You mean that the picture is of the person in costume?
That's appalling.

I did notice the Robert Hewitt Wolfe has a production credit of some sort for The 4400.

Dr. Geeky Stereotype #4 is not likely to undergo the transformation that is happening to Geek Prime, Rodney.

OTOH? I kinda liked Weir's smackdown of the death ceremony. It is a nice contrast to every other SF show that wants to spent a lot of time thinking up rituals for the primary culture to bend over backwards in honoring.

Many time I wonder "but what about *their* traditions?"

Which starts up the whole "diversity vs melting pot" balance argument, so...never mind.

I kinda liked Weir's smackdown of the death ceremony. It is a nice contrast to every other SF show that wants to spent a lot of time thinking up rituals for the primary culture to bend over backwards in honoring.

My thoughts exactly.

I am growing inordinately fond of McKay. He's delightfully unheroic, even when saving the day.

They should have come up with a more compelling alien argument. When it came up in DS9, I thought they always did a pretty interesting balance between Bajoran mysticism and Starfleet pragmatism (easily balanced by the mockification of the Ferengi). I just watched Rapture where Sisko gives it all over to the Prophets, despite knowing they're aliens and not gods. Worf and Nerys are totally supportive of him following faith, but everyone else despairs that he isn't being rational.

Weir just needed to tell him that AlienChick had obviously made her own call on this one, and was busy supporting the fight for life.

dips toe in alien thread

No profound thoughts about SG-1 or Atlantis because I have watched SG-1 in such random fashion I have no real notion of timeline. Making an attempt to watch Atlantis from the beginning so I will have clearer understanding. So far so good. I use the Sci-fi channel much like some people use the news channels. When I want to plop down in front of the tee-vee for a few minutes I watch Sci-fi. I've seen many disconnected bits and pieces of a lot of shows.

Speaking of which, I have a Farscape question. I watched the first 3 seasons pretty much straight through and enjoyed it muchly. Took a few weeks off and just started season 4. Just finished episode 7. I'm in pain here. And suffering. Am I just all bad moody and should put it aside and try again in a month? Does it get better? I'm getting ready to toss this aside and watch Malcolm instead. I wanted to get up to date before the October mini-series. Sob.

So what's the what?

Does it get better?

Um. Depends who you ask, I suppose. I found parts of S4 brilliant. Other parts, not so much. Episode 7 was John Quixote? Which I enjoyed a great deal, although it turned out not to stand up as well in the context of the rest of the season, in hindsight.

The next several episodes are pretty much one-offs, and 409 and 410 were not particularly popular. 411 is very important. 412 can be skipped ETA: except for the tag. End edit. Watch 413. 414 isn't important except for the bit at the end, sigh, and some entertaining character bits ("Oh, you don't scare me, missy. Okay, maybe a little.")

I hated 415 and you can skip it except for the teaser. It's a complete waste of an episode, and every character in it is moronically stupid. 416, on the other hand, is quite good, and it sets up the big finale for the season.

417 is ambitious as hell, and there's some fabulous acting in it, but it's not nearly as great as they thought it was. Still, I love the very last scene, and Ben Browder breaks my heart in it.

418-422 is the blow-out finale arc. 418-420 were pretty good, but 421 made me crazy because they dropped a lot of balls they'd put in the air. Some things made no sense at all, and I was very dissatisfied with some of the characterizations.

422 is... I have only seen it once. It's not bad, actually, although the ending is, well, somewhat controversial.

Thank you Consuela! A big rainstorm has forced me to suspend my weeding and has planted me in front of the screen for 408. I think spacing them out to finish in October is the best plan.

Wait -- does this mean Daniel Jackson is going to be a daddy?

Well, Michael Shanks is, yes. I think it's been a while since Daniel got any.

sigh

I went away for the weekend and for got to tape. ita informs me that Jack was on fire. Again I say, sigh.

Would anyone who taped Friday's eps be willing to send them my way for a short time? I'll gladly pay for postage. Thought I'd check here before going to tape fairy world.

I checked, but it doesn't look like they're going to rerun them like they did last week.

Jen, I'd be happy to if you send me your address. (Profile addy is good.) I live in Washington State, though, so be aware it'll take a while if you're on the east coast.