Andi, I liked the BtVS movie too. It was fun. It suffers in retrospect, but at the time, there was no show to compare it to, and I liked the idea of the only person able to fight vampires being a girl. I also liked the idea that she knew they were around because she got cramps, and I wished that part had been in the show.

I remember original BSG. At the time, nothing that wasn't Star Trek could really hold my interest. I didn't watch the new series because I hadn't liked the original all that much. Plus, beautiful female robots! I figured it would suck.

Andi, I liked the BtVS movie too. It was fun.

Plus, it had Rutger Hauer. I don't care how old and paunchy he gets, Rutger Hauer=Sex to me.

Boy refuses to watch Buffy because of his visceral hatred of SMG. He thinks he could really like it, but can't get past wanting to scream at the tv when she's on.

I've got him watching Firefly and Stargate, and I'm sure if I ever get around to BSG, he'll join in.

Last night I had a BSG dream. It was a normal episode, except at the end some Klingon warships showed up. Turned out Adama had entered into a secret alliance with the Klingons to fight the Cylons together.

I remember thinking, "Ah, that Moore - once again going against expectations." Because the expectation, of course, would be for Adama to ally with the Federation.

Anyway, it was sort of a cliffhanger ending, so I didn't get to see what happened next.

I hope that the sci-fi channel doesn't schedule your dreams, tommyrot, or you'll have to wait until like, December, to find out what happens.

Because the expectation, of course, would be for Adama to ally with the Federation.

That's awesome.

Tom Skerritt, who co-stars in the upcoming SCI FI original movie Mammoth, told SCI FI Wire that the trick to making the film work was to not take the story too seriously.

Um... duh?

Mammoth begins with what appears to be a meteor crashing into a natural history museum in a small Louisiana town, but the meteor is actually a spaceship containing a shape-shifting life form that, in order to survive, inhabits a partially frozen woolly mammoth at the museum. Soon, the possessed mammoth is wreaking havoc, and it's up to a paleontologist, Dr. Abernathy (Vincent Ventresca of The Invisible Man), to save the day. Skerritt (Alien) plays Abernathy's father, Simon, and Summer Glau (Serenity) plays Abernathy's daughter.

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Skerritt added, "That's basically the way these guys looked at Mammoth. They said, 'How can you take this seriously?' And they convinced SCI FI to allow us to bring humor to it. Those are the things that, I think, make horror films different. How are you going to scare people? Lull them in and make them laugh and then suddenly [it's], 'Wait a minute, what am I laughing at?' Maybe that's the new way of doing it; I don't know." Mammoth premieres April 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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Oh, poor Vincent Vintresca. What are you doing in that movie, honey?

SciFi Wire thingie on the writers of the new Who: [link] Somewhat spoilery (as to general setting or villians of certain episodes).

Just spoilery for Who 05 not Who 06.

There is a spoilery SG1 article on ScifiWire too. Spoiler: Scary little girl who does the speedy grow up to be a woman. I hope that they do that with humor.