"With my three wishes clutched in her hand..."

[darcydodo]

Tonight's BSG episode was truly awesome

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[darcydodo]

Watching a Woman in a Weird Bath Thing: the Intertextuality of Space Operas in the Twenty-First Century.

[darcydodo]

I always knew I liked Toph. :)

Say hi from me, by the way.

Sontarans

[neonchameleon]

Probably - but if so the cloning tank was Dr Who pointing out that BSG stole from them. Sontarans have been cloning themselves and looking almost like that (helmet and all) since 1973

[judytuna]

i'm going to point you in the direction of mayamaia (francesca) and heidi-wiggin (laura). they um, rather like doctor who. also they sing.

Hi, sent here to answer questions about Dr. Who.

[mayamaia]

The Sontarans have been around since the early '70's with the Third Doctor, and they've been listed as a clone race from the very start. While it's the first time we've seen the method they use for cloning, it's not the first time nor the last that the goopy bath is used in any of hundreds of shows - in fact it's kind of depressing that BSG and Dr Who couldn't be more creative about it, but sometimes you just stick with the tradition. The earliest one I remember is from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where the clone people are grown from foamy plants.

Not really intended as intertext then.

[larslp]

As a religious viewer of both BSG and Doctor Who, I just watched both eps in question. And I have to say that, though I saw some similarities with the Sontarans and the Centurions, I dont think it was meant to be a link between the two shows. As mayamaia commented, there are plenty of nasty goop cloning scenes in pop culture and it just so happens that these two came back to back in the programming.