AgtSpooky's Hangout

• Saw my first Doctor Who eps with Nine and Rose last night. I like Eccleston! Not as much as Tennant but he's got his own charm. Shame he only did one season. Looking forward to watching the rest of his eps and seeing how Captain Jack Harkness was introduced and what "Bad Wolf" means in relation to Rose.

• Became a Kickstarter backer last night for a fan-made full feature length film based on Star Trek: Enterprise. Enterprise! Not DS9 or TNG. You could've knocked me over with a feather! I was very impressed with the footage they've already shot and the trailer. Amazing special effects, great sets. Their goal was $10,000 and they raised it in only two days! They're up to about $12,000 now. If they hit $15,000 all of us backers will get even more goodies.

• I keep hoping someone else from Enterprise besides Anthony Montgomery will be added to the Creation Star Trek convention here in June. Connor Trinneer, Scott Bakula, Dominic Keating. Would love to see those guys again.

• Saw the first ep of The Real History of Science Fiction on BBCA the other night. It was quite good. Liked all the actors and directors and writers they talked to. Hope the rest of the series is just as enjoyable.

• Did a total double take at the mall yesterday when I saw a life size cardboard cutout of David Tennant for sale outside For Your Entertainment. I laughed as I passed by but now I'm thinking that would be awesome to take with me and put outside my door at Media West next month. Hmmm….

• Sad that the final episodes of Warehouse 13 have started and that there are so few of them. Why on earth SyFy canceled this show I'll never understand. Thank goodness they at least brought Mark Sheppard back!

• OMG, how cute are Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny going back and forth on Twitter now that David has an account?? I ♥ Mulder and Scully 4 EVER!

Don't mind me, just doing some musing about Star Trek Enterprise. :-)

Have you ever watched a deleted scene on a DVD and went, "Why did they cut that out??" Happened to me last night. I've been watching all of the new "extras" on the Blu Ray set and last night was the commentary on Shuttlepod One with Connor Trinneer (Trip), Dominic Keating (Malcolm) and the director of the episode David Livingston. That episode is still my favorite one, so I was excited for new commentary. And it didn't disappoint.

If you haven't seen the episode, Trip and Malcolm believe that Enterprise has been destroyed with no survivors. They're trapped in the shuttlepod, which is running out of air. They're only going to survive for another day or so. While looking for rations, Trip comes upon a bottle of bourbon that Archer had put in there for some reason. He and Malcolm start drinking and talking.

At this point Connor says that he was disappointed that the story Trip told about meeting Archer for the first time was cut out. And David said he hated to do it, since it was such a great character moment for both Trip and Archer, but the episode ran long. Then Connor says that at least the deleted scene has been put on the DVD.

And after watching that deleted scene I'm with Connor - it was awesome and should have been left in. Trip tells Malcolm how he and Archer met, that Archer used to come down to the Florida Keys once a month (where Trip was from) and that Trip was teaching him how to scuba dive. And that of course Archer excelled at it, no matter what Trip asked him to do, even leading them out of a cave at night when Trip got them lost, and Archer had never even been in that cave before. So Trip decides to kind of get even with Archer and leads him to a giant hole, telling him to reach in because there are beautiful starfish in there. What's actually in there is a giant moray eel named Waldo. [snort] Archer reaches in, Waldo clamps down on his arm (his dive suit protected him) and Archer pulls the entire eel out of the hole ("I'd never seen that eel's tail before," Trip says) pushes against a point under the eel's jaw and the thing lets go. Trip, of course, was dumbfounded that Archer even knew how do to something like that. But instead of being mad, Archer thought it was awesome.

And here's where my Trip/Archer slashy heart stood up and did freaking backflips…

Trip says with a faraway look in his eyes, "He took me out to dinner that night. Steak, lobster…" and he trails off with such love and longing and sadness in his voice. Nearly broke my heart. The whole story was told with fondness, not irritation that Archer kept showing Trip up at every turn. I was so disappointed that they cut this because Trip and Archer were the only two who knew each other before Enterprise launched. They'd been best friends for eight years. So Trip of anyone was grieving the most.

What really irritates me is that they cut this scene and instead kept in the scene where Malcolm is talking about T'Pol's ass. Seriously?? You keep something stupid and superficial like that and cut out an emotional scene when the two of them are reminiscing, thinking all their friends are dead and they themselves are dying?? ARGH! I kind of wish I'd never watched the deleted scene!

But on the other hand….another plot bunny has been born. Heh, heh. :-)

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