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[swiggett]

So - one of my best friends is the YA librarian of a branch in Raleigh. She's awesome, just so you know [but of course she is, right, since we're friends?] Anyhow, she's been writing reviews and summaries of books she's been reading for the library, and blogging about them. You should totally check out her blog.

Hulu'd the first episode of SG-

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[stpdsxyflndrs]

Oh cool, thanks for sharing your friend's blog! I am going to check it out, for sure! I was in the YA section of a local library this weekend and had a brief moment where I thought for sure that my calling in life was to be a YA librarian, so this blog is very timely for me right now! :D

[swiggett]

Dr. Who icon! yay! I haven't been able to find Dr. Who on the PBS station here, yet. I am so woefully behind, now :( I find it hard to believe a place that has SCOLA channels on campus for Russia, hours of Hungary, Korea, China, Croatia, Czech Republic and so doesn't have Dr. Who...

And, when I was in the library last week, I was sitting on the floor to get my book, and was so incredibly tempted to just hunker down and stay there. I do like libraries...

[stpdsxyflndrs]

Yess!! I <3 K-9. On of our PBS stations here was supposed to start airing Doctor Who episodes, I thought, but they were all the newer series, with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, which I had kind of kept up with via SciFi (excuse me, SyFy :P ). I would love it if they would start airing some of the older episodes, particularly with Tom Baker! He's my favorite doctor. :) PBS just isn't the same without regular Doctor Who showings, in my opinion! :)

But we don't get SCOLA either - I haven't seen that since my Chapel Hill days. :D

Anyway, I love libraries, too. When I was in college, my minor was through the School of Information and Library Science, and I used to hang out/study in the children/YA library there between classes. It was one of my favorite places on campus. :)

[swiggett]

I confess that I didn't really watch the older/original ones that much, but I love the premise. Although Rose's speech really bothers me - all the [f] and [v] sounds for ultimate "th." It's annoying.

Also, SyFy is silly. SciFi is understandable, and it works, and no one likes the new "brand." They should just go back. Grr.

[auryn29a]

I kept imagining Daniel Jackson saying, "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they have me doing instructional videos..."

Right now it feels like they're doing "life-threatening dilemma of the week." They've lost air, lights, and water, and nearly burned to death. I expect the toilets to stop working next.

If you have Netflix you can stream a metric buttload of Doctor Who episodes.

[swiggett]

No Netflix :(

Personally, I want more Danny Jackson instructional videos. I'd watch him lecture on making toast. But yeah - the whole "I've ascended before and they have me doing this? I hosted Merlin's brain, people!"

Since we're Hulu-ing SG-U, we were just a day or two behind, then a week behind... And I saw part of the episode on the 30th in my hotel room, but not all of it. So I know they were running dangerously low on water, and those floaty, alien bug things were drinking it, and that the leader, and the young....stud? were on the ice planet, gathering ice.

I get that the stargates have been formulaic - planet/aliens of the week - but there was always an over arching plot. It may not have made huge progress in each episode, but there was always that one big bad guy out there. Until Enterprise, wasn't StarTrek: Voyager the least successful ST venture? for the same sorts of reasons...?

[auryn29a]

Yeah, Voyager had a bad rep. Though years later when SpikeTV was showing the episodes I had a re-viewing and the show was actually pretty good until they brought in "Sex of Nine." A borg with giant breasts in an extremely tight outfit? Did we really need that? Anyway, once you get past the "Lost in Space" vibe it's kinda cool.

And definitely SG:U has the same kind of feeling just now. Like, what can they possibly do with this plot other than, "Oh, look, another way to get home! Maybe we can just...damn! Missed it! Oh well. Guess we have another season to try again." I did like that Voyager did keep making little leaps here and there, shaving years off their journey. But then the end of the series had that time travel deus ex machina that just...bah. There were better ways of doing that. Plus it pissed me off that Janeway made admiral before Picard.

I'm currently downloading this week's SGU. This one could be good.