BATTLESTAR GALACTICA IS BACK BABY!

On Friday, April 4th, the beginning of the end, ah, begins. Hmph. Catch the first 10 episodes of the last 20 episodes of Battlestar Galactica, arguably (not by me) the best show on television on SCI FI. If you need a refresher on the last few episodes of season 3 go here or here. It's gonna be frakin' good!

And check out this awesome picture and clues to the new season! No spoilers!

HELL'S KITCHEN

Sexy beast!

This show seems obnoxious. But, as you know, I've just discovered Hulu and have been watching things I wouldn't normally watch. I watched last night's premiere and I gotta tell you, it's kinda good. Now, it's no Top Chef. In fact, if Top Chef was The Bachelor, Hell's Kitchen is Flavor of Love. That's what my friend says anyway, and I have to agree with him. Top Chef, which I love, takes established chef's and let's them create interesting and just about always edible dishes. Some of the judges may say things are a little tasteless, but I haven't seen an episode yet where Padma throws up in a bucket next to the table after she tries one of this dishes. This happened in the premiere episode! You can't tell me that doesn't intrigue you. He throws up! Granted, the chef/stay at home dad, does make just about the nastiest thing I've ever seen, but Gordon Ramsey actually throws up in a garbage can.

Speaking of Gordan Ramsey, as much as Tom Collichio can give his contestants the eye and tell them they didn't put enough ceviche in their dish, Gordan is down right crazy. He yells, cusses, and throws things throughout the whole episode. Is it wrong that I'm sorta crushing on him?

If you think this person is a man, you'd be right. I wasn't.

These people can't cook, this is obvious. They split the teams by gender and appoint captains who do piss poor jobs. There's some restaurant that they claim is opening for them to serve the actors, er, customers, which is all set up and fake, but I don't care. I love seeing crazy Gordan yelling at these ridiculous people and the crap they put on plates to feed people is both disgusting and wonderful all at the same time. Love it!

HULU

If you guys haven't had a chance to go to this website, you HAVE to. It streams TV shows, past and present, and does a better job with quality and content then all the network sites put together. They have TONS of shows, including the ever elusive ER, the original Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, Firefly (do you see where this is going?), as well as What's Happening?, Medium, Top Chef, Jericho, just about any show you can think of. They also have movies, mostly B-movies, but still, it's a great site that you should check out if you miss a show, to catch up (like I'm doing with Buffy) on shows that you wish you would have watched, or to get a little nostalgic (Dream On!!).

http://www.hulu.com/

AM I THE ONLY ONE NOT LOST?

Say what?

Don't get me wrong here, Lost is amazing. I love this show, and I love where it's going, and I love the actors (see above), but am I the only one who's not "lost"? Ever since the episode that revealed Kate had Aaron in the future, I haven't been surprised. Am I just a genius? Has years of 24, BSG, Lost and The Amazing Race prepared my brain for this shite?

Here's what I knew before it happened which I thought was fairly obvious. And trust me, I'm not tooting my own horn, I'm wondering why I'm not writing this and getting paid the big bucks.

1) Aaron- In this episode Kate's revealed as another member of the Oceanic 6, along with Hurley, Jack and Sayid. She's tried for murdering her step-father who liked to beat on women. Jack comes in to defend her and we learn that the story they told everyone once they were rescued wasn't entirely accurate. Kate's mother learns Kate saved the other 5 survivors (supposedly) all on her own, because a doctor and former military heavyweight don't compare to a runaway, and decides not to testify against her. Jack admits that he did love Kate at one time, but doesn't any more. But then he sorta takes it back and wants her to come hang out. Through the episode she's talking about "her son" but never mentions his name. At the end of last season, in the first of the amazing flash forwards, she also talked about "him" who I just assumed (hoped) was Sawyer. Halfway through this episode though I knew the kid was going to be Aaron. Too much of Claire and talking about Aaron. At the end, when she said his name and the music swelled, this was my first clue that I was maybe smarter then the writers, or at least as smart. This is not saying anything against you if it took you everything but a brick across your head to realize it. I'm just sayin'.

