana explains that they are on the run, because Commandant Graiser
has been offering an unprecedented reward for their capture; five
million for Chiana and eight for Rygel; the amount for the rest of
Moya's crew is not here stated. Rygel is sent to find Sputnik's hand - which she says can be reattached and her flesh will bond together -
while Chiana and Crichton scout around.

Crichton confronts the uncharacteristically angry Chiana, who admits
that her visions have evolved. She managed to get herself beaten by
security forces on a casino world - and, it is implied that they might have raped her as well - by winning an 'uncheatable' game seven times running. She tells him that she doesn't now see the future so much as the present, slowed to a crawl. After one of these spells, she is hit by blinding headaches and temporary blindness "as though my eyes get all used up".

Rygel watches the Grudiks scavenging neural tissue, and recovers the
hand.

Crichton goes back into his fantasy, where he discusses the child's
paternity with Aeryn, certain that it kicks like a Crichton. Rygel
finds him, carrying a hand, and accuses him of being obsessed with
"Aeryn, Earth, Aeryn, wormholes, Aeryn", before running out of fingers and offering to carry on counting on Sputnik's.

And that was when the power went out.
































If there's demand, I'll post the rest once I've seen it.

Over here in Memphis they took off my favorite show, Crossing Over with John Edward. I think it is still on the SciFi channel, but I don't have cable. Boo hoo.

Ohhhhh!!!!

The most lovely young man just knocked at my door!

Tall, dark, handsome and with a lovely smile....
and he even called me "m' darlin'".... (one of the many benefits of living in the West Country)

*thud*



I might even take him up on his offer of changing our electricity supplier..........lol

Wow. They sent two guys to talk to us about changing supplier. I opened the door and one of them said: "Hello, Sir. I'm Steve and this is my friend Nathan."

It was all I could do not to crack up completely.