British actors

While watching the new Masterpiece theater version of Persuasion by Jane Austen, I saw the names Anthony Head and Alice Krige in the cast listing at the beginning of the movie. "I wonder," I mused, "if this is Anthony STEWART Head." Sure enough it was: Rupert Giles of Buffy fame. It was nice to see him in something else. I did see him in an episode of Dr. Who recently, but I've never seen him in a period piece. He was the stuck-up, stuffed shirt Sir Elliot, the father of the heroine. Alice Krige played the heroine's friend and godmother, Lady Russell.

I'm also watching Angel, and I'm on season five. Almost through, and there have been some good story lines, but I don't like it as much as I liked Buffy. The next sci-fi show I have on Netfilx is Battlestar Gallactica, but it's a little ways down the list. So many other movies to watch.

Funny and true sci-fi life story
I went into my class yesterday, and one of my students said to me, "I didn't want to come to class today because there was a marathon on that I wanted to watch. But since it's a marathon, I'll catch some episodes later."
"Oh yeah, what was it?" I asked.
"Battlestar Gallactica. I can't help it, I'm a big geek," he explained to his classmates.
"What?! If I had known that that was on, I wouldn't have come either. I'd have called in sick."

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