We never have to see Rose again, but I am kind of curious as to what the Dr.'s Daughter has been doing. Lots of running I'm guessing. ;)

I was always a fan of Martha Jones, myself. Rose was resourceful, but a bit too enamored with the Doctor. Some days, it seemed like she did not know how to function in his absence. Martha seemed much more capable, even taking care of the Doctor when he was suffering from amnesia.
Indeed, Russel T. Davies is always a controversial figure in the Doctor Who community. Some love his flare, while others feel that he has been less than faithful for the series or its original format. Particularly, the frequency of episodes being based in London (even when in the past or the future) as opposed to involving more travel in space or to other worlds (like the older episodes).

@Kailos, ignore the trolls.
Battlestar Galactica was such a disappointment, I am glad a sci fi program was so successful but I saw it as a bastard child between sci fi and drama. The character's personalities would change every few episodes to allow for (repeated) dramatic love triangles and other psychological bull.
I recently started watching babylon 5 and (naturally ignoring the CGI) I am liking it alot more. As for my favourite (serious) sci fi, I think it has to be Space above and beyond, I still can't believe it was cancelled, bastards on fox. My favourite comedy Sci-fi has to be red dwarf, though it got naff as it got older.
I havn't actually gotten around to watch Doctor who, as a Brit I suppose I should but, eh.
Oh, as for slang, I prefer to say "taking the piss" myself.

Red Dwarf has kind of lost it's place as Sci-fi has learned to laugh at itself, and doesn't really need a show dedicated to doing just that.

You know, I must be one of the few people who wasn't overly impressed with Blink. I thought it was a decent episode, but I don't see what everyone else sees in it....
I loved Family of Blood though, especially Part 2.

I have to agree with you on that note. I am enjoying Battlestar Galactica, but only because of the few shows I do watch (House M.D., Bones, Smallville), they are usually a drama, disguised as something else (medical procedural, police procedural, superhero genre show). Honestly, the Cylons make so few attacks (at least from what I have seen in the first season) and most of the focus is on character interactions. It is easy to forget that you are watching a science fiction/wartime show. BG is almost the very definition of a space opera. Perhaps I am just spoiled by Doctor Who. It is always so exciting and an adventure into the unknown. Battlestar Galactica is always about the drama and relationships. So as a show in general, I enjoy it, but as a sci-fi program, I often feel that it could have been something else. The Cylons, the war and outer space all seem very secondary in Battlestar Galactica.

the western setting is over done and the characters and plots are stereotypical... it's like watching someone jumble tropes around..

There are a couple of one liners that are not horrid... but few and far in between...
I liked firefly... I mean... I wouldnt go out and watch it again but it had it's moments.
Dr Who I would...

B5 is really great. And it gets better until season 3 (my favorite) and 4, both in terms of writing and production. Season 5 is a bit of a spin-off and was a bit of a disapointment for me.
The B5 universe is quite original and very, very coherent. The story arcs have been thought out before production, so the 4 first seasons are really coherent and all episodes interact to create a great experience, like reading a good sci-fi book.
Too bad the CGI aged so badly, and some of the actors are horrible. Some others are great though, like Andreas Katsulas who plays G'Kar : I still cannot believe he manages to play so well while wearing a cumbersom latex mask.

Yea, the acting was terrible in the first few episodes, it gets better as the show goes on though. I am upto early season 4 right now and as you mention the programme is very coherent with all the episodes stringing together nicely.
Not sure what to go onto next sci-fi wise. I already watched farscape (not awesome, but quite good, a few too many deus ex machina moments and lack in coherence, but still quite good). I really like John's character and how he spends most of the programme either insane or borderline).

I should give Farscape a go one of these days. I only watched 2 or 3 episodes, found it OK but never really got into its pretty bizarre mood.
If you find a good sci-fi/space opera show, I'm interested. Having seen B5, Firefly and BSG, I don't really have anything else to watch. I tried Andromeda, but apart from its interesting art direction, I really didn't like it (and it does not seem to improve in time). I like Star Trek TNG (I saw all the Star Trek movies actually), but the DVDs are pretty expensive and hard to find, so I only saw a few episodes on TV.

I picked up Space Above and Beyond at Best Buy for $15 the other day. This is a 23 ep first season. Series was cancelled after that :(
Anyway, it's pretty good.

Firefly is a good show, but it has some of the most annoyning fans I have ver seen.