(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.

How far along in BG are you, JenP?

Yeah. It's how I felt about Voyager, even before I knew how lame the stories would be. There's only so many failed attempts to get home I can stand before I lose interest, because you know that whatever they try, it ain't gonna work. It's like being spoiled for the end of every episode.

I think they can have a decent shot at making Atlantis more about exploring the area, than trying desperately to go home. Otherwise they have a grail with no suspense.

Ugh, I hope they make it more about dealing with where they are and what they can find than about the quest for the zpm and home. I sort of liked that about the intro. - they made the "you may not get back, so be clear about your choice," point, so I'd hoped the focus would be on the destination instead of the return. I don't think they've gone over board with finding a way home, though. It's been fairly well focused on surviving Atlantis itself. Though, yeah, mentions of getting home, and "if we ever want to get home," are not infrequent. Anyway...

I've just gotten ep 10 of Battlestar, ita, but I haven't watched yet. The last one I saw had the return of The Wife and Helo's Cylon's defection (can't remember her name). Oh wait, was it the "You want to know what it's like to feel so intensely..." and the blond Cylon's reaction? I thought it was a little early (in the series) for Cylons to be wanting to have feelings and such. And defecting for them.

Battlestar: It was the defection, Jen. Baltar stopped being conflicted and interesting, and shot straight over to weak and despicable and therefore boring. I'm interested in the God stuff, and where that's going, but Gaius isn't even evil. He's just small.

Aquarium: As long as the quest is for a ZPM, how can they justify not going home, at least once, if they found one?

Wait! Did the new episodes of SG-1 and Aquarium already start? I thought it was this friday!

(naughty torrenters talking, quester)

I'm trying to make a note of some of the missing MI 5 scenes, quester.

So far, we're missing a lovely scene where Ruth pretends to be pregnant with Harry's child to sneak him a message in hospital, additional team problem solving scenes, including a bondy one where Adam talks to Danny about his wife.

More details as they develop.