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I watched the Season 3 final episode last night. I wasn't as whelmed as I thought I would be given people's reactions on Twitter.

The characters continue to seem interesting, and the world-building is still fun. It also is nice that a shorter TV show is building a season-long and series-long story arc. I remember when very few shows did that at all back in the 80s and 90s. It started to become a thing with dramas in the 2000s, and now maybe we'll see it with shorter comedies and whatnot. Gone are the days of the Brady Bunch where everything is the same for much of a show.

I just finished the Lost, Season 2. Now I just gotta wait another year to see Season 3.

Goddamn this show moves slowly. And I'm a little irritated with all the loose ends. Yeah, I know the loose ends are really the point of the show. They tie a loose end up and reveal just a bit more of the thing whatever it is. But then they let a few more ends loose.

For instance, the one that's getting me right now is they had Libby (who, by the way, was awesome in the sitcom Titus) appear in Hugo's mental ward. But then they killed her off without explaining what the hell she was doing there.

Or the big thing that knocked down trees and turned out to be underground and grabbed John Locke. But we haven't seen nothing of it for ages.

Also, if the show starts to lose popularity, I wonder what the last-ditch plan is to wrap it all up in a couple of episodes before it gets cancelled. I'm guessing there was a backup plan for ending season 1 in case they didn't get a season 2. And I wonder how long the actual planned run is.

And tonight I have time to watch more than one episode before I crash.

Whee!

The only real drawback I have to watching all my T.V. on D.V.D. these days is the loss of communal television. If I am watching a show when the network first shows it, everyone else who is into the show is also watching it at the same time. If someone is into the show, I can invite them over to watch together, or I can finagle my way to their place. But with D.V.D. and D.V.R.s, we're all watching these episodes at wildly different times. Means I gotta schedule the shared watching rather than have the network schedule us. And I have to resist the temptation to watch ahead.

I've been looking forward all day to getting home, picking up my Netflix from my box, and watching the next episode from disc 2 before going to bed. Really looking forward to this.

Disc 3 and disc 4 came today. Disc 2 did not.

Current Mood: disappointed

After Sayeed gets off the island on Lost, they should do a spin-off with him being the new MacGuyver, travelling the world solving crimes.

So I finished up Season 2.5 of Battlestar Galactica. So far from season 2, I've really liked the Pegasus episodes. The religious searching for the tomb of Athena storyline on Kobol was decent, but it didn't really make me hard. After reading all your Livejournal entries on last year's season finale, I was hoping for something that really rocked my socks. I have to say, eh. They just didn't spend enough time setting up that cliffhanger. Basically, once it was clear they were going onto the planet, you knew something bad was going to happen and that something bad would be the Cylons finding them. All the crap about how the Cylons seemed to be leaving them alone now was just dumb, particularly when it came from Adama.

I watched the Battlestar Galactica mini-series on DVD last night after I got back to the hotel. I really liked this version. The personal conflicts dovetailed nicely with the overall story, although they were pretty cliché. But they were still well done. I loved how the makers weaved the theme of sin and retribution throughout the plot, both the personal interactions as well as the overall human/Cylon circumstances. Being the first in an eventual series, it would have been nice had the explained why the Cylons revolted and why they exhibited such savagery in this war. Rymer also did a nice thing with Baltar's guilt and attempts to save his own skin. How he accuses someone else of crimes to cover his own. I thought they might be leading up to the result that happened, but I wasn't quite sure.

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