Stargate Universe Main Cast

I just watched the first episode (well, a double episode) of Stargate Universe. So far so good! Watch out, there are spoilers ahead.

The story of how they got Eli, the genius teen, on board with the Stargate team seemed a bit gimmicky to me, but I like the character. Apparently Dr. Rush, the super duper scientist of the Stargate project and the man in charge of dialing the ninth chevron, couldn’t figure out the equation that would allow them to dial. So he put the problem into a video game which Eli Wallace then beats. The next morning he is forced to join the project because he solved the puzzle. He resists at first, but the promise that his ill mother will be taken care of and the taste of adventure get the best of him. Not that he ever had any choice.

Anyway, like I said, that part seems a bit gimmicky to me. But Eli’s character is the funniest and most entertaining to watch so far. Basically the ninth chevron is dialed just as the planet on which the Stargate base is located is attacked. All crew members are forced to go through the Stargate even though the location to which it leads is unknown. They end up on an Ancient ship with a malfunctioning life support system and if Rush and the rest of the crew can’t figure something out soon, they’re all going to die.

Brian  J. Smith, who plays Matthew Scott, is a complete hottie and is forced into being in charge of the situation when his superior Colonel Young is injured upon being thrown through the Stargate. Scott has trouble adjusting to the pressures of command in such a life threatening situation on the ship, but handles the responsibility fairly well all things considered.

I don’t want to give too much away, but let’s just say I can’t wait until the next episode. That and I’m finding Dr. Rush a very suspicious character.

The new promo for the season finale of True Blood is making me so impatient. I can’t wait!

That show may as well be classified as soft porn. The hotness of the actors isn’t really why I like it so much; besides, the hot female actors don’t do anything for me. But it’s worth mentioning that there are definitely some sexy people aboard Galactica!

1) Lee “Apollo” Adama

2) Six

3) Samuel T. Anders

4) Karl “Helo” Agathon

5) Anastasia Dualla

HHRay and I have been watching Battlestar Galactica. It’s something I’ve wanted to watch back in the U.S. on the Sci-Fi channel, but somehow always skipped over it because I couldn’t be bothered or couldn’t get into the storyline.

But holy crap, this show is so good! I’ve had to skip a few episodes to keep up with HHRay, but I’m going to start going back through Season 1 soon. We’re at the end of Season 2 right now. I can’t believe the 4th season is going to be the last one, just when I’m really getting into the series :(:(. And sure, the next series centered around the Battlestar Galactica universe is coming (called Caprica), but that’s all the way in 2010!!!

I’ve been waiting for Two and a Half Men to finish downloading for the past two days and I’m only at 9%. -.-

I just finished watching Dr. Phil. The episode was called “Secrets of the Suburbs” and was about swinging and such. What really caught my attention was the second story – about a husband who was afraid he would cheat on his wife if she refused to have threesomes with him, and the wife who absolutely hated the idea. Dr. Phil called the man selfish because he honestly didn’t seem to care that his wife was really suffering with this. It got to the point where she agreed to have a threesome with his best friend and him because she got tired of him continually pressuring her into it. After the event she felt so disgusted and dirty that she went into the bathroom, scrubbed herself clean, then went back to the bedroom and cried.

Now, this man is an asshole. Not because he wants a threesome, but because he actually had this “she’ll get used to it” attitude even though she was obviously completely against it.  He says he loved his wife and that he will work on stopping these urges, by why? I mean, he didn’t seem to care enough about her to care that she’s really suffering before. Would it not be best for both people to split up/get a divorce? The woman could look for a husband who isn’t obsessed with threesomes and swinging, who shares her views and cares about her feelings. Meanwhile, the man could pursue his dreams of threesomes and do what makes him happy.

Dr. Phil did a show about the seduction community, enlisting the aid of Ross Jeffries and a couple of Mystery Method guys (Savoy being one of them), in an episode titled “Women, Beware!”

I first heard of this show in one of Neil Strauss’s newsletters, where he mentioned that Dr. Phil first wanted to interview him, but Strauss allegedly declined. Now, I sat down and started to watch the show, ready to cringe at Dr. Phil’s blatant ignorance and judgmental attitude. And in truth, the show got me mad. Really mad. But not at Dr. Phil. I became frustrated with the PUAs who were on it! Beware, there will be a lot of bolding and italicizing here, for personal emphasis.

The entire show turned into a war of teaching methods. They were cutting into each other more than Dr. Phil was cutting into either of them. Ross Jeffries attacked the MM guys for using preset routines, to which they replied that they “show them the openers and teach them to apply these techniques to their own experiences.”

