Con­ti­nuing on the theme of pos­ting videos for my favou­rite tele­vi­sion shows (see: X-files, Vero­nica Mars) I am now pro­vi­ding you with a fan made trai­ler for the BSG mini series, the dra­ma­tic ope­ning to a 3 series (and con­ti­nuing) epic that gets bet­ter and bet­ter with each epi­sode. I can­not empha­size enough how much you have to see this show; I had ori­gi­nally pas­sed it off as just another one of those sci-fi pro­gram­mes but the extent to which it deve­lops every major and minor cha­rac­ter, the plot arcs, the twists, the deve­lop­ments, the gutsy ballsy nature of the wri­ters to approach impor­tant and thought pro­vo­king issues head-on at light speed and the ove­rall qua­lity of anything and everything. Do not under any cir­cums­tance pass off this ground­brea­king series because it is of sci-fi genre — it would be a dire mistake.

To com­me­mo­rate the old two sea­sons worth intro to my favou­rite show. They’ve repla­ced it with one of those spangly-fancy OC loo­king remi­xes which, in the words of a 14 year old Ame­ri­can girl, “makes me wanna puke my guts up”.

I have just finished Sea­son 3 of my 9 sea­son X-files marathon that I star­ted in August. Hallo­ween seems an appro­priate day to do this and to also post this clas­sic introduction.

With the power to appease the cons­cience comes the abi­lity to remove free­dom — Talitha Cumi.

Though if I am going to begin quo­ting epi­so­des I am going to have to men­tion the best of Sea­son 3, War of the Coprophages:

Mul­der: I think you’d bet­ter get up here.
Scully: What hap­pe­ned?
Mul­der: It appears that coc­kroaches are mor­tally attac­king peo­ple.
Scully: I’m not going to ask you if you just said what I think you just said, because I know it’s what you just said.

Mul­der: Bambi also has a theory I’ve come to acro…
Scully: Who?
Mul­der: Dr. Beren­baum. Any­way her theory is…
Scully: Her name is Bambi?
Mul­der: Yeah. Both her parents were natu­ra­lists. Her theory is that UFO’s are actually noc­tur­nal insect swarms pas­sing through elec­tri­cal air fields.
Scully: Her name is Bambi?

Woman why won’t you just shut up? Ain’t you never gonna stop tal­king? I will bless the day that I can get away from your voice, your voice, your voice. From Calloway’s Cot­ton Club 1933–1934 comes “Your Voice”:

Where Is Minnie?

The [Uni­ted State’s] free­doms are under assault by an admi­nis­tra­tion whose poli­cies can do us as much damage as Al-Qaeda; the nation’s “mar­ket­place of ideas” is being poi­so­ned, by a pro­pa­ganda com­pany so bla­tant that Tokyo Rose would’ve quit.

Nonethe­less… the head­line is this: Bill Clin­ton did what almost none of us have done, in five years. He has spo­ken the truth about 9/11, and the current pre­si­den­tial administration.

• The Bush Admi­nis­tra­tion did not try to get Osama Bin Laden before 9/11.
• The Bush Admi­nis­tra­tion igno­red all the evi­dence gathe­red by its predecessors.
• The Bush Admi­nis­tra­tion did not unders­tand the Daily Brie­fing entit­led “Bin Laden Deter­mi­ned To Strike in U.S.“
• The Bush Admi­nis­tra­tion… did…not…try.

Moreo­ver, for the last five years one month and two weeks, the current admi­nis­tra­tion, and in par­ti­cu­lar the Pre­si­dent, has been given the grea­test “pass” for incom­pe­tence and mal­fea­sance, in Ame­ri­can history!

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To hear [Bush] bleat and whine and bully at nearly every oppor­tu­nity, one would think someone else had been Pre­si­dent on Sep­tem­ber 11th, 2001 — or the nearly eight months that pre­ce­ded it. That hardly reflects the honesty nor man­li­ness we expect of the Executive.

I also find Olbermann’s com­men­tary on the Katrina fiasco last year refreshing: