I heard it was the guy Jessica said too. I also heard his first line is something like "You gotta get me out of this hatch." But then I heard it was changed.

I still want Clifford the big red ball to be in the hatch.

I just watched Final Cut (the next BSG ep), and wow, it was so good.

First off, Lee Adama in nothing but a towel. Mrowr. This clip is re-shown a few times. Mrowr.

There's a Cylon attack scene told entirely from inside the ship (the POV is Lucy Lawless' cameras) which is just amazingly well-done. All you see are the people on the deck listening to what's going on over the flight headsets, and it's probably the tensest action scene they've ever done.

Something goes wrong with Boomer's baby, and the doctor saves her. Lucy Lawless tries to get footage of that, but is kicked out of sick bay. Kat (one of the Viper pilots) is caught using stimulants, and taken out of flight rotation. Tigh gets death threats and an attempt made on his life by one of the marines he sent to Gideon, but they work things out in the end. (In a classic "Fine, shoot me!" stand-off where the marine realizes that Gideon was a tragic mistake, but shooting Tigh in the head would be a conscious choice blah blah learningcakes.)

The pilot interviews for the news segment made me tear up more than a few times. Dualla and Gaeta? LOVE THEM SO MUCH. (And OMG the hotness of Gaeta during his interview. He's holding a cigarette just so, and...yeah. He shows Lucy Lawless his tattoo. Yum.)

The ending voiceover of the finished news segment (complete with a Montage of Everyone Watching) is beyond cheesy, but realistically so, because human interest news features are like that. And then we cut to the Cylons on Caprica watching the same segment right after (including Lucy Lawless, of course, who can also show them the footage of Boomer in the medical bay, which was cut), so it turns creepy pretty damn quick. OtherCaprica!Boomer is thrilled that "she" is still alive, and they're all amazed and delighted that the baby's still alive. (I think the LL on Caprica is a separate body from the one in the fleet, because she says "We lost a couple of raiders transmitting these images back to the fleet," so I don't think we're supposed to believe she physically traveled to Caprica.)

From spoilerfix re: Alias and Vartan's character...

According to the super-secret script, Vartan's character is killed off in dramatic fashion in the season premiere. ''In the show, Michael is investigating some case and is set up,'' said our spy. ''He gets shot numerous times but does not die on the scene. He makes it to the hospital where he eventually dies.'' Vartan's onscreen paramour, Sydney Bristow, aka Garner, is with him when he flat-lines and has to identify his body. As promised, the writers work Garner's real-life pregnancy into the plot of the show, leaving Bristow pregnant with Vaughn's child. For the rest of the season she is on a mission to find out who killed her baby's father.

Can Alias have a Jeebus Slug? Alias needs a Jeebus Slug.

X Files didn't have a big red ball in the sky that turned people into zombies.

According to the super-secret script, Vartan's character is killed off in dramatic fashion in the season premiere.

Huh -- I'd read that he wrapped his last ep, but I didn't hear that it was the premiere!

I can't decide if I hope it's true or not. (On the plus side, Vaughn's dead! On the down side, the answer to "My name's not really Michael Vaughn" is more likely to be lame if he's not around when we find out what it is.)

Can Alias have a Jeebus Slug? Alias needs a Jeebus Slug.

X Files didn't have a big red ball in the sky that turned people into zombies.

Seems like a pretty even trade to me.

The shows were great last night. Just the kind of happy I needed. Awesome. Agree with all your comments in the spoiler review, Jessica. I love Anastasia Dualla and Felix Gaeta. There were so many satisfying character bits in all all three shows. Actually, all their bits were hot.

Interesting Lost spoilers:

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Notably, a number of new characters will be introduced in the next 5 or so eps. Also, the Hurley-centric ep will show Hurley right before he goes into the mental institution.