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.

Kalshane, my library handed me up one of the middle books: Dead Beat--should I bother reading it now, or hold out and do them in order?

Dead Beat is book 7 of 8 out so far (9 will be out this Spring.) It's one of the best in the series, but the opening directly references the big reveal in book 6. I think it would be an enjoyable read, even for someone unfamiliar with the series, but it does directly refer to events that were surprises earlier in the series. So it would depend on how spoiler-phobic one is in regards to their reading material.

ETA: There's also a reveal in Dead Beat that doesn't have as much of an impact as it would if one had read books 5 and 6 (5 in particular).

7 is really far on. I'll return it and try and start at the beginning.