is tonight's episode and I'm looking forward to it. Been avoiding spoilers as best I can and I don't know too much. Just that on Joe Malozzi's blog he said that Daniel's prior story arc had originally been thought of as taking place over a few episodes but that in the end they did it in one. And that's the Shroud. I'm hoping it is going to show the brilliance of the Quest Part II.

Last week's episode was great though wasn't it? To think there's a universe where Sam and Rodney were married. Sam McKay? That's a hard one to imagine! As we were watching we were wondering - just how long did the marriage last? My money is on 7 months tops. That must have been a very different Sam in that universe though. As much as I love our Sam and MacKay (and I do, they're just brilliant together) I just can't see them ever getting married. I wonder if Sam left that detail out of her report?

Since Sam, after Daniel, is my favourite character on the show, I'm quite pleased she is going to Atlantis. But only quite pleased. I'll be thrilled to bits when I find out that they integrate her character properly into the show and give her a unique role. I asked Joe about this, but clearly my question was phrased wrong. What I'd wanted was reassurance that, since all of Sam's strengths (scientist, military, female) are covered by other characters on the show, that they wouldn't just be using her as a 'McKay' fill in in one episode, and a 'Shepperd' fill in in the next episode etc, but actually give her a role that is all her own. I figure the only way I'll find out is by watching the show.

If you're a member of the GateWorld forum, and especially a long term member, then you'll have a sense of humour. A good sense of humour. I can take that as granted because from my years of experience, that's been the case 99 percent of the time.

Joe's comments in his blog have brought this collective sense of humour to the fore. And there's certainly a lot of fun to be had with Shrill and Ill-Informed Lemmings. Nolamum's cartoons bear a particular mention here.

It wasn't made clear by Joe in his post yesterday, but it was made clear today, that he was talking about fans who just like nothing better than to use any excuse for criticism as a chance to make a personal attack. That's not something that anyone can say about the posters at GateWorld, and I'm proud of that.

I'm also proud to be shrill, proud to be ill-informed, and proud to be a lemming. At the end of the day it is all just good, clean, fandom fun and I hope Joe gets to have a laugh too. I know that I've had a jolly good time these last two days - and been reminded at how incredibly talented some of the folks I talk to are.

I don't support sports - I'm not a sports oriented person. But I do come from a country where sports form the centre of society, and are almost a religion. I have seen far more shrill and ill informed (ie personal attacks) made on managers of sports teams than I have in the fandom about the PTB. I think that the reason I'm so passionate about Stargate is that it is my replacement sports team. Just as I find it utterly unbearable when the All Blacks (the NZ national rugby team) lose, I also find it unbearable when my shows don't get the ratings I feel they right deserve.

Last night was the equivelant of a 1-1 draw away match for Stargate SG1 for me. It was a good episode - nothing obviously wrong with it. But it just didn't get me going in any way. And was slightly a downer in that really, the team should have scored at least one more goal.

The fun part of Tuesday nights for me is getting to watch the show with friends. A rather fraught process at times since I'm pro-Sam and another of my friends is anti-Sam. Poor thing, last night I thought she was going to burst with not saying anything! But she did well, and next week I'll have an extra box of chocolates just for her :)

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