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With BSG however they actually are still int he same location so it's not only real but believable. Kobol was visited for around half the episodes last time round. We weren't trying to be convinced that this was generic forest planet number 3152. It was the same planet so seeing the forest over and over again was natural. It's only the second planet in the whole show with trees. The tentscape was also around for the webisodes and relative to new sets tents are probably cheaper than cardboard (a slight exaggeration but then if they were old or ruined tents they might be). They might be leftovers from some US war film or damaged stock. Point is the story is great, engaging the viewer and not relying on the 'everything turns out fine' method of storytelling where the end of each episode resets everything back to before it started. I think it's safe to say Ronald was so pissed at what they did with Voyager he wanted to make a show that was top-notch, kick-ass, cheap but still very well made adn I think we should all join him in a round of "Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah" at Paramount's Star Trek Producers for running him out.

I think they have but I'm not sure and I don't thing I can stand to watch again to find out lest my eyes begin to vomit. Second ep was more like Queer as Folk or that show set in the Lake District with all those horny young adults. Then at the end we have this 'After-school' special moment about dying alone. It was a parasite feeding off human energy like a drug addict. Was I supposed to care? For me an adult show is one that can deal with grown-up situations and can use them in a way to better entertain us with out being patronising, hindered by a family-oriented audience cap or blatant gratuity. Like Firefly or Battlestar Galactica, cheap doesn't mean limited and swearing in English isn't always necessary. Good stories can make a show, this one's broken.

I found myself thinking "It's Angel in Wales" with all those overhead, standing on buildings looking poignient shots. The biggest question is how did Mr 200100 go back in time 198000 years? And he's immortal now, the novelty of that wore off in about three seconds. There's essentially no risk for him. I was once told that the worse thing you can do with a main character is to make him invincible and the hero. If anything this feels like a cheap show relying on shock tactics, sex and violence to keep it going. Unless the story is dynamite it will fail no matter how many flashy effects you show off with.

Gotta say - not impressed at all so far I'm writing this as I'm re-watching it but if a show can't hold my attention for 15 minutes (I stopped watching to walk my dog that's how non-interesting it was) then it doesn't bode well for me. First off; the premise - a crime-fighting unit? This isn't the Torchwood that I recall from Army of Ghosts, setup by Queen Victoria to further the British Empire. Just my first-hand opinion of the five minute index. Episode 1: 15 minutes watched Not liking it so far. Jack's back in the 21st Century, cursed nearly three times so far with a completely over-the-top blood spurt scene with the regualr joe (or jane in this case) finding out about the shadow organisation with stereotypical 'where did they go?/what are they doing?' scenes. Boring. 30 minutes watched Tech is boring. Jack seems to be more like the Jack Harkness from 1941 as opposed to the 200100 Jack but then he's supposed to be a 31st Century guy. Still questioning that one but I'm sure the answer will be revealed. More swearing which doesn't really feel right End Credits So it's 200100 Jack but no clue as to why he's back here now. His character seems to have taken two steps back from the righteous Jack that was ready to lay down his life and he's immortal? It also seems that this universe is suffering from coverupititus just like Stargate because people are still in denial about aliens (despite the fact we apparently accepted ghosts). I can see why they decided to show two episodes at once Episode 2 15 minutes Reminded of a similar story from The Outer Limits where a parasite comes down in a meteorite and takes a human host, devouring them when they reached sexual coitus although it was more absorbaloff consumption in that one. The way it's going so far is reminiscent of the first season of Angel which had similar hightened T&A, B&G content and was dark and brooding. This is more in-your-face shock value than anything else 30 minutes Yep, shock value. Rat exploding. Still not too interested. Story is even more tedious than The Outer Limits one. Endcredits I expected better. 2nd opinion What is it? It's basically Doctor Who with sex, swearing, blood, gore and loose morals. It's a crime-drama, no a sci-fi crime-drama, no a sci-fi thriller, no it's a sci-fi drama except it isn't because it's 21st Century Cardiff. All the characters in it are self-serving except the female lead who is the 'heart' of the outfit. The storyline was so simple a child could've followed it (if it weren't for all the T&A). I've had more enjoyment out of a formulaic charcter-building episode of Stargate (and I really loathe them). A slow and uneventful start. It's trying to be it's own show but it's hampered by the fact it's a Doctor Who spin-off. The way I see it, it will go one of two ways - 1) end with just one season OR 2) concede defeat and become more like Doctor Who with less extreme/shock moments. Preview of Episode 3 doesn't sound to good either. I will give it to episode 5 then I'll just resign myself to Doctor Who only if the faltline doesn't de-fib.

