While I watched the premiere of Stargate: Universe, SyFy played commercials for a show called Sanctuary, which stars Stargate SG-1’s Amanda Tapping. The trouble is, in Stargate SG-1, she’s a blonde American, whereas in Sanctuary, she’s a brown-haired Brit. There’s nothing wrong with that, but the first episode of Sanctuary was disorienting. After a few… Read More »
I watched the premiere episode of Stargate: Universe with my wife the other day on the (idiotically renamed) SyFy channel. (That link goes to Hulu, where you can watch the episode.) The premise is decent, as far as it goes. The plot, though, has several gaping holes in it. I’m going to hide this behind… Read More »
At the beginning of July, my wife and I bought ourselves a new HDTV as our birthday present, to replace our aged 15″ CRT. I set it up, and let it auto-search for channels. Amazingly, it picked up the whole line of cable’s Expanded Basic tier of service. We’re only paying for the “Limited Basic”… Read More »