lusting after Kate, like every other man on the island

Well, two of them, which seems fair enough. Who else they gonna get smitten with? I don't like Kate, but someone needs two admirers, because you have to have a romantic triangle, and I'd rather see guys doing the admiring than girls, since I shudder to think of how the other way would be written.

I have, waiting for me at home, the season premieres of BSG and SG-1! (And two other Sci-Fi shows I don't watch -- Ghost Hunters, and something else.)

I shall soon have spoilers! Yay!

Need lots of details on the SG flavored Ben Browder hottness, please.

This week's Ask Ausiello column has spoilers for Lost and Veronica Mars. Go, read.

oh that's some good shit. Thanks.

I like that column.

Need lots of details on the SG flavored Ben Browder hottness, please.

Well, if I were designing his SG-1 uniform, it would have involved a lot more leather. But nonetheless, he's pretty yummy. Somehow, he looks younger than John Crichton did. (Mostly because he doesn't have the weight of experience that Crichton did by the end of S4. Also he has shorter hair.)

This was the first SG-1 ep I'd ever seen, so I fully expect my summary to make no sense. I'll post it sometime today, when I get the time to write it.

Bwah:

Also, Lindelof confirmed that Oceanic Flight 815 "did not crash by accident. It crashed for a very specific reason." (Yeah, to save ABC)

I'm cracking up about the Charlie's line spoiler, but disappointed that the character's name has already been given out and Michelle Rodriguez isn't actually playing herself on the show. I would so love for this show to actually have "The Movie Star" but one who was more likely to beat Jack to a pulp with her right cross than serenade him with "I Want To Be Kissed by You."

Okay, SG-1, S9, Eps 1-2:

(Again, bear in mind that these were my first SG-1 eps ever, so I have no idea what I'm actually talking about in almost.)

Ben Browder is introduced right away, and is front-and-center the whole ep. We learn that his character, Cameron Mitchell (who I could swear was called Lieutenant once or twice, but then he's given command of SG-1, so shouldn't he be a captain?) was a pilot in charge of a troop that helped SG-1 in "The Lost City." His plane went down, and he was in the hospital, possibly in a coma, told he would maybe walk again, etc etc. So we know that he's not a giving-up type of guy.

We also learn right off the bat that he thought he was joining SG-1, not commanding it, and he's really not happy that he has to choose a whole new crew, since Teal'c, Daniel, and Sam have all moved on to other things. So his first task is going around to all of them, inviting them back to SG-1, which they all decline. Daniel is moving onto some other ship, Sam's already on her new ship, and Teal'c is doing something with his local government which I probably would have understood better if I knew anything at all about the show.

Anyhoo, just as he's getting good and depressed at the thought of not working with ANY of the old cast, Claudia Black shows up looking smug (and HAWT), and demands to speak with Daniel. She's stolen a tablet which is some kind of Ancient treasure map, and she needs him to translate it so they can find the treasure and get rich. The treasure is apparently on Earth. She also has a pair of bracelets that she puts on Daniel and herself, linking them together so he can't screw her out of her fair share. (If they're separated for more than a few minutes, they both collapse and eventually die. There's a very funny bit after they discover this where Ben Browder says that they should just go look for the treasure so she can disconnect the bracelets and go home, and adds distastefully "Or else you're gonna have to marry this chick." To which Vala gleefully/sarcastically responds "Yeah, let's make BABIES!" It's very strange watching BB and CB play characters who not only have little or no interest in each other, but don't seem likely to ever have any interest in each other.)

So they go a-translating (and for some reason Teal'c is there too -- he may have come to visit Daniel in the hospital, I'm not sure), and the tablet turns out to lead them to King Arthur's stash under Glastonbury Tor. The Ancient who put it there was apparently Merlin. (It is from about this point on that I started thinking of the ep as "Ben Browder and the Sorcerer's Stone")

So they use the Prometheus to look through Glastonbury Tor, and lo! Thar be tunnels and caves! And they can get in using rings, which pretty much solidifies the "Merlin was an Ancient" theory. They get down there and there's the Sword in the Stone, but nothing else. BB tries to pull it out, and fails. Then a hologram of Merlin appears and tells them that only one pure of spirit can pull the sword out and Win Fabulous Prizes. This is confusing, and so they go searching, Ben with Teal'c, Daniel with Vala. They each end up in a cavern that shuts the door on them the minute they enter, and a puzzle to solve. They both solve it wrong the first time, and the ceiling starts to collapse on them. (End of Ep 1.)

Then they get it right, and the ceiling goes back to normal, and the door reopens.

Back at the Sword, this time Ben can pull it out, but then a holographic knight in armor appears and starts fencing with him. The blows don't actually cut (which is good, because BB'd be dead otherwise), but they do hurt. Teal'c tries to take over, but he can't pick up the sword at all -- it just goes right through him. Eventually we get a flashback to BB in physical therapy after his plane crash, trying to walk, and the therapist is all "that's enough for today" and he's all "No, I CAN DO THIS" So he gets his second wind and cuts the knight in (continued...)