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It was good apart from the fact that everything was back to normal by the end and will most likely be forgotten about (especially if they show 3x14 next week since it was preceeding this one). It was fun and it was sci-fi but yet another character evolving moment for McKay that will go in one ear and out the other. The humour was quirky especially when he started the mind-reading and basically went through the conversation himself. Wonder how many takes it took to get that?

Indeed. I saw a wi-fi scaremongering piece in the Sun about how all these people living beneath this cell tower (mobile phone mast) had all these various cancers from cervical to liver. The connection was made that they were living very near to a phone mast. Except there have medical studies that show at least one in three people will get a form of cancer in their lifetime so for three tower blocks housing 250-odd people each seven of them getting cancer is still beating the odds. If you sat next to a TV all your life the collective EM exposure wouldn't match a single day's worth of cosmic EM radiation that the Earth's atmosphere doesn't protect us from. A TV puts out about 15 rems while we are exposed daily to 25000 rems from the sun alone. And I base that on some physics paper I read about ten years ago that I have almost forgot about. :D

I loved the second one cause it was such an improvement over the first especially if you managed to assemble the recoil shotgun (ah, the fun I had with an Action Replay though). First one was good for the live actors, shame that was dropped. PS version was suckered for the first head-dropping scene which was cut. Third was okay but unfortunately I usually enjoy seconds better and this was a case of improvement to what didn't need fixing. Code Veronica was the first second generation version I played and that was probably the perfect edition for me. We found out about Umbrella's family and met some mean looking bad guys along the way. The remake just didn't interest me expecially with all the furore made over it being GameCube exclusive which it didn't turn out to be having appeared on the PS2 as well. I just lost interet in the franchise but I would make it a point of saying play Code Veronica at least if not for the criminally insane CEO always turning up and the large locations still feeling quite dark and horrific like soemthing is going to attack you.

I would say the same thing about ranks too. As long as it's taken as a bit of fun and not as a mark of whether I should respect someone just cause they have x more than me. Fun not matter of fact. Just like ranks. I actually prefer having the rank of Master Chief and hope I don't ever go above the post limit for it. :)

The only thing I'm wondering is whether they got fired from their packing job practising in the store room by taping up their work colleagues. "Okay now we have a lot of boxes to make for... Holy Macaroni, what the hell are you doing?" *the muffles screams from an employee are heard from beneath a human duct tape statue* "I'm trying to make a work of art" "It looks like you've taped up Dennis from head to toe so he can't move, speak or do any work" "I know it looks that way..." "How many rolls did you use?" "Twenty-seven" "Get out. You should only need five to wrap a whole person." "He kept trying to escape so we had to make sure he was bound and gagged"

I think the only thing wierder than the sense of deja-vu I had watching this was the fact that the advert at the bottom of the page was for Deja-Vu the movie as I type this. So that's another couple of ships lost which means more cramped conditions on the remaining ships. The radiation/firestorm they had to pass through was intense and it actually felt that way. I felt their pain, I empathised. Few sci-fi have done that for me. Baltar being a Cylon - I'm not sure I really care either way since he's the rogue element. Xena-Cylon is just a little too unconvincing after the whole torture thing he's suddenly her favourite human. The one thing I trust is that it is leading somewhere even if I can't see it right now. I think the big shock that comes will be that one of the five is someone we least suspect as being a Cylon like the Chief or Gaeta and that Baltar is actually completely human. The 'Kat' story was familiar but in a good way. The tragic hero escaping a checkered past, finally redeems herself. I knew she would fall at the end but I bet she would've fallen forward. Got that wrong. I really got a sense of deja-vu while watching even the part where Adam and Tigh have a good laugh about paper. That was kinda funny. You want to laugh with them. This show just gets better.

Right well shall I stick to one sentence posts from now on, much safer. I liked it OR I disliked it. I haven't watched a lot of them because I don't wanna waste the time or bandwidth to see them. 2Gb is just enough to get the really good porn :D

I'm afraid I'm in the 'meh' category. It's good that with a small community that you can plus someone for saying something great without having to think up something good to say back to them It gets worse when people start using it as some sign that they should be respected. If someone's an ass to someone they don't know whilst being kind and patient with their friends or regulars are they really as deserving of respect or do they just play the game well enough. It's good for those who don't take it as gospel but bad for those who take it as law. For Example: Mine is currently negative one. I know it's from my intense dislike of Torchwood because I just posted it there. I know someone has seen what I put and negged it. Now ask why? Is it becasue what I put was offensive? Is it beacuse I put something derogitory (well yeah if you actually like the show)? Or is it simply because I dislike it, put my two cents in and it is immediately negged because it contravenes what someone else feels about the show? I like BSG, I post good things about BSG and even some bad things too but more likely I will be plus'd for it cause most people agree with me. Now ask do I care in the slightest? No, I still dislike Torchwood and no little marker saying I have 1000+ points will prepare anyone who enjoys Torchwood for my tirade of loathing at a show which would've been cancelled were it not publically funded (and forcible by law as a requirement to own a TV). As long as it's all in good fun then I won't mind one way or the other

Indeed, not like there's anything I can do about it except stop paying my license fee.. ..except then I'll be the one that gets locked up for not paying. I can't win. Only QI stops me from burning Television centre to the ground (and the expensive petrol prices). That's probably why it's being moved to BBC2 and the second series is confirmed. At least BBC2 is recieved by 99% of the country, last I heard only 70% could get BBC3. edit- Someone call animal control quick, I'm rabid!

