Stargates and Dentistry

I went to the dentist yesterday. The hygienist who cleaned my teeth was incredibly cute, and had really pretty eyes. She also didn't harangue me about the caretaking of my teeth, as the other hygienist I've seen used to. All in all, it took a lot of the terror out of going to the dentist. Just thought I'd make a note of that. Considering my rampant flirting and all.

I'm finding myself becoming ever more fond of Stargate: SG1 and its Atlantis spinoff. First off, there's Claudia Black, pictured here. I think she's gorgeous. Secondly, both series have a sense of humor, which I find as something that is sorely lacking in most science fiction shows. The genre has a tendency to take itself so goddamn seriously. Thirdly, the shows seem to be a refuge of sorts for good actors fleeing from their own canceled series. Claudia Black, for instance, played Aeryn Sun on Farscape for some time, a show that I enjoyed the few times I watched it. Recently I caught an episode featuring Morena Baccarin of Firefly fame, and Jewel Staite (also from Firefly, and another personal favorite of mine) has a recurring role as a doctor on SG: Atlantis.

Overall, though I haven't any honest idea about the overarching metaplot of either show, I just enjoy watching the characters interact. There's a bunch of gobbledegook about ancient weapons of mass destruction and suchforth, but I can hang on to the plot of the current episode just fine without having to know what precisely it all means. Shows that are exclusively metaplot-driven--like The X-Files in its later years--drive me crazy, because if you miss just one episode all of a sudden you're completely out of the loop. Characters die, secrets are revealed, people have sex, and when you tune in the next week you're sitting there going, "Why the fuck is the T-1000 suddenly in the FBI?"

It's refreshing to not have to worry about that sort of thing.

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"Looks like we have a John McClane here."
"...What're you talking about?"
"Die Hard."