Stumbled across this during lunch break - only watched 15 minutes but it was interesting.

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I have to admit - I really, really enjoyed Kings. Maybe it's the Alt-History buff in me, maybe it's the fact that I've been a huge fan of Ian McShane since Deadwood, but the series really worked well for me.

For alt-history fans, I think there was a lot to be curious about here. The show dropped a very obvious "marker" that this Earth - the use of music from Liszt and the direct mention of his name. I took from that clue that whatever changed in this timeline happened in the early twentieth century - perhaps specifically in the European continent. Certainly it is clear the Kingdon (Gilboa) occupies American soil - but probably not all of it.

I also found it interesting how we saw so little of the enemy and how David asks if they are truly so different from them. It alludes to some vast cultural divide between the Kingdoms. Well, not sure if the other enemies (early on they mention 2 enemies I believe) are Kingdoms - they mentioned the title of the leader of Gath, but I can't remember it offhand. It was definitely not King though.

Either way - fun show. It is on my auto-record list. Anyone else enjoy it?

Wow. Awesome episode. I'm not going to try to review the whole two hours, but I want to focus on one main thing - a line that Richard Alpert said to Locke that I think is critical to the main mystery of Lost. Richard told Locke what he had to do if he wanted to save the Island. I have said time and time again that the Island is somehow - sentient - or alive like an animal or some such - but it is definitely aware. The Hostile, or natives, who were there before Dharma, and who precipitated the purge, may simply be aspects of the Island, like ghosts or spirits (which would help explain Richard's never-changing face).

So I'm convinced I'm right. What I'm confused about though is why the Island would throw a hissy fit over a few people living. It just strikes me as juvenile. Like a petty god who demands people to worship itself.

Oh - and that scene at the end. WTF?!? Who was the old lady? Why was she using a computer from the 1980s?

Just a gentle reminder - Lost returns tonight. I'm hoping for a good season. I truly love Lost, but I'm hoping that they can keep the story together, coherent, interesting, etc, as they slowly approach the end.

SPOILER - Don't read if you haven't seen the latest episode.

BSG set the bar for television series and yesterdays first episode of the the final 10 raised the bar. Many questions answered but many more questions were created. I'll throw out a few questions/comments/thoughts that I had. Some flow together and some are scattered.

Everyone is a cylon?

Earth causes people to be reborn? Maybe they in some sort of heaven/purgatory and not literally reborn? Explains starbuck being back.

Other people (models?) were around when bomb went off. There were other faces. Only 12 made it out?

I'm bad with names but tori/sam together, saul/ellen together, tyrol/boomer together. Did they make couples? dee/apollo.

No way dee doesn't come back.

The coupled up cylons on earth had kids - 12 models but those produced kids and the humans are off-springs from that. The 12 don't know that because they were killed and some of the memories didn't get downloaded. Maybe a purge that resets everyone - like a big ghost image that gets reloaded on the computers when they get too corrupted.

Why was lebon so freaked out when starbuck found starbuck? Maybe he realized some of the truth.

Are they really cylons? Who says that the human forms are really advanced models. If they were on earth and the humans had the ability to download their memories and live on forever, why wouldn't they build that into their machines? We think arms and legs are good to have and the robots of today are modeled like that. Why wouldn't they build in a way to maintain knowledge attained in their machines. Which means they didn't evolve, they were the creators.

From the first episode, we know a few things. What ever we think we know is probably false and it is going to be a great final 9 episodes.

Come over to the GTT forum and share your thoughts on the board.

Today is not Friday. Today is not January 16th. Today is one thing and one thing only - the return of Battlestar Galactica. Best of all, I finally get to watch new episodes in HD (thank you Cox for not completely sucking). I'm going to post a mini-review tonight after the episode unless I'm just too darn excited to type. (Ok, that was a bit too geeky, even for me.)

Sunday - Jan 11 - 10PM CST

This will probably get me booted off the blog, but I had to share. One of my favorite shows (I watch it 5 times a week), just hit its 9000th episode. Yes, 9000. As in 8900 more than 100 episodes. What was the show? The Young and the Restless Yes, it's only a dumb soap opera, but hey, 9000 episodes is still pretty cool. Although you would think they would give them more than cake. YandR is also one of the few new shows being presented in full length over on YouTube.