and involves hot people being sweaty and shirtless and drawing guns on one another.

Oh, hello. I'd be on board for that.

BSG update: Starbuck-centric episode didn't make me like the show any more.

Aw, I'm sorry to hear that, Dana. I'm not sure why I'm so infatuated with the show, since I've never been that into miliatary SF and most of the world-building makes me very sporky, but it's got me in its grubby mitts but good.

The latest episode--I thought some of the foreshadowing was a bit heavy-handed, but that scene with Starbuck and Adama when he finds out about Zak? Yowza. "Walk out of this cabin while you still can." EJO barely changes his expression throughout the whole scene, but the rage and grief emanating off his body is palpable.

Yeah, Vonnie, it's stuff like that that will keep me watching.

Finally saw this week's Smallville.

I adore Alicia. Is that alright? I could have liked this episode a lot, but there was no Clex, Chloe had nothing to do, Lana had something to do, and that speech from Ma Kent at the end made me want to smack her real hard.

I know it's a roofie analogy, but I still wanted those two crazy kids to work it out and get it on.

Ma Kent is way out of line.

Her son was fed the super equivelent of a date rape drug and she and pa Kent are dissapointed in his behavior after being drugged.

Her son was fed the super equivelent of a date rape drug and she and pa Kent are dissapointed in his behavior after being drugged

Not to mention that I thought her "marriage is sacred" speech was full of shit. What then is marriage to someone with no religion? I think marriage can be a beautiful thing, but her speech made it sound like "till death do us part" should be enforced at gunpoint.

I'm with Vonnie -- I liked this ep of BSG a lot, although more for the structure than the story. I did think that scene was very powerful, though. Still, the flashbacks and intercutting of the past and present were what did it for me. Poor foolish Starbuck. And ouch, the way he said he loved her like a daughter and then turned on her when she admitted the truth.

I really really like that they cast someone with an actual body for Kara. I have no idea what size she really is, but she looks like she could really be a soldier. I love that.

I really really like that they cast someone with an actual body for Kara.

Oh dear God yes. She's gorgeous and tough and solid--feminine without being girly. I think I have a little crush. Actually, I have a little crush on Roslin, Apollo, Starbuck and the Chief. It's a big crush-orgy in my head!

I am a weak, weak woman because I caved and watched ep. 5 last night and... can I just say once more how much I adore Roslin ? I understand her character is a new creation for this version of BSG. Whoever it was that first thought of the character *and* decided to cast Mary McDonnell is a frakking genius.

"Walk out of this cabin while you still can."

That whole scene just killed me.

I really really like that they cast someone with an actual body for Kara. I have no idea what size she really is, but she looks like she could really be a soldier. I love that.

Yes! This.

The one thing that does bug me about the cast is that there's a huge gap between the old and the young, at least in the military. Did all the soldiers in their 40's die in the Cylon attacks?

Well, you could wank that the ship was about to be decommisioned, so they'd have better places to put the in-between people than on an outdated Battlestar.