More Battlestar, LOST + That Red Button

Caught up with Battlestar Galactica on Tuesday night. I watched the previous week's episode and then went straight into the current one.

The older episode, "The Passage", was a poor episode in comparison to the rest of the season so far. The plot was a little similar to a story in season 1 when the fleet was running out of water. This time it was food that was running out and the closest source was only via a radiation cloud. Although a regular character died during the episode I felt that it just wasn't as exciting or dramatic as some others.

The next episode "The Eye of Jupiter" made up for this with some major developments and a tense situation with FOUR Cylon basestars. How is Adama going to get out of this?

However, my enjoyment of this episode was spoilt a bit by THAT BLOODY RED BUTTON!

Sky decided to cover half the screen with a big logo for people to press the red button to access Stargate SG-1 multi-start. When you're watching it as broadcast you can keep pressing back-up to remove it. But it's a pain. When you watch it recorded, as I do, then it's always there bugging me and tonight it was worse by being so much bigger.

Surely anybody who turns on Sky One to watch the multi-start knows that it's available and to press the red button. Are are we all just too stupid?

This weeks LOST was an average episode. You know the usual - too much time on the backstory (which appears to tell us very little) and too little time on the island where we want some answers. Arrgh.

At least Jack didn't feature yet again!