The Simpsons and Family Guy on reruns tonight, but there was still stuff to watch. Highlight for spoilers:
- The Winner: Arrested Development it ain't, but I'm a little sad to see it go. The last two episodes aired tonight.
First, spurned by Josh who has a cool new friend, Glen latches on to the first potential friend who comes along: a guy who lists Wings as his favorite show, who happens to also be gay. Standard sitcom hijinks ensue.
The second episode (which I'm guessing is the series finale) features Katey Sagal as Glen's former teacher who seduces him. Upon discovering his inexperience, she decides to school him in the ways of love. Or at least sex. But in the end, he wants a soul-mate instead of a bed-mate. But we got in some funny scenes, like Lenny Clarke busting out some champagne to celebrate the loss of Glenn's virginity.
Not hilarious, kinda dumb, but the show had some laughs. And I'd rather watch The Winner than Two and a Half Men. - Battlestar Galactica: Romo Lampkin is a hell of a character. A nice fiery opening statement, a very tough cross examination of Col. Tigh. And his plan to use Lee to their advantage pans out nicely, as he becomes especially determined to get Baltar off to spite the old man. He resigns his commission, pushes the President until she testifies to being on her hallucinogens again because her cancer's back. A nice job indicting her testimony, but it obviously makes him quite unpopular.
As crazy as he's been this season, I'm starting to feel very sympathetic to Baltar. He gets elected president and makes a bad call in deciding to settle on New Caprica, and wasn't a very good leader in general. But once the Cylons took over, he's pretty much doing what they're ordering with a gun to his head. He can say no and they'll shoot him, then do what they want anyway. So what does that accomplish? He's being threatened with execution because he's a crappy president with an instinct for self-preservation. Plus I have a natural affinity for due process and all that. Because it's in situations like this, where the worst of all the crap is going down, when principles like giving someone a fair trial matter most.
What does Anders do, anyway? He's always hanging around the bar with the pilots and deck crew, but does he have like a job? While hanging around with Seelix (who he's suddenly very close to), Anders starts hearing music, as does Tigh all through the episode. And we conclude with Tigh looking like he has finally lost his mind and declaring that the music is "in the frakkin' ship."
To be continued... I'm excited.
Other stuff going on:
Keegan Connor Tracy, last seen by me on Psych last month, seems to think that Baltar is some kind of god. And she's not the only one. She's semi-famous enough that I don't think we've seen the last of her. And obviously his deity status is going to come in to play later.
The Cylons are tracking a radiation signature of a fuel processing ship or something, so it's veered off course to lead the Cylons in the wrong direction. I have to think they'd be completely screwed if that thing gets destroyed, so it seems like a stupid plan.
The prosecutor serves at the pleasure of the president... how far in advance do they shoot these? That's almost a South Park level of timeliness.
The bonus scene got cut off on my Tivo, but if past scenes have been any indication, I didn't miss much.
On the Tivo: nothing.
