SciFi Friday: comedy?

On “Stargate: SG-1” tonight, there was some discussion about what movie to watch for their “movie night”. Teal’c was thinking of choosing “Old School,” but at the end of the show, Cam suggested “Starship Troopers.”
Teal’c: “Is it funny?”
Cam: “You betcha!”
Considering they’d just dealt with “bugs” of another sort during the episode, and considering the campiness of “Troopers”… Yeah, it’s funny. This episode was a nice change, in some ways, from the more “we have to fight these people” episodes of late, mostly because they tried to tie in some of the political infighting that they’ve been bringing more to the fore of late. It was a nice plot device, and added some relief to the overwhelming-ness of the “Ori” story line – at least when the System Lords were the main bad guys, they’d switch things up every now and then and try to keep it interesting with some new villan of the week, on occasion. Or bring up the Asgard and their Replicator problems – little changes to bring on some variety.
“Stargate: Atlantis” was… well, not funny in that way. It was, however, funny in another way – I saw this episode about 2 weeks ago, when I got it on a CD from a friend who got it online. I guess the UK version of the show is airing ahead of the US version again, so he must have got it online. That internet thing is cool – I should check it out sometime. I hear Al Gore invented it….
“Battlestar Galactica” was frakking good, as usual. I must say that I appreciate any show that introduces a new “swear” word into my vocabulary. There was “frell” in Farscape, and now “frak” in BSG. Can’t go wrong, I always say – especially since it gives me a word to say in front of the kids when I’d would really rather use some slightly more choice words… Anyway, I have been enjoying this season, but I have to say that some of the major plot points I saw coming a mile away:
Pegasus jumping into a trap? Yeah, of course.
Roslyn appeasing her largest voting block? Yeah.
Lee Adama getting command of Pegasus (aka The Beast)? Saw that two miles away.
Baltar flipping on Roslyn so he could try to become President himself? Well, that’s been coming for a while.
All in all, I’d say that SciFi has a good thing going with their SciFi Friday lineup – SG-1 is the old hand, drawing in the regular fans. Atlantis keeps them around, since it’s similar to SG-1 in some ways, but wildly different in others. And BSG is getting rave reviews from all over the place, and it’s become quite a hot little item. As long as they don’t frak it up, like they did by cancelling some of their best works (aka “Invisible Man” or “Farscape”), or they don’t jump the shark in some way, we should be enjoying these shows for at least a couple of years.