Comments on: David Cronenberg’s The Geek: September 16-21, 2002

By: Rachel (admiralshazbot)

Rachel (admiralshazbot) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:30 +0000

"Brief mild language", according to IMDb. I like that phrase....

"Watch out, my language is mild."

"Does that mean you can't speak passionately?"

By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity)

Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:29 +0000

I always thought Renee Zellweger would make a good Helen, too. It was Chicago that did it for me. Also, she kind of looks like a gerbil.

After Andrew and I saw Miss Potter, we noticed on the poster that it was rated PG. What the hell happens in Miss Potter that requires parental guidance? Rabbit nudity?

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:28 +0000

@Tiff: No no no ... Helen must be played by Caroline Rhea. I heard her as a guest on the Bob & Tom show one day, and she had the perfect combination of energy, cheerfulness, and insanity to make the idea Helen Beta.

David Krumholtz (Numb3rs) as Dave, David Hyde Pierce as Madblood, and Patrick Stewart as ANTONIO SMITH. And, just for a laugh, Miley Cyrus as Mell.

By: Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson)

Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:27 +0000

Helen - Renee Zellweger (Doubt it? Watch Miss Potter.)

Mama Helen - Judy Dench

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:26 +0000

(TUNE: "Call Me", sung by Petula Clark)

Evil more than any other!
Worse than Genghis Khan or Hitler!
No one's bad as Helen's mother
When she's singing to Bette Midler!

Call Mom!
Please don't discourage me,
Call Mom!
Gather our courage, we
Call Mom!
We need some clean DNA ...

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:25 +0000

Nice.

@Leon: What about Jane Narbon (in the fanfic)? She's not redemptive at ALL.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:24 +0000

Saturday:

I don't think I ever properly asked about how Dave's feelings about this storyline's casting of him as a hideous all-consuming biological contaminant.

More telling, though, is "...Yeah, one of those things." These characters are somewhat aware that they're living through someone else's storyline. Aren't all mad scientist protagonists nowadays redemtive reinterpretations of the camp, cackling villains of stories past? (Though I doubt that Seth Brundle closely adheres to that archetype.) And so, infamous experiments that happened once have a preternatural habit of happening again. AIs become psychopathic, teleporters make biological chimeras, and duplicating machine switches get stuck on the 'on' position.

Cheeky ungrounded assertion: our artist decided to substitute the word "transforming" for "transmogrifying" halfway through the letter 't'.

By: Johnn Reynolds (sleepyjohn)

Johnn Reynolds (sleepyjohn) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:23 +0000

It’s a sign that Dave-ness has not totally overwhlemed Helen: her mom’s phone number is in a Rolodex, not a PDA with a calendar, a contact list, and a database of all the Star Wars action figures and her curent bids on eBay.

By: kicking_ k (kicking_k)

kicking_ k (kicking_k) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:22 +0000

Oh my goodness, I dismissed the possibility of asking Helen Alpha too soon!

(thus proving that I do not read ahead.)

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:21 +0000

(TUNE: "Bad Company", Bad Company)

Helen's Mom ... madness in her head ...
Cool and calm ... she once killed me dead ...
All alone ... in her mountain lair ...
Kill one clone ... she'd still have a spare ...

(So go and call her!)
Bad evil Mom! Helen, can't you see?
Bad evil Mom scares the pants off me!