Enough blogging about world problems.  Time to look at something fun: Geeky television shows.

Probably my favorite TV show that I watch on broadcast now is Chuck.  It is pretty cheesy, but a great mix of Office Space and, well, some spy movie.  Not James Bond… maybe Austin Powers?  Any way, I love the guest stars they have on each week.  Last week they had Dixon from Alias playing a rogue martial arts trainer.  Classic.  earlier they had John Larroquette basically playing a washed up James Bond type. This week was the boss from Office Space (Gary Cole) playing a major character’s Dad.  Great stuff.

Speaking of Gary Cole, I am also finishing up the entire Babylon 5 universe by watching a short-lived B5 spin-off called Crusade.  Cole played the lead character, who’s second in command is none other than Jin from Lost.  If Lost was on television right now, it would probably be my favorite show.  The previews and sneak peeks from next season look really cool.

I finally finished up the entire StarGate universe on DVD.  Still need to wait for SG:A season 5 to come out on DVD to catch up totally, but it is a great franchise and I wish they would keep the original 2 series going.  I am interested in seeing Star Gate: Universe, but I just wish the others were still around.

Now that I have wrapped up SG and B5, I have moved on to some of the coolest SciFi out there: Battlestar: Galactica.  Awesome stuff – and I am only on season 1.  Time to catch up!

Yes, I do still watch Heroes.  Heroes struggled last season, and really jumped the shark this season.  The last few weeks has improved some.  And they did fire the people responsible for last season and hire the guy responsible for the first season, so we may see some improvement.  The creator also said that using time travel is a mistake, full of problems.  Maybe they will drop that angle.  I mean, this week Claire went back in time and changed her own diapers.  That has to violate some rule of space-time continuum some how.  It is just wrong.

Since I am watching Chuck, I can’t also watch Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.  But I have managed to catch it on-line some time during the weekends after it is broadcast.  Not too bad, has some flaws, but I am curious to see where it goes.

Of course, I also watched the Amazing Race this season.  They had some great moments, but all of the racers seem to blend together from season to season.  We need some more oddballs and competitors back in the race.  But  if those frat boys had won, I would have thrown something at the screen.  That had to be a plot by the producers to keep them in the show- they should have been gone by the second episode.  No one can really be that lucky.

I haven’t gotten in to many other new shows, nor do I plan too.  Too many of them seem like they are going to be like Pushing Daisies – start of with an interesting pilot and then get boring after a week or two.  Pushing Daisies might have made a good mini-series at best.