Espensen fit in great apparently. Her episode is hilarious I hear. I think it's about Fargo.

Which would be more amusing - lotsa Buffy references, or none whatsoever?

I don't know about amusing, but none whatsoever would be better. Unless it's in the context of pop culture references that Zoe & friends make about the show from having watched it growing up, maybe.

Authorial shout-outs to their previous work strike me as sickeningly twee in most cases, and it generally comes at the expense of the new show's mood.

Oh, I love the Jane so much. Just thought I'd share.

Oh, I love the Jane so much. Just thought I'd share.

As an unabashed Jane E fan, I'm going to share, too.

Jane strikes me as the perfect writer for Eureka--hellaciously smart and bitingly witty.

For Colin's benefit, let me restate the official analysis of blooper reels: All boxed sets must have blooper reels! All! All shall crack up about nothing and laugh like hyenas and fall over the furniture in so doing!!

And film it!

Nutty has spoken.

I'm excited for the Eureka DVDs, because I managed to miss a few episodes here and there. I think Space is repeating the series, but I never remember when it's on.

The Boston Globe has an article on a conspiracy theory that Lost and Heroes are connected. Assume current season spoilers (but no future ones) for both shows. It's a cute article: [link]

It's all connected?
Fans say there's evidence that ties 'Lost' and 'Heroes' together, but creators don't buy it
By Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff | March 4, 2007

Across the Internet, the screen-grabbing obsessives -- the ones who deal in frame-by-frame analysis of ABC's "Lost" -- were getting in a lather about the NBC hit "Heroes." It had to do with a brief scene a few weeks ago, when Nathan Petrelli, the caddish politician who can shoot into the air like a bottle rocket, grumbled about what might happen if word got out about his powers.

Officials could "round us all up, stick us in a lab on some island in the middle of the ocean," Nathan said. And within nanoseconds, the clarion call clanged out in cyberspace: "Heroes" mentions island! It must be a reference to "Lost"!

Yes, "Lost" and "Heroes" air on different networks, tell different stories, and exist -- as "Lost" producers point out -- in totally different time frames. (The "Lost" castaways live, after all, in the fall of 2004.) But to their most devoted fans, the shows have come to represent a sort of yin and yang of serial TV, in constant battle for the title of the Mystery Show That Does It Better.

"Lost," the word goes, is deeper and more cinematic; "Heroes" is pulpier and better-paced. And the way fans sometimes talk, there seems a cosmic cyber-wish for the shows to somehow merge -- to meld into a single supernatural drama that doles out questions and answers in acceptable weekly doses.

Indeed, some seem to believe it's already happening. One fansite, darkufo.blogspot.com, has posted pictures of a "Gannon Car Rentals" brochure, held by Hiro in "Heroes," and Hurley and Claire in "Lost." It also shows off photos of a suncatcher in the background of a trailer in "Heroes," and a similar, fleeting image from a torture video in "Lost." Some fans have noted casting coincidences: Greg Grunberg, who plays Matt Parkman on "Heroes," had a short stint as a doomed pilot on "Lost."

And on a recent Entertainment Weekly blog, Jeff "Doc" Jensen half-jokingly floated the idea that the Dharma Initiative, a fictional company in "Lost," created the super-folks who populate "Heroes." (He added, "Oh, like they would ever admit it if this were true!")

Read more.

Apparently, Lindelof used to work for Kring on Crossing Jordan. Kring helped get him out of his contract, so he could work on Lost. And when Kring was first working on the Heroes pilot, he would float ideas off Lindelof. A couple of other writers (Jeff Loeb, among them) moved from Lost to Heroes.

It's a silly piece, but fun. I do not agree, though, that Lost goes deeper than Heroes, although it may well be more cinematic.

It's a silly piece, but fun. I do not agree, though, that Lost goes deeper than Heroes, although it may well be more cinematic.

Well, you do kinda need hip waders while watching LOST these days. So it's deeper in some respects...

Oh, in the, "I'll hold the light, you shovel a while," sense -- sure. Lost is second in deepness only to its own promos, themselves.

All boxed sets must have blooper reels! All! All shall crack up about nothing and laugh like hyenas and fall over the furniture in so doing!!

Also, there should be nudity.