2) Ben and Juliet- No shite. Was it a big revelation that Ben is in love with Juliet? We knew this from the first episode the Others were ever in when the plane crashed and there was a moment between the two, which we learned this episode was all about Ben sending Goodwin to his eventual death. Ben's an ass. And I'm sorry, Goodwin was hot, of course Juliet would prefer him. But Juliet, that slut. Eh.

No reason for this pic other then it's sorta bad ass

3) Michael- Again with the swelling music. Michael is Ben's man on a boat. Is this really news? Did someone out there NOT know that? If you didn't, shame on you for being dumb. Seriously. Let's get past the fact that his name is still in the credits so he has to show up. Let's also get past the idea that we'd have to know who the guy was in order for it to be dramatic, and let's also get past the fact that obviously Michael would help Sayid. I love how after Michael tells Sayid how he got to be on the boat Sayid turned him in. WTF Sayid?

4) Jin is dead (?)- Did anyone really think Jin was in the same time/place as Sun was? Let's see what the evidence is. The biggest one being, with Hurley, Jack, Kate, Aaron and Sayid, Sun makes up the last of the Oceanic 6. Also, did you see Jin's phone during this episode? Hello 2003. Plus it was played up way too much with them never being together, him calling, the Panda. Now, I didn't catch the "year of the snake" or whatever line that was the clerk told Jin that put the year not in whatever year Sun was in, but even without that, about 15 minutes in I knew he wasn't there. Did anyone else see the headstone at Jin's grave? Says he died the day the plane crashed. We know that didn't happen so is he still alive. HELLS YEAH he's still alive. He just got interesting! And do you think the timeline is working backwards? The flash forwards I mean. If you remember Kate's, Aaron looked like he was at least 2 years old. He's about 3 months now, although he looks 6. So that's 18 months. Sun has NOT been pregnant for 18 months. What gives?

But like I said, overall the show is damn good. I don't mind that I figured a lot of stuff out. Sayid working for Ben, what's up with that? And he's not just bringing him food or something, he's killing people for him. Somebody knows what's up though because they tried to kill him too. My thinking is he's trying to pay off some debt or pay off the debt of the people on the island to get them off. Some people think Ben is the good guy in all of this. I would believe that if he wasn't EVIL! Nothing he could do would justify the evilness. Someone pointed out that if he was truly good he would have just told everyone the deal from the beginning. But this is a TV show and they got a lot of mileage out of the "Others" storyline, so I guess after all that he could be good.

Now there are other "Others". I've heard them called Freighties. I guess that makes sense, so I will steal that. If the person who came up with that is reading this, thanks. Desmond and Sayid made their way to the freighter to not only be met by Michael but poor Desmond went through the oddest, and best episode so far, with this flash backs (forwards?). What Desmond do we have now? Is he our Dessie or still the one from back in the day? He and Penny's love story is probably the single most interesting thing on the show. I am so glad they're finally using him again. After his episode last season where he was being thrown around time, again, I've held out hope that he is going to be the key for everything. Please writers, make him the key, the actor is wonderful, the character is great, and he's having REAL sci-fi experiences, not that dumbass black smoke crap.

It's not Penny's ship. After Charlie idiotically killed himself (instead of swimming out of the hole) to tell Desmond it wasn't Penny's boat, everyone has been wondering who the hell owns that boat. Penny's daddy owns that boat. He's also the one, according to Ben, who faked everyone from Oceanic 815's death. Okay. He wants the island. My fear with this show, kinda like Pirates of the Caribbean 3, that there will be so much information we've gotten over the last 4 or so years that things won't be answered, and if they are, they will be in some dumb throw away line. Oh, that black smoke, it was an engine fire.

So Penny's dad sent Desmond on this boating expedition around the world just to get him stuck on the island (to put the numbers in for 3 years?) just so Penny would be heartbroken enough to want to find him and he would find the island? That's a theory I've heard. But we know PD knows about the island from various sources, including one of Ben's subordinates that PD found and he could have tortured to tell him where the island was. I mean who knows, obviously PD is a big part of the story. Anyone else catch that painting of a ship PD was buying in Desmond's flash back (forward)? It was the ship that was on the island that they found the dynamite in. You know where Artz blew himself up. Hahaha, so sad.

