Though I would have gone with "I Am the Walrus," personally.

Somewhere else I saw someone wishing "Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" was the song.

Would have gone with the anvilly "storm's a-coming" thing they had Helo say in the previous episode.

That reminds me of Sports night.

DAN

Rebecca isn't here, Isaac isn't here,

there's a strangeness about this day.

DAVE

30 seconds live.

DAN

Eli's coming.

CASEY

Eli?

DAN

From the Three Dog Night song.

CASEY

Yes.

DAN

Eli's something bad.  A darkness.

CASEY

"Eli's coming, hide your heart girl."
Eli's an inveterate womanizer.  I think

you're getting the song wrong.

DAVE

In ten--

DAN

I know I'm getting the song wrong, but
when I first heard it, that's what I
always thought it meant, and things
stick with you that way.

Would have gone with the anvilly "storm's a-coming" thing they had Helo say in the previous episode.

That sent my friend into a whole "Eli's Coming" place.

t /Sports Night

I'm starting to wonder if those of us who were spoiled are, on average, more satisfied than those of us who remained unspoiled. I know that's hard to determine, but it's an impression I'm getting.

I was unspoiled, and I loved the finale. (You knew someone was going to respond with that as soon as you hit post, right?). It was trippy and weird, and I had a ball watching it.

Ha! I kind of love that about us.

It's kind of a corallary of the rubber glove! AIFG! phenomenon (mah-nah-mah-nah sorry ).

Buffista A: You know one might surmise that it's just us northern buffistas who like to wear rubber gloves and pretend we're chickens.

Buffista B: No! I grew up in West Bumfuck Alabama and me and my cousins would do that all the time!

De-lurker: Delurking to say, I'm from Azerbijan and we have a cult of rubber glove wearers.

Buffista A: Huh.

I was unspoiled, and I loved the finale. (You knew someone was going to respond with that as soon as you hit post, right?). It was trippy and weird, and I had a ball watching it.

Heee! Yes.

Ha! I kind of love that about us.

Me, too.

Hee. I tried to use But My Experience Contradicts That in conversation the other day and I had to get all eyerolly that my meatspace conversationalists don't have the oh-so-convenient Buffista shorthand down.

Hey guys. About the question of who left the note -- I wasn't thinking so much in the sense of it being an important question that needed to be answered, as an old plot thread that might be picked up, and now had possibilities it hadn't before.

But the discussion reminded me of something I'd been thinking about for quite a while....how we tend to come up with highly complex theories to explain what we're shown on the screen, overlooking that the people who make the show have much less time to think about this than we do, since they're so busy, y'know, making the show.(I'm thinking of stuff like Giles=Ethan, and "It's Angel pretending to be Angelus", neither of which I think were proposed too seriously, but I've seen people elsewhere come up with similar theories and get bent completely out of shape when the explanation was much simpler.)(I once had a friend give me an impressive rant on the temporal mechanics of Sailor Moon.)

t /abusing parentheses

And of course, shows like Jossverse and Heroes and BSG encourage this , because sometimes there are spoilers in plain sight, or complex allusions or metaphors. People pick up on that, and get into the habit of assuming everything fits into a pattern, when sometimes it just seemed like a good idea at the time.

And I'm about to start rattling on about my Theory of Joss, so I'll shut up now.

(PS, does anybody else remember "Ivanova is in league with the raiders"?)

I'm talking as someone who ADORED S1 and know S2 is awesome, but I am so behind in my media, it's not even funny

Moi aussi. I mean, about Life On Mars--I kept replacing the content of my clipboard as I caught up in thread, and get this far to discover I have no context.

I shoulda mearaed.

As for BSG, I was spoiled and let down. I thought too much of it was stupid. I loved Lee's speech and am aghast he got to deliver it. Which undercut the drama, but not the point.

I thought it'd be cool for those four to be Cylons, with ripples of ramifications and all that, but the actual execution made me eyerolly. The choreography of them in that room quite especially, but the leap to "We're all Cylons" felt unearned and ass-grabby, but I'm willing to buy it as the panic of some freaked out people. To give the writing the benefit of the doubt.

And the lyrics felt terribly cheesy, because they all looked like they were reciting. I do not know the lyrics to the song, but I could easily tell when they were saying them.