I had to think my way into Torchwood ep 10 having a punch, and that's precisely not the right way to do it. But with technology being where it's been for the past little while, I don't flash right to the idea of motion film being ruined by exposure to light. It's been a gazillion years since home-level cameras used film that needed light-tight processing, right?

They had a nicely creepy setup, and good character interaction. Like others, I'm wondering about the payoff to Owen's death. Other than him freaking out a bad guy once an ep.

ita, if it's a film camera, it's light sensitive. Even super 8 was light sensitive.

But he does look alot older than his character.

I was thinking he wasn't really passing for superboy anymore. In the comics world, not that it matters to the series, but when did he leave Smallville?

David Hewlett has updated his blog with a picture of his baby!

OMG the cuteness. And then I looked past the baby to the father who looks like the baby has not been letting him sleep. Heh.

I know, DCJ. I'm saying that it's not reflexive to assume that anymore, since the market shift. So at first the solution seemed silly to me, and once I'd remembered it might make sense it was too late to have proper impact.

Caught up on S2 of Jericho. Good stuff. Hope it's not really done this season, but there you are.

I suspect it is, based on the ratings I've seen -- unless some cable station wants to pick it up, anyway. But I've been pleased with much of season 2. At least they're really going balls-out into the storytelling this season.

Well, Lennie James needs to get more work, and really quickly. He rocks the screen.

Yeah, Jericho is very tight and focused this season. A big adrenaline rush.

I'm watching the Jericho mini-marathon on Sciffy and I must say, I miss Miss Hawkins Junior. As awesome as her dad.

I stopped watching Jericho last season because their handle of the "how society deals with an apocalypse (of sorts)" was completely hamfisted and annoying and I don't have the Skeet Ulrich love. But the few eps I've caught this season, despite (or, more likely, perhaps because of) the radically changed focus and streamlining or whatever it is that's different about it, I'm enjoying it more. Much more than the first six or so eps I caught of the first season, at least. Although I do kinda wish they'd been able to sustain that post-apoplectic feel to it. It's a bit disconcerting to see electricity and holding an emergency light to help with a surgery, yet on the other hand it's nice not to be bogged down with "OMG, no more candles or matches or gasoline and this otherwise superficial wound will kill them because we've lost our technology!"

I feel like I'm saying totally contradictory things. Maybe I am. Maybe it's because what I hoped the show would bring was handled so poorly that I'm glad that what I had hoped the show would bring wasn't brought and ditched in favor of something else.

... And finally saw the latest ep (I asked for Tivo and got a digital photo printer which we don't use, and the system of labelling the VHS tapes with days of the weeks goes out the window within the second week of having bought new tapes!). Stanley's conversation with Bonnie in Sign was heartbreaking. And then later when he offs Toepick I was so horrified. Not with the characters action, but with the fandoms reaction that I'd been reading about elsewhere that were all ZOMG!Awesome!!!PointBlankBitch! and it so wasn't that. It was horrible and sad. I felt no vindication for Stanley, in fact Stanley felt no vindication for Stanley. I did not enjoy that killing and feel a little sickened that some (hopefully not the majority) did.

Juliebird, I have often noticed that reaction to the killing of a Bad Guy, particularly in the movies. "Yippee-kay-yay, mother-fucker," and so forth.

What little reaction I've seen on my flist to that scene is more in line with you: shock and concern about what this will do to Stanley, who's the one male figure on the show that hasn't been pretty greyed up. I wouldn't have been surprised if Eric or Jake or Hawkins had done it--although no, I would have been surprised if Hawkins did it, because he would have known it was a poor move strategically. But Stanley? Yeah, that was a shock.

So in one sense I welcome it, because it was unexpected and shocking, but it was also wrong, and thus it's going to give us some interesting fallout. And we've already seen that, from Beck's reaction at the sight of Goetz' body outside New Bern.

I was fully expecting one of the New Bernians to shoot him. Stanley doing it and then having the sickened reaction to it felt just as shocking as Bonnie's actions and death in the last episode. This season is really packing the punches.