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I finished watching Season 3 of “Battlestar Galactica” over the weekend, which was suitably dramatic and fabulous and exciting - man, that’s a good series. I’m awfully depressed that the 4th season will be the last, and that it’s screening at the moment in the US which means that it will be forever until it comes out on DVD and I get to see it. Unless commercial TV over here screens it in the meantime, which seems unlikely. Or unless I get impatient and resort to illegal downloads, which is more likely. Because man, there is so much stuff I want to know. I already knew Starbuck wasn’t really dead, despite appearances, which made her death episode a bit less devastating. And dude! The final four! So who’s the fifth? And how the hell are they going to wrap all this up coherently? I think they’ve got 22 episodes to do it in, which gives them a bit of leeway.

I’ve also been watching “Weeds”, a comedy about an upperclass housewife turned drug dealer, which is terribly funny - I was thinking about recommending it to Mum but decided after watching the, er, tennis-racquet-insertion-scene that it was too rude. And then there were a whole lot of other rude scenes that compounded my decision. I’m sure you will agree that one’s parents shouldn’t watch anything on your recommendation that contains sex, masturbation or any implied naughty bits. It’s inappropriate.

And in the completely addictive trash basket, “Australia’s Next Top Model”. I can’t resist a show that puts a whole lot of young women in a house, watches them form cliques and have fights over trivial things, and then sprays water into their false-eyelash bedecked faces while demanding that they show “a bit more emotion in the eyes darling, there’s nothing there at the moment”. Yeah, because you’re spraying water into them. My favourite is Belinda - she’s kooky! She’s from the country! She’s far too mad to win, but she’s actually likable, which makes her stand out for me.

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