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There are "Space: Above and Beyond" Dvds.
DVDs!
Why wasn't I informed?
I waited years to watch this show again after having first watched it when it premiered on TV over here in '95 or '96. Back then, there were no easy downloads. I didn't even own a VCR. And if there were reruns, I ever knew about it. And now there are DVDs. Shouldn't there have been a collective "Squeee!" in fandom that would have made me aware of the fact?
Hmm.
I guess I wasn't there.
Anyway, since the DVDs are region 1 and I don't have money for them now, I'm rewatching my copies, the ones that I waited almost ten years for. And I love the show just as much as I did the first time I watched it. And McQueen! How much do I love McQueen! I worship McQueen! He is who Gibbs wants to be when he grows up. I LOVE McQueen.
I also love everyone else, maybe with the exception of Nathan, who is too perfect and serious and so in love with the idea of his dead girlfriend that it makes me sick sometimes. I still like him, but I don't love him. I always expect to hate Shane, but I never do. Somehow she has managed to convince me that she is tough and vulnerable at the same time, and there's an underlying struggle in her, as if she fighting her weaknesses all the time, but at the same time she realizes that she doesn't understand herself well enough to ever succeed in the fight.
Damphousse is adorable, though she is probably the least convincing of the Wild Cards. She seems to be too soft for a marine. I tell myself that it is her techincal skills that got her that far and try not to think about it too much, because I like the contrariness in her character. Wang seems to be the sanest character, and I like him because he keeps everything together. It's not obvious, but I think the team dynamics would be very different without him. And that I love Cooper goes without saying. I still don't know what to make of him and I still don't always trust him. Rodney Rowland did a fabulous job playing the tank who still has difficulties understanding human emotions, while at the same time being the one who feels things much more than the others.
I think I need to watch another episode. Excuse me.
*runs off*
DVDs!
Why wasn't I informed?
I waited years to watch this show again after having first watched it when it premiered on TV over here in '95 or '96. Back then, there were no easy downloads. I didn't even own a VCR. And if there were reruns, I ever knew about it. And now there are DVDs. Shouldn't there have been a collective "Squeee!" in fandom that would have made me aware of the fact?
Hmm.
I guess I wasn't there.
Anyway, since the DVDs are region 1 and I don't have money for them now, I'm rewatching my copies, the ones that I waited almost ten years for. And I love the show just as much as I did the first time I watched it. And McQueen! How much do I love McQueen! I worship McQueen! He is who Gibbs wants to be when he grows up. I LOVE McQueen.
I also love everyone else, maybe with the exception of Nathan, who is too perfect and serious and so in love with the idea of his dead girlfriend that it makes me sick sometimes. I still like him, but I don't love him. I always expect to hate Shane, but I never do. Somehow she has managed to convince me that she is tough and vulnerable at the same time, and there's an underlying struggle in her, as if she fighting her weaknesses all the time, but at the same time she realizes that she doesn't understand herself well enough to ever succeed in the fight.
Damphousse is adorable, though she is probably the least convincing of the Wild Cards. She seems to be too soft for a marine. I tell myself that it is her techincal skills that got her that far and try not to think about it too much, because I like the contrariness in her character. Wang seems to be the sanest character, and I like him because he keeps everything together. It's not obvious, but I think the team dynamics would be very different without him. And that I love Cooper goes without saying. I still don't know what to make of him and I still don't always trust him. Rodney Rowland did a fabulous job playing the tank who still has difficulties understanding human emotions, while at the same time being the one who feels things much more than the others.
I think I need to watch another episode. Excuse me.
*runs off*
