Random television things

[iainjclark]

Just as a quick heads up for those that consider Stargate to be a worthwhile waste of 44 minutes, it looks like Sky One have the world premiere of Stargate SG-1 10x11 ("The Quest, Part 2") on Tuesday, and the same for Stargate Atlantis 3x11 ("The Return, Part 2") on Thursday Wednesday. Neither show returns from its mid-season break in the US for a couple of months.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the third season of Battlestar Galactica starts its UK airing right after SG-1 on Tuesday. I'd say it's well worth a look for those who haven't watched it yet. Not as strong as the beginning of Season 2, but an improvement on the thin and patchy material that characterised the end of the season.

Meanwhile Series 6 of Waking the Dead starts tonight on BBC1 (with part 2 tomorrow). I'm not sure how we got into this show as we never watch UK crime drama, unless you count Spooks, but it's an enjoyable and surprisingly consistent series. Trevor Eve's character is a complete curmudgeon in a way that, like Hugh Laurie in House, teeters on the brink of parody but never quite goes all the way there.

House itself returns in the US next Tuesday, weeks before most other US series, although HBO's Rome is also back on Sunday 14th Jan. We enjoyed the beginning and end of Rome's first season, but the middle was entirely trashy.

Comments

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

We're still hanging in there with Stargate SG-1; looking forward to seeing how they finish up, given we're into the final stretch of the show's run now.

We've been watching Waking The Dead for quite a while now. Boyd is superbly grumpy, and a complete bastard much of the time - in fact, he's worse tha House, because at least House has the partial excuse of being right most of the time (or at least, being right *eventually* most of the time); Boyd doesn't even have that. He's just an incredibly watchable, aggressively grumpy old git. Love watching Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston together :-)

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

I was very impressed by the actress who played the young Sue Johnston last season in the flashback episode. She captured her mannerisms very well.

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

Yes she did - they managed to really capture that rather earnest, hippie-esque but down to earth quality that you just know Grace would have had in her younger days.

And Boyd really was wonderfully *Boyd* in tonight's episode.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Boyd really was wonderfully *Boyd* in tonight's episode.

Yes. His interrogation technique was good in part 2, as well.

I enjoyed part 2, but is it me or did the last five minutes chuck logic out of the window in order to engineer a dramatic TV ENDING out of nowhere? Or did I miss something? A bit perpelxing.

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

The ending was all very DRAMATIC, wasn't it? All a bit odd and high on the melodrama, low on the reality.

And was it just me, or was Spence almost nowhere to be found this week? Once he'd shown off his new tattoo (which was pretty cool), he more or less disappeared, just turned up as a supporting role in a few odd scenes here and there.

[ajp.livejournal.com]

There's still no date for House in the UK. Five seem to be being quite quiet about when their new season US shows start. Soon, I would imagine – but I've no heard anything yet.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch any of S2 Galactica and was informed that I'd pretty much made the right choice. However, in this new shiny world of ownign Sky, it's going to be beamed right onto my tellybox. Should I bother watching S3, which I believe caused a splash amongst the intertubal blogoweb?

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Probably not if you didn't bother with S2.

For what it's worth, I rate the first five or six episodes of Season 2 as being extremely good, with a few seriously stupid elements thrown in for good measure. The second half of Season 2, however, is the other way around - ever more stupid and disjointed, seemingly thrown together without planning or continuity, with a couple of excellent bits thrown in. Generally quite weak.

Season 3's a sort of half-way house, balancing the really quite stupid and the really quite interesting in equal measure. I'm enoying it, although it's already showing signs of going off the rails.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, it probably conflicted with Celebrity Big Brother anyway.

*sob*

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

There is a pretty cool bit involving spaceships in episode four of s3.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Perhaps I shall watch it after all.