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"BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
 
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Program Guide Excerpt: FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2412

BBC GALACTIC (CHANNEL 99)

18:00 [News] BBC Galactic News

19:00 [Adventure] Professor Enigma
Call This a Vacation? - The Professor (Rose Tyler) and Lord E (John W. Smith) try to get in a little R&R on a famous resort planet, but their plans are disrupted by a series of seemingly unrelated incidents.

20:00 [Motoring] Top Gear
Series 812, Episode 5 - Aztecmotors Tlaloc; The Stig vs. the World Crime League; spaceflight-capable automobiles: how hard can it be?

21:00 [Adventure Documentary] Long Way Back see SPOTLIGHT below
Episode 01: The Crack of Doom to Tartarus - Ewan and Charley's odyssey begins at the literal end of all creation.

22:00 [Adventure Science] The Web of History
Lightspeed - James Burke and Hiroe search for the original creators of the hyperspace motivator drive, variously claimed for Salusia, Corellia, and several now-extinct civilizations of the previous epoch.

23:00 [Movie] (***˝) Biggles Prangs His Kite
(Color; 2411) Down behind enemy lines, Biggles (Jack Harkness) and Worrals (Kozue Kaoru) must evade capture and get to the bottom of reports of a mysterious superweapon that threatens to upset the balance of the war.

01:00 [Movie] (****) The Honor of Mars
(Color; 2275) The definitive film version of one of the Covenant War's most savage battles, the last stand of the Martian Foreign Legion on New Woking, starring real-life Martian Prime Minister Tars Tarkas as Krath Kalvor and Tuncer as Field Master Vetro 'Kavanree. Vand Halvas: Bernard Hill.

End Listing Excerpt

PROGRAMME SPOTLIGHT: Long Way Back
After the disastrous conclusion of 2411's Long Way Out, actor-travelers Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, along with intrepid cameraman Claudio von Planta, find themselves consigned to the chill and inescapable wastes of Hel, the afterlife of the undistinguished, by a clerical error... until a bored member of the Muspelheim nobility made them an offer they couldn't refuse: If they can ride their motorcycles from Muspelheim's most remote extremity, the dread Crack of Doom, all the way to Valhalla, they'll be free to return to Midgard - but if they fail, they'll be their infernal patron's playthings for all eternity. Crossing completely unfamiliar territory without any of their usual support structure, the three risk everything to get back to mortal life and their families.


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  RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 Meagen Feb-24-09 1
     RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 Mephronteam Feb-24-09 2
         RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 WengFook Feb-25-09 3
             RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 Gryphonadmin Feb-25-09 4
                 RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 Meagen Feb-25-09 5
                     RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 Gryphonadmin Feb-25-09 6
                         RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 jadmire Feb-26-09 9
                             RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 Wedgemoderator Feb-26-09 10
                                 RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 Gryphonadmin Feb-26-09 11
     RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 Vehrec Feb-25-09 7
         RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 jadmire Feb-26-09 8
  RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03 Sofaspud Mar-02-09 12

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Meagen
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1. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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   >01:00 [Movie] (****) The Honor of Mars
>(Color; 2275) The definitive film version of one of the Covenant
>War's most savage battles, the last stand of the Martian Foreign
>Legion on New Woking, starring real-life Martian Prime Minister Tars
>Tarkas as Krath Kalvor and Tuncer as Field Master Vetro 'Kavanree.
>Vand Halvas: Bernard Hill.

SPOILER: They all die. But the Honor of Mars is upheld.

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2. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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   >SPOILER: They all die. But the Honor of Mars is upheld.

aw man! next you're going to tell me the Titanic sinks, it's really a cookbook, the cornfield is Heaven and that John Jasper really did kill Edwin Drood!

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3. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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Re: Long Way Back, Ewan and Obi-wan

I'm wondering if we'll ever see them together onscreen like the Bester-Chekov nod in the symphony :D

That thought aside... Is it accidental symmetry or design that both these characters share coming back to life in the EPU verse? :P


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4. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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>I'm wondering if we'll ever see them together onscreen like the
>Bester-Chekov nod in the symphony :D

Maybe Ewan will play Obi-Wan in the in-universe movie loosely based on The Fulcrum of Fate. :)

>That thought aside... Is it accidental symmetry or design that both
>these characters share coming back to life in the EPU verse? :P

That's coincidental, actually. I was just thinking, "What would be the most extreme possible Long Way trip?" and the first thing that came to mind was the myth of Orpheus's descent into and return from the Underworld - which dovetailed neatly with the already-established fact that there are highways between the eight celestial/infernal worlds. (Obviously it's going to take Ewan and Charley a lot longer than it took Corwin and Nanami in Sympathy for the Devil, because Ewan and Charley haven't got those automatic toll thingers for the Asgard bypass.)

