"A Measure of Salvation." A very ill-advised, and poorly-written, attempt to address the question of genocide in 40-odd minutes of television. A lot of people I know didn't like Helo after that episode. But I think it was the writers' fault for making the whole bunch of them fucking—sorry, frakking morons for an…

I don't know. I'm actually apt to give this episode a "B" myself. The show did what it logically needed to do: Showing the gamut of reactions to the discovery of Earth. But that meant that they could only give the barest glimmers of where the show goes from here. Also, the pacing was disjointed at the beginning,…

What about that shot from the Season 4 opener, the space battle, where the Galactica's flak barrage rolls over the ship like a fiery wave? Gorgeous.

SHR: There were more than just copies of the 12 Cylons we know in Tyrol's flashback. So at one time at least, there were more Cylons than what we got now.

Chrissy, it's not just you. New formatting is flubby.

I think that Radhika has made some good dishes in the past and been fairly consistent in quality (last week's bisque aside), but I think that Restaurant Wars is going to end her run. She is such a demur little wallflower, and Tom can't stand that sort of thing, when you're supposed to be running a kitchen.

Lee and Dee
Like most people, I think, I was leery of Lee and Dualla's initial pairing midway through season 2. She was already with Billy, after all. But—and I think I'm in the minority here—the show really brought me around to root for these two characters together, in the first few episodes of season three. And…

The guy who was eliminated first in Season 3.

Was anyone else find Jamie's frequent references to Radhika's Indian heritage just a little bit awkward, maybe with some patronizing thrown in to the mix?

But the fans are booing because they saw the penalty, right?

I got turned off Lost too, but it was when you were supposed to—middle of season 2, when the schedule was getting jerked around, and it wasn't good enough to justify hunting around for it. But I came back about a year ago, and yes, it's much better now. Still occasionally lapsing, but not nearly so much.

Thing is, I forgave the magical eclipse in season one, along with the other stupid crap (and there was other stupid crap). Right now Heroes is so tired that I'm not willing to extend the same consideration.

Well, since it takes you several blocks to do it, I sure *hope* that "walk the dog" is no euphemism.

You think Jin dies, hoser? I'm not so sure. For one thing, if they kill him off in the way which would make sense to kill him off (getting Sun&baby off the island), it'll look an awful lot like Charlie's death. Which is not to say they won't do it. But right now, I'm inclined to say that Jin's death is a big…

The actor's name is Kumar, I think.

Both phrases come from Hamlet's "to be or not to be" speech, the theme of which is, like everything this episode, death and the afterlife. /lit-geeking

Did anyone else notice the chevrons that Padma was sporting during (I think) the QF? Like she was going all hardcore military.

Why even bother with challenges if the parameters don't matter at all? The judges have always been very fickle when using/tossing out this factor in deciding who to send packing; sometimes it comes up: last season, didn't Tom chew out someone for using lobster in a low-cholesterol challenge, even though he had…

Personally, I got a "hungover" vibe off of Mark during the EC. It might've contributed to his cluttered workspace, too.

"[Stephanie's] like this seasons Tre."
I don't really agree, just because Stephanie seems so personable from the get-go. Tre really started out as S3's humorless one (though not as bad in that respect as Richard this time out). Stephanie had a smile on her face (and a Yoda on her back) right out the gate. I like her.