Mr. McKidd was smoking in GA, for true. Need to see more of him--I wonder if I can watch Rome online from Netflix.

Way to go, SGA, for deflating much of the explosion cliffhanger by showing the in 2 weeks trailer right away

matt,

Wearing hats to go out in the sun would probably be a good idea at this juncture.

no doubt. I think she also needs to moisturize more. I know Hamilton has had pretty serious mental health concerns, so I wonder if medications she's been taking has done a number on her skin. Does she smoke? because that would explain a lot also.

Linda Hamilton looks like she's ninety!

She looked about her age on Thief just a couple of years ago.

I'm not familiar enough with the characters on Fringe to identify who the guy was on the stretcher at the very end. Was it Olivia's boyfriend? Was it the guy who got shot in that ep?

I have to say that I'm really hating that it's the same composer from Lost, because it conveys "awesome cliffhangers that lead to nowhere!" except that these haven't been that awesome --they don't need to be, I'm not expecting them to, but the show seems to go out of it's way to be all OMGWTFBBQ!1! and it doesn't need that. Because I'm somewhat sold. Lost has taught me that as cool as the HSQ factor is, I'd rather have solid stories and characters than awesome edge-of-the-seat cliffhangers for the end of every act that 85% of the time lead to nowhere special. I'm good with a generic button.

But I liked the ep, and agree that some of the scenes (the funeral, especially) place this as the second ep, and not the third. Although that does bring to mind the weirdness of the second official ep with the backwards scenes of Olivia & Co. being hired onto the team and later with Massive Dynamics (I keep wanting to say "Global Dynamics") head honcho and the interviews (or something that made it seem backwards and randomly flashbacky)

So I've been mainlining Avatar. Have watched Books one and two, and now have only four or five 'chapters' left before I get to the end of the series.

Thoughts so far: Katara is totally awesome. Toph? Also awesome like an awesome thing that inspires awe. I love the fact that Sokka isn't just a fall guy, or comic relief - that they've let him grow and develop and mature just as the others have, and that he does get to have moments when he's all heroic, take charge and idea-having. He isn't the Zeppo. This is nice. I continue to adore Zuko and Uncle Iroh, and am also thoroughly enjoying Azula, May and Ti-Lee (because this is what you'd get if Daria was an evil princess).

....actually, thinking about it, as with Buffy, I seem to be all over the supporting characters more than the lead. Not that I dislike the lead! Aang is cool, and likeable, and I've enjoyed watching his story unfold. But I'm more invested in the supporting characters.

And I have to say - I was UTTERLY SLAIN when Aang's Fire Master Teacher made his 'Hi, I'll be your fire teacher?' speech.

Slain.

Dead.

Bless.

I watched the 2nd and 3rd eps of Fringe today. I wasn't sure who the guy in the plastic tent was. I was worried that it was the guy that had been tapped into the ghost network, or possibly the one who was shot at the station.

eta which show I was talking about.

Fay, I am not quite where you are, but I think I have 10 more eps and the final movie before I'm finished.

We watch a disc a week, so we'll be done in 2 weeks I figure.

the guy in the plastic tent was Olivia's partner/lover that was killed. at the end of the pilot he was taken to Massive Dynamics and the red-headed lady asked the guy wheeling him in how long he'd been dead. i think he said 5 hours or some such and she replied with, "interrogate him".

really, tiggy? The guy in the third ep in the tent seemed too slight to be Olivia's BF. I was thinking that it might be the guy shot in the train station, but either way, I didn't get the big dunDunDUN music at the sight of him, whoever he was. I mean, I'm still unsure myself, and am willing to be wrong, but even if this had been the second ep, and they'd only had an hour to interrogate Olivia's BF before he was All Dead, then I don't understand the timeline. Unless the dunDunDUN had to do with the fact that BF was still alive?

i'm positive, Juliebird. the name on the computer screen is John Scott and i'd recognize Mark Valley anywhere. well...as long as CFerg and Joel Gretsch aren't in the room. heh.

they made it sound like he had some kind of hard drive installed in his brain somewhere and they'd been working on linking it up with their system. for what...i have no idea.