Oh my. I just watched my tape of MADtv from last night, and they did a movie trailer spoof combining Ray and The Grudge. Ray's wife assumed he was back on smack when he told her about the ghosts, and they had Bobby Lee as Kayako moaning along in harmony with Ray during a rendition of "What'd I Say."

Well, you guys who watched the BBC versions can tell me what all I missed, but I really enjoyed the season opener of MI-5.

Also, Rupert Penry-Jones is strangely more attractive as Adam Carter than he was playing the REAL spy in Cambridge Spies.

I didn't get to watch the marathon and hadn't watched my tapes in a looong time -- so I was a little at sea at first. But -- it was a lot of fun. And Tom showed himself to be much more competent than usual.

I have to admit, Adam Carter is a cold-hearted bastard, but a very good spy.

I expect they cut hell out of the scene where he talks wassname into shooting herself.

I expect they cut hell out of the scene

Oh, yeah. Essentially, all mentions of the daughter have been excised. I mean, a lot of that was exposition to catch the viewers up on why Tom was framed, but they also lost some intensity from the scene by abbreviating it so much.

They also cut the last scene in which Adam was invited along with Zoe, Danny and Tom to go for a drink, which I was actually happy about, because that scene had struck me as incongruous when it first aired.

Wait, Penry-Jones? He's the brother of the guy that played Adam Duke on the Waking The Dead episode with the Sheperd, I bet. And the junior Penry Jones was briefly on Midsomer Murders last night, playing the younger version of Daddy Penry-Jones.

Good looking family.

Yes, he is.

Whew. So I was away all last week and finally saw the two most recent SG-1 (Harry! I didn't know there was going to be Harry! Yay!) and Atlantis eps. Liked them both. SG-1 for the same sappy-hearted reasons as ita. Chortled at Harry's sudden Ancient reading skills, but I really don't care, because, as noted, Jack! Off-world! With sunglasses and banter! The team! Together! Ahem. Sorry. Liked Atlantis for the whole thing, actually. Am having the same post-hiatus preference overall for the big A, which is disconcerting. Anyway. And loved the not-so-fast-Skippy-this-is-our-potentia ending. Go, indigenous people.

And now I have some Lost, Alias, and Battlestar to catch up with next. I tell ya', one week away with no internet access...

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And Katie! With the hilarity (we knew that) and fame! And spot-on insightfulness, dontchaknow. Damn straight. (Wouldn't it be cool to know the trail from your LJ entry to that article?)

(Wouldn't it be cool to know the trail from your LJ entry to that article?)

Yes! I'm terribly curious.

I probably liked Aquarium about even with, or slightly less than Original Recipe -- because I didn't for a moment believe they'd get the zed pee em. And something about the Wraith dart failed to perk up the requisite anticipation in me. I guess, as long as the show is called Aquarium Atlantis, they're going to be there, and cut off from Tauri.

Prove me wrong, guys, prove me wrong!

Heh. Yeah, point. But I did like the way they ended up not getting it. I also like saying and hearing zedpm, though I have no idea why I get such joy from the zed/zee thing. But I do. The dart worked better for me before I knew that it actually was a dart. I mean, that's what they speculated, of course. For whatever reason, I expected it to be Something Else. Oh well.

I tell you what's surprising me is how much I am digging Battlestar. Because I really am. Oh, I meant to ask you, ita... you posted that something that they did to one of the characters just before the hiatus might potentially make the character less interesting. Who and what? I was looking for it, but I couldn't figure it out.