Sci-Fi Friday

Is it me or are these shows getting more boring each week. Battlestar Galactica being the exception. So I'll keep it short.

Stargate SG-1:
Vala is still around and connected to Dr. Jackson. She poses as a god while traveling to her old home. Jackson makes her tell the truth and puts her on the execution path for a third time. The Ori make their power known and win over the village but Vala is spared.
We finally learn the relationship with Lexa Doig and Beau Bridges character, they're father and daughter.

Stargate Atlantis:
They visit a prison island with an advance culture on the main land. The advanced people tell them they saved themselves by offering criminals as food to the Wraith. Eventually the Atlantis crew rescue all the good hearted criminals and the Wraith go for a buffet in the advanced culture.
McKay did make a MacGyver joke.

Battlestar Galactica:
Starbuck is wounded in battle and taken to a Caprica hospital. We learn she was abused as a child, by her ten broken fingers. The hospital is actually a Cylon birthing center with dozens of women being bred like cattle. Starbuck kills them all and fights some Cylons before being rescued. Sharon II returns with a ship and helps them. Starbuck got the arrow back and is heading home.
Back on Galactica the president is on the run and plays the religion card to head back to Cobol with one third of the fleet. Adama has a mini-breakdown.

Firefly:
The crew finds an empty ship they go on-board to take the booty and find one survivor and plenty of dead ones. Those Reavers are to blame, the survivor is so messed up he thinks he's a cannibal Reaver and starts killing people. The Alliance comes in and at first arrest everybody but then lets them go without the loot.
Another reason I never got into the show is that they never got any loot at least not in the few episodes I saw.

Arrgh, Soap In My Eye

I said I wouldn't talk soap operas unless something really ridiculous happened and it did twice.
First on CBS As The World Turns several months ago wrote in a hair coloring product into it's storyline. Now product placements on soaps is not new but this one stretched over four days and involved the veteran Margo character.
The creepy way she held the product and the way her strong character turned to mush because her roots were showing. The product was Nice 'n Easy Root Touch-up. It was quite disturbing.
While on General Hospital on ABC they have Dancing With a Star winner Kelly Monaco in a equally dumb plot. Her character has been kidnapped by a evil woman because she is a twin of her daughter, not genetically. She will be forced to learn the proper way and forced to dance.
YEAH, they're forcing her to dance because she can't and hopefully she will become an expert or her boyfriend dies. I see why Peterman hates her.

TV Guide: Aug 14-20

They're back with a 4 collectors-edition cover, this one is of each of the Beatles, I got Paul. The cover has "It was 40 years ago this week... THE BEATLES at Shea Stadium A SPECIAL TRIBUTE", also the $2.49 price meaning for $10 plus tax you can get all the worthless special covers. Spread over 11 pages the article looks back at the Beatles Shea Stadium concert with pictures and interviews from people who attend the concert. I'm not a big fan of the Beatles so I just glossed over most of the article.

Good things to read inside:

• Apollo & Starbuck Finally Kiss! with pictures as proof.
• Will & Grace and The West Wing will be live for at least one episode next season.
• Lauren Holly is back on TV in NCIS.
• Talks of a London spin-off of Vegas.
• Lost's Maggie Grace will not leave to film X-Men 3 and producers swaer that they wil not kill off a women anytime soon since there are so few on the show.
• Hallmark, ABC & CBS all have Pope movies coming, shhh don't ruin the end.
• Craig Ferguson loves Adult Swim and TiVoes shows on Egypt for a book he wrote.
• FX new comedy Starved, I still don't get FX on Cablevision.
• A Dick Cavett small question section.
• More Brat Camp fun: Shawn, Lauren, Isaiah and Jada get interviewed. The first 3 give standard I've learned from this answer, Isaiah gave no indication of his racism and upcoming arrest. Jada, my gal, was embarrassed over the "Phantom Dooker" and said 4 more Dookers including Derek & Heather were filmed but never shown. She learned nothing but instead has been contacted by some gangsta recording company in L.A. for her singing.(This won't end well for her)
• 2 year olds watching TV. Along with an 18-page Parents Guide.
  

No Brat Camp

ABC gave a tribute to Peter Jennings instead of the two Brat Camp episodes. The tribute was nice the parts about walking the path that Jesus Christ took and the 9-11 Twin Towers were the most emotional.
At least this gives ABC time to change Brat Camp to show the little racist criminal Isaiah in a different light.
I saw Entertainment Tonight because they had bloopers from the Lost Season 1 DVD, tomorrow they'll have audition tapes from the cast of Lost.
House on FOX yesterday was great.
I may just start my TV Guide review early.

Weeds and Anger

Monday and except for repeat of CBS's Monday line-up, which was funny, there are no regular shows to watch. Instead I started watching new shows.