Well I'll keep it short... - Nope. - People pay to watch Lost. - Down to 40% of their opening audience - If you are that tired before watching then go to sleep since you'll probably dream better sci-fi. - I know where I can get it, I don't want it. I haven't watched intentionally since the opener. This is my sci-fi equivalent of Sex in the City (which I loathed as well). If I say too much more they might have to call out animal control to lock me away in a cage.

Indeed, oh what irony especially as Star Wars was Lucas' answer to Star Trek in the first place. I like both for different reasons. Star Wars just beats it out because nothing feels better than swinging a lightsaber at enemy troops in Battlefront 2. Jedis are fun to play (and now I wanna go play Battlefront 2 again).

In short... No! I first felt the twinge way into year 7 of TNG that I didn't see how they would keep doing Trek. But there was DS9 and the next gen movie. Then came Voyager with it's interesting concept of being lost in an unknown quadrant which seemed to be just as populated as the alpha quadrant. By the end of it the only redeeming feature was that they managed to get back Alice Kriege to replay the Borg Queen. That was it for me. I was so tired of constant Trek (21 seasons in 14 years of 24th century Trek) that I was expecting they'd rest the series and let the movies carry it for a couple of years. Then came Enterprise... ..Enterprise was both new and boring at the same time and it was the first Trek show I didn't care to miss. Not that I didn't like it at first but the plots they setup were heavy and the conclusions were okay but they seemed to be oddly familiar with the 500+ Trek episodes preceeding them (Humans are always right except when they go it alone and need some personal character development). What really killed Trek for me was Farscape. Although most of the aliens did look human there was a great deal more inhuman looking beings with three of the main characters being either heavy prosthetic or puppet (Dargo, Rygel and Pilot). The main human character was also average joe human in space making him instantly recognisable and relatable instead of the military grade, clean cut, almost super humans of the Trek verse. He was truly human, 21st Century, without knowing all these wierd technical terms or being always right, making pop culture references and occasionally screwing up although he was a lot of times right as well but not before srewing up or being human about it. Farscape upped my standards and Trek fell way behind. When they cancelled Farscape I regretted not doing something sooner about it. When they cancelled Enterprise I was 'meh' about it (for both the season 3 and 4 cancellation drives). Star Trek has 40 years of history to fall back on. It became too complacent and relied more heavily on the 'tried and trusted' formula. I miss it like my first love lost. There'll always be a place for it and occasionally we might meet up but I've moved on.

Quite frankly I hated it in a good way. Not because the episode was rubbish but because the characters seem to have become something out of a teen soap-opera since the last ep. Starbuck has the hump with Lee because she sh****d with him and then got married to the guy she didn't want. Well that's your own stupid fault. Adama punching the crap out of the Chief? What the hell was that about? Your chief engineer wants to leave for a better life and you begrudge him that even though you let him go. Then some afterschool special about his leniency cost lives. Get over yourself, you aren't god (otherwise it would've been a very short and uneventful series) I'm just not quite sure what was the point of the episode besides doing a Rocky mixed with Dawson's Creek. It's all well and good explaining stuff but most of it, present day, just seemed stupid. The upshot is that if this is what they have this week then it's because they don't want an all-out action episode to be weighed down next week. And it's still better than any other charcter development ep I've seen.

At first this sounded like another 'Smallville' or 'Mutant X'... ... oh how wrong I was. This is frakking awesome. This is the kind of show that needs to be done. While it is an old story it is told in a unique way. Good vs. Evil BUT who is really the good guy and who's the bad? An age-old tale with a modern, realistic feel. This show has put what I feel about super-powers into form. Not everyone is so clear-cut good or bad, they all have a little shade of grey in them. The lead guy being able to mimic other supers powers paves the way for him to be the badass Neo-like superhero (he does sound a little like Keanu Reeves when I close my eyes). He copies their powers in close proximity but he hasn't been around more than one at a time so the potential is there that he can copy multiple powers simultaneously. Hiro is my hero. I just love the way he speaks. Together with Ando they are just perfect. They make me laugh especially with all the facial expression that Hiro does. The main thign I see is that all have a weakness. They aren't the near-invulnerable heroes of comic-book yore. The cheerleader can't regenerate if her brain stem is severed, the lead hero can only use the powers of those near to him, Hiro can manipulate time and space but he's still very much average without it, the flyer isn't invulnerable or superstrong, the blonde is only superstrong when her immoral self takes control. I think the best thing is that I only recognise one actor for the whole bunch, Mohinder's father. All the rest are less well known which adds to theri substance. I don't know them so I don't have any preconceptions about what they can do. And Christopher Eccleston rumoured to be joining them? Sweet.

