Stargate SG-1: The First Commandment

 "We're off to see the wizard!"

A decent episode this time, based on a concept that was bound to come up at some point- an officer on one of the Stargate teams setting himself up as a god to the hunter-gatherer peoples of one of the worlds. And this plays out decently enough in its Man Who Would Be King sort of way, complete with the inevitable comeuppance for the captain concerned. And there's a little extra drama from the fact that this is Carter's ex.

Beyond this, though, there's more subtle world-building. The Go'auld usually terraform planets. The people on this world know of the Jaffa from legend, although they hadn't seen one before. It's all nicely Erik von Daniken, with the local legends giving clues to the Go'auld tech that can save their people... preferably without working the poor people to death to build a "temple".

At this point the SG-1 gang is bonding nicely, with mutual respect. They're a team... although no one simply just does what the Colonel O'Brien says! This is all very '90s, but the show is developing nicely in these early episodes.

IZombie: Dirt Nap Time

"Maybe you should explain my boyfriend history to him?"

"It is a bit like being a drummer for Spinal Tap."

A fairly good murder mystery this week as Liv and Clive investigate the death of a pre-school teacher with a fatally tangled love life while Rose McIver is, as ever, hilarious after consuming pre-school teacher brain in a much-needed comedy episode. It's a satisfying A-plot, yes, but let's just leave it there and talk about the arc stuff, shall we?

It turns out, in spite of Major's big confession, that Liv is not so much mad at him as mad at whoever stole the other 15 cures. Is it Blaine? Is it Don E? It could be either, although both deny it. Yes, it could be a third party, but it would be just like iZombie to suddenly reveal that it was Blaine all along. We also have further developments in the dominatrix case, surely still unresolved, as the "killer" is suspiciously leaned on by someone and ends up hanged in his cell. But Peyton has a favour to ask- will Liv eat his brains to find out what happened?

Major is hiding his non-zombie status from everyone at work except Justin and is getting away with it so far. After all, he's a former suspected serial killer; who would employ him other than Fillmore-Graves? Still, it's interesting to see the gang in Don E's zombie speakeasy. But the episode ends with acute drama as Blaine has been shot, courtesy of his father, and seems to be nearly a goner, while our favourite zombie-hating racist has footing of a very zombie Justin...

This isn't even a particularly stand-out episode but it had me hooked.iZombie at the moment is superb and hotting up.