= So the season finale of SGA has been watched. Honestly? I'm pretty disappointed with the second season in general. There were some great episodes and a lot of wonderful and fun moments but I feel like the writers were taking a huge break from logic when they wrote the season's arc. I mean are we honestly supposed to believe that all of these highly educated, supposedly experienced people are actually this stupid? Because the command decision making has been pretty shitty overall from the decision to make a retrovirus that turns a wraith into a human being to the decision to believe that they could actually be allies with them without getting stabbed in the back.

With the benefit of having watched SG-1 now, I have to say I am intrigued with some of the questionable decisions the Atlantis team has been making. We know from season one of SGA that the Ancients aren't exactly the do-gooders we might expect (what with the biological warfare experimentation) but more interesting to me is the fact that in SG-1 the Asgard, friends of earth and highly evolved beings, are also not infallibly good. The fact is, they'd been making treaties with the Goa'uld System Lords for years. They knew they couldn't stop the Goa'uld cold so they decided to do what they could, protect those planets they could and let the Goa'uld continue enslaving and tormenting the human populations on the worlds they couldn't protect. Honestly, the possible parallels between the Asgard's willingness to work with the Goa'uld and the Atlantean's grudging willingness to strike their deal with the wraith interests me. I'm not sure the show's writers will ever be able to justify a lot of the Atlantis team's stupid decisions over the past season but I think they could have had a pretty good shot at making me feel a little better about them if they drew the right parallels.

= Bush's State of the Union address didn't fail to piss me off again this year. The man clearly doesn't live in the same world as the rest of the country what with the healthcare's doing great! the economy's doing great! american workers can't be stopped! let's promote science and math education without making education any more affordable! abstinence only education is working great! bullshit. Also? The smirking really, really annoys me. The upside to all of this was that Stephen Colbert and John Stewart got to mock the shit out of Bush in funny and inventive ways. John Stewart is my hero. He really, really is.

= Also? Stargate (the movie) was an answer on Jeopardy tonight and I swear to god I'm getting better are that game every time I watch. It's really quite gratifying.

= My class on Reality and the New Physics seems like it's going to be a pretty awesome class. We're reading a bunch of interesting sounding books and my Professor for it is an ex-research physicist out of Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center. The vote is still out on my Mexican-US Politics class. I'm afraid I don't know much of anything about Mexican history and I don't speak a word of Spanish so I'm worried I'll be out of my depth for that class. I'm still on track to graduate in May though so that's pretty damned exciting *g*