But it must be a lowish budget, because the CGI is sometimes obvious, and some of the action scenes (especially what should have been a climactic shootout in the final episode of series 1) disappointing to say the least.

Sure, but that's always going to be the trade-off with television.…

cheers

And I love the music – I nearly turned down the base on our inferior sound system, then turned it up a bit louder :)

Bear McCreary (who does the music for both shows) has a website and blog. The blog entries are, inevitably, spoiler-ish (but clearly marked) but really…

I find the mix of music and graphics (especially in the signature sequence near the beginning of each ep), achingly beautiful – a kind of nostalgic yearning.

I liked the Terminator series – it's smartly written & acted & seamlessly fits in (ignoring T3) with the Terminator canon. But it must be…

I suspect it's the sort of show that raises political discussions, while it could be interpreted as supporting a left or right wing philosophy (much like the production and mixed reception of the lesbian subtext in Xena).

Yup, and the serious moral twilight is only going to get darker as…

The anti-romantic grittiness of BSG and the way it references post Sept 11 2001 US politics in a complex way. In season 1 it seem to be taking a Bushite line with an anti-democratic militaristic authoritarian command, against the…

Watched half the terminator series this week, Kubrick's Barry Lyndon & have Cool Hand Luke lined up too. You can tell a guy whose wife & family have gone visiting relatives for a few days…

My Infinitely wise [and patient, and beautiful] other half near had to FORCE me to watch the mini series, which I found inoffensive but boring.

I must be a total wussy, but the near-total genocide of the human race is many things but "boring" not quite the term that would…

Hey, I think so — but you know something, I actually think The Sopranos is ever so slightly over-rated, the bone people is unreadable, and Coldplay's entire career breeches international conventions against torture, so what do I know?

Huh. I wouldn't disagree too hard w. ya on all three points,…

So, uh.. was I wrong? Is it good?

Hey, I think so — but you know something, I actually think The Sopranos is ever so slightly over-rated, the bone people is unreadable, and Coldplay's entire career breeches international conventions against torture, so what do I know?

So, uh.. was I wrong? Is it good?

Yeps, it gets betterer.

My Infinitely wise [and patient, and beautiful] other half near had to FORCE me to watch the mini series, which I found inoffensive but boring. She persevered and about three or four episodes in I began to warm…

I'm hearing a lot of noise out of these parts to the effect that the new Battlestar Galactica is actually good|worth watching. This is disconcerting, and not a little alarming. I watched the first few eps of the season one and then gave up in…

Perhaps if John Barrowman gets a pair of tights for the next series?

Speaking of, watch John Barrowman and (host) Simon Amstell Have a Gay-Off on UK TV pop-quite Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

ROTFLCOPTER etc.

Nesbitt's stretch-and-squeeze performance was one of the most arresting things I've seen on TV for ages.

James Nesbitt also had a tendency to get type-cast as the adorably scruffy doofus he played in Cold Feet, and I've read that's exactly why he took this on. It is deliciously OTT, but…

Recommended to me by a Canadian friend (blah blah Stephen Moffat blah blah), and we've since passed around most of our friends. Nesbitt is brilliant.

I only watched it last night. There are obvious parallels with Moffatt's work on Doctor Who and Nesbitt's stretch-and-squeeze performance was one of the most…

The only downside is the local DVD release lagging original transmission. But it's cheap, choice and worth the wait.

The local DVD release (season 2 and season 3 at least) has generally preceded original (local) transmission. In fact is it has also generally preceded the North American DVD release (which…

Has anyone been watching Jekyll?

Recommended to me by a Canadian friend (blah blah Stephen Moffat blah blah), and we've since passed around most of our friends. Nesbitt is brilliant.

Has anyone been watching Jekyll?

Sort of — for some reason, when you set the video using the listings the last five minutes or so always gets chopped off. But it is damn good — Moffat has a real talent for (as you say) writing a tense scene or two,…

the Sci-Fi Channel in the States is reportedly going to cut 20 minutes from the super-sized finale of this series of Doctor Who.

possibly not....

Yay... gold star for reducing the suckage supply in my life. :)

icanhastardis warning season four finale spoilers, but funny

Gold star with bar for…

ideally the miniseries, prior to season one. there are layers within layers and loops within strange loops that will be clearer upon watching that way. but the last couple of eps of s2 would suffice.....

and yes, it is mos def adult tv.

Doctor Who…

And yes, Asperger's faulty-logic crime waves coming your way soon (because it's strong emotive displays that prevent crime!).

