Friday is a big day for me with all the new episodes of scifi programming. Here are my thoughts on what I saw tonight:
Enterprise: I can't believe this is the last season, especially now that they've finally got some competent writers. It amazed me that they're actually tackling the issue of why the Kirk era (pre-movie) Klingons looked so different and so human. This is something fans have been upset about for years, but the writers didn't want to deal with it, except once with a very cryptic comment by Worf in an episode of DS9.
Stargate: Was there a point to this episode? It was an above-average flashback episode, but that's not saying much. I like that the Furlings were finally brought up again. I was afraid the writers had given up on ever introducing them, but, if they're being explicitly mentioned, that must mean we'll soon be seeing them. Oh, and that remark at the beginning about apes and gorillas being two entirely different species made me cringe. I really don't want to have to go into this again.
Stargate Atlantis: The Ancients just keep getting lamer. And why were they returning to Earth? Aren't they supposed to have ascended? Why wasn't the time-traveling Dr. Weir even slightly interested in asking her alternate self for a recap of everything she had missed? You'd think she would take an interest in how the mission had progressed.
Battlestar Galactica: The bathroom scene went on too long and was just annoying. Also, why would it take people with that level of technology so long to enhance an image? I could do it in seconds with Photoshop Elements. That whole speech about the Cylon ship being alive and needing to be treated as a living being before it worked had one tiny flaw: Starbuck tore out its brain in last week's episode. It is obvious at this point that both Cylon versions of Boomer will go through some process of redemption whereby exposure to humans causes them to abandon their evil ways. One of them will die in an act of self-sacrifice.
I'll be spending the weekend getting the book fully assembled. Hopefully I can do that fairly quickly, but I'm taking a couple days off from blogging to free up extra time for the project.