The Week In TV...

I watched a lot of TV this week.  Between the final episodes of Battlestar, the season premiers of Big Love, Flight of the Conchords and Lost, the Innauguation and the shows I already watch like Top Chef I have had little time to spare doing important stuff like working or going to class.  Let's recap, shall we?

In BSG, Earth turns out to be a nuclear wasteland and everyone is totally bummed.  Especially D.  Answers better come quickly because they're still revealing new questions.  Like what's Starbuck's deal - is she dead or another ancient Cylon or some third option I don't even know about but is really cool?  Is that really the final Cylon?  I hate that character.  When's Gaeta going to be cool again?  I used to like him so much but now he's a sweaty one-legged bitch.

Big Love gave us some glimpses at what's going on with Roman and seeing Albie get his ass beat is always a pleasure.  All I could think about the whole episode was that Bill Paxton looks really old this year.

Flight of the Conchords started out strong with a nice Greg Proops cameo and the fall of the Crazy Dogs.  Brit's hand-woven pants were classic.

Leah needs to get her ass off Top Chef.  Radhika blew it so I wasn't sorry to see her go but we really need to keep weeding out these crappy chefs from this season faster.  My ever-changing final four prediction is Fabio, Stephan, Jeff and Jamie.  Carla can only do desserts, Leah is a hack and Hosea is probably interchangable with Jeff but I think Jeff is better in quickfires and it'll give him an advantage.

And oh boy, Lost... I love that they're jumping through time.  I think, though, that I am going to be totally bored with the goings on in L.A. thanks to how intrigued I am with the island antics.  This time jumping is a great way to show us the origins of the Dharma Initiative, give us some insight into everyone first known as "The Hostiles" and then "The Others," and even might let us catch a glimpse of an early smoke monster.

Ever since Alex was killed I'm liking Ben more and more, and I really like how Locke's journey  could position him to be the next Ben.  I feel like Richard is a more open Jacob-like island manifestation that is charged with choosing protectors for the island.  I think it's interesting that he gave Locke a compass, one of the items Locke chose as his own when Richard visited him as a child.

Tonight is the next Battlestar episode, which I will be DVRing.  More updates next week...