I'm guessing you don't watch The Chappelle Show, Beverly.

I was going to say "Does Wayne Brady have to choke a bitch?" but then ita beat me to it.

Let's just say -- you'd have "Does Wayne Brady have to choke a bitch????" bouncing through your brain all episode.

Didn't see the Smallville (SG1? Whichever show I don't watch that he was just apparently in), but that Chappelle Show ep was one of the funniest things in the history of television.

Wayne Brady and bitch.

At least the Wayne Brady bitch choking is in character for a Jaffa, as opposed to if they had written in a reason for him to Filk the local music....

Excitement during the SciFi Friday extravaganza - - first the screen went black. While it was black there was a power surge in my apartment that turned off the tv and vcr and frelled the phone. I was on the phone at the time.

When I got my tv back -- I'd missed the teaser. So, I watched Aquarium and Numbers and then taped the repeat of Aquarium while I watched Monk and taped and watched BSG at it's Midnight showing. I know I missed nuance. But man, that live ship interior was yuck-ee. But - very cool that it is a live ship.

It seems reasonably common on TV shows that a pilot is a pilot is a Pilot. And even if you can't read the language, you can master the controls of a spacecraft.

Dude, I'm not sure I could drive an 18 wheeler without killing someone -- does that mean I'm just not a Driver?

Well, that live fighting ship was not that different in scale from what she was used to.

If you got into a model of car different from what you generally drive, you could drive it. Even if the dials were all in cyrillic instead of Roman letters or had other numbers. Say it was a Japanese car with numbers in Japanese and a right-side driver's seat. You could manage, right?

It's not a scale issue, it's a complexity and metaphor issue. We have decided, for instance, that a steering wheel is how you turn the tires. I'm pretty sure that even within our culture, there are other ergonomic metaphors for any control -- direction, speed, etc -- that could work pretty well too. But as a planet, we've kind of settled on one.

Why should that hold so true in something like the Prometheus episode of SG1? Why can she control an Earth ship? Those controls are labelled even when it's someone trained flying the ship.

And then -- consider a ship that has absolutely no need for discrete controls. Even bigger cognitive leap.

True.

I really enjoyed Jack trying to turn the time-travel ship on with the power of his mind. Also, Daniel trying to show him how he should do that. A very funny episode of SG1.

The Ancient technology I buy more, because it's more about wanting than it is about moving this lever and pushing that button. But it seems so prevalent, and the BSG iteration was even worse.