(Also, technically, Obi-Wan wasn't dead, he was more powerful than Darth Vader can possibly imagine. :)

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5. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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   >>I'm wondering if we'll ever see them together onscreen like the
>>Bester-Chekov nod in the symphony :D
>
>Maybe Ewan will play Obi-Wan in the in-universe movie loosely based on
>The Fulcrum of Fate. :)
>

But then someone might write a fanfic based on Ewan's performance as Obi-Wan and post it on the Galactic Net, and you've got the making of a nasty infinite-recursion paradox on your hands.

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6. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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   >>Maybe Ewan will play Obi-Wan in the in-universe movie loosely based on
>>The Fulcrum of Fate. :)
>>
>But then someone might write a fanfic based on Ewan's performance as
>Obi-Wan and post it on the Galactic Net, and you've got the making of
>a nasty infinite-recursion paradox on your hands.

Over in the studio, we have since determined that he played some other Jedi (probably a fictional one) in some other movie during the period in between the re-establishment of the Order and Obi-Wan's return from the Force. (We also know why he and Charley were still making television shows in the early 2400s, which - contrary to popular assumption - had nothing at all to do with the Wedge Defense Force of the late 20th or early 21st centuries. I mean, hell, when we were covertly recruiting people from Earth, it's not likely we'd ever heard of either of them.)

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9. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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   Yet more proof for my old wheeze that the UFverse is an alternate space-time; absent the first SW trilogy, I doubt more than a few moviegoers would ever have heard of Ewan McGregor at the time. What I'm really wondering about is the disparaging description of Hel (one l, please!) in that expanded program listing; after all, you described it yourself a while back as being a relatively pleasant, if cold place (after all, who would want to think of their grandmothers, say, being stuck in a dreary place for all eternity?) Or maybe the guy who wrote the program listing got stuck on the old saying "when Hell freezes over..."

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10. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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   It's all fine and good when you can stick to the tarmac and the bypass. When you can't, however...


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11. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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   >It's all fine and good when you can stick to the tarmac and the
>bypass. When you can't, however...

Ewan (helmet-cam mic): I think what gets to me most, Charley, is this fucking fog. You can't see if anything's coming the other way, you can't see if anyone's coming up behind, you just... ride along in your own little world and hope the next thing you hear isn't a horrible crash.

Anyway, yeah, it's not that Hel is a terrible place - a lot of people in the living world live in worse places, and some of them are even kind of perversely happy to be there. It's just that spending eternity in Ketchikan, Alaska when you were expecting Dante's Paradiso is a bit of a let-down. You start thinking maybe you should've tried harder. (And if you've led the sort of lives Ewan and Charley had led at that point, you find yourself wondering who the hell they're letting in up there. :)

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7. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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   I can't shake the feeling that Truncer was a terrible actor in this, but no one noticed because they just didn't have any experience working with Sangheili actors. Even if they had, he was pretty much the only one available, so they had to use him, regardless of talent.

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8. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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   >I can't shake the feeling that Truncer was a terrible actor in this,
>but no one noticed because they just didn't have any experience
>working with Sangheili actors. Even if they had, he was pretty much
>the only one available, so they had to use him, regardless of talent.

Well, note the date of the movie. Tuncer may not have had much practice in Earth-style drama at the time (or with any sort of drama, come to think of it; I wonder if his birth-people went in for the artform in the first place). I make no doubt that he's improved since then (assuming, for instance, that he plays himself in that Halo (?) movie for which we saw the poster quite some little while ago).

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12. "RE: BBC Galactic listing: 2412.08.03"
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   >20:00 [Motoring] Top Gear
>Series 812, Episode 5 - Aztecmotors Tlaloc; The Stig vs. the
>World Crime League; spaceflight-capable automobiles: how hard can it
>be?

... for the WDF, not very, one assumes.

Of course, it makes me wonder: is the Moller star-car "only a few years away"? :D

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