Someone needs a woman

The Freighties are mean. Sorta. Daniel Faraday, the tortured soul we saw crying for the Losties earlier in the season. When Desmond was having those weird flash backs (forwards?) it was Faraday who figured out he needed a "constant". Of course Desmond's constant was Penny (love it) and when Desmond went to a young (and scruffier) Faraday for advice, he became Faraday's constant. He obviously knows more then he's willing to give up, but after, apparently, thwarting the chemical meltdown a few episodes ago, I kinda like him.

I want to punch that Charlotte bitch in the face though. She annoys me. Just tell them what's going on if you're the good guys. You know they're the good guys, they've been trapped on the island for a few months and just want to go home. Plus, we know Charlotte is down with the Dharma Initiative because she found the Dharma sign when she dug up the polar bear in an earlier ep.

And then there's Miles. He has some supernatural power which, you'd think on this island would be overactive. The only thing overactive about Miles is his greed. He told Ben he wanted a few million to not kill him, and Ben agreed. I think Miles is just one of those people that is all about himself. I don't really care about him, but I want to see him use his powers a bit more to get more information out of people. That'd be cool, kinda like he did with Michael. Sorta.

Kate/Sawyer/Jack/Juliet/Ben? Ew. Let's forget about Ben because Juliet doesn't like him, never will. Kate needs to make up her damn mind. She wants to hang out with Sawyer but then run back to Jack and be jealous of Juliet, and then be hurt in her flash forward that he doesn't love her. I hated girls like this in high school. Always want to have their cake and eat it too. The hottest guys in the school running after her like puppy dogs. I mean, I can't blame her, if I could get it from the both of them I would. And Locke would have to drag my ass out of Sawyer's bed, seriously. And while we're talking about Kate, how dumb do you have to be to turn your back on that biatch Charlotte to get hit over the head. Dumb.

In the last episode Ben told Alex, his "daughter", to go meet up with the other Others (oh right, forgot they were still there). Unfortunately her, her mother and her boyfriend, whats his nuts, were ambushed. Carl, right, was killed, and so was Rousseau. But you can't keep a good woman down, especially one that can fill at least an entire episode with flashbacks, so I wouldn't count her out yet. And Alex was then taken hostage by whoever it was was shooting at her. I'm not convinced it wasn't Ben who sent them into enemy hands. He's like a frakkin' Cylon, he has a plan.

So now we know all the Oceanic 6. I was really hoping Dessie would be one of them, but alas, he's not. I was also hoping Bernard and Rose would be, but they're not. I could give a crap about Claire, she seems real torn up about Charlie, doesn't she? I kinda want Sawyer to live out his days on the island, with Kate and a couple of kids. I mean, that's my fantasy anyway. I hope Daniel is cool, and as much as I hate Ben, I kinda want him to be good by the end as well. And can we please find out wtf happened to get them off the island. My bet is that they traded their freedom for the price of leaving people on the island and now they're either working for the people's release, or they're working on forgetting it even happened. I'm talking to you JACK! But as we know, the island doesn't let you kill yourself or stay away too long. With Sawyer being still trapped there I can only assume the island is the SMARTEST ISLAND EVER.

I'M STILL HERE!

Hello everyone. For the past few months I've been MIA. In case some of you aren't aware, there was a writer's strike. Then, after that ended, all hell broke loose. If you haven't guessed yet from my blog, I work in the "industry". No, not that "industry", get your mind out of the gutter. I have a job that once the writer's strike ended my day has consisted of way too much work and not enough time to educate and entertain you guys. Well, the writer's strike is a distant memory and work is still plentiful, but my boss is gone for a week. So now, with phones not ringing, meetings not scheduling and hair not falling out, I will join you guys once again and give you the download on some shows I've been watching. Yes, I have had time for that.