Hey!
I just realised that Dr. Gaius Baltar had to have been killed along with that instance of Number Six, the Cylon temptress/infiltratrix/babe in the red dress, in the blast that, corollararily, leveled what appeared to be his country home when the Cylons nuked Caprica. Which means…
And in other cool television news, A&E is starting the third season of MI5 tonight, with a second season marathon all day today, which I didn’t see any ads for, and consequently missed most of. I saw a few of the first season episodes. Mm, mm, good.
The next season of 24 starts this week too. Missed most of last season and part of the second season, but really liked the first. You can see the influence of classic British Nineties episodic crime dramas like Prime Suspect.
And what I said in an earlier post about the Americans not being able to do television science fiction very well, a stab of guilt reminded me of ‘Above and Beyond’ with the exquisite Kristen Cloke, Chris Carter’s Millennium, and to a lesser degree, The X-Files. I guess my beef is more about internal consistency, originality, fun, and characterization, not necessarily in that order, and entirely dependent on my mood when I watch any particular episode. Star Trek: Enterprise still sucks like a sucking sucker, though. Unless somebody in the production food chain of command died and somebody was promoted in a non Peter Principle way. It’s happened before, I’m sure. Just not often and not to my satisfaction.