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Shortly after watching a short preview of Killing Eve, season 2, I switched the channel to an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The episode was "True Q", and had a character who looked like a young version of Villanelle from Killing Eve. I wondered if it could be the same actress. Even though ST:TNG must have been around 20 years earlier... if the ST:TNG actress was in her teens then, she'd be maybe in her late 30s now... so it could be possible. Villanelle might be in her late 30s, right? Aren't she and Sandra Oh around the same age?

So I looked it up. The ST:TNG character was played by Olivia d'Abo, born in 1969. Villanelle is played by Jodie Comer, born in 1993. The "True Q" episode came out in 1992, a year before Jodie Comer was even born!

They still look so alike to me, at least in those 2 TV shows:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Olivia+d%27Abo+true+q&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jodie+comer+killing+eve&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

Sandra Oh was born in 1971, so at least I'm not too far off the mark in regards to her age. She's slightly older than me even.

A guest actor in the Babylon 5 episode And the Sky Full of Stars triggered a memory for me tonight. When I was a kid, there was a short-lived Sci-Fi TV series about an alien from outer space who wore an amulet. That's all I remembered about it, except that I liked the show and was disappointed back then when it was discontinued.

I looked up who the B5 actor was - Judson Scott, and I was right, he was the lead actor in that other series: The Phoenix
(He was also in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.)

The old show must have been very cheesy as it was cancelled so quickly, and I don't think there were ever any reruns. But even so, Judson Scott's character had qualities that were attractive to me back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvqGS4qrvkg&list=PL86ScMY7yuv0o-tnQnaab-240lTIMK8G2

Last weekend, Tank Girl was shown on a local channel (WACH-57.3 CometTV). I remembered having seen part of the movie on TV before, and that I wanted to watch the whole thing sometime as it seemed cool. (I described it to Qiao as a "goofy sci-fi flick"). As Qiao gets that channel as part of his cable line-up too, I asked him to record it for me on his DVR. We watched it during the week after I got off work.

One part of the movie that confused me was that Jet Girl looked very different near the end of the movie compared to the beginning. I even wondered if she was played by 2 different actors. Apparently not; the difference was only due to make-up. (I liked the non-make-up look better.)

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Afterwards when I checked the Wikipedia page to find out about the actors, I read that several important scenes were cut from the movie while it was in production. But even some parts mentioned as being in the movie, I didn't remember from this week's viewing. (Sub Girl? Who was that?) So I checked YouTube, wondering if any deleted scenes had made it there.

Apparently these clips were in the movie, but I don't remember seeing them (surely my memory isn't *that* bad, that I'd forget scenes within a few days??):

Tank Girl (1995) - Who Wants an Oil Change Scene (3/10) | Movieclips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItvl5cX4-A

Tank Girl (1995) - Sounds Wicked Scene (4/10) | Movieclips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtktNetGOKU

Tank Girl "Jettina Come!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtllukYBCg

Tank Girl - Liquid Silver / Dressing Room scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEUVuxBi6ls

If I'd known it wasn't the full movie being shown, I wouldn't have watched it. Now I'd have to go find it for sale somewhere, and hope that I get the full thing, to see what all else I might have missed. Grrr. Why do I even bother with watching old movies on TV.


These were outtakes:

TANK GIRL - Original Opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD4sN2IjbxA

TANK GIRL - TG's Bedroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b69ivqgl7m8

TANK GIRL - The Cold Room (partially cut for the movie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt3CH0aGdws

TANK GIRL - Booga Beds TG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIb5PrjcHLI

TANK GIRL - Original Ending Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJdhT0LojAw

TANK GIRL - Original Ending Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO7FHe-Wgm4