Thursday, August 11, 2005

Here, have some cute:





I've been neglecting you haven't I? I'm sorry darlings, I know it must have been difficult, thinking for yourself, but I'm here again. Coming up sometime soon, my thoughts on trannies, when I've worked out what they are, but in the meantime: LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem. Music for people who don't like music? A bunch of sub-Mark E. Smith vocalising over some truly tepid instrumentation except on Great Release, which proves that, if they put some effort in, they could sound kinda like Spiritualized's younger brothers, not great but it would at least be a move up from where they are now. Come on somebody, explain to me why the album isn't crap.

The Go! Team: Thunder, Lightning Strike. Crap album title, great contents. I suspect that in a few years all the tracks will be overused on commercials and whatever that seasons 2 Pints of Lager clone is to make it seem him, we'll curse The Go! Team for existing, which is why I intend to play this as much as possible now while I still enjoy it.

Battlestar Galactica Season 2: How does this show get made? By all rights it shouldn't, plot strands take their time and sometimes go all over the place (see Helo and Boomer on Caprica), we're in the second season and I think it's still less than half a year since the Cylons destroyed the commonwealth of planets (having a series where several episodes can comprise only one day is new), and the scripts are intelligent if at times somewhat ponderous with it, so how does Galactica continue? By being very, very good. I've seen the first two episodes and they are very, very good. None of what was let loose in the last episode of the last season is ignored, if it's brushed over that's very much with the knowledge that we'll be coming back to it later.

Interesting things? After shooting Adama Boomer doesn't seem to know what's going on. She doesn't appear to know she shot him, though she seems to have grasped the fact by the time she's locked up. This may be a sign to how the deep cover Cylon operatives work and a sign to how the humans can fight back, if they can bypass the Cylon nature of a clone they might have a Boomer on their side. On the other hand, their Cylon expert is the hopelessly compromised Dr Baltar, who Six is now trying to turn completely against the humans by playing on his oddly emerged paternalistic feeling towards a child that Six has convinced him she's carrying. Commander Bill Adama? Still at deaths door.

The first episode gives us some welcome time to finally get to know Colonel Tigh, both as he struggles with a command he doesn't want and fears will be his permanently if Adama snuffs it, and also from years back when his career looked to be almost up. He didn't really get much of a fair shake in the first season as well as being saddled with an extremely annoying wife (who I personally hope will turn out to be a Cylon agent and there will be a special episode with nothing happening except it being slowly pulled apart by diggers) and so this is his big chance. The issue of Lee's treachery last season is one of the matters put on hold, with Starbuck stuck on Caprica we need someone we recognise running around.

And the first two episodes should keep action fans happy, a very large fuck-off battle with a Cylon fleet and then fun and games on Galactica as they fight real live honest-to-God Cylons. The only problem with suggesting this may be the best thing on television right now is that there's bugger all to compete with it. And it's not on television either, it's on my computer. But when it's on television (and why has no British terrestrial channel picked it up yet? I would have thought Channel 4 would be desperate for another intelligent science-fiction show that they could then trim and put out at a massively inappropriate time), it'll be the best thing on there. Unless it's up against Doctor Who. Then things could get messy, not least if I imagine a Dr Baltar/Captain Jack sandwich.



[via Battlestar Galactica 2003]
vs

[via BBC's Doctor Who website]


Oh, and if there's any pictures of James Callis naked, you've got my email address...;-)

(note to self: Best not check the email at work for a few days, just in case)

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