I resisted SG1 for years. Didn't need a new show addiction. Of course when I finally did watch, I was rather appalled by the simplistic writing...until the day I realized I had some affection for the characters, nevermind the "plots".

BSG, I watched part of the mini and it was just so dark. I resented female representations of characters I'd first met in male incarnations. Most of all, I resented that this show was on the air when Firefly got cancelled. I caught an episode of the first season almost by accident, and was intrigued enough to watch again, and by that time, I was ready to know the backstory, plus where the arc was going.

So, me? Accidentally pulled into the orbits of these shows, I guess. It's not Whedon or Minear quality writing, but I do enjoy the characters and their interaction. Which, in fairness, is what brought me back to Buffy, along with the quality of the writing. But even while I disregard or overlook the clunkiness of some of the SG1 and SGA writing, I keep coming back for the characters. And while BSG (or as Theo so aptly terms it, "Battlewagon Hysterica") is dark, it's the characters I keep coming back for.

The TV show Cupid is being torrented as we speak. 6 GB.

Awesome! Can't wait to hear what you think.

I've never seen the Stargate shows, but I am really liking BSG. Don't know whether I love it, but I'm hooked. It is very serious, with only small touches of lightness, but it handles its tone well enough for me. I'd rather it do what it does well then try to be funny and fail at it (I wasn't a big fan of "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down," though I loved "Six Degrees of Separation").

I kind of lost interest in SCI FI fridays during the hiatus. But after reading some fanfic I went back and watched SGA and liked it.

I'm in the process of rewatching BSG to see if I'll enjoy it more the second time around. I like Starbuck. I have a thing against the actress who plays Rosalin, it's such a minor thing, but her voice bugs me. It has in almost everything I've seen her in. Except the behind the scenes special when she was just talking.

The timeline for the premieres of SGA and SG1 bugged me. In the finale of SGA the Dadealus has reached Atlantis and mounting the rescue operation. In the premiere the ship is still at Atlantis.

But in Avalon Daniel misses the Dadealus by a few hours and I'm not sure why the timeline is so screwed up like that.

The timeline for the premieres of SGA and SG1 bugged me. In the finale of SGA the Dadealus has reached Atlantis and mounting the rescue operation. In the premiere the ship is still at Atlantis.

But in Avalon Daniel misses the Dadealus by a few hours and I'm not sure why the timeline is so screwed up like that.

It's not screwed up; Atlantis had a cliffhanger and Stargate didn't, so Stargate's now showing events that happened after the events we're seeing in Atlantis. Moebius actually took place before Siege, and we're clearly a couple of months past Moebius in Avalon, but still in Siege over on Atlantis.

I just picked up SG-1, and I'm a thrown. Isn't everybody a bit informal for a military base? I don't think I saw Cameron throw one salute, even when he met his CO.

That's par for the course--they're a pretty informal bunch.

Isn't everybody a bit informal for a military base? I don't think I saw Cameron throw one salute, even when he met his CO.

I think maybe they didn't want to scare the long-time viewers. It's been years since the fact that the SGC is a military base has really been an issue. They established it early on as such, and then went off to do more interesting things. Having people saluting every five minutes would get really wearing when you're used to your characters not bothering, I think. Though it wouldn't be an episode unless someone said "Sir, with all due respect..." at least once.

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I love BSG with an (un)holy love. I love the characters (pretty much all of them except Ellen Tigh, Gaius, and Six), love that we have no clue who's in the right. I think the actors are doing a bang-up job. I like that even minor charactors like Cally have layers. I love the gender role stuff, and that can be a make or break for me. I was on the edge of my seat for most of 33, and KLG. I like that they didn't neatly resolve the cliffhangers from KLG pt. 2 in Scattered.

Y'all can have Jamie Bamber's arms; I'll take Katee's arms, shoulders, and the curve of her lower back.

Of course, I've never seen a single ep of either Stargate. Or Farscape.

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I was on the edge of my seat for most of 33

33 absolutely hooked me. I thought the mini was fine... figured I'd give the show a watch, what with it being right there on Friday with the Gates, but I wasn't expecting to fall for it. Then that ep was just so tight and suspenseful, an order better than than the mini - I kind of figured I was hooked, and it turns out I was right.

It still took me a while to warm up to some of the characters, like Starbuck and Apollo, which is kind of funny. And the Caprica stroyline did get a little draggy for me. But the overall storytelling interested me from the outset. And I liked Roslin and Adama from the get-go, too, which helped. And the Baltar and Six interactions.

/relurks

Stop that!

For the record, I'm blown away by Six.