SG1 and SGA ALWAYS goe on an extended break from Sept - January. So, this isn't new.

Did Billie do accents in either of her appearances, or did she sound like her Dr. Who self?

In the one I saw - she sounded like herself. . . but I think that they were supposed to be someplace that isn't London.

Maybe someplace close enough to London but not!London that the accent wasn't a worry?

Nobody seemed to be other then generic British except for Don (John) who was Scottish and that guy who was in Murder Prevention Unit and is Irish.

I love Olmos so much.

They were (mostly) playing on-air TV personalities, so having your generic BBC accent wasn't too far off the mark.

As for EJO, I was just rewatching my tape of (most of) the first half of BSG S2 last night, and was loving his performance so much. He's such a good actor, and can bring on the Adama Glare of Death when called for (the last ep I watched was "Pegasus", when it was in full force!).

SG1 and SGA ALWAYS goe on an extended break from Sept - January. So, this isn't new.

OK, good to know. Thanks!

Not to go from the sublime (BSG) to the not-so-sublime, but is anyone else out there watching Blade on Spike TV? I've been enjoying it more than I thought I would. I won't claim Emmy (or Peabody)-caliber acting, but it's turned out to be a lot better than expected. I've been impressed that the episodes are forming one continuous, layered story rather than consisting of individual standalone eps. Currently the season is about 7 or so episodes in, and has introduced Blade's vendetta against a wide range of vampire "houses," his ally, a newly made vampire within one of the houses, and a lot of political intrigue amongst the houses themselves. (One of the house heads is a young girl, who reminds me of the girl in the white room at Wolfram and Hart.) There's an FBI agent tracking some of the killings, who seems to be inching closer to the realization of that they might have been caused by ... some sort of monster. All in all, it's been a satisfying way to fill an hour. The commercials are a trial (again, Spike TV... thank God for fast forward on my VCR).

I did have a question -- when vampires are killed, they turn to dust. There are more pyrotechnics than when Buffy dusts them, but still, dust is the end result. Is this part of vampire canon? I thought Joss had Buffy's vamps turn to dust so that the screen wouldn't be littered with bodies and so she wouldn't look like a budding serial killer herself.

The first Blade movie came out in 1998 with essentially the same immolation/death effect that the series uses. Buffy first aired in May 1997—I'm not sure if it had aired before the decision to have dying vampires go poof! was made for the movie.

I was channel surfing and caught a few minutes of Blade. The stuntwork seemed good. And that's all that I saw, so. But I've never seen the movies so the show doesn't have much drawing power for me.

I think the, er, poofing is a common part of the mythos. From Dracula:

But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Though Lucy doesn't turn to dust when she's given the Extraordinarily Freudian Stake. I think the idea is that decomposition makes up for any lost time.

I vaguely remember Joss making comments somewhere about the similarities between some Blade things and some Buffy things and that it was just a weird coincidence because they were both in production at the same time. I thought it was at the Bronze but I looked through the VIP archive and couldn't find it. Maybe it was an interview?

Though I did the find the posts that started the Minearketeers and that made me laugh so not a total waste of time.