I don't actually think they are Fay (with the possible exception of Martin Gero). My impression of the collective writer's bullpen is of a great big ball of false machismo and insecurity that's trying desperately to shout "They're all straight and manly. NO, REALLY!" while their efforts backfire and riddle subtext through half the storylines. Then there's Carl Binder, who concentrates on writing women with layers and agency and then gets to watch as the other writers kill them off or marginalize them in reaction to the discomfort that approach inspires.

I know they're aware that people write slash, but I don't think they're very good at multiple readings of the text.

Actually, again I missed the last few minutes of Atlantis.

After the fight? Uh, they took the crystals back to the planet, and the whole forest slowly started lighting up, which I thought was nicely creepy, and Rodney was like, "Yeah, we should get the hell out of here."

Then there was a shot of John sitting on the new balcony set. Teyla shows up and says, "You couldn't sleep either?" Eventually Rodney, Ronon, Carter, and Keller all show up, and they sit together and exude teamness.

... and somewhere poor Radek is keeping the city running while they party.

Mine cut out, as well. It is findable on YT.

I'm watching Odyessey 5, it's getting interesting. Although it's funny to see all the blurred and bleeped stuff. I definitely need to see the dvds of this.

I didn't see it on Showtime, but stumbled across it somehow through Netflix. My love for it was large.

I liked O5, and I'm bummed we'll never find out the rest of the story.

Very much. Yes.

Oh, my god, there are no women in their brains.

Totally my favorite part of the episode. Actually, tied with the scene with Carter and [memfault: Jewel Staite's character] talking about the alien whateveritwas, because, hey! Two women, talking to each other, about something other than a man!

memfault: Jewel Staite's character

Keller.

Two women, talking to each other, about something other than a man!

I'm always so proud of the show when they manage this. Once, there was a scene with Weir, Teyla, and Heightmeyer, talking about the monster of the week.

Kate, I totally caught that in this episode, and was unutterably pleased.

That said, I still felt the pacing was odd. It all felt rather languid, somehow, I didn't feel any suspense, and I was totally unimpressed by Shep's big fight scene at the end. So, a great episode for character stuff, but the plot? pffft.

Oh, since we're in Box Set, for those who were wondering what the Farscape production team has been up to:

Tyrannosaurus Azteca, written by Richard Manning (aka Froon, who wrote many of the best episodes of FS) and produced by David Kemper, is the first of apparently five made-for-Scifi movies Kemper's producing for them.

I am told through the grapevine that the script and effects are great, and the cast is awful. I make no guarantees about the racial issues, given the setting. Given the writer, the gender issues are hoped to be, well, less than awful (god knows what the network will have required).

No information on when it's going to air, though: there's nothing about it on SciFi's website yet.

Like Alex O'Laughlin. Hate Moonlight. Watch it anyway. I think it's the looky-lou effect of a traffic accident. It's so bad, I can't look away.

I actually liked this week's Moonlight better than Blood Ties. Possibly because I had read the novel that this week's Blood Ties was based on and preferred the novel.

Detail I loved in Moonlight: when Mick tipped his hat to the woman leaving the ladies' room where whatsername was hiding in the Diner -- so very 1952 and not at all 2007.