I thought to myself, even if this episode is a weak filler like every single episode since the second one I’m going to keep with it, I’m sure at some stage or the other the show will become interesting and live up to some of the promise made in the pilot.

But the I accidental saw some of the one line descriptions of upcoming episodes and a prominent keyword in each of those is ‘flashback’.  So I really don’t know if I can do this any more, I mean I’m not even disappointed anymore, I expect the next episode to be crap and frankly they are fulfilling that expectation.

So the other week we highlighted the stupid and exploitative scene where the nerds used a keno to check out the officer with the large breasts (honestly it is so annoying that this is all I’ve got to describe this character – the writers REALLY suck).  A guy I work with had a really good point about the scene, the way that Young as the commanding officer handled it, rather than create a non sexist working environment and making sure that the two idiots knew that the behaviour would not be accepted he took on a boys will be boys kind of attitude and let it slide.

It doesn’t surprise me then, when we get to the episode ‘Earth’ so named because the writers are trying to be cool with their episode titles that the characters including Young act in such a morally reprehensible and inappropriate fashion with the borrowed bodies on Earth.

I’m sorry I know it is just a story device but to take someone else’s body and then go and have sex with someone!?!?!? You don’t know anything about that person, what if they have a disease, what if the person you are having sex with has a disease!?!  I can’t even articulate the level of inappropriateness of this!

I thought it was bad enough using their bodies to go out drinking, what if they were alcoholics?  Or have a condition?  What if they just get drunk and fall down??  It’s so stupid.

It’s bad writing.

What did we learn this week?

• Jack O’Neal looks bloody terrible!
• Jack O’Neal sounds bloody terrible!
• Jack O’Neal looks and sounds like he doesn’t want to be there, I know how he feels.
• Oh cool the guy from 24 is there… OMG is this a crossover!?!?!  Could Jack Bauer be on soon!!!
• No it is not a 24 crossover.
• You know what this show needs more of?  Talking.
• Not.
• You know what else this show needs more of?  Communication stones.
• NOT.
• Apparently they DO need some HR directives for people to follow… or BETTER WRITERS!!!
• When someone you work with visits your mother apparently it’s not weird at all and they’ll make cookies!?!?!?
• There is WAY too much back story in these characters maybe we could have some current story??
• Young has become THAT GUY, you know, the awful ex.
• Lou Diamond Phillips’ character is just an unpleasant to watch jerk, I thought the Wraith were lame but sheesh.
• Oh look, they went to a club in Stargate… how much did that cost, maybe next time we don’t go to the expense of building a club set and filling it and we hire better writers.
• I think Eli was driving a Porche?   I could be wrong, it doesn’t make any sense… oh that’s right worst writing ever.
• I really enjoy the Eli and Young Big Brother show.
• NOT!!

Seriously does anyone think this show is really good?  Better than SG1, hell better than Atlantis??  Because they cancelled Atlantis to produce this lame crap.