At least they never specifically said on the show that Zach had Asperger's? It was, of course, blatantly obvious, and Emily Deschanel discussed it (and Bones' own autistic tendencies) extensively in interviews,…

Craig, when the lady sits in the mans lap with no clothes on like that, it's often because they're having sex.

Yes, I've had the rather mutually embarrasing sex talk with my father. and I'd rather my partner's ten year old grand-nephew not get his sex ed while we're watching…

- my newest must-see is Mad Men on Prime, Sundays, 8.30pm. It's well lush.

Dang tootin' – I want to machine gun all the characters (they're all meant to be vile beyond endurance, I hope, so no guilt) and steal the furniture. The production, costume and set design is yummy…

my newest must-see is Mad Men

Loooooooooove it. It doesn't hurt that it's set in my current favourite 20th century period. Frocks! Cars! Furniture! Graphic design! Mouth-droppingly appalling sexism, racism and homophobia! Weird undercurrents! Swingin' tunes!

(Unfortunately the MySky cocked up and we missed episode two the other week. To…

And yes, Asperger's faulty-logic crime waves coming your way soon (because it's strong emotive displays that prevent crime!). See also Psychopaths who don't understand people but are really good…

The show works much better if you just accept that, a) the writers are a bunch of idiots who can't see their own racism, sexism, and colonialism when slapped in the face with it repeatedly

I'll take your word for that, Lucy. :) My more low-brow response is that every…

Answer: The Tudors. Last week's episode included the delightful (and mercifully heavily implied rather than explicit) beheadings of Cardinal Fisher and Thomas Moore. And while I can…

How can you be that hostile to your viewers then complain about TV piracy?

And what gets me is that Doctor Who is rating extremely well for Sci-Fi — who'd have thunk there were so many geeks out there with fond memories of catching the old school Who on PBS?…

Which is going to make an already jam-packed show utterly incomprehensible.

How can you be that hostile to your viewers then complain about TV piracy?

Poneke is pissed off that after waiting so long to screen it, they've buried it at 10.30pm. And then they'll act surprised when Season 1 doesn't go well ...

Cue people bitching about how bad Torchwood is (when they can only have watched what they downloaded and even I'm not…

Poneke is pissed off that after waiting so long to screen it, they've buried it at 10.30pm. And then they'll act surprised when Season 1 doesn't go well ...

Oh, do not get me started on the numpty who thought it was a good idea to bury Bleak House (you…

Surely the fact that TV2 is getting teh Torchwood out is a sign of the end times? I feel like I've been waiting forever. Thanks for the good news!

Poneke is pissed off that after waiting so long to screen it, they've buried it at 10.30pm. And then they'll act…

I missed the miniseries before I watched…

To the torrents!!!!

Third the advice on watching the two-ep finale of season 2 BSG so that you don't come into season 3 completely…

Might try watching from the get-go on C4...

Que? Are you about to save me from having to buy those DVDs?

And if you're still, like, watching TV — commit yourself to the new season of Doctor Who from Sunday. It is teh awesome.

Prime presumedly? Might try that one on

BSG is something I've tried to get in to, but felt each time that I've missed too much from previous…

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That’s if you haven’t already downloaded it from teh internets, put it on a flash drive and played it on your 32-inch widescreen LCD TV via your PS3.

Or made use of the excellent TVersity software and streamed it "live" over wifi straight off your puter through PS3 to TV.…

I've yet to see Battlestar Galactica, but I'm tempted... should I start from the get go with DVDs or will I pick it up from the start of the new season?

You can pick it up, but if you can somehow see the two-part season two finale 'Lay Down Your…

I've yet to see Battlestar Galactica, but I'm tempted... should I start from the get go with DVDs or will I pick it up…

That’s if you haven’t already downloaded it from teh internets, put it on a flash drive and played it on your 32-inch widescreen LCD TV via your PS3.

Or made use of the excellent TVersity software and streamed it "live" over wifi straight off your puter through PS3 to TV.…

Yuh-huh. Once they'd backed themselves into that corner, they only had three suspects for the Young Apprentice, and exactly none of them were plausible.

Whereas,I find it utterly implausible that nobody has noticed Dexter Morgan is an affectless sociopath because Michael C. Hall is way too good at doing the…

It might (just…

Science fiction is coming. That’s if you haven’t already downloaded it from teh internets, put it on a flash drive and played it on your 32-inch widescreen LCD TV via your PS3.

Or just waited for the DVDs to come all the way to region 4 and bought them from…

Logical, Asperger's Zack a killer? I don't think so.

It might (just might) have been kind of creepy-cool if it had been set up or foreshadowed in anyway. Instead it just screamed "oh, shit, everyone things this whole X-Files lite Gormagon thing sucks, blows,chokes and pees on the carpet." And…