Weeds: You Can't Miss The Bear
This new Showtime sitcom is about a housewife with a dead husband and two boys with bills piling up. In this episode we see all the stereotypes for America. Nancy Botwin played nicely & hotly by Mary-Lousie Parker is getting berated by her neighbors at the PTA meeting even though her husband just died. Later we see Nancy with black people make racist jokes and packing marijuana. She leaves claiming to be the biggest seller in her gated community.
She gets an underling who is gay and has a father,Kevin Nealon a pothead, he is warned not to sell to children but does anyway, hmmmm no honor among drug dealers surprising. Throw in some teenage sex, a Mexican housekeeper and a nerdy boy and that what I left out. The reference to missing a bear is about a show they watch that claims "don't miss a bear when shooting or he'll come after you".

Best line is when Nancy's best friend says "...I should of have had an abortion." in reference to her slutty 15 year old daughter.

Too Late With Adam Carolla: First Episode
A Comedy Central talk show after The Daily Show. Adam Carolla is angry and doesn't hide it, calling this week of his show pissed off week. He rants about panda's and specifically panda sex. Also he rants about a car commercial and takes calls from other peeved people. He does an interview with The Crystal Method that goes nowhere and has an audience member open a package in under 30 seconds but his timing was off and she loses but he gives her $60 anyway. He's no Jimmy Kimmel.


Another thing I stumbled upon was Telemundo from Puerto Rico this is a station that shows only about 5 or 6 bad shows from Puerto Rico, I can't believe anyone watches these shows on purpose. The worst of which is Mira Que T.V.O a version of Candid Camera/Punk'd except they use racist and sexist jokes. I understand Spanish well and it's even more annoying when you know the language. I'm just bored and trolling all the channels so you be the judge. Watching bad TV is the spice of life because remember as bad as American TV can get foreign TV shows are always worse.

Sci-Fi Sunday

The Dead Zone: Vanguard
Johnny Smith returns to the Armageddon prevention storyline. He goes to a reunion of his former science students and finds his star student possible is somehow involved with the end of the world. His former student played by That 70's Show's Danny Masterson is a genius working to perfect a plastic skin for burn victims. There's also a scene with a 1938 buffalo nickel, I just bring up because I like coins, it had little affect to the storyline. Masterson also made a little "you got punked" referenced. Masterson with Smith's help finds out that the plastic he made is also good for blocking radiation. Smith sees the future and Greg Stillson(Sean Patrick Flanery) glowing over making a nuclear bomb using this plastic.
Masterson's boss is the doctor who died in Stargate SG-1 and the Old General helping Stillson is the old general from Stargate, I can only conclude the share a studio. The old general introduces his daughter played by Laura Harris(Daisy Adair of Dead Like Me) they hit it off.
Masterson believes Smith's future vision and decides to destroy his plastic recipe and ends up killing himself. His partner saved 99% of Masterson's data and sells it to Stillson. Why didn't Smith see that?

The 4400: Hidden
Kyle is gone and his father, Tom, is scared. tom is accusing everyone around him of harboring the his and is ignoring his job. He comes to the conclusion that Kyle was involved in Collier's shooting.
Maia warns Diana not to chase the man involved with Collier's shooting or someone will get hurt. NTAC(the agency) is getting closer to finding out who shot Collier. They track down the person down to a public locker.
Tom tracks down his son to the same locker and gets there first to find a gun and typical assassin gear. He confirms his suspicions and follows his lying wife to where she stashed Kyle. He goes to the safe house and bonds with his son over the fact the future people used him. He and his eight year wife decide to take Kyle out of the country.
At NTAC headquarters they find another shooter and the guy goes nuts in the garage so Tom tells his wifee to bring Kyle back.
Diana tells Maia she was wrong and everythings fine but Maia whispers to herself, "Not yet."

Six Feet Under : All Alone

They start with a scene of Ruth crying into her pillow on the edge of her bed and dreaming of Nate. The tears don't stop their as the family remembers Nate in their own selfish ways.
Maya is constantly asking "Where's daddy?", not eating & soiling herself and this is annoying Brenda. David goes to pick up Nate's body and finds his eyes were taken out along with most of his organs, this surprised Daivd not knowing that Brenda allowed the harvesting of his organs. Almost immediately David begins having seeing disturbing images of his attacker from last season.
Maggie shows up at Brenda's doorstep breaking potted-plants and bearing quiche. Brenda dismisses her and tries to contact Billy who's in Dubai, while her mother is being little comfort. Claire calls for her new conservative beau and they ride around listen to Kelly Clarkson and top 40 hits as he comfort hers.
Keith in charge of the kids goes to perv-Rogers house for an emergency and finds out that Roger has a BJ video of him and Keith.
Claire shows up at the funeral not properly dressed. Rico is first to speak and he's very emotional and good. David is next but his hallucinations get the better of him. George is next and does a great non-crazy job. The burial consisted of Nate wrapped in cloth dumped in a grave at a park. David is about to crack but his mom sits with him.
We see Claire's fond memory of her first experience with pot with Nate, she had been struggling all episode to find a non-fighting memory of Nate. They all help to shovel the dirt into the grave but Brenda gives up. Brenda has a talk with dead-Nate and then gives Maya to Ruth. Billy shows up as Brenda collapses into his arm. Kurt Cobain's song plays the show out and was also featured in Claire's fond memory.

One of the best episodes of the year. Well acted and very emotional. All the characters stabilized and pulled it together without any ridiculous plot twist.