Too... many... jokes.... - You and everyone else in the world - Who hasn't? - Your mum would do Ellen Tigh - In BSG, Ellen do you! - So would I... and him too and him and her... - Hasn't she scored enough? I'm glad that didn't take too long to leave the planet although I thought they'd have one more episode. The BSG descent scene was both visually impressive and far more organic than leaving fighters to fly in from orbit, almost all the other niggles were considered like the atmospheric friction and the sonic boom from Galactica junping out while in atmo, displacing the surrounding air. The loss of Pegasus was both unexpected and tragic but hopefully Lee will now be losing weight so he can fit into a Viper again. Starbuck forgot about the expert manipulation tactics of her captor but at least she didn't feign affection for the child even when she thought it was half-cylon. Apparently BSG doesn't have a sizeable budget but if that's true they are making one hell of a storm while doing this show. Seconded that this is the best episode since Resurrection Ship

Now I was actually a fan of the Samurai Jack style (which was a derivative of the Disney 'Atlantis' style). It was a more visual-artistic style than most others which fit well with the lightsaber duels. McGregor seemed to enounciate with The Phantom Menace which is the only annoying thing about that film. I think once he settled into the role of Jedi Knight and stopped saying MAARRRR-ster it was a whole lot better. I didn't notice it in EpII or EpIII. Clone Wars CG - Heard about it last year, sounded okay. I like the idea of having more Clone Wars action than we were restricted to with the Genndy series.

A few words on the DVD subject: Firefly and Family Guy. The show is cancelled but they can still try and recoup their losses by releasing a DVD collection of the show at a slightly reduced cost. If few buy it then the cheap media offsets the risk somewhat and if people buy it then you're making money off a finished show (earning more money on something already expended). Firefly and Family Guy were both cancelled. Since DVDs are cheap and the shows costly they make more money off stuff people have already watched. Now these two shows garnered a huge following. Firefly was cancelled mid season one and years later it got a movie, Serentiy thanks largly due to the DVD sales. Family Guy was canned and they released Stewie Griffin the Untold Story which together with DVD sales brought it back to TV with a fourth and fifth season. Releasing DVD collections of cancelled shows can serve as an indicator and makes hard cash direct for the production/distribution company and show them hard facts on whether their choice was right

I was screaming 'throw some sand' in my head while they were still expalining 'localised temporal distortion'. I also guessed the fire thing while they were searching. The Orisi turning out ot be the 'librarian' was actually a plot twist that I didn't expect. I thought he would've just exploded in a fireball like a prior. This did feel rushed which added a little to the tension but not so much since they still have another ten episodes to go and no 'the world's gonna end' sub-plot this time. I expected one of them to bring up the dragon at the end.

Eh, could've been better. It was a little too slow and while the spacegate is a nice idea, how are they gonna keep all those gates powered up? I am so sick of cliffhangers, especially ones when it's not actually a season finale but they tout it as such to keep you watching. I don't think I will bother seeing how this turns out.

Heard a rumour that the Beeb are grounding the third series to Earth again. Apparenty somone was quoted as saying 'if we started pretending it would look stupid'. Needless to say if that was true they just pissed on all the alien-based Who before them.

Boring. A stale and predictable episode and wouldn't you know it - the important characters survive with an almost instantaneous recovery period from continuous eposure to EM radiation (which defies the laws of physics since exposure causes damage and is not immediately recoverable if at all). Next week - return of the Asurians and Jack O'Neill and a shock as the episode ends on a cliffhanger so you'll be hooked until the next episode airs in 4 months time

