Viva Jericho!
Skeet Ulrich, doing his best Che Guevera.
Well, Jesus H. Christ. This has been an exciting summer for television programming.
Here’s the short version:
1. Jericho is back (it seems), even if only for 8 eps mid-season.
2. Battlestar is indeed cancelled after next season.
3. Billy Donovan still looks like Eddie Munster. Regardless of who he coaches.
You know, married couples angling for a divorce can often point to a certain event or a point in the relationship when they knew it was over. As a Battlestar fan, I’d like to suggest the following as my list for when I started wandering out to bars, having last-minute “business meetings” while Battlestar spent Wednesday nights alone:
1. If we’re being honest, it probably began with “Black Market”: an episode that, albeit belatedly, established that child slavery (for lack of a better term) is bad, hookers have hearts of gold, and that the writers weren’t above dragging the whole series down to a NYPD Blue crime-drama diversion.
2. “The Woman King”: You knew it was going to be one of those days when the “previously on Battlestar Galactica” showed scenes we haven’t seen. I’ve already written about how bad it was.
3. The Baltar trial: Yep, they really made us sit through it. Next time, Universal could save money by using old Matlock clips if the writers are just going to phone it in.
It got really bad when:
Baltar, referring to Gaeta’s murder attempt, calls him “butterfingers” in court. Yep.
It’s bad when the news that your series has been cancelled is met by a general shrug of the shoulders. We’ll see what happens next season anyway.
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