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Since ranting seems to be the theme, here is a common sence one (and yes, I’m aware that doesn’t make sence…)

To those of you who find it ridiculous to not watch episodes as soon as they air, there is nothing wrong with waiting weeks or months to watch episodes. Everyone has their reasons, and you just never know.

To those of you writing the articals and running sites who feel that they have no need to warn people because its their own fault for not watching the episodes right away, have a little heart. Someone could easily stumble upon the wrong site and without realising it, read more they they wanted to know.
**What this site did is perfect–it gave a brief warning and that is all it needed to do.

To those of you who who feel every site that has information about an already aired episode should contain warnings, stop going to forums and sites until you watch those episodes. That should be self explanatory.

I just watched the final 10 episodes of BSG April 6th-9th, and yes, I am an obsessed fan! I currently am without TV and my computer was down until last week, so I couldn’t watch them. Could I have borrowed someone else’s to watch them? Probably. But it was my choice. (Frankly, my computer is better and I wanted to watch them with a better picture.) HOWEVER, when I did use someone else’s computer to check e-mail or go on sites, I avoided anything remotely BSG related and entertainment sites altogether. And I politly asked my friends to not talk about BSG around me or to warn me before they did so I could leave the room. It wasn’t hard and I never read or heard a single thing that spoiled the final 10 episodes for me.

A little common sence mixed with a little common courtesy can go a long way. Besides, if I can do it, anyone can!

Thanx, Bruce, it’s good to get some feedback on this; I noticed it a couple of more times, but a shutdown & auto-repair cycle seems to do the trick. If I must, I will take it in & just have them install another keyboad, though it seems to have remedied itself.

Thanx for respnoding, it’s so damnably frustrating when you can’t make yourself understood! Kinda like God’s punishment on me for talking too much, I guess, hahaha!

Thanx again, JOHN

It’s not uncommon. I almost deleted your first comment… I thought the Cylons or Borg were trying to assimilate my brain. Then I noticed the pattern and figured out where you were trying to say.

Forgive me folks, I was freaking out there, for a minute!

My keyboard seems to have had a spell of aphasia, some of the letters were coming up as numbers, like they were encrypted.

What U saw was:

[He336, can anyb6dy read 0y text+

t’s a33 scra0b3ed, 352e an en5g0a 0ach5ne!
etters c60e 64t as n40bers, 5t’s n4ts!

D6es anyb6dy e3se have th5s *r6b3e0+

16hn]

What I typed was:

[Hello, can anybody read my text?

It's all scrambled, like an enigma machine!

Letters come out as numbers, it's nuts!

Does anybody else have this problem?

John]

Anyway, heard about a new sleeper worm last week on 60 Minutes, I thought it might be something like that, but a cold shutdown followed by a restart & diagnostic seems to have fixed the problem.

I hope to God nobody else experiences that, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

Fare thee all well, later,

JOHN

PS: @Maddy, I take your point about cop shows, I always heard they were the mother’s milk of television, looks like that’s true on either side of the Atlantic, just like DaVinci’s Inquest.

I like the idea of Jamie Bamber as a London DI (detective inspector).

And Yes, it would have been super-cool to see the black hole devour that Cylon colony! A real dick mpve, cutting that out, on somebody’s part, heh?

t’s a33 scra0b3ed, 352e an en5g0a 0ach5ne!
etters c60e 64t as n40bers, 5t’s n4ts!

D6es anyb6dy e3se have th5s *r6b3e0+

16hn

Funny how most of them seem to be going for ‘cop’ shows, though!

PS, I just wanted to say, I think your handle is very cool, I can’t resist showing off that I get your reference: Callie the chief engineer on ‘Firefly’, am I right? “Everything’s shiny, Captain…” I loved her!

Good to know about Trucco, hope he recovers nicely.

Thanx, JOHN

I just loved your Dennis Leary rant!!! Speaking of whom, is he not excellent in ‘Rescue Me’? Do you not LOVE it??? Talk about someone who, like was said about Katee Sackoff, has a real talent for playing near-whackos on the edge! I would love to see the two of them, Leary & Sackoff, in something together, that would be fun to watch…

I agree with you that, as reasonable precautions, there should be spoiler warnings; however, the key word here is ‘reasonable’ – no one has the right to be offended if the rest of the planet knows something, I don’t care what it is! U all know, the Steelers won the Superbowl, right? And in ‘Citizen Kane’, Rosebud was his sled. There, I said it!

And Red Pariah was absolutely right, ‘DaVinci’s Inquest’ was excellent, and so was Donnelly Rhodes a as, you guessed it, a grumpy, loveable cop; I remember him fondly as Dutch on the sitcom ‘Soap’, many years ago, opposite Kathryn Hellmond & Jennifer Salt. I could never get tired of him.

As for those of you who tape shows, wait for DVDs to come out, or live in the UK or Austraila or the Planet Mongo – may I respectfully suggest that you stick your fingers in your ears, squeeze your eyes shut and sing: “LA-LALALA, LA-LA-LA…”

Just a suggestion, I think Bruce made a fox pas that wasn’t there…just my opinion, take it or leave it.

And for the record, the beautiful Kandyce McClure was also on ‘DaVinci’s Inquest’, on a returning guest star basis, kinda like Whoopi Goldberg as ‘Guinan’ on STNG, years ago. She also did a great ‘Andromeda’ a few years ago. Thought y’all might wanna know – I would watch Kandyce for a couple of hours if she were just dialing a phone! SOOO bummed that Dee shot herself! And she could never be a Cylon, in my book.

JOHN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YTOM0fxcZs

Didn’t Trucco broke his neck in Dec of 2007? And was mobile by Jan 2008 and filming in the March time frame?

correct me if my dates are off.

Actually, I didn’t take it personally.

It wasn’t a slight on my view of things at all… I was having fun with it and making an observation… something editorial writers tend to do on and off…

But I did learn something from that, in that I hit you guys right up front in the first line of the article and not thinking about the issue being that it was such old news, POW!, spoiler zone!

So on a serious note, thanks for pointing it out to us. We shall be more careful in the future with recent show event news when dispatching thoughts and opinion!

We’re just going to take you less serious in the future, since you seem to take criticism personally.

ZAR.