Two BSG promos. The first one aired after the Monday night repeat - the second one aired in Canada. Much more interesting than the promo that aired after Sunday's episode.

And there are two Director's cuts for SPN up at the CW website.

People were on the list and known to have the latent powers before the eclipse activated the powers. Hiro tried to manipulate time long before it happened. That's my story.

I think HRG had the list with Claire on it and something bad happened when he approached the parents. Or he stole her. Or something.

Hmmm, I'd forgotten about the eclipse. I don't think there were two, though. The one that Micah made the box for and that Mohinder talked about to whomever was present day and we see in SMA that everyone already had powers. So, maybe the eclipse is just what gets everyone converging, not necessarily their powers. Kind of like the instinct that sends animals migrating at a specific time to a specific place, like New York. Damn, I really need a timeline drawn out to see just what happened when.

So, maybe the eclipse is just what gets everyone converging, not necessarily their powers. Kind of like the instinct that sends animals migrating at a specific time to a specific place, like New York.

That's cool.

The clip and the comic give a very strong indication of what that something is.

I think what Tom is referring to has also been discussed on the show in another context, so I\'m not whitefonting:

It seems like some of the characters believe that their powers were activated when they were captured -- Ted the nuclear guy and Matt the mind-reading cop had a brief conversation about it, showing each other their two-line scars. But Matt was reading minds before he was captured, so I don\'t think this is the case. It\'s possible that the Haitian erased their memories of their powers from before they were captured, so that they only believe that that\'s when they got their powers.

It seems like some of the characters believe that their powers were activated when they were captured -- Ted the nuclear guy and Matt the mind-reading cop had a brief conversation about it, showing each other their two-line scars.

That's true, but are we going to see everyone else going through the same thing? What about folks like Hiro, Nikki and DL? I don't see how HRG could get to every single one of them to activate their powers. Plus, would he have done that to his own daughter?

Did you miss the part where I said \"I don\'t think this is the case\"?

Ah, now you see my power. Overlooking the obvious.

The Huffington Post has a fun post trying to recruit people to watch BSG. The comments are rather entertaining, as well (the original post made the mistake of claiming that SF was poorly written, and he gets a lot of SF readers defending the quality of the genre, as well as a few die-hard original BSG fans deriding this version).

Thanks, again, Kalshane! I appreciate your indulgence.

Not a problem. I'm a big fan of the books (Jim Butcher refers to them self-awarely as "Popcorn" but they're very good popcorn, IMO.) and enjoy sharing.

Also, I lied. I just bought the first book.

Cool. It starts off a little slow, since it's got to do the whole world-building thing, but it picks up. I would say book three is where Butcher really hits his stride, but then I absolutely love the character of Michael and that's the book he's introduced in.

Fair warning, there are huge differences between the books and the TV series, though the basic concepts are still pretty much the same.