It's the age of Aquarium.

"What is your sign?"

"Aquarium. What's yours?"

"SeaWorld."

Sorry, BSG leaves me cold. (I blame Six - when I saw all the sex with Baltar I was like, 'oh, so that's the kind of show this is'. I could just see how it was going to be a major plotline and I was tired of it after about 5 minutes.) The only one I like on the show at all is Starbuck.

BSG serves as a grim chaser after two hours of squee. I found myself actually tired when we finally got to it on Friday night. After three hours -- with the addition of Firefly I'm going to be useless all day on Saturday....

I find BSG is fine, when you watch it on mute. It is when the characters open their yaps that the illogic and the histrionics get to me. If they would all just brood shirtlessly silently, it would be a lovely show.

(Anyway, there is usually a game on, so I can click to it for the beefcake quotient and then click away as soon as it annoys.)

I know some people (can't remember if it was anyone here) didn't like the nuclear explosion and thought it was a huge plot hole because of radiation and fall out.

Somewhere on Lj (of course I forgot to mark it) in someone's comments (yes, this is vague) there was an explanation that the mainland was far enough away not to have too many problems, because the blast was high enough up and over water fallout wasn't going to be an issue, and the planets pristine condition with no other pollutants was a big help, so no one has to worry about radiation.

the blast was high enough up and over water fallout wasn't going to be an issue, and the planets pristine condition with no other pollutants was a big help, so no one has to worry about radiation.

Er, isn't a high-altitude blast generally worse than a low one? Because, with high-altitude, you've got more particles high up in the atmosphere, where they can do not-nice things like make it snow in July in Boston. (This really happened, after Krakatoa.) Also, I am thinking, alpha- and beta-radiation is the stuff that you can inhale and get into cuts and stuff, so the idea of it dropping like an invisible rain for the next several years is not my idea of fun.

Plus, imagine the mutant sea-creatures! I foresee an episode about Swamp Thing this season.

I imagine it all depends on a lot of real-life factors like exactly how high, exactly how far, exactly how many megatons. Still and all, I think I prefer my life without any nuclear explosions, you know?

validation on the DH

Those initials of his have caused me to double take twice now.

I think BSG rocks, Gus, and I don't think I'm entirely alone in that. Talk away. SGA makes me smile, and I thought they had a really strong second half of S1. SG-1 is, well, SG-1, there's only love there, really. And for all, I handwave gladly.

I had a big problem with the bomb not from a despoiling the pritine environment PoV, but because I can't imagine any way that the residual radiation, not to mention the heat, would have vanished in thirty seconds or so. I don't think they couldn't detonate it all that high up. The Wraith would've known it was a fake out.

Because, with high-altitude, you've got more particles high up in the atmosphere, where they can do not-nice things like make it snow in July in Boston. (This really happened, after Krakatoa.)

That was the dust from Krakatoa, though, which would be more likely (I think) from a ground blast. A blast over the ocean should produce a lot of irradiated steam (which should pretty much poach anyone standing, say, right under the blast), but not so much dust.

I'm sort of with Nutty on BSG. Pretty people doing lots of illogical, often stupid, things. I do like Tigh, though, and I love the space visuals, so I'll keep watching for that.