I'm still alive. I think. Despite having had flu already this year, and a flu jab, I've had flu. Which is now lingering. I'm only up this late because whenever I got to bed I can't get to sleep. And it's entirely my mum's fault I dreamt about being covered in stick insects last night. I'm still trying to catch up on my life. I'm nearly there. Which is good because I'm away in Manchester this weekend, with Nic. Next week I could be out every night if I wanted, except that I think I might need some sleep at some point. Then the weekend after is Redemption!

But what I really wanted to talk about is Stargate. The other week I saved the episode of Atlantis because it was a two parter. Then, when I came to watch them both, part 1 was just a continuation of what had gone on before and part 2 was really part 1. Which annoyed me. Stargate had a two-parter at the same, so I saved that one as well. And that, I enjoyed. It was BIG. And had all the things that are good in Stargate. I'm suddenly quite liking Ba'al as well.

So I was really looking forward to the following Stargate, which as it was 90mins long I assumed was the equivalent of a two-parter (being as a two-parter is 90mins). Except that this fails to take adverts into account - it just never occurred to me that it's possible to fit 30mins of adverts into a 1 hour program. It might have been okay - let's face it you can't go from the universe's imminent destruction to flowers - except for when they got rid of [censored]. I was trying to work out if there's anyone left to get rid of an I can only think of one. Please can we not have a season 9, so he can stay alive?

This week's Stargate I'm saving for next, as it's yet another two-parter.

Sunday's Stargate I was particularly keen to see because it explains a lot of things about Atlantis I'd forgotten. I noticed they had a little bit of the Atlantis theme tune at the end of the episode! But, yes, that was a good episode. Another BIG one. I was completely shocked by Dr Weir. I knew she'd been played by someone different but I'd not really noticed. Which is quite bad really considering the original was blonde, the new isn't. Never mind.

Anyway, I had exactly the same reaction to her the second time round - didn't like her at first (she was replacing, the irreplaceable, General Hammond) but liked her by the end of it. I was trying to see her as the new Weird through the episode, but they were really different people. Which I can't complain about, given the Stargate film/TV series differences.

I've managed to be talked into going to Prime in September (Buffy con in Blackpool). Although not staying in the Norbreck because they'd have to pay me to do that. Um, yeah. Money. Grows on trees, doesn't it?