LOST and BSG

Battlestar Galactica was actually beaten by LOST this week. The episode was only an average one (relatively speaking as the series is of generally high quality) but it was only the sub-plots which were touched upon which moved the overall story forward.

The main story centred on Halo and an epidemic amongst the refugees that he's been assigned to oversee. However, the Sagittatons don't believe in medicine which makes treatment a bit difficult. I was reminded of a Babylon 5 episode which also had an element of religious medical ethics in the plot although in this instance the disease was more wide scale. Fortunately, the story moved in a different direction to that of the B5 episode. I'm also hoping that the resolution, and Halo's ultimate victory will be used in later episodes.

LOST though was more interesting and entertaining. Yet again no Jack, but lots of Sawyer and Hurley. Also the clever story was about two of the survivors we've not seen much off, Nicky and Paulo. I'm not keeping old episodes of LOST and this was the first time that I wish I could go back and watch a few because the backstory of Nicky and Paulo included many references to previous episodes including the very first. It was pretty cool.

On the whole it was a very good episode even if it didn't move the main story on much.

I also got X-Files season 9 box-set today. As the saying goes "That completes my order". Now I just have to find some time to watch them.