I’ve been wanting to see this one for a long time, and I’m glad it’s finally come up in my queue. In the end, it’s a straightforward piece that presents its science and facts upfront, without any obfuscation. Plain speech, for once. Sure, there are the emotional cues and it is skewed toward its premise – humanity is causing an unprecedented rise in CO2 in the atmosphere, and the link between CO2 level and global temperature.
I’m going to do what I can. Four stars.
Ahh, the classic tool of the flashback. This made-for-TV movie fills in more detail about Pegasus, about Lee Adama’s new position on that aforementioned shiny ship, the last Cylon war, and the development of the humanoid Cylons. My favorite part had to be the surprise appearance of the old-school “BY YOUR COMMAND” Cylons. They had the old-school Cylon ships! Hell, the humans even blow up god! Or, um, something like one. That’s still pretty unclear. Genetic dead-end, or the origin of the Cylon religion? I’ll tell you what it is! It’s juicy plot awesomeness!
It strikes me that in reiterating that Boomer is hot, I may be neglecting the cuteness of Cally. Okay, fine, fine. I really should also be noting that while both Boomer and Cally (thanks to the casting of their extremely talented and drool-worthy actresses) are distracting to the eye, they portray three-dimensional characters. Their performances are nuanced, emotional, and show us exactly how normal people can become extraordinary in the most dire of circumstances.
Five stars, of course!
There’s usually a tendency in series writers to keep a status quo. Sure, small things can change, but they usually only change for that episode, or to teach the important lesson. This is standard operating procedure for most TV series, right?
Not so for BSG, especially not so for this season. Blowing up ships, people, more ships, a new humanoid Cylon revealed, a Presidential election, and a planet that can support life! I think that my enthusiasm for this show should be clear, due to the amount of exclamation points that I seem to be using. Oh, and since I’m keeping track…. Boomer = still hot. Five stars.
Update: I had a few details confused between Season 3 and Razor. These should now be corrected.
You know, I thought that it couldn’t get any more “OH MY GODS THEY DID NOT DO THAT!” after Season 1’s finale. I was wrong. I know that it’s rare to hear me say that, but I say it here with a clear conscience. I was wrong. I want to create a writer’s equivalent of the master/apprentice system just so that I can apprentice under these writers. I did not expect to see Ensign Ro from Star Trek: The Next Generation show up as the Admiral. The SciFi channel keeps up its tradition of hiring fantastic actors from other popular science fiction TV shows, and I really dug her performance. Also, the other Six that shows up… yeah. If Baltar was crazy before…
Oh, and Boomer? Still hot. Five stars.
I had seen nearly all of these episodes as they aired. I was not bored or disappointed, though, as they were well worth watching again. As I got closer and