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In the spirit of yesterday's exam:
Dec. 12th, 2009 02:59 pmTheorem: The universe is awesome.
Proof: There exists a zany steampunk Western TV show in which Richard Dean Anderson dons a goofy moustache, John de Lancie dons a goofy accent, and they team up to fight crime.
Yes, really.
It is very silly, but also, somehow, one of the best things ever.
Only twelve episodes, alas, but they're all a ton of fun. The premise of the show is pretty awesome: Ernest Pratt (RDA) is a ne'er-do-well dime-novel writer whose gimmick is writing his best-selling steampunkish adventures in the first person. When his publicist convinces him to put his own face on the front of the books, it's pretty much inevitable that he starts getting mistaken for the clean-living protagonist of his novel, Nicodemus Legend, who saves the day using all manner of wacky machinery. After getting embroiled in a plot where his character has apparently been diverting the course of rivers, Pratt reluctantly joins forces with an extremely idealistic scientist named Bartok (John de Lancie), who provides the scientific know-how and is convinced that bringing the Legend character to life is good for more than just upping sales of Pratt's novels. Together, they have to travel 1870s Colorado and navigate fiendish plots, convoluted mysteries, writer's block, overzealous publicists, technical glitches, and the most daunting foe of all: Pratt's legion of fans.
Basically, it's fun, so I'm gonna picspam a little. It's not out on DVD or anything, but if you're interested in magically acquiring this show, drop me a PM (its quality, as you can tell from the caps, could charitably be called "moderate", but it's definitely watchable).
( You're the one called Nicodemus Legend, aren't you?/When I need to be. Called something. Like that. They sometimes call me that. )
Also, I've been doing some quick searches, both Google-ish and on the Wayback Machine, and I've only been able to come up with a couple of awesome-looking fics by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lothithil and a fairly average-looking fic series on a now-defunct Geocities site. There's no fanfiction.net category, and Yuletide's archive is down for the year, so there's no help there. Anyone know if there's a fandom hiding out somewhere? Wishful thinking on my part? Yeah, I kinda figured.
Edit: Okay, so I managed to forget to mention the name of the show - sadly, it is not titled "The One Where Q and MacGyver Fight Crime in the Old West", which is what I would have called it. It's called "Legend".
Proof: There exists a zany steampunk Western TV show in which Richard Dean Anderson dons a goofy moustache, John de Lancie dons a goofy accent, and they team up to fight crime.
Yes, really.
It is very silly, but also, somehow, one of the best things ever.
Only twelve episodes, alas, but they're all a ton of fun. The premise of the show is pretty awesome: Ernest Pratt (RDA) is a ne'er-do-well dime-novel writer whose gimmick is writing his best-selling steampunkish adventures in the first person. When his publicist convinces him to put his own face on the front of the books, it's pretty much inevitable that he starts getting mistaken for the clean-living protagonist of his novel, Nicodemus Legend, who saves the day using all manner of wacky machinery. After getting embroiled in a plot where his character has apparently been diverting the course of rivers, Pratt reluctantly joins forces with an extremely idealistic scientist named Bartok (John de Lancie), who provides the scientific know-how and is convinced that bringing the Legend character to life is good for more than just upping sales of Pratt's novels. Together, they have to travel 1870s Colorado and navigate fiendish plots, convoluted mysteries, writer's block, overzealous publicists, technical glitches, and the most daunting foe of all: Pratt's legion of fans.
Basically, it's fun, so I'm gonna picspam a little. It's not out on DVD or anything, but if you're interested in magically acquiring this show, drop me a PM (its quality, as you can tell from the caps, could charitably be called "moderate", but it's definitely watchable).
( You're the one called Nicodemus Legend, aren't you?/When I need to be. Called something. Like that. They sometimes call me that. )
Also, I've been doing some quick searches, both Google-ish and on the Wayback Machine, and I've only been able to come up with a couple of awesome-looking fics by
lothithil and a fairly average-looking fic series on a now-defunct Geocities site. There's no fanfiction.net category, and Yuletide's archive is down for the year, so there's no help there. Anyone know if there's a fandom hiding out somewhere? Wishful thinking on my part? Yeah, I kinda figured.Edit: Okay, so I managed to forget to mention the name of the show - sadly, it is not titled "The One Where Q and MacGyver Fight Crime in the Old West", which is what I would have called it. It's called "Legend".
