'...don't make me be who I was, just let me be who I am...'

[borg_princess]

1 season one overview

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[sapphs]

As I understand it, royal jelly is given to all the baby!bees in the colony when they're larvae, but it's mixed in with other stuff. BUT! If the hive needs an actual queen, then that larvae is fed ONLY royal jelly which apparently stimulates its growth to be a queen.

Or something...

[borg_princess]

But...where does it come from in the first place? And if it stimulates larvae to turn into queen bees...what does it do to humans? O.o

[sapphs]

The bees secrete it from glands or something. Wait let me see what Wiki says... It can probably explain better then me :P

Aha! Here you go.

[borg_princess]

O.M.G. WHY WOULD YOU SMEAR BEE SECRETIONS ALL OVER YOU?! *twitches*

Oh, and lovely, it can cause allergic reactions- how much would it suck to use the beautifying products and end up with hives? [excuse my pun, lol]

But hey, lowering cholesterol and healing wounds? Unsubstantiated, perhaps, but that sounds pretty cool!

[mcgarrygirl78]

I have never seen this show but it totally cracked me up that your friend was translating their language and making fun because they were jacking it all up. That is definitely something that would have made me fall off the couch.

Royal Jelly sounds like something for kinky purposes....not that there's anything wrong with that.

[I don't understand how a language lacks a 'b', but there you go].
--hysterical. Why? I'm not entirely sure but it had me laughing. I'm probably just easy : )

[borg_princess]

Well, it's my absolute favorite show of all time and it's so misunderstood because it was made in the 90s and has really crappy special effects and heaps of overacting and cheesy plots that put people off...but my SHIP. *twirls* Made of win! ♥ I mean...just the pictures of them together make me swoon giddily.

I just love that out of all the cultures and languages the writers could've pilfered, it's one where I have access to a native speaker! I convinced her to watch it so we could laugh at how silly their portrayal of 'primitive tribes' are and I think I managed to get her hooked on the show in general. >:D *evil cackles*

Sadly, royal jelly is not produced for kinky purposes... the reality is icky and gross. I know, I know, I'm turning my nose up at bee secretions when I drink milk, but...still! I can't wrap my head around what people will do to look young!

--hysterical. Why? I'm not entirely sure but it had me laughing. I'm probably just easy : ) *squishes* It is silly [and I can say that, being half-Samoan] and I don't get it-

[laurandbillever]

Hehe- I don't know about royall jelly, but I am totally in love with the effect that shampoo and everything else from the series does with my hair... Until this series my fav was the pink one but now the yellow one is on the top! ^_^ (said the hair maniac) :P:P:P

[borg_princess]

See, nobody knows what this royal jelly craze is about! But...if the self-proclaimed hair maniac is recommending it...*ponders* My hair is so irritating because it's like, FRIZZY and never does what I want it to...I may be desperate enough to risk trying out the wonders of royal jelly, lol. :D

[laurandbillever]

hehe- here my hair is absolutely uncontrollable, too... maddening.
I only wonder why my country doesn't have the sense of humour of yours- here they just show the shampoo and announce it is new... no royal jelly fun ^_^

Dudette...long eema post, I approve...here's response part 1 - LOL

[sunkrux]

Best Episode: The Journey Begins.

Have to disagree on the Best eps of S1 -
Cave of Fear is the best, imho. All that angst for Roxton, as well as Marguerite and Summerlee saving the day, FTW! Roxton showing that in spite of how she behaves is willing to listen to her “secrets”.

Episode I Never Get Tired Of: Paradise Found. Oh, how I adore the hell out of this episode. Let me count a few of the ways:

* Marguerite and Roxton bickering like an old married couple

Favorite scene for me, when they’re in Roxton’s room arguing and Summerlee interrupts them and actually tells them they sound like a married couple. Summerlee again FTW!

* Marguerite giving in to Roxton, to his confusion and gentlemanly efforts to stop her- and being bitterly let down, ‘Nobody walks out on me!’ *huggles*

Yeah, that’s all kinds of win. Poor Marguerite…wants him but he’s being the gentleman he is.

* Marguerite pulling her old ‘seduce-and-destroy’ routineActually I think Marguerite has always had a moral compass, until the Plateau, she never really

PHEW, got it in one!

[sunkrux]

I had to cut out a lot of your stuff...but it's up there in your initial post. ;)

Re: Dudette...long eema post, I approve...here's response part 1 - LOL

[borg_princess]

Mmm, now that you mention it, I am chagrined that Cave of Fear didn't make it. Speaking of angst, Salvation is another ep that I love and that's not there either. But I mean, on any list, some get overlooked, sadly.

But I think my pet peeve is that Marguerite gave in to the illusion, I was hoping she'd resist- I mean, okay, I KNOW if I were her, under the effects of a hallucinogenic fungus, I'd buy it too, but like...it's just so painful seeing her believe this woman is her mother and wanting to think she was loved and cherished and then BLAM, she's told she's evil and should die. *wibbles* Frakking with her head and toying with her emotions like that is not cool.

Lol, your Summerlee love is showing! But yah, I'm rewatching these in mini-marathons with my cousin and it's just increasing my appreciation for him because like, he saves Marguerite and Roxton one ep, then puts his life on the line two eps in a row for Marguerite and then for Malone... *squishes him*

Favorite scene for me, when they’re in Roxton’s room arguing and

Re: Dudette...long eema post, I approve...here's response part 1 - LOL

[sunkrux]

Mmm, now that you mention it, I am chagrined that Cave of Fear didn't make it. Speaking of angst, Salvation is another ep that I love and that's not there either. But I mean, on any list, some get overlooked, sadly.

Cave of Fear is my all time fav let's learn more about Marguerite, eps. As to why she went where she did in the cave, I honestly believe because she KNOWS she was abandoned as a wee thing, she thinks it's her fault. That some how she is evil. She doesn't understand how or why she can read and speak any language with ease and it scares her. She's had no one in her life (until Roxton and Summerlee) who has accepted and loved her for who she is, secrets and all.

Lord only knows what she when through as Parsifal during the war. I suspect she had to kill (and didn't really want to) and hurt people. I think at some point she was in prison (see the scene with her and Askwith in S3 ender Into the Fire. They're talking and he mentions being in prison and military secrets and she tells him she understands and they don't

[odakota_rose]

*dies of the giggles*
♥
Maybe coherent stuff later? Gotta finish watching season one before I can comment on all these.

[borg_princess]

Hee, kk, bb! Look forward to chatting later, coherent or not! *squishes*

But I am made of fail- that thing that reminded me of TLW: the combined weight of the Veronicas or the raptor- HOW THE HELL did I pay attention to the RAPTOR part of the question and not realize, ZOMG, of all the people they could've compared, it was to a group called VERONICAs?! *headdesk*