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Last night was my first kickboxing class at my local ilovekickboxing.com studio. My legs hurt today in all the best ways. I adored class and you better believe I signed up for a one-year membership before I left the studio. The one downside is the price of membership and how the company tends to keep it under wraps for the most part. When I sighed up for their internet special (5 Classes for $19.99 plus a pair of boxing gloves) I started scouting their website to check membership pricing. They are up front about the “After your first class we’ll show you how to save $100 on membership!”- so you know after class it’s time for the hard sell, but it’s not advertised on their website what you’re saving $100 on. I did some digging and googling and found the structure of membership. Being armed with that info when I went in and having time to discuss the membership costs with my husband beforehand, I was comfortable with the hard sell approach and there was no sticker shock. Here’...

I’m all caught up on Stargate: Origins and I’m still not quite sure what I think about it. I’ve been sitting here trying to come up with a decent summary of what’s going on and it’s a lot harder than it sounds like. Partially because so much is going on, but nothing really happens. The Professor is kidnapped by Nazis who want to go through the Stargate for Nazi reasons leaving Catharine behind on Earth to grab her friend Beal (who I cannot stress enough is NOT ERNEST) and his sidekick Wasif to go through the Stargate to rescue him. On Abydos, we are introduced to a new Goa’uld, Aset. She has a harsesis which up through episode 7 serves no purpose other than to have a nice little call back to SG-1 and give Aset something to do with her hands. Aset easily captures the Nazis and the Professor. The head Nazi in a power move shows Aset some Nazi propaganda movies (which, it’s cool they used actual footage) and Aset falls for it. She decides that clearly the Tau’ri are ready to be s...

It is finally here, well, a third of it is here. Stargate Origins has dropped on Stargate Command and so far, it’s…. meh. Granted all I’ve really seen is the first act of a movie’s worth of material. Origins is being released as 10 separate 10-minute episodes of a web series. The story is set between the prologue of the original Stargate movie and the scene when Catherine Langford recruits Daniel Jackson to Project Giza. Young adult Catherine is going on an adventure Tomb Raider style. It’s a different set up than I’m used to watching so the short bursts of the movie are taking some getting used to. Sure, I’ve watched The Guild (love it!), Dr. Horrible (brilliant!) and ConMan (hilarious!) but I didn’t watch them as webseries-es. I watched The Guild on Netflix as basically a movie per season, I watched Dr. Horrible as a movie, and ConMan I got to see now that SyFy has it and airs it as a TV series. The only web series I’ve watched as a web series was he Lizzie Bennet Diaries (so ...