Perhaps, if it really is him, Uncle Justin still has an agenda for Harry, that Harry is more important/useful alive, with the chance of being used/converted for/to the uncle's nefarious purposes, than dead?

I really enjoyed this, although for some reason I had the impression that it was supposed to be funnier/quirkier than it was. Not that I'm complaining, I liked the tone it struck quite well.

The only downer was the ridiculous "I'm a powerful skinwalker, so I'm going to waste a lot of physical energy by tying this guy up so I can punch him in the gut". Mostly the imagery of the skinny blond wailing on him and looking rather silly doing it.

eta forgot about the dead-uncle thing. Wasn't the phrase more like "When you self-defensed your uncle to death"? (There were several remarks on this incident, the skinwalker said something about it that I forget) Which leaves it open to the uncle's body being intact, erm, I guess. But also means that the uncle was trying to kill Harry. So if then, why not now? (if it's still the same guy).

Can you kill someone in self-defense if you are not the specific target (say, Harry killing Uncle Justin who is trying to kill Pa Dresden?)

The High Council thing was the only thing that struck a sour note with me. Whenever I hear about some kind of wizardly oversight body, I think of Bewitched.

In the books, Harry's on "probation" from the High Council due to killing his uncle.

Wow, all the spec about Starbuck's painting and the Eye of Jupiter all so true. Does that mean that she is a Cylon? Or is she some descendent of the original programmer?

In the books isn't it the White Council not the High Council? Or am I misremembering or possibly confusing the White Court with the council?

hmm, Sumi, you might be right.

"and since XXXXXX is a Cylon..." I don't know if she was assuming or going from spoilers since I didn't want to even ask. But damn, I don't want to know that kind of shit in advance. The fuck?

FWIW, there are no real spoilers about that plot point out there right now. There are a TON of rumors and speculation, but nothing that's been confirmed either officially or unofficially through legitimate channels.

Ngah. I'm much more up to speed than I was, having spent the weekend watching most of current seasons of SPN, Heroes and BSG, but still have mighty envy of you realtime watching people.

Meanwhile, wrt Heroes, did you all know already that Hiro is played by a total renaissance bloke? I am gobsmacked. Cute as a button, funny as hell AND a brain the size of manhattan. Gah.

eta

...so, having just played catchup with BSG up to the last-but-one episode, I have to say that much as I enjoyed the backstory-packed Lee'n'Kara episode, I still shouted at the screen quite a lot. Because okay, fine, now they bother to tell us what went down. But honestly, I just get the feeling that the writers cannot be arsed to write continuity stuff for relationships a lot of the time - like the whole Lee'n'Dee 2getha4evah! overnight thing. Pshaw. And it's not the Lee/Kara OTP thing I'm bothered about - Lee and Kara and Adama were a tightknit and profoundly screwed up little family unit for much of Seasons 1 and 2, which was engaging and interesting dramatically well before the whole 'ooh, yeah, she DOES fancy him' revelation - and to entirely disregard that dynamic - to give us barely, what, TWO fleeting scenes involving Kara with Lee or his dad FOR THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF SEASON 3...well, I just think that's shitty storytelling. And especially if we're supposed to accept that she and he have been lusting after each other confusedly the whole time. And that Adama has no reason to have a sudden hate-on for her - would, it's reasonable to suppose, have been especially worried about her, since she's his adoptive daughter, effectively. But apparently - nope. She's just some arsey chick who works for him. It pisses me off. It's like badfic. 'blah blah blah stuff happened that I can't be bothered writing, now we're at this point. Accept it.' The Tigh-Adama friendship continues to be delineated interestingly, so why did Starbuck just get dumped? Grr. And, yes, sure, the whole episode is All About Lee And Kara - and yes, sure, I do buy that that could have happened, and that they would each react exactly thus - but it's not enough, really, to present it to us all neatly wrapped up with a bow at this point. And what the hell about Kara's relationship with Adama? Is he over the whole father-daughter thing, now that he's got Sharon the Cylon to chat with? REALLY?

bangs head on desk.

Pissed me off. Hmph.

...still want more BSG, though.

I have a question about last night? Why smuggle unconscious Baltar onto Galactica in a body bag? Don't you want to have a big show of parading him onboard for the wireless journalists and such?

Baltar on the Galatica deck would cause a riot. He'd be killed before they could get him to the brig. Adama probably wants to get information from Baltar, which would be hard to do if he was dead.