Battle between the Asurians and Atlantians - nope, the Alantians are all dead. Would've thought at least one or two survived so they could tell people how things work. O'Neill and Willsey captured... not yet. Give it thirty minutes. A lot of good banter between the two of them. Willsey always talking and O'Neill's biting sarcasm. Best part(s) of the episode. Kinda basic for a finisher with McKay's one-trick pony still pipping the post again (and how many times must we hear "It's my plan" only for it to develop into "It was a group effort" at the end. How many more of the same character development plot must the guy go through?) Average and a little disappointing that they didn't have more Asurian fights like Ronin's hand-to-hand (loved the hair-pulling too, finally someone did it)

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In recent months, maybe years, I have been far more vocal about sci-fi shows than I used to be. When I was twelve sci-fi was a rarity and I only had free TV so it was hardly ever on. Every ounce of sci-fi was savoured from BSG 1978 to Start Trek and any show which had a hint of science-fiction. In the last few years I have loathed some sci-fi or got bored with it so much more quickly. I try and keep an open mind but hve become ever more dispondant to the point where I have torn apart Torchwood's first two episodes like a zombie horde from a George Romero movie eating generic victim number 16. Aside from the fact that I know have accesss to more sci-fi thanks to cable I have realised what my turning point was - Farscape. BBC 2 started shwoing this Australian sci-fi show which I thought 'might not be good but I'll give it a try' since most previous Australian sci-fi I'd seen were mostly kids shows. Oh my god! A great show. Starting with the simplest concept of all - average joe in space. The simplest question about what would we do if we were thrust into a futuristic environment where space-travel is common-place and aliens mingle in everyday topics. A show which doens't have 99% of it's main characters looking like humans with pieces of plastic and latex on their noses or eyebrows. An all-blue alien woman who's a plant A huge, angry alien with a tongue that knocks you out A toad/goblin who's actually dominaar of 600 billions subjects A pilot with four arms who's actually grafted into the ship with a head big enough that you could serve a four course meal on. A setting where not everyone is a buxom, beautiful female or a handsome, spit-shined man or, again, walks around on two legs with two arms and basically just a human in make-up. A place where average joe isn't the well-spoken 'hero' of the story all the time. I think Farscape was my 'heroin' of sci-fi. Once I started I became addicted and wanted more like it not content with the lower-grade 'cannabis' of Star Trek and others like it which were still very much one-hit episodes, self-contained with little plot advancement from one to the next so they could be repeated out of sequence. That's why I loved Firefly/Serenity and love BSG 2003. I only found about Firefly from accidentally catching an episode while channel-surfing but it seemed good for somethign stuck in a post-midnight timeslot. Then I watched another and another and was hooked on it only to find that the series had been cancelled four years before I started watching it. I had been following the BSG story from years before with the production battle between what is now the 'Ronald Moore' produced version and Richard Hatch wanting to continue the old series from where Galactica 1980 left off. When the mini-series hit I was awe-struck. Series 27 of Doctor Who (Eccleston) has adopted some of that contiguous storyline elements as well as the hgih-grade effects. The shadow of Bad Wolf kept me watching as well as the longer stories which often bled into the next epiosde or returned soon after combined with other remnants. The Rift, the Slitheen, the Daleks, Satellite 5 it all spread itself through the series. With such a great jump-start it was always going to be harder to repeat although Series 28 (Tennant) has been somewhat more intricately impressive, despite some reservations (although I have heard Satan is returing). This is what has ruined newer shows for me, in particular, Torchwood. What has particularly got to me is that the stories are very basic and at heart are still very much Who stories. Take away the sex, (extreme) gore and swearing and you could have the Doctor and his assistant running round trying to stop the big bad of the episode. Stargate SG-1 has nose-dived into this too. Season 8 became a very continuity-heavy series partiucalry towards the end as they wrapped up the series. There was a five-part story before the two-part finale and the season started off with a two-part opener AND the mid-season clifffhanger AND one of the episodes was extended... then came season 9. Season 9 should never have happened. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it to begin with but as it went on it just settled back into the formulaic as soon as Carter came back. They had proven to themselves and every else that they can do continuity if they wanted to but they were too scared to start another spin-off so soon after Atlantis. I said the same thing when I first heard they were doing Enterprise right after Voyager. Part of what ruined it was the fact that it was so soon after one series and they just wanted to make more money from the franchise. It just became the same tired plots for season 1 althought they started doing more continuity reliant epsiodes in season 2 especailly with Minefield and the follow-up which had Reid still aching from his leg injury. That said Season 3 got it right for me. The whole season had a clear, overshadowing story arc which led to a more epic season than ever. I waited with baited breath for each new episode especailly towards the end. Season 4 was a little too chaotic for my tastes. Instead of one big story they came up with mni-arcs, some I really liked, others I disliked. Star Trek has the benefit of being around so long and it was one of the first sci-fi series I watched, my dad being an avid collector of TOS and TNG (until he passed away). The problem is that more shows like these come out and engage my mind. Currently the genocide issue with the latest episode of BSG. The characters have more substance to them than just being able to sum up in one sentence and their actions make sense. You can see the logic or emotional attachment behind it due in part to the acting ability of their players. It's harder to see where they get their inspriations from or even if they copied it from elsewhere. Torchwood is not a new show. It's a spinoff which carries the weight of Dcotor Who behind it just like SG:Atlantis carries the weight of SG:1 and TNG carried the weight of TOS behind it. In fact I recently saw an interview on Top Gear with Patrick Stweart and he said how in the early days of TNG they were hated it because it didn't measure up to Kirk and co. I have been quite merciless recently but I hope that I will be more fair-handed now I know where this anger and frustration stems from. This is partly a rant but I hope it will be more for reference of where my negativity stems from. And I'm also asking how many of you who have also been quite merciless on Torchwood in particualr or any sci-fi which you thought was demeaning, rubbish or shallow if you have a similar understanding of being exposed to high-grade sci-fi and finding others lacking?

