Hey, I liked it, too, P-C, and you know that thing where we are the same person, your crackheaded fondness for a certain cheesy 60's Arthurian musical excepted.

Raisinettes.

So, I watched the latest Atlantis episode and what do you know? They did the entire episode on how Teyla's this special half-wraith princess, and I... actually didn't hate it. Despite the potential danger of massive overuse of this particular plot-device, I thought the storyline had interesting possibilities.

Now, the episode before that--I loved it, despite my general dislike of clip shows. Have I said recently how much I love McKay? Weir had some lovely moments, too, and I found myself liking the Sergeant Hardass.

Also, Ponytail must DIE.

She's a what now? Wow. OK, looking forward to see how they make that work. Tomorrow, though.

I'm all chicken about doing the thing now, but this one's already halfway done, so...

Damn, I...have enough shows to watch. It's supposed to not suck, though?

BG is good stuff so far, I think. Got me excited to a degree that hasn't happened since, to speak purely of SF TV, Babylon 5.

Lysana, that's a good analogy. It's very serious and portentous; I do hope they can leaven it with the occasional humor. Like the poker scene with Baltar and Starbuck, that was pretty good, I thought.

But Boomer? She's so totally fucked. And I'm dying to know if the one on Caprica thinks she's human, too. And if so, how that works. At what point did they get split up? When did the Cylons get placed? Did they take Boomer and replicate her, or was she always a Cylon?

Many fascinating plot-related questions to ask!

Poor Boomer.

RE Citizen Joe, which I've just now watched the beginning of: Who knew "seven years ago" translated to "1957"? *headdesk*

Aha. I just worked out what made me think the Stargate special was a retrospective ... the phrase "provide highlights of previous seasons" as the show description. However, it looks like every scene so far is forward-looking, as it should very well be.

Hey -- are we establishing a convention for whitefonting the current run of BSG?

I've been doing it because I've been talking about eps pre-broadcast, and I'm also not keeping track of what has aired here. But I'd just figured BG talk would be the same as the Stargates. Though, I admit that I don't know, technically, when we go from whitefont to regular for those. And I also don't have a preference anyway. Probably not a helpful paragraph, really.

If I had my druthers I'd say BSG was open for regular, non-whitefonted posting as soon as it's aired--same way we handled Buffy. But I don't really care.

The standard for the rest is once it's aired in the US, it's blackfont.

I'm getting all tangled up between what, on BSG, I can talk about and what I can't, and when it's all in whitefont, it doesn't help.

Blackfont questions: What's the history/theology of BSG? I get that the humans are polytheistic, and the Cylons monotheistic, but which gods do the humans worship? I finally realised that the planets are named after the zodiac. Does that tie in with who they worship?

How does Earth and Kobol fit in? Or at least, how did they fit in in the original?