Eh, kinda hit and miss for me. Teal'c tortured, Oddyssey captain killed, backstabbing alien double-crossed, frist few minutes of the crappy cargo ship ride, kinda good points. Latter part of the cargo ship, dialogue at the end, Teal'c getting tortured, so-called leader of the Luscian Alliance, the callous attitude of having 'spaced' the bad guy What really irritated me was some of the dialogue at the end: 'If I'm reading tese sensors correctly it lookslike two Goa'uld motherships" - one look out the window and you can frakking see they are, are you that dependent on so-called superior technology that it's not real until it's confimred by a machine? I mean I use a calculator when I'm not sure if I did the math right but that's only after I've worked it out that I use it to double-check/confirm. "You should also tell them we've declared war on the Luscian Alliance" - wow, another enemy. Ranks alongside the Genai season 1 for uneccesary enemies and kinda overly-dramatic. 'Oh dear, we've declared war on a bunch of people who we've basically beaten at every turn and have lost more trying to stop us and only now have we realised that amounts to war despite the fact that the Ori will most likely rape every world they have ties to and they won't be around for much loger anyway'. I mean the Wraith are after Earth, the Ori are here to convert the galaxy, Baal and his clone army is trying to rekindle his dominion, the Jaffa are fractured and now the Luscain Alliance...how many more do they need? (and that's just this season)

*coughEpisode10cough* Guess? Sure. Bet? Not a chance unless the bet is they will get one with 1-1 odds. It was okay. From what preview pieces I saw they were making out that McKay and his sister were virtually alike but apart from the 'Sorry' that Carter found amusing there wasn't much if anything similar about them. Well ignoring that, the point of prediction was during the conversation "the chances of picking an inhabited universe..." which basically rang bells that something was gonna come through and stop them and after the last time they tried to extract ZP energy from our universe you'd think they'd have at least gone elsewhere to try another dangerous experiment which destroyed a solar system. And what a surprise that the person who steps through this gateway happens to be the alta-brother of the woman who helped open it and he isn't as loosly tied as our version but allows Rodeny to learn a valuable lesson which he will definitely have forgotten by the start of the next episode. Why not someone else? Out of all the universes they picked where every possibility is played out they just happen to get another Rodney. Actually the funny thing is when his siter was ranting at the beginning when Rodney shows up at her house sounded much like the Pirate Party's pledge about how patents prevent growth (the fifth of all genes are patented by pharmeceutical companies). Methinks she had been 'watching' BSG with us.

It was predictable from the first few minutes right when Vala(rie) kicks butt and doesn't realise what she's done. Having said that it was a change to see Vala actually being 'human', frightened and scared. Only cool thing was Mitchell using the Zat's beam conducted through the steel scaffolding and eventually shocking the target. Actual smart shooting let down slightly by the near-constant blasting two seconds before.

For someone who chanced his luck with some of the most dangerous creatures on the planet, it isn't surprising. I didn't know of any of his conservation efforts including what is now Australia Zoo. All I saw was the TV Irwin the idiot who kept dancing with death by irritating poisonous and viscious animals. I won't miss him but I'm sure his family will. I can understand their pain having lost my father at a young age too. As far as attacks go he is only the second person in Australia to die of a Sting Ray barb. The last one was in 1945.

Doctor Who has had two major breaks in the last decade; it's been cancelled longer than Stargate has been going. Couple that with the fact that even though the charcter is still the same his identity has changed throughtout his 40 years of exposure. Each Doctor brought his own personality into the fold which reflected in the events around him. It evolved. The Doctor changed, assistants joined and left him and even the enemies learned something from previous mistakes. Stargate still has the same characters. Teal'c who was supposed to be a pillar of the Free Jaffa gave up his position really quickly, Daniel's trapping in the Milky Way was convenient and Sam returning timed rather expertly with Vala leaving and they step through the gate meeting new races, disagreeing with their principals or morality and getting into the same scrapes they did for the preceeding eight years. They settled back into a routine with Teal'c being stalwort, Daniel translating everything and Sam coming up with brilliant solutions to the massive problem. Why didn't Sam stay with Pete? Why haven't we seen the Russian team since season 6? Why aren't more military forces involved like Marines, Army and other Allied Forces (Chinese and British)? Why hasn't Daniel who knows that the Ancient knowledge still resides in his mind tried to unlock it to help? Lots of potential expansion, untapped. I'm still jaded from when they decided to cancel Farscape. Now that was a show. A bunch of escaped prisoners being chased across the galaxy having each of their appendeges bitten, prodded, poked and genrally unbound from the human norm. Worms being put into your stomach through your belly button, creatures that weren't just people dressed in a costume with a little makeup. Having also read the sci-fi wire it seems the real-life Cheyenne Mountain base is shutting down too. Maybe they feel they don't want an almost-real history to fall back on seeing as how the real Norad still operates from there.