Yeah, that was a bunch of crap. They might mention to them to do this, but you could even see in the video that some dude who was learning from them repeated the pre-taught ‘jealous girlfriend’ opener they showed him earlier word for word!

Ross Jeffries was acting like a prick, too, looking down on the MM guys and talking about how horrible and manipulative they are as opposed to him, until Philzilla busted out RJ’s “If you don’t get fucked, I don’t get paid” line which he uses in his own marketing campaigns, to which Jeffries replies with “That’s just to grab their attention, marketing, I’m sure you’ll understand yada yada yada.”

Ross Jeffries shouldn’t even have bothered with an excuse, but stuck by what he was doing. “Yeah I teach men to get fucked, that’s exactly what I’m doing. You should take a class sometime.”

The Mystery Method guys then accused him of using hypnosis, which Jeffries blatantly denied. Ohh but nooo, he’s totally not using hypnosis. Example of what I do? *Enter NLP* (Neuro-Linguistic Programming, for those who didn’t know) Not hypnosis. So totally not hypnosis.

What a dick head. He uses the “sex accelerator pattern to bring her to a *BEEP* orgasm”, his words, and then accuses the MM dudes of using patterns and routines! They’re all as bad as each other. What a joke. They’re like a bunch of school boys fighting over who’s got the better toy sailboat!

Anyway, Dr. Phil seemed to be totally reasonable throughout the whole thing – talking about both negatives and positives of PU. Although I don’t really understand what the bit with the woman whose money got stolen was for (he interviewed a lady who was scammed out of all of her money by a man) – it had nothing to do with the community itself, but he actually clearly stated that it was something that was totally separate, so props to him for that. Yes, yes, I know that he manipulated the situation, but the PUAs did all the hard work for him. He could come off looking as the good guy observer, watching the PUAs beat themselves into the ground.

At the end, Dr. Phil asked the audience who was for and who was against the community. The reason more people in the audience were against it was not because of anything that Dr.Phil said. It was because of how stupid the PUAs were acting.

He seriously is. He’s amazing. He’s right up there with Chris Doughtry – I was blown away by both of them when I first heard them. If he doesn’t win Idol, I’m going to declare the voters of Australia absolute morons.

UPDATE: Thanks, Mike, for pointing out the mistake. The writers are apparently already on strike and have been since the 5th. This is all the more exciting :)

The Writers Guild of America is demanding a bigger slab of revenues from TV shows. Their contract expired on October 31 and a deal was not reached. The script writers are seriously threatening to go on strike, which could last months (the last dispute was in 1988 and lasted 5 months). If this happens, smaller sitcoms will shut down right away – and if it keeps happening, bigger shows such as Ugly Betty and other soap operas will run out of material by the end of the year. This is exciting. I’m not on either side, but I’m leaning more towards the Writers Guild simply because I love writing. I know it’s not a very good reason, but that’s just how I feel. I think this dispute is going to be very interesting.

I’ve had the most eye-opening night of my life last night. I was in Canning Vale at my best friend’s house and we watched movies all night. The first (and best) we watched was Moulin Rouge. And I know it’s just a movie, but it was so great and hopeful and honest that I can’t help but believe that there has GOT to be true love like this out there. Love without studying books or pick up routines or even having to ‘fix’ one’s communication skills and body language, such as in the seduction community. Unconditional love that doesn’t end once the sex life gets boring and where there’s no such thing as clingyness or trust issues or flirting with other women. There has to be. The only bad thing about the movie is that the heroine prostitute died a tragic death at the end. Not a good sign

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that if I did ever find a love like this, I wouldn’t mind dying young like she did at all. I’d rather die young knowing that I’m the happiest I can possibly be at this one moment rather than die old and look back on a life of competition, insecurities, and attachment issues. And I think that perhaps one of the only ways to describe consciously for yourself that you’re in love (besides actually feeling it in every bone in your body) is when you can honestly say that someone else’s happiness and well being matters to you more than your own. And when you want to do all you can to make that someone the happiest they can be.

So I have decided that now, rather than studying communication and body language and the little things that make men tick, I’ll do my best to make people happy.

I don’t know how long this whole Moulin Rouge euphoria will last, but by golly if there’s one thing that humanity needs these days it’s people who care about each other just as much as they care about themselves. Tomorrow I’m going to be the most helpful darn DSE employee ever. I am then coming back home to take care of the dog and bird and snails (the baby snail is alive, by the way!!). Finally, I’m going to HHRay’s house and cooking him the best dinner ever. With uni and work and picking me up, he definitely deserves a rest from preparing food and then some.