10.30 30 Rock
11.00 Battlestar Galactica
12.00 Lost
30 Rock. Season 3, Episode 12. "Larry King" Tracy's interview on Larry King causes widespread panic, while Liz and Ken venture into the violent city to retrieve a missing cellphone.
Topic humour (for once) as the economic downturn/crisis/disaster is used as comic fodder. Tracy issues absurd advice and everyone listens. It's another crazy episode, but - also - a very funny one.
Battlestar Galactica. Season 4, Episode 17. "Someone to Watch Over Me" Boomer steals Hera, while Starbuck plays piano.
Much better than the previous two episodes. I didn't enjoy any of the guff that had Tyrol and Boomer wandering around the Dream House, but I enjoyed the rest of the episode. Even if the Starbuck stuff was predictable and slow-moving.
Tyrol continues to be a fascinating character. Full of contradictions. His loyalties are all over the place. Helping Boomer is understandable. But the consequences are terrible. I really felt for Athena in this episodes. Losing her child was a nightmare, and the added torture of listening to her husband have sex with Boomer. Vicious.
Roark Critchlow was well cast as the mysterious piano player. Starbuck sees people, Baltar sees people... Just like the Final Five did a few thousand years ago... Will the series end with Starbuck, Baltar and three others resurrected to begin the cycle again? Who will the new Final Five be? Starbuck, Baltar, Apollo, Helo and... the president, maybe? That could make sense, and it would be a great ending.
Lost. Season 5, Episode 7. "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" Locke talks to everyone and attempts suicide.
The narrative structure of Lost is very daring. Forward, back, forward, back... You could watch these episodes in almost any order now and still get a cohesive story. One feels that events are being unveiled to us, in the order that they are being unveiled, merely to maximise mystery and enjoyment rather than to aid storytelling clarity. Not that clarity is an issue/problem. The show may jump around like crazy to - to it's considerable credit - it is always easy to understand/follow.
This is the episode where Widmore declares himself to be a good guy, and Ben apparently demonstrates that he is a bad guy by murdering Locke. I'm doubtful. Widmore has a proven track record of being evil. So has Ben, of course, but I'm still inclined to believe that he is trying to fix his past mistakes and do the right thing by the island. I'm sure we'll find, he had a compelling reason for killing Locke.
Highlight? Lost (Ben murders Locke)
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Mon, Mar 2, 09 - 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, Lost
