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I’ve always had a shaky relationship with Stargate. Loved the movie, thought the TV show was silly and never got around to watching Atlantis. But when I learned Robert Carlisle was to be at the helm in Stargate Universe, my first thought was ooh! Begbie in space! We’re five episodes in and loving it on Blu Ray. Watching is really making me regret that some clueless network bastards canned Defying Gravity though. Anyone else catch that before it got axed? It would have been six months ago we saw it and I’m still fretting about what happened to Zoe Barnes on Venus after she retrieved the Orb…Dontcha love it when you spend your time fretting about people who aren’t even real!

bad signal

Rob and I take television very seriously but we almost never watch it live to air. There are several reasons for this but last night reaffirmed them all with concrete gusto. We attempted to watch an hour of the new Simpsons episodes on a commercial television channel. Every five minutes or so a bunch of shitty dancing graphics exploded in our faces, yelling crap and treating us like stupid children. Advertisements! Horrid little critters, lethal, loud and totally in our fucking faces. The same ones repeated over and over and over until I could feel the bilge valve of my IQ giving way and the dregs of my intelligence sluicing down the back of my neck. How do people stand this kind of violent assault on a regular basis? How does it not make you stupid and sap your will to live? We then switched to SBS to attempt some supernatural documentary thing…

addict

I don’t get sick often, but over the years I’ve discovered that when I do, I quite often end up with an embarrassing addiction to something. No, I’m not talking about Codral tablets or peach flavoured decongestant syrup, I mean ancient bad-arse television shows that were dated even before they left the decade they were made in. Last time round it was classic Trek. This time I ended up mainlining The Professionals, a show so utterly anachronistic and mysogenist that you could probably run the dialogue as a stand up routine at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and bring the house down. We bought season one a few years back, watched an episode or two, then abandoned the box on the shelf where it belonged. One day last week, after a solid eight hour binge beginning with quality historical documentaries and traveling through Next Gen, I eyed off that old boxed…

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