To borrow a phrase from Stargate...Holy Hannah! I wasn't much fond of the last 10? minutes for the season ender for S2 but I trusted the writers enough to know that how S3 opened would decide for me whether I ultimately thought the weird ending for S2 was good or not.

Some things I'm having a little bit of trouble with, still, but oh my god. That is so the way to open a season. So many very interesting references to current events but all twisted in a way I'd never expect to see on American television. I'll write more when I've watched it again and can wrap my brain around the two hours of dark goodness. Holy Hannah!

*hugs beloved and bedraggled Stargate* So sad to say, but if you want your audience to understand why it's imperative to fight the soul-crushing peril that the Ori theoretically are, THIS is the way to do it.

( SG-1: Camelot )

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( SGA: Allies )

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( BSG: Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2 )

As a total aside, I was rewatching SG-1's Maternal Instinct this weekend and realized that the injured trainee that Brat'ac drags through the gate is none other than Aaron Douglas, the Chief from BSG. Love that cozy Vancouver acting comunity. *grin*

Just getting the opportunity to sit down and record my thoughts on last week's episodes. Best get this posted today as tomorrow night are the season closers (high-def digital cable to be installed the day after - *sob*). Onto the rambling and incoherent commentary:

( SG-1: Crusade )

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( SGA: Inferno )

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( BSG: Lay Down Your Burdens, Part One )

Tomorrow's the big night. Three and a half hours of season finales. I can't believe BSG won't be starting up again until October (waaaa!) but I guess they're experimenting and working on how best to add Dr. Who to the line up. It'll be a long enough drought, waiting for summer's return of SG-1.

( SG-1 TEAM: yay!; Clichés: Boo!; The Chinese abandoned footbinding and I wish writers for visual media (tv, movies) would, too. )

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( Sadly, Caldwell didn't take over operations on SGA after the alien possession crapisode. )

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( Lots of murky and interesting political and philosophical ground to cover on BSG. )

The idea that humanity's two main contenders for leader are each driven by a religious mania of different stripes but both of which threaten the continuation of a free people is stark. There's an analogy here to our own situation in the real world that my brain is trying to devise but isn't coming up with. The willingness to sign away our rights, to yield to fanatical demands of people using a crisis to impose their own ways of life on everyone, is all too familiar.

**ETA: I realized on re-watching again last night that it was Admiral Adama rather than Baltar who steered Roslin.

( This week's SG-1... )

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( The adverts made SGA seem like a rip off of Mr. & Mrs. Smith but maybe that would have been better than the idiocy on display. )

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( There Be Major BSG Spoilers Here. )

Stargate started off the night with, "Ethon." On balance, it left me very, very happy. ( Long-winded thoughts on Stargate )

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-Very short notes on Stargate Atlantis (haven't a clue what the episode name was). ( Yay for the guest stars! )

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( Battlestar Galactica was back in fine form -- and another long-winded recounting. )

I know I've missed the more referential, allegorical aspects of the show - I don't seem to get those on the first watching. It's the sort of thing I have to let simmer in my brain and stew before I decide what it means to me re. everyday life and the current geopolitical landscape. For now, it's all surface.