Hi all! I don't think I've ever posted in this thread before, but this seems topical:

I've been Netflixxing Season 7 of Stargate and just watched the ep in which the Jaffa/To'kra/Tauri* alliance falls apart (Death Knell, I think). Anyway, I was thinking that Stargate writers are always raising interesting issues, like the Jaffa need for independence or the To'kra's right to keep secrets from their allies, but gloss them over with "SG-1 are the good guys and always in the right." It can be awfully frustrating to watch. But it creates lots of great fanfic opportunities.

• Please excuse any spelling mistakes. I'm too lazy to double check this morning.

It can be awfully frustrating to watch. But it creates lots of great fanfic opportunities.

Word. It's annoying as hell, but then TPTB are pretty forthright about the fact they're writing an action-adventure show, not The West Wing, or even Buffy.

And you do get good fic out of it, like Tripoli's The Cost of Doing Business.

Watching Dr Who 27x08 " Father's Day ".

Dragons!

or at least

dragon-type things...

BSG fans: Hossgal has an excellent story set some time after the end of S1 here: [link] No spoilers for season 2, but a lot of speculation. Excellent technical details and strong voices. Basically gen, but with an Apollo/Starbuck ship implied.

The Rommie, Andromeda thing -- I'm not sure that I expect any sort of consistency from Andromeda (the show), although I am wondering where all those Nietscheans went.

I thought it was amusing that the finale of Enterprise was 6 years later than the penultimate episode and they made absolutely no attempt to age anyone.

SG1, SGA and BSG are coming back July 15th.

I thought it was amusing that the finale of Enterprise was 6 years later than the penultimate episode and they made absolutely no attempt to age anyone.

Most people don't age so you'd notice in 6 years, once they hit their late 20's, early 30's. There are subtle differences, but generally people around you don't notice as much.

I thought they did a pretty good job knocking off 12 years from Marina Sirtis, who was looking different in the last movie.

Jonathan Frakes couldn't quite pull it off. He's stepped off the Anson Williams "Potsie" youth train.

I gave them points for as well as they did.

I thought it was amusing that the finale of Enterprise was 6 years later than the penultimate episode and they made absolutely no attempt to age anyone.

Other than giving the women slightly different hairstyles.

I also found it odd that no one managed to get a promotion in 6 years (especially on top of the 4 years before that.)

Overall, I was disappointed with it. It felt like it was more about Riker than about the actual cast, which is a really poor choice for a final episode, IMO.

Also, as much as it was good to see Shran one last time, the plot was really lame. He just up and left the Imperial Guard and fell in with criminals? WTF?

I also agree about Trip's death being random and stupid. Not to mention, how'd the bad guys catch Enterprise and then manage to forcibly board it in about 30 seconds. And where the hell were the M.A.C.O.s during the intruder alert? I'd imagine there's a limited number of airlocks on the ship, so it wouldn't be too hard to figure out where the intruders were.

The voiceovers from the ship captains did break me up a bit at the end, though.

Not to mention, how'd the bad guys catch Enterprise and then manage to forcibly board it in about 30 seconds. And where the hell were the M.A.C.O.s during the intruder alert?

I joked to my cousin Steve that they told all the extras. "Well, our budget has been cut, so we're going to blow some on Frakes and Sirtis, and a recording of Data from 1994. Sorry, We can't afford a fully-staffed ship."

It's my Meta, and I'm sticking to it.

Would have been nice to have a line about how they were a skeleton crew, and undertaking the rescue mission was foolhardy....

Well, every now and then the Smallville people can pull their shit together and make something that's fun.

There was even some HSQ -- briefly -- I'm talking about the return of Jason Teague.

Plus - EVIL cliffhanger.

Seeing more of Batman Begins just makes me want to see it EVEN MORE.