2 more episodes left, also a special on Aug 15 called
Six Feet Under 2001-2005 In Memoriam.

Brat Camp Arrest

MERCED COUNTY,CALIFORNIA —17-year-old Isaiah Alarcon of Brat Camp, ABC's reality show, was arrested and accused of vandalism and hate crimes, along with another teen.

The target was a home in Merced. The owner says she woke up to find that someone had put racial slurs and a swastika on her home.

She called the sheriff's department.

Apparently all that fake-Indian love from the Sagewalk staff wasn't enough.

Peter Jennings Dead

Peter Jennings died at 67 of lung cancer. A great tribute to him on ABC occurred shortly before midnight.Born 1938.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Nearly four months to the day since he announced in a hoarse voice on his evening newscast that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, longtime ABC "World News Tonight" anchor Peter Jennings died Sunday, according to the ABC news network. He was 67.

He was not a big or loud man but his presence was felt.

One of the few good newsmen left while those Fox fools continue to drag on. Every channel did a small acknowledgment except for FOX.

His life http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=126542.

Wonderfalls: Episode 2

"Karma Chameleon" starts out after her Jaye's second mission, which we never find out what it was, we know just that it involved a woman with toilet paper on her shoe.
Jaye Tyler is at dinner with her entire family celebrating her mom's new book. She ids upset because the jacket contains a 5 word blurb,well 4 words and a digit, on her life. She sees a stuffed bass that tells her to get her words out. Still upset after leaving the diner she doesn't notice a young lady who bumped into her stole her wallet and was taking photos of Jaye.
The next day stalker-Bianca gives Jaye back her wallet and claims she is homeless and felt guilty about stealing the wallet. Stalker-Bianca is a stutterer and a plush-chameleon tells Jaye again to get her words out. Jaye believes it's her stuttering that she must fix gets her hire at the shop and start to mentor her. Stalker-Binky, short for Stalker-Bianca, does an excellent job but starts exhibiting traits of Jaye. The next day Jaye comes to work to find Stalker-Binky has straightened her hair and lost her stammering voice and replaced it with Jaye's mannerisms and looks.
They look so much alike that Jaye's father can't tell them apart. Everyone else likes Stalker-Binky but Jaye is suspicious and broke into her van to find the stalkers collection. When Binky finds Jaye she admits she is a reporter for Today's America and plans to write a piece about losers gen-y underachievers.
Jaye is flattered and opens her life to Binky for the 5,000 word article.
The next day Jaye is late for work and gets fired by mouth breather thanks to Binky. Saying that Jaye's life is perfect Binky decides to abandon the writing and takeover Jaye's life ala Single White Female. Jaye remembering the fake animals saying "get the words out" writes Binky's article, submits it and gets a front cover story. She convinces Binky to take credit and they both return to their lives. Jaye gets 5,000 words plus ten more on the book jacket in her mom's new printing.

Sci-Fi Friday

Days late but then again the shows are starting to bore me.
Stargate SG-1:"The Ties That Bind"
Vala is leaves SG-1 and Dr. Jackson sees her off then faints when she goes through the gate. This happened because the bracelets that connected them in the last two episodes are still linking them even though they were removed. Vala returns before she fainted or died and they must return with Teal'C to find the last known owner/expert of the bracelets.
The expert Arlos, that old Ferengi from Deep Space Nine, is also Vala's former lover. In exchange for bracelet knowledge he wants his living mom's necklace stolen by Vala.
Through a series of typically-comical-TV-cliched-pass-it-on moments they find the necklace and Arlos reveals he can do nothing because time will make the connection fade.

Stargate Atlantis: "Duet"
Dr. Coward McKay, the new solo star of this show, is stuck in a Wraith transporter with Lt. Laura Cadman, new red shirt. While getting extracted her mind is trapped in McKays body and worse yet he has a date. This episode of Three's Company has Jack and Chrissy accidentally handcuffed together as he goes out on a date....wait I'm reviewing Stargate Atlantis not a cliched 70's sitcom. I'm sorry I get them confused. Well everything is right at the end and McKay learns his lesson on the treatment of women.
The funniest moment is when Cadmen in Mckays body gives a big old man kiss to Dr. Beckett.

Battlestar Galactica: "Resistance"
Under martial law Col. Tigh is being a used like a puppet by his wife. Forcing him to be irrational dealing with the other ships leading to death.
Madam President plans her escape and succeeds.
Baltor forces Sharon(assassin-version) to reveal that 8 more Cylons are on board.
On Caprica, Kara and Helo find more humans and plan to leave the planet.
Sharon(assassin-version) is killed Jack Ruby style by a former friend.
Adama wakes up and starts his damage control to the surprise of Nigh's witch of a wife.

Firefly: "Train Job"
The crew is hired to rob a train from a space mafia guy. They accept and rob the high speed train. They soon regret this because it is medicine for a dying town. They decide to return the medicine and fight and run and all the usual cowboy stuff. They do return the cargo safely. One disturbing note is when the captain was trying to settle up with the main bad guy. The bad guy said no deal and threats the good captain so the captain kicks him into the engine, shredding him into confetti and threatens the next baddy with the same.