What's On: Stargate Goes Soft
The third series of the Stargate franchise premieres tonight on the rebranded Syfy. Fitting in with Syfy's attempt to make its programming slightly more humanistic, less Sci Fi, Stargate Universe's creators Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper have promised to make the new program a little more focused on relationships aboard the ship and the storylines easier for the franchise newbies to jump into mid-season.
Stargate Universe [9 PM, Syfy]
In the series opener, a soldier leads evacuees through a stargate onto an unknown, eerily familiar spacecraft. Robert Carlyle, Lou Diamond Phillips and Justin Louis star. Do not be intimidated Gallactica strangers, tonight's premiere will include a brief history on the franchise's premise.
Medium [9 PM, CBS]
There are few characters that could really spice up your Friday night CBS psychic crime-solving dramas like a "slain revenge-seeking stripper" and tonight's Medium takes full advantage of this exoticism by staging her as Allison's (Patricia Arquette) prime suspect responsible for Ariel's (Sofia Vassilieva) increasingly weird behavior. CBS previews hint that the stripper might be possessing Ariel.
More Sex in the Civil War [11 PM, History]
After a week of Ken Burns making us feel bad for going to Six Flags or dive bars instead of the wondrous national parks, the History Channel reminds us that American history isn't all about wholesome family fun. This is the follow-up to Sex in the Civil War, so obviously there were loose threads from the first special about how the Blues and the Grays got their rocks off. The idea that soldiers would leave the battlefield to hit up the brothel is not exclusive to the 19th century, so look for Sex in the Peloponnesian War next fall.
Rear Window [9 PM, TCM]
As even the most armchair-bound Hitchcock fan knows, the director was obsessed with ways of seeing and notions of perception. The Englishman's gaze was never more suspenseful than in this simple story of broken-legged peeping tom (James Stewart) with a phallic camera and a smoking hot girlfriend (Grace Kelly). As they unravel the mystery of their neighbor's disappearance, we are left to wonder why one of the most beautiful women in the history of the world is in love with this shutterbug and what rent they would have been paying in the Village in the early 1950's.
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I was disgusted to see that they chose to use the episode to demonize CO2, apparently in support of the globalist's CO2 and Climate Change money making agenda of the carbon tax, carbon credits trading, and the sale of carbon offsets.
When the ship's life-support system is failing, there's no mention of oxygen depletion, or the buildup of nitrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, or any number of other poisonous gasses--it's all about CO2 buildup, which wouldn't even be a danger, the oxygen depletion killing everyone long before their exhalation of CO2 could get CO2 anywhere near a dangerous level.
It's the same when they check the atmosphere on the new planet--no mention of the oxygen level or any number of possible poisonous gasses, it's all about "CO2 is at a low enough level."
They should be more concerned that there is ENOUGH CO2 to sustain plant life so they can grow the seeds they have with them.
CO2 is a life-giving gas, not a life-taking gas.
It would be funny if it weren't so sad. If they continue with this propaganda, I won't be able to enjoy the series.