Which only means it might look even better. I remember the updated Enterprise they had in Trials and Tribble-ations (DS9). It looked really nice. Then there was the action sequences form In A Mirror, Darkly in Enterprise which had full-blown kill or be killed shots, photon torpedoes, maneuverability beyond moving forward back and sideways (or getting the camera closer to the model). I already have the originals on DVD and would probably buy the updated ones as long as we don't get a CGI blob monster or obvious CGI-injected enemies. Certianly the visuals need alittle polishing primarily the external shots, some of which had crackle lines from filming. As long as they don't update the song to be more now. I love the bongo melody of the original. Question is will they adapt the tribble-sode to include Sisko and co from DS9?

Species 8472 *tries to ignore past season 3 of Voyager* :p

Yeah but they can't be too predictable. They'll save that one for next time ;) I think this epsidoe sums up just how predictable particular "OMG, a main cast memebr is going to die halfway through the seas..no wait he's actually okay thanks to a freaky coincidence". The tension is lost because you know that as a main character they aren't going to die so some miracle cure is going to show up if not in this episode then the next one. I hope the next one fares better.

IMDB is where I got my info (and about the mid-season cliffhanger "The Quest"). Yeah, I needed to watch it again for that one. I did get the part about the shield but not the rest of the planet being evacuated first time round Oh god, NO. Catsuits are the devil unless you are catwoman. She'll probably be back in the same or a not-too disimilar but still fabulously radiant outfit.

It was okay. Another hostage episode where the lead gets captured and ransomed. It was predictable that the Wraith would help out Sheppard and they would escape and by the end of it everything's back to normal. It's just a little convenient that the one wraith captured and starved happens to have this rare knowledge of how to give back life. I got so bored while watching this I checked my gumline to see how healthy my teeth looked. Only thing worse than that sentence is that I'm not joking about it. Oh dear god, NO! Here's how I see it happening. A Wraith somehow contacts Atlantis because Michael told him. The Asurans are planning to build an Alterran weapon which will destroy all life as we know it in the galaxy and they convince Wier that it will be in their best interests to work together. The Wraith will act as a distraction while the Atlantis team goes to Asuran and converts the weapon to destroy the Asurans instead since it looks like the weapon from Dakara (because of the whole Ancient-Alterran history). Once they do the Wraith inevitably betray the Atlantis crew for some reason and the whole episode comes full circle by having Rodney come up with a way to blow up the weapon right before they escape back to Atlantis having reset everything to exactly how it was before the episode started. I'll say it again... oh dear god, NO!

In-deed! :cyclops: Seriously the last season and a bit they've basically been a bunch of jackasses and now they're shooting at their allies? Ingrates. Seriously the new guy was just an ass. I mean there's stupid and there's idiotic and then there's "are you on drugs? what the hell?" flat-out slow. Deserved to get blown up. So the Orisi can control the ship entirely with her mind? And she kick's ass using it. Fantastic. She couldn't read Daniel's mind as easy and they have plans for him? Ominous. The only REAL quibble I have is that they were supposed to have destroyed that Ancient weapon so no-one could use it again and how come it didn't kill all the Jaffa on Dakara anyway? {I need to watch it again} Oh and it looks like we won't see Morena Baccarin until the inevitable mid-season cliffhanger.

Personally with all the security leaks and public exposure they've had over the last ten years it's surprising it hasn't come to public knowledge. We've seen in the episode "2010" that we can handle being only a small part of a larger galaxy of cultures so why not have a reveal-all? Personally I love the idea of having the battle on our doorstep (not the back door like over Antartica but the front door) with the Ori followers battling on our streets instead of some far off world where they conveniently know about other worlds and space travel. It would certanly give more reason for the SGC to be more compliant with their international representatives instead of pushing them around because they aren't military. I'd like to see the battle for Earth with the Free Jaffa Nation helping out. That would be quite a turnaround for them to be helping us when at the beginning they could've wiped us out. I think Daniel should actually get to ascend on his own and thus free him of the binding rules of the others and basically wipe the floor with the Ori-human hybrid. He could either stick with it and become the guardian of this galaxy or recind it because he understands why he can't keep it or they ccould just leave it up in the air and he can go off exploring the universe (and basically try and keep it real/natural so he doesn't go all 'Ori' on us).