*peeking out of the bunker*

[oneeyethedrd]

Um, yeah. Still alive, still not writing worth a damn (but I'll finish the damn thing someday, I will!)

What brings me out of LJ hibernation is a query. For years, since Farscape walked off into the sunset, I've pretty much stayed away from TV. The subsequent squee-inducing series that have had my flisters in a tizzy have either not caught my

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[giddyprime]

Sorry, the ads for it prior to the season just looked too unbelievably awful, so haven't gone looking for it. Are you recommending it?

I tried two new shows this season. Gave Fringe a try for a couple of episodes based on early hype and the involvement of J.J. Abrams of Lost fame, but quickly realized the format required that they spend half of every episode making dim-witted and flat out blatantly false interpretations of pop science. Feh!

OTOH, we're quite liking True Blood, after just about having given up on those bastards at HBO for prematurely canceling the last three shows we really got into (Carnivale, Deadwood, and John from Cincinnati). I'm a bit sheepish about it now, as I'd not realized that this was part of a larger wave of vampiric culture that was breaking upon us. I'd not even heard of that book series that's been made into a movie released this week before about a week ago. But True Blood is revealing a pretty interesting mythos.

Did you ever give the new Galactica a shot? It may be a little too gritty for your tastes, but it is some tasty s-f drama.

[oneeyethedrd]

Galactica was in the category of series that are stuck on high-priced cable channels where I can't watch them -- SciFi here in Salt Lake is only available on a digital cable package, and that's way too pricey for us, especially considering how little TV we watch. We'd rather spend the money on having high-speed internet (and even that we've cut back to the cheapest type). Now that History channel is available to us on limited basic cable, we're pretty satisfied.

I did go to the trouble of downloading a few eps of Galactica, and I enjoyed it, but downloading tied up our bandwidth for days at a time and I was always worried I was going to download something with a virus attached, so I didn't continue.

I'm not sure I would say I "recommend" Crusoe. It is fun to watch, but I wouldn't put it into the category of quality drama that was Babylon 5 or Farscape. It's much more like watching a 17th century version of MacGyver; the sheer inventiveness is entertaining even when you know it's completely absurd.

I started watching because I loved the book as a kid. Usually an adaptation that took so many liberties with the source material would turn me off, but I can see that leaving in the canon attitudes and treatment of Friday by Crusoe would be a serious turn-off these days.

[giddyprime]

I think all of Galactica (minus the still to be shown final 10 eps) is out on DVD now. You could rent them.