Against fannish consensus, I disliked "John Quixote", which I found frenetic and kinda self-indulgent, without the emotional whammy packed into the similarly-structured "Won't Get Fooled Again".

Sister!

Edited to note that Southern Belle Aeryn was, at least, deeply funny.

Seasoned. Work cafeteria's not too bad.

Alias fairly rocked this week, even if they did steal Speed's plot.

Ricky Gervais was fantastic -- after hearing his "Oh, I'm not an actor, I just have this one character I do" spiel on the Office DVD extras, I was really impressed.

Word to what everyone has said about Ricky Gervais. Even if he doesn't believe he is an actor, he nailed that guy. He's thinking-- you could actually see it when Syd said Julia Thorne-- and that was all it took.

You know, the bartender guy in Wonderfalls kind of reminded me of Michael Vartan/Vaughn.

Yes! Thank you!

Excellent rant 'Suela.

Two questions - when was Sikozu revealed to be a bioloid?

Which episode was Mental as Anything?

I can go investigating at one of the sites, but I'm trying to catch up, have dinner, etc., so hopefully you'll be able to answer this before I have to go digging, if you see this.

Delurking just to say:

News flash: 9 out of 10 of us pass for straight to the casual observer, and sometimes even to our nearest and dearest for years. (Though I must admit that in the latter case, there's usually some highly-motivated suspension of disbelief reinforcing the mistaken impression.)

I have an awful lot of personal experience with this. Older gay men especially suffer from it. It brings me no end of frustration to never see that represented on screen.

(lurking again)

Sikozu was revealed as a bioloid in the final run of episodes. She pulls something wacky off in the episode where they rescue Aeryn (WSS #1, I think), and then in WSS #3 she ::whimper:: levitates and emits a radiation harmful to Scarrans to save them all in the bunker with the flowers.

Mental As Anything was the episode where John, D'Argo, Scorpy, and Rygel go off to get "mental training" and D'Argo bumps into his former brother-in-law. Renowned for being the episode where Crichton's dilemma could have been very easily solve by simply taking off his shirt. A deeply stupid episode, and the one episode of the entire series that I really would like to believe never happened, in its entirety.

I just... like the team. Not with feverish devotion other fans seem to love Spike/Lex/John/Scully, but with enormous, yet still laid-back kind of affection--in a way that is almost familial. I want them to be happy, in contrast to, say, what I feel for Wesley or Tom Quinn from MI-5, on whom I regularly wish almost fetishistic emotional suffering. It's weird.

Yes. This. While I love it when ME shows spiral into new depths of twisted darkness, bleak doesn't suit SG1 all that well. I like that its characters are more or less static. Yes, there can be thorny dilemmas and moral conflict and temporary angst, but the good guys all eventually work their way back to their ground state.

It's uncomplicated enjoyment and entertainment. I don't watch it in the same way I watch Angel. With SG1, my sense of disbelief stays firmly nailed to the ceiling while I go along for the ride. With Angel, I tend to watch more actively--analyzing, critiquing, and pondering as I watch. Part of the enjoyment is the analysis and discussion, so if the quality is off, I notice it more than I notice gaping plot holes in Stargate.

Mental As Anything was the episode

Ah, one of the 4th season eps. I missed.

John must have been channeling Gunn for that episode in his refusal to take his shirt off.