And the schedules they acquire. I set up my MythTV box Saturday night to record 'Dial M For Murder.' I'd not seen it before, but have been waiting for the opportunity. Great! I set it up, and let it run.

I go to watch it and notice that the movie didn't start until about 5-6 minutes after it was supposed to. Hm, I thought. This could be bad at the end, but maybe its close enough it won't matter.

WRONG!!

Hitchcock's ghost comes back from the grave, and just as the inspector is about to tell the lovely Margot how he's figured out she's innocent and the conniving Tony is guilty, in a moment of sheer spiteful irony.... Right at that moment....

END. FIN. The recording stops!! ARGH. If ever there was a moment I wanted to put a brick through that TV, that was it!

...I want some.  What.  The.  F*#^@ was that all about.  Apparently the Cylons are big Dylan fans (aaahh *C*ylon, *D*ylon...its a HAL thing!)  Man, I about lost it.  Just when I had high hopes Ron was back on the meds and thinking clearly again, he drops that.  I could barely contain the entire "am I really seeing this shit?" vibe.

Ron.  Lay off the green stuff, man!  Unless those four really aren't Cylons (my theory) and they're picking up transmissions from Earth in their heads.  That I could believe.

Because if you make Tigh a Cylon it shows how little respect you have for the franchise.  At least Starbuck's back.  That was fun :roll:  Now you can get back to your gay fantasy soap opera crap, right?

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OK Ron (Moore).  Stop with your gay Apollo/Starbuck fantasies.  Just 'coz you went and made her all female and all doesn't mean these ideas aren't coming from *somewhere*.  Deep down inside I know what you are thinking. 

This is wrong WRONG I tell you!  Like I said before, its "special place in hell" wrong.  I do notice I haven't seen Mr. Hatch on since 'New Caprica' was abandoned.  With any luck he's PO'd about it.  I would be.  What am I saying. I AM.  Hell I still have trouble with Boomer's character.

This would be the equivalent of re-making Star Trek and putting Kirk and (A newly femalized of course) McCoy in the rack together.  Like A Ms. Skywalker and Mr. Solo tryst.

At least the prosyletizing about Iraq, and abortion, and whatever other cause-du-jour has stopped.  For Now.  I imagine we'll see an animal rights episode next where Muffy the Daggit winds up on board the animal shelter ship abused by his captors. (BARK BARK!)

Now that that's out of the way.  If you'd get rid of the '90120' crap and just stick to the fundamentals you'd have a 900% better show.  The return to 'the search for Earth' is going well.  VERY well.  That aspect of the show has done nothing but improve, although the bouncing from one 'beacon/marker' could get a little old if you let it.

Looking forward to the new Sunday night time slot.  Although it could get a little interesting if its going to be fighting for the SAT's tuner what with the wife and her 4400/Dead Zone thing.

So lets hope the Chief figures it out before Adama pushes his big jolly candy-like button and wipes them all out.

Well that was one of the best (well ok, maybe just better) episodes yet. Ron still threw the Iraq thing up in our faces, though, "just leave" nyah-nyah-nyah. Although the nuke thing is a damn good idea. 

Unsure why they felt the need to kill off Ellen Tigh.  Although I never much liked the character and thought it added a "Hi, I'm whipped" element to Tigh that he didn't need.  He needed to be the grisly old whiskey-drinking bastard smelly pirate he started off to be.

Spaceships, bullets, missiles, things going boom, gunfire... and that bit with the Galactica FTL-ing into atmosphere to drop the fighters and then jump back out again was an inspired bit of work....  Nicely played.

Seriously, I'm glad to see that maybe, just maybe the show will return to the business of being BSG. The Pegasus is finally gone (wondered how they would do that...), and (THANK YOU) Starbuck's kid isn't really (THANK YOU) Starbuck's kid, so we hopefully (THANK YOU) don't have to go down that road. (DID I SAY THANKS FOR THAT?)

And more importantly, Baltar is with the Cylons where he belongs! Get him up there in a big empty room in an elevated chair in the dark! Now! By your command biotch!

And get Apollo in the gym already, he looks ridiculous. Fatass! I can hear him now, "I'm not fat! I'm just big boned! >.< "...

...And after typing that, I just pictured the entire show done South Park-style. "Lee! Respect my authoritay!" "Oh my god! You killed Boomer! You bastards! Oh, Never Mind!" "Shut your frackin mouth uncle fracker!!!" And the split-in-half cartoon head of Gaius Baltar in place of Saddam.

I need to go drink something. >.<

Back to it!  So now the gang's all back together onboard a tattered Galactica.  Tigh's more grisly and battle-worn than before (wonder if they'll give him a patch or explain it off with a glass eye? Argh matey!), Adama's back at the helm, Baltar's with the Cylons, Starbuck is (THANK YOU) child-less again...

...but Apollo concerns me.  Sure he seemingly got over his content-to-sit-around-on-his-ass eating cheesy poofs phase and went after dear old dad... But what're they going to do with him?  Pull a Kirk and knock him back to Captain so he can fly again?

