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.

I'm an idiot, and obviously not a good fan. I looked at the listing for BSG last night and it said original airdate Dec something, so I thought repeat and didn't watch. That's what I get for believing what I read on the internets. Ahem, I'll see it later.

Also, reading posts about multiple shows without knowing what show is being discussed is tough until coffee hits bloodstream.

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.

That was my thought -- he's been on the Cylon ship long enough to be enourmously useful to the fleet now (and being Baltar, he'll tell them anything they ask if he thinks it might save his life).

I hope he and Six get adjacent jail cells.

Fay, apparently there were deleted scenes the showed development in the Lee/Dee relationship. I have not watched all of the deleted scenes from Season 2 but it's what I hear.

Kara was like a daughter to Adama but not the daughter you sit down with and drink tea.

Oh, and I was completely unable to get the preview for next week to work last night. Did anyone here see it? I hope it had more interesting stuff than the promo that they showed after the show!