Or as I prefer to call them, "chick from Lost" and "other chick from Lost."

What's her name on V?

Erika.

I like the paranoia about who is a what--I think that the reveal of sleepers so early has a good payoff in that regard.

Yeah. It's an oldie but goodie as far as sci-fi plot points go.

FlashForward is awesome because you have Penny, Hobbit, Captain Norrington, and Shakespeare.

t edit John Cho is just John Cho, because he's awesome like that. However, the judges will accept "Sulu" as a variant.

I googled Penny Juliet Lost and the first result is Sarah, Penny, Juliet, and Colleen are blonde Lost charaacters [sic] that are easy get confused on a page titled Lost Blonde Secondary Characters. I feel a bit better about my brainfart.

However, the judges will accept "Sulu" as a variant.

Will they also accept Harold? Although that seems very lonely without Kumar.

Having watched a couple episodes of Kitchen Confidential this weekend, we will also accept "Teddy."

The Prisoner has more of an overall arch than most of the era.

Okay. I'll maintain that it's not one by contemporary standards, and that's people should not watch the show expecting anything of the kind. Especially now that "arc" mostly means "We'll spend 12 episodes teasing you about what happens in the 13th," but that's someone else's rant.

But about 2/3rds are "plot of the week" (equivalent of monster of the week).

Yes, and I think those episodes are the point of the show. Much more than the opening & closing are. I don't agree that people should approach the show like those episodes are throwaways.

Well I agree that is not arcy by today's standards. I don't know about throwaway, buf I find myself a bit impatient with some of them.

Alternate-Universe Sci-Fi Channel Show Asks What Would Happen If Germany Lost War:

NEW MUNICH—The new Sci-Fi Channel series Fallen Axis, which eerily depicts a world in which Germany actually lost the Second World War, premiered Tuesday evening to high ratings in an alternate universe to our own.

It actually took me a minute to wrap my head around the joke (at first I thought the joke was that a sci-fi show got high ratings).

The show is considered by many to be another boon to the Sci-Fi Channel's fall schedule, which also includes Battlestar Gleichschaltung, a weekly drama about a starship crew that enforces the total coordination of intergalactic society and commerce, and the hit reality series Jew Hunters, in which a team of paranormal investigators scour banks and former Polish ghettos in search of Jewish spirits.

I find myself a bit impatient with some of them.

Oh, sure. I think The General is the one that I get bored with.

Alternate-Universe Sci-Fi Channel Show Asks What Would Happen If Germany Lost War:

Heh. That reminds me of the book Warlords of Utopia:

Marcus Americanius Scriptor's memoirs of the war between every parallel universe where Rome never fell, and every parallel universe where Hitler won the Second World War, have long been regarded as the definitive account of that turbulent time.

Arc, not arch. I'm picky that way.