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I see what you did there.

Saw the first episode of Awake. looks interesting, might stick with it and see where it goes..

I still need to check out Shameless, Sherlock and Dirk Gently.

Try and find the pilot for Dirk first.

It's got elements from the first book (but none of the really out there ones which is why I didn't really like it at the time).

I haven't read DG so I don't really have any expectations going in.

Akwat Kbrana said:

I never really got into DS9 when it first aired, so I've decided to watch it. Currently on season 3, and so far my feelings are mixed. The storyline is interesting and the characters are ok (admittedly, I'm having a harder time connecting with them than I did with the TOS and TNG crews), but it's nowhere nearly as gripping and interesting as, say, Babylon 5.

I've heard that the last four seasons are quite a bit better than the first three, so hopefully that's accurate. I wouldn't say it's been bad so far by any means...just not exactly captivating.

I agree with all of this completely. I started watching DS9 a couple of years back, with it being the only Trek series I'd only managed to catch one or two episodes of. I made it about halfway through season 3 over the course of several months back in 2010, and have never managed to come back to it. They are still there waiting for me, and I still intend to watch them sometime, but for over a year now, I just haven't been in the mood for them and have had more interesting thing to watch.

"Not exactly captivating" is a great way to put it.

I rather liked Voyager once Kes left and Enterprise was quite a giggle in season three.

Voyager had some really cool episodes caught in the midst of a lot of really mediocre to bad ones.

The nature of the show's storyline gave them the opportunity to visit some really cool concepts. It kind of went back to the roots of Star Trek, which was originally a show about exploring the universe and stumbling on some really weird things along the way. Later seasons of TNG and all of DS9 really dropped that concept and focused on other things (like sitting around tables having long talks about diplomacy, then going out and shooting stuff).

Every time someone mentioned her by name I got a Brian Glover flashback (all my worst PE teachers in one).

It was also a bit creepy to have that comedy space cook having it off with a three year old with a bad wig.

So...Growing a Riker beard is kinda the opposite of jumping a Shark on skis?

From what I understand Battlestar Galactica is what Voyager would have been like if Ron Moore had his way..

I think there's only about 5 people that liked Enterprise, myself included. 

Incidentally - anyone else seen the teaser trailer for BSG: Blood and Chrome? - looks pretty flashy but there's not a lot to go on yet, just a lot of action scenes set to Trent Reznor's version of Immigrant song.

Cool to see classic era cylons, raiders and basestars.

Been checking out AWAKE and it's interesting so far. 

The Walking Dead is getting interesting but it's still pretty uneven. Although they HAVE been killing off a lot of 'red shirts' so i guess it has no choice but to get better...

still got a lot of stuff on my 'to check out' list...

The Blood And Chrome trailer if you can find it is probably all you will ever see of the show.

It seems to be everything the Caprica detractors wanted but SyFy is even less keen for B&G to be on the air than they were with the other spin off.

Caprica had much more interesting story lines than The Walking Dead or Dexter or even Fringe recently and for some reason they keep on going so why they couldn't have evolved Caprica into more the sort of show B&C looked like being over a second season infuriates me.

It's gone the way of Babylon 5 now.

We will never get a continuation of that universe.

Especially all the time Bryan Singer keeps whispering about a film revival of the original television series with reptilian Cylons and robot daggits.

RE: awake - I think there's more to it than that, but I don't want to dig too deep atm and just enjoy the ride. 

These Syfy guys clearly have absolutely no idea how to handle science fiction or fans of it - maybe they could spend a little cash to bring somebody on board who does...rather than spending a lot of money on projects that just get shelved or cancelled.

I'm sure they could have just done short seasons of Caprica and B&G and just leapfrog them - covering all the bases.

and RE: babylon 5 - did anyone actually manage to stick with it al the way through? I read a lot to fill in the gaps but I'm sure I missed quite a lot.

B5 I saw each and every moment at least five times (well twice was quite enough for the awful Legend Of The Rangers).

By no means perfect but for it's time head and shoulders above what Star Trek was trying to do.

Newest episode of Fringe (4x15 "A Short Story About Love").

Finally the question of "Is Peter already home, or is he somewhere else?" is answered - and it's the exact answer I expected.  So I'm happy with that.  And it looks like the state of Peter and Olivia's relationship is settled (for now, at least), too.  So I'm happy with that, too.

I felt like the case-of-the-week was very good - some are calling it truncated, but I for one was glad I was able to make up my own mind about the disfigured man's motives rather than have it all spelled out for me in the end.

I also love seeing showrunners tackle directing - you can really tell that Wyman put a lot of thought into how he shot the episode, particularly with the little asides to Lincoln's face throughout the episode.  I've been there, my friend, and yes, I know it sucks.  He's portraying the friendzoned part of a love triangle quite well.

All in all, it was an average-to-slightly-above-average episode.  Didn't reach the heights of "One Night in October" (still reigning as my all-time favorite Fringe episode, where it's been since it aired) or "White Tulip," but it wasn't bad, either.

4 balls out of 5.

Hell yeah!  Sherlock is simply amazing.  I'm particularly happy with what they did with Moriarty - I was wary of his characterization in Series 1, but after Series 2 I wouldn't have had him any other way.

"People have died!" "That's what people DO!"

Eric Porter is my Moriarty.

If I were writing Sherlock I'd have had that Moriarty a decoy for the real one who is less wacky.

The one we had is too much like the John Simm Master which was an entertaining mistake in it's own right.

Arrgh WRONG THREAD!