I'm going to list a few reasons why the show sucks. I've previously covered my dislike for the jerky-cam footage, and all the gushing over the human drama... Time for some new reasons.

1) These are the wrong people. Yeah, we get it already, if I have to hear that phrase pop in in one more episode, I'm likely to throw a brick through the screen. The only hero so far was the senator that gave his life in the first episode to save the others, I have no fondness for anyone on that ship, the only smiles I get are at the new miseries they have to endure.

2) Where the hell are the right people? Seriously, they've got the communication stones, where are the Ancient experts who can pop in and get the ship's systems up and running, crack the master code, etc? Why isn't Captain Carter borrowing a body and getting some repairs underway? Why isn't Rodney McKay getting the computer to give up its secrets? Why isn't any other SG-1 or Atlantis expert popping in to help?

3) Who's in charge? In the first episode, Rush claims that General O'Neill placed him in charge, nothing ever seemed to officially contradict this, but everyone is still acting like Colonel Young is the one in charge. Which one is it?

4) How can Rush so easily manipulate the computer, yet not have access to major systems? He has simulated a Gate misdial making the ship appear to be moments from exploding, and planted records in the computer about a (fake) planet that gives the others hope, and he can do this while still being locked out? Surely such an insecure computer system could be easily hacked to give access...

5) How did Young wind up with such a sorry group of folks under him? We've always known that SG teams are the best and brightest, top soldiers, top scientists, team players, etc. How did so many weak folks end up on Icarus' Base?

6) Eli needs to learn how to man up and grow a set. Same applies to darned near everyone else on the ship.

As with many movies and TV shows, I usually have a pretty good idea going in if I'll enjoy them or not. From the first preview I saw, I hated it. I did my best to avoid reading spoilers or other information which would have tainted my judgement before seeing the movie, and overall did a great job. I finally broke down this weekend and caught it at the local discount cinema (tickets $1.50 each), and would have ended up walking out at least three different times if it hadn't been for the fact that I had taken my wife with me, and she was enjoying the movie.

My first thought is that the acting sucks, but then I thought it might be the writing that sucks more, which itself made the acting look bad, and now I honestly can't decide which is more to blame. Neither of the principal actors are believable as Secret Service agents, and the nutty caretaker of Warehouse 13 fluctuates wildly between total incompetent and blathering genius, neither of which are endearing qualities. There is also nothing new to the male/female partnership that is brought to the table, they seem to be equal parts Mulder and Scully, Booth and Bones, and Gilligan and Mary Ann.

Why is such a goof entrusted with the running of this oh so important warehouse? Where's the staff? Where's the maintenance budget? Siffy might as well have made a new series about Area 51, and revealed that the entire base is staffed by a single man, who also happens to moonlight as a crop duster for local farmers. Actually, I think I'd like that show better.

I'm not even going to get into the various goofy gadgets and their inventors, the breakthrough devices never known to the public, and more importantly that could never have been created with the technology that existed at the time.

It's just as well that Siffy has dropped the 'Sci' from their name, as anyone that does take an interest in science would find this series to be a total train wreck. Actually, I think I'd enjoy watching a train wreck more too...

Their new slogan, though, 'Imagine Greater', instead shows an entire lack of imagination. If I were to indeed imagine greater, I'd end up canceling about 90% of the network lineup. Probably more.

True to form, the episode sucked. Adama leads a huge rescue mission to find Hara, the little girl who is somehow the key to human and Cylon survival. Many lives are lost, Galactica is now totally busted, but they managed to save the cheerleader, err, little girl.

They manage to find a NEW Earth with a primitive human culture already in place. Abandoning their technology, they decide to settle down to a nice primitive lifestyle, living in log cabins (did anyone see them bring hatchets along in their packs?) and hiking across the continents living off berries and what they can kill with pointy sticks.

Is it just me, or did none of these folks seem like the outdoors type? Yeah, sitting on a beach or on a scenic overlook sounds pretty nice, but after a few days when you realize the ration bars have run out and there's no food in sight, things are going to start sucking pretty quickly.

What happened with the primitives that were found? Did they breed with the new inhabitants, or did they coexist? The final scene implies that everyone alive now came from Hara, not the primitives, not the new arrival humans. Or was it Hara, the words only said Cylon mother and human father, maybe other offspring from this pairing were born, that led to the 'new' humans?

The first few seasons, we were told at the beginning of each episode, the Cylons have a plan. Funny how they seemed pretty clueless through most of the series, as far as I can tell their only plan was kill a bunch of humans and screw as many survivors as they could.

Towards the end of the series, it seemed that God was the one with the plan, not the Cylons, all the various signs from holy texts, prophesies, angels(?) guiding the way, etc. Seriously, what was the point of all that then? If God wanted Hara to get to the new earth, all he had to do was arrange for an FTL drive malfunction that stranded her there, and then just supernova everyone left. Problem solved.

Too many questions unanswered, the only satisfying thing is that I actually got my wish that I posted earlier. Ultimately, none of them survived. A happy ending, I suppose.

Seriously, there isn't a single character that I'd like to see survive, human or cylon. After seeing character flaws exposed and exploited week after week, I can't help but wonder if the universe would be better off without this whole bunch. Actually, I don't need to wonder. It would be.

Just when the show was starting to get interesting, with an offshoot of the Asgard race showing up, the Wraith on the ropes, it looked like things were being set up for another season or two of regular conflict and exploration in this new galaxy that we'd barely begun to explore.

Bummer.

Turns out the unit is a Sony M-100MC, a microcassette model first introduced in 1998. Kind of a let down, not even offering digital recording or other high tech features.

I've never cared for their brand myself, but other family members use them from time to time, but not anymore, I'm refusing to buy their brand any longer, all their over-advertising has done is burn me out on the brand. Kind of ironic that a product to keep someone cool has me so hot under the collar...

I could probably rant further if I'd bothered to watch an episode or two, but I have no interest in watching lame programming.

SciFi had this big thing that this was going to be Galactica's final season, and I was rather looking forward to the show being over. The snails pace at which the plot moved was agonizing, but that's probably mainly because I cared so little for the human drama that unfolded each week, and even more for most of the characters in the show. Sure, I wanted humanity to survive, but frankly most of the humans on the show were pretty pathetic, you secretly ended up rooting for the Cylons.

Anyway, big press about 2008 being the final season, nothing exciting about the commercials for coming episodes, nothing at all about a countdown to the final epidodes, then suddenly, they've found earth, they have an alliance with the Cylons, and everyone's pissed because the planet they found is a wasteland. Laughed my ass off.

As finale's go, this one was, I'm sure, a huge letdown for fans. Maybe they'll go do a DVD or something now, who knows. At least now they've got a prime spot for some new show, or maybe just run old Farscape episodes. But that would be too much to hope for...

I found the original version of this flick to be quite entertaining, and laughed my ass off through most of the last half of the movie, but this 'sequel' just plain sucks.

This still just drives me totally nuts... I really wish their parent company would stop pushing all this other crap onto SciFi, and just start up another network to deal with this fluff.