Last night was the return of SciFi friday, with the premiere of Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis.

I would love to say I saw them and they were awesome, but alas I can’t.  Due to “unforseen equipment failure”, Entergy had the power down until almost 11:00 last night, so I missed the first half of SG1.  But even when the power was restored and I got to see them, I’m sorry to say they just weren’t all that good.  On SG1 they setup the Ori in our galaxy, leaving us soundly trounced and licking our wounds.  On Atlantis they managed to save our galaxy from an additional invasion (2 for 1 special at the galactic ass-whoopin buffet apparently) at the cost of 1 intergalactic battlecruiser.  Basically, it was the same-old same-old, “Oh no we’re gonna get invaded”, “Oh no we’re gonna die but we’re gonna take them with us first!”, “Oh wow, how did we survive that?”.  The show really seems to have lost something since Richard Dean Anderson left, and it’s hard to see Atlantis as anything other than SG1 with a Search-and-replace on all the characters.  Hopefully they just had a weak season premiere and they’ll get better as the season goes on.

Although Friday nights are back, what I’m really looking forward to seeing is the new SciFi tuesday.  They’ve aquired showtime’s Dead Like Me, which even though I’ve only seen one episode I’m really looking forward to.  They’re also backing it up with the new Eureka, which looks like it could be alot of fun.  So I suspect I’m going to start slowly shifting away from Friday Scifi towards Tuesday Scifi, at least until Battlestar Galactica comes back. (Speaking of which, there’s supposed to be a preview of the new season’s BSG during the premiere of Eureka this Tuesday, set your calendars/TIVO’s).
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