Helo couldn't because he's married to one, Adama had a guilty conscience while wanting them to all die but didn't want the responsibility, Roslin suffered on New Caprica under a Cylon hand as evidenced by her comment about "I'll pretend I didn't hear that". These are people who've seen the rest of their race wiped out by their enemy that relentlessly pursues them... Both but Adama knew that he didn't have to say it, just quoted a regulation to 'pass the buck'. Roslin wanted it. Adama knew it. Both decided to do it, Adama by inaction, Rolsin by order.

Well as has been said it's the BBC so the shows have already been filmed and budgeted for and since it's more Who for the US they will see it to the end of series 1

Well I already gave up watching by fair means or foul. I only happened across this one as I was channel surfing and nothing better was on (as I prefer working on stuff with ambient showplay). Caught this one on the Threepeat. It was okay (yes I didn't slate it). It was only okay (yes I know here we go just hold on) The start it seemed like she was going to be 'new team member number 2' but turned into 'cliched tortured villain'. Shame. The skin-job Oriental conversion was akin to the Hellraisers acolytes and the entire thing goes a little towards explaining Iyvonne's last stand at Torchwood one. This also suggests that Iyvonne may still be alive since all the Cybermen from the alter-verse were sucked back in and yet Cyberwoman was weighing Ianto down in the flashback. More of the Pterodactyl in a less bla-sae manner than 'it's a pterodactyl. Mildly amusing 'death by BBQ sauce'. Points for originality on that one as I thought it was some kind of flammable liquid. If Ianto stays then I would think less of him. For all the crying he did, to come back and work for the poeple who killed his love, never mind work with the people who killed his love would just be a poor character development. I was surprised that he actually came back at the end considering all his 'monster' talk. Professional to emotional wreck in four episodes. I'm beginning to think that Torchwood 3 is where they stick the 'special' people. Just like you have a smoking room for smokers. These are the misfits who while sometimes useful are the troublemakers you stash away when the bigwigs come round. The only thing that really bothers me is the cut on Jack's face. He's been shot in the head and electroshocked twice yet he gets a punch in the face and the scar doesn't heal? And side-note: I've been told that in one of the behind the scenes`Russell talks about Torchwood being concieved before Doctor Who season 27. So it's basically a show idea he had cooked up that nobody was prepared to invest in which has been remodelled for the Whoniverse. I also note that they must be doing this for the American networks because although they use S**T at least three times an episode they haven't said f**k once.

Maybe the disease is just good old-fashioned radiation poisoning. Something deadlier than is contained in a nuclear detonation (1000 of years of cosmic rays can probably do that). Or perhaps a concentration of the nebula particles from the mini-series? Only thing I was disappointed with was it's another Tigh and Starbuck feeling sorry for themselves episode. She was manipulated but she stabbed and killed him how many times? Tigh is just stupid. He killed his wfe and is taking it out on everyone else. Not so 'we do what we must' now is he? Other than that we got to see more of the internal worlings of the base-ship as well as the fact that the remaining five models 'are not talked about'. Good episode.

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