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donutsweeper) wrote2019-10-02 09:20 pm
donutsweeper) wrote2019-10-02 09:20 pm
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Yuletide nominations are open!
I am person of Very Little Brain today so just decided to nom the same thing I did last year: Strange World (TV 1999) with characters Major Lynne Reese, Paul Turner, The Thing From Another World (1951) and character Captain Patrick Hendry, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and character Lee Crane. On the off chance anyone is familiar with those and wishes more characters, let me know as there's 4 character slots per fandom.
The post on how to nominate is here if you want to nom something yourself. If you have small fandoms you should. Yuletide is a great exchange and it's really fun to participate in.
Annoyingly, a different, new show titled "Strange World" began airing recently so I had to add the 1999 to make it clear which Strange World I was requesting and I decided to put together a comment about it for the promo post so I figured I'd C&P it here too:
FANDOM NAME: Strange World (TV 1999)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Do you like tv shows about scientific investigations? Especially when they look into government conspiracies, environmental hazards, biological weapons, questionable technology, or human experimentation? Do you appreciate protagonists with their hearts in the right place even if their heads may not be?
The characters are truly engaging. The two main ones are:
Paul Turner (Tim Guinee), a doctor for The United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), who suffers from a rare form of aplastic anemia as a result of exposure to chemical weapons. Said disease is currently in remission due to a temporary cure he was given by a mysterious woman (Vivian Wu) who is working for a shadowy organization that wants to influence/direct some of his investigations, although she seems to also have an agenda of her own.
Major Lynne Reese (Saundra Quarterman) was his superior back when he was still in the army and did not listen to his concerns which resulted in his getting exposed to the chemicals and therefore becoming ill, something which she has always felt guilty about. Six years after that incident she recruits Paul (in the pilot) into her division to help prevent things like that from happening to more people and preventing further criminal abuses of science and technology.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: ABC only aired three episodes of the show before cancelling it and was completely hands off in its production which allowed its creators to develop the show and tell the story they wished without interference. All 13 episodes eventually aired on SCI FI in 2002. It was never released on DVD but can be found on youtube.
The post on how to nominate is here if you want to nom something yourself. If you have small fandoms you should. Yuletide is a great exchange and it's really fun to participate in.
Annoyingly, a different, new show titled "Strange World" began airing recently so I had to add the 1999 to make it clear which Strange World I was requesting and I decided to put together a comment about it for the promo post so I figured I'd C&P it here too:
FANDOM NAME: Strange World (TV 1999)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Do you like tv shows about scientific investigations? Especially when they look into government conspiracies, environmental hazards, biological weapons, questionable technology, or human experimentation? Do you appreciate protagonists with their hearts in the right place even if their heads may not be?
The characters are truly engaging. The two main ones are:
Paul Turner (Tim Guinee), a doctor for The United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), who suffers from a rare form of aplastic anemia as a result of exposure to chemical weapons. Said disease is currently in remission due to a temporary cure he was given by a mysterious woman (Vivian Wu) who is working for a shadowy organization that wants to influence/direct some of his investigations, although she seems to also have an agenda of her own.
Major Lynne Reese (Saundra Quarterman) was his superior back when he was still in the army and did not listen to his concerns which resulted in his getting exposed to the chemicals and therefore becoming ill, something which she has always felt guilty about. Six years after that incident she recruits Paul (in the pilot) into her division to help prevent things like that from happening to more people and preventing further criminal abuses of science and technology.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: ABC only aired three episodes of the show before cancelling it and was completely hands off in its production which allowed its creators to develop the show and tell the story they wished without interference. All 13 episodes eventually aired on SCI FI in 2002. It was never released on DVD but can be found on youtube.