If they're still up I'll give them a whirl. And even before hearing her, I know I'd like to go for a jar or two with Trixie…

Horse and bolting springs to mind, but I was thinking the same damn thing. Though if the guide lady is her (which I think she is) that might fit into her plans somehow.

Cheers for the Eick-podcast update. I didn't even know he was doing them! Not surprised to hear that they're not quite as good as Rons (at least, the pre-back end of S4 ones.)

It's fair comment, Alurin - his dislocation is perhaps not completely un-understandable (to coin a horrible word)… I suppose I just find his little-boy-lost act a tad irritating. I like to think that if was looking for my dead daughter in a strange environment, whilst being threatened by weirdos left right and…

Well, like I said, my problem isn't his inherent newbie-ness, it's his apparent abandonment of logic and reason, and a permantly bewildered reaction to what, for someone of his supposed intelligence, isn't that hard a concept.

If there were joypads and the like involved, I'd be with you on that, but all he really needs to do is accept that he can do whatever he wants in NCC. He's been shown to be a relatively competent person in other areas of his life, so why he dissolves into a bawling nincompoop in NCC is beyond me.

I don't mind the idea of it being a man, but if it's Sam I'd be annoyed. He's just not the type to be hanging around using Holobands. At least, not in my book he isn't.

It's a bit much to claim that his blundering around a computer game, acting like a grade A Idiot, doing things that are actively stupid, is shorthand for a portrayal of depression.

GAHHHH! DREAM SEQUENCES!

Slightly off…
"I try to reserve my A grades for episodes that really knock everything they do out of the park or episodes that substantially push forward what a show or the medium is capable of. By both of those measures, "Ghosts in the Machine" doesn't add up."

God, isn't it?

He's starting to be a moron! Who the hell would bat an eyelid about shooting something you know for a fact isn't real, and more to the point, is willing to shoot you and banish you from the one link to your dead daughter???

"OK, this episode was solid but is it really among the "best things the entire Battlestar Galactica universe has done"?"

I said it last week, I'll say it again: We're steering dangerously close to Opera House territory here. Seriously, it's a fucked plot development that's risking my enjoyment of the show unless we get serious, water tight answers (and no, ANGELS DID IT doesn't count) soon.

I do think it's Tamara, regardless of the arm resolution issues. As she is indeed Neo, she could easily have learnt to rewrite her own matrix and fake the injury to keep him in the dark. I see absolutely no reason for her to be helping him otherwise; why risk elimination from the game for a few cubits, especially when…

" I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am?"

Fair shout on the character development vs plot advancement, but I was left, for the second week in row, slightly unsatisfied. For all the good work being done by the principles, the lack of any real movement is an issue. I felt like screaming "OH GROW UP!" at Joe A for most of the time he was on screen.

im looking at my own typos, and i dont care, because im right about greenmantle

OK
So, first off, if my typing is odd, it's cause I been drinking.

God, that FMJ scene was the absolute balls!