flashforward: revelation zero

I thought this episode was pitifully weak. Why would the FBI send one agent and a consultant (who’s a also a prime suspect) to collect Simko’s computer? Why wasn’t it already confiscated when he claimed he caused the blackout? Why didn’t they send it to professional code breakers at Langley. Really really poor writing. Drama does not make up for crappy writing!

Human Target

I was looking for a new show to watch so I decided to try “Human Target”. I’m deleting it from the PVR schedule after just two episodes. The second episode features some of the stupidest plot complications I’ve seen in quite a while. Was this supposed to be a syfy movie and they didn’t tell anyone?

Review of “The Prisoner”

Two words. “Don’t bother”. It was disjointed, badly written, badly edited, and had so many plot holes you could drive an escape bus through them.

SGU: lost a fan

I really tried to like SGU. I was a big fan of the previous series. This one takes too much from Cattlecar Galactica and too little from StarGate. The turning point for me was the show “light”. They’ve run from one hopeless disaster to the next with everyone at each other’s throats it was really getting tiresome. In this episode they’ve finally caught a break and I thought things would turn around. At the end of the episode their leader, who should have known better, acuses the mad scientist of knowing all along they weren’t all doomed. He does this in public with lots of witnesses. Even the others in the room tell him to ‘give it a rest’. A better way to induce paranoia and ensure trouble I can’t imagine. This from someone who’s supposed to be a leader. If I wanted crappy drama queens I’d just spend more time at the office.

Sorry SGU. You’re voted off the island.

Stargate Universe a Battlestar Galactica clone?

You decide!

Crazy Scientist: Doctor Baltar vs Doctor Rush

Authority figure: Col Young vs. Admiral Adama

Power mad politician: Senator Armstrong vs President Roslyn

There must be a hot chick: Chloe vs Number Six

Hot Asians are always good: Ming-Na vs Boomer

Plot comparison
Big attack by unknown forces, forced them to flee	BSG: Big attack by cylons, forced them to flee
Trapped on a spaceship, lost in space	BSG: Trapped in spaceships, lost in space
Big attack by unknown forces, forced them to flee	BSG: Big attack by cylons, forced them to flee
Betrayed by a crazy scientist	BSG: Betrayed by a crazy scientist
Stuck with Politicians	BSG: Stuck with Politicians

There must be a hot chick

Why I will never buy a kindle/ebook reader

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html

I will never pay for a device that allows other people to use my property in any way they desire without my consent. If necessary I will do without.

Is Warehouse 23 dead?

Hey, I’m not above using one of the tricks from schlock journalism school 101. Take something big/popular/ubiquitous and plaster a big headline “IS XXX DEAD?”.

But really. The writers of Warehouse 23 are falling down on the job. Here are my beefs:
* The science has been silly so far.
* With a gold mine of fantastic gadgets to choose from they’re doing shows about chair springs? Ugh!
* The characters constant bitching at each other is almost intolerable. In the last show if I’d been their boss I would have used the taser gun on them, repeatedly, until I got their attention.

Come on guys! Time to make your move or you’re going to fold.

Warehouse 23

I’m still reserving judgement. So far it’s not too bad. The second episode was kind of weak but there haven’t been any major gaffs so far…

spamhaus

Spamhaus.org. An organization that masquerades as a public service. I think what they’re really doing is making sure big companies have a lock on email traffic. This makes it easier for big brother to spy on us too. They’re making it impossible for individuals to send email. Spamhaus, you guys suck

Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host0 solutia-mxa.mail.eds.net[192.85.154.77] said:
550 5.7.1 … Mail from xx.xx.xx.xx refused by
blackhole list sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, please see
http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup.lasso, sender is xxxx@xxxxx (in
reply to RCPT TO command)

warehouse 23 comes to TV

Woo hoo! I’m looking forward to seeing this. I thought this was one of the most fun supplements Steve Jackson Games ever put out. I hope they don’t muck it up, but I have this suspicion that they will. The anticipation will be nice though.