Watching the special the BBC presented before the new Dr. Who. It's called Doctor Who: A New Dimension.

Colin Baker (Blonde Doctor, frizzy hair, clown clothes) has physically changed radically. I realize he's 20 years older, but woah.

Both that and the new ep is at btefnet dot net.

I was thinking about why I watch BSG and never really got in to SG.

the first part is that I love post-apocolyptic stories. I even have dreams that are about such things - lucid dreams. I think the second thing is that I love mythology/religion in story telling. BTVS - season 7, even though there were things that I felt were flawed- it really investigated the mythology and found the truth in it. And though I suspect we won't get a full picture of the religion of BSG, I am really intrigued by the glimpses we are getting of it.

Colin Baker (Blonde Doctor, frizzy hair, clown clothes) has physically changed radically. I realize he's 20 years older, but woah.

Perhaps he's suffered some deleterious effects from the ill wishes of millions of Doctor Who fans? Dude was Not Popular.

Matt, know what's driving me nuts? S2 Browder, upside down on his Pilates ball, has a disturbing resemblance to young Mel Gibson.

I must confess one thing about my own inability to get into Stargate of either manifestation. It's how they handle certain aspects of human mythology. The Asgards are a big case in point. I have friends who are Norse pagans. I attend some of their rituals and have worked with some of their gods. The mental disconnect I get seeing a bug-eyed gray alien called Thor is a bit too much for me to handle for long.

The mental disconnect I get seeing a bug-eyed gray alien called Thor is a bit too much for me to handle for long.

Hologram technology. Masks a multitude of sins.

I can watch Stargate for short whiles, until the silliness makes me have to run away. Actually, Stargate #2 is far lower on the silliness scale, except for the "I sat way, way too long under the hair dryer with dye on" aliens, because they are so ridiculously OTT.

The failure of everyone around him to realize that Baltar is (a) terribly sleazy; and (b) completely nuts is quite possibly my biggest beef with the show after the major worldbuilding issues.

This is what made me give up on Galactica. (Much as I like the word: Galactica! Galactica! After enough repetitions, it turns into Galarraga and Blacula and wakka-wakka.) Like, there were all those people who hated the Seinfeld character and loved to watch the show; I hated the Seinfeld character, and was like, Why would I watch a show about this jerk? So I didn't.

Nice biceps just can't make up for people being annoying.

Colin Baker (Blonde Doctor, frizzy hair, clown clothes) has physically changed radically. I realize he's 20 years older, but woah.

Perhaps he's suffered some deleterious effects from the ill wishes of millions of Doctor Who fans? Dude was Not Popular.

Yeah, he was an ass. But [link]

Woah.

Eh, I'm not too shocked by that much change in 20 years, given that he wasn't a young man back then. From what you'd said I expected to see the Cryptkeeper or Robert Conrad.

I'd so knock a battery off Robert Conrad's shoulder now.