Matt, in fairness I think the only way I could survive being a guest at a convention would be by getting blind drunk. In the UK he doesn't do panels so much - he gets several bottles of vodka and dishes it out to the audience whilst drinking it himself. Somehow he manages to drag that out for 2 hours, as his panel slot. It's still more entertaining than people trying to think of 2 hours of questions for him, though.

On Torchwood ep 4, what was Jack thinking about retconning a man with a bullet wound? How do you explain that?

I think retconning must be a more extensive process than we've been shown. They have to have the capacity to replace memories, as well as erase them. When Owen was kicked out of Torchwood, they were going to retcon all of his memories of working for Torchwood, and they obviously would have had to replace them with some kind of cover story.

I just read a story the other day where Ianto spent his time in Torchwood One working for the department in charge of devising the memories they implanted in people who were retconned.

Yeah, it would have to be more complex. At the very least the person in question would have to know what happened yesterday.

From BSG - will be back on Fridays at 10 pm Eastern - from the Scifi Wire article:

Beginning at 10 on March 28, Battlestar Galactica: Revisited will serve up the essential information on the series' past three seasons, providing the uninitiated with an introduction to the characters, relationships and backstory. Executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick serve as guides and hosts.

Battlestar Galactica: The Phenomenon follows at 10:30 and is a celebrity-studded celebration of the show's effect on pop culture. Interviewees include Seth Green, country music star Brad Paisley and Talk Soup's Joel McHale talking about why Battlestar Galactica is one of the best shows on television.

Is Torchwood ep 4 the one that ran on BBCA this past Saturday. I keep getting confused about which white font I can read.

Last Saturday on BBCA was episode 3 -- the BBCA schedule is only about a week and a half behind the UK, so the whitefont-mingling is more promiscuous than I've ever seen it.

But people have already seen ep 4?

Sorry -- I didn't quite manage to complete my thoughts. A bunch of us are getting the UK airing from the internets (or just from being over thataway), but since they're only a week off from each other, the discussion is all confused (unlike past Who/TW seasons where one has aired 6 months earlier or so, and there are two clearly distinct periods of conversation).

That said, I know I've been squeeing all over screen without making it clear which ep I was whitefonting about -- it's marginally better than not whitefonting, but I should be more careful about that.

I usually put in episode numbers for the whitefont, but the rule is that I'll whitefont ep 4 until this weekend.