Please do just that, Ron.  Put everything right again.  You've nearly got it.  And to think you almost had me giving up on things... Remember...

Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest -- for a shining planet known as Earth.

Note it doesn't say "shining Cylon infested planet we named New Caprica."  Thanks!

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Now, see, Ron? Isn't that much better? If you leave the preaching and hyper-allegory and all of that crap behind you come out with a much better show.

After being called a "funny crank" and such after my harsh review of last week's double episode,  my opinion of both those two shows stands.  This one, definitely not so much.  I could actually stomach it!

I'm still plenty pissed off about your treatment of Apollo and Starbuck.  Apollo's still being the chicken-sh^t frackup fat-ass, and Starbuck's still having hormone issues.  -sigh-  Maybe the old man will kick both their asses and get them back in line.

Get these guys off the rock next week and lets return to the core, Ron!!!

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...and his vision of Battlestar Galactica.  He's taking this (and himself, and the show) waaaay too damn seriously, what with the not-so-fracking-subtle parallels to the war in Iraq (don't tell me you didn't see it. May as well have shoved it down your throat.), to the downright rape and desecration of the Starbuck character (awwwww, its a girl! Wait, I'll stop being a hardcore space-marine bitch and turn soft and love my Cylon captor in this one episode.....*vomit*)

What. The. Frack. Ron.

Take your Star Trek circle-jerk fantasy "I'm too heady for this show" crap somewhere else, Ronnie.  You've overstepped the bounds, taken things to a whole new level.  The whole "wild west" / Baghdad New Caprica thing was a big mistake.  Big.  Jump the shark big. 

I am sorely disappointed, Ron.  Between the fiasco that is New Caprica to the abomination of Apollo-Fat-Ass aboard the Pegasus....  I really don't recognize this... this thing that I once knew as Battlestar Galactica.  You did this on purpose.  You screwed with the two fracking ICONS of BSG, Starbuck and Apollo and turned them into parodies of themselves.  Why? So you could "redeem" them or "give them flaws" or some other nonsense "intelligent" crap?  Bull. 

At least we have Adama.  At least you haven't strayed too far with respect to him.  He's still the same hardcore Motherfracker that you introduced us to, even if he's feeling a bit guilty....

I want spaceships, red glowing eyes, explosions, three-man cylon raiders, and boots on the ground, bitch.  What's next?  Tyrell and Tigh getting it on in a homo-love-trist?  The new "friendly" Boomer is really a psycho lesbian hose beast who preys on small children and pushes little old ladies out into traffic?

Here it is in one sentence:  You're pushing the limits because you think you can.  Because you think its "edgy" and "modern".   Because sex and infighting and internal conflict is the last refuge of the inept story creators, the soap-opera the indicator of no-more-good-original-ideas, the single-most-reason modern Star Trek became the shambles it is now in.   Because nobody is telling you, "No, Mr. Moore, I think that's a bad idea.  No, Ron, that's not cool."  You're getting Lucasitis, Ron.  Go see the doctor. Now.

And to think that Hatch is on board with all of this makes me scratch my head in total confusion even more.

Get the fracking crew off the fracking planet, and get back to the mission, Ron.  Find Earth.  Fight Cylons.  Stop your pedantic prostelytization and get back to it.

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OK, I did it.  All CSI-related posts will go here from now on....

CSI:Watch

Enjoy. Or not. "Grab a brew it don't cost nothin'!!"  Consider this your post for the day.  That is all.

OK, so I figured I'd watch the premiere of CSI:NY last night.  Man what a hoot.  Guess they're going the route of "science, whats that?" for this season.  Two big l-o-l moments from last nights episode:

• They pull the "magic pixels" trick again.  This time in a very, very big way.  Plus more.  They took an image of a high-rise office window taken from, I dunno, a mile? half-mile? out and zoomed in on the silhouette of the person inside.  Um. Yeah.  Then they took that silhouette and ran it through facial recognition software.  In the Star Trek universe, maybe.  Boy howdy.
• Then the killer.  "Drink everytime Montana says 'dynamite!'"  Look, Montana, (and the CSI:NY writing staff) just because the primary explosive component in dynamite is nitro glycerine does NOT ergo mean that nitro glycerine in its medicinal form is the same as dynamite.  Dynamite is nitro, yes, combined with a stabilizer/absorbant such as sawdust (in the old days) or diatomaceous earth or whatever.  People are given nitro pills for heart conditions fer cryin out loud.  A simple bit of research would have given that up.
• And I guess they've started running out of story ideas, because Mac is now doing one of his fellow she-cops on the side.  Great, now this one's going to get turned into a soap opera, too.  That's just swell.

I think I'm going to have to start a new site just for the sole purpose of shredding the CSI's into tiny bits.  I haven't yet seen the CSI:Miami premiere, but its on the MythTV box awaiting viewing.  I'm sure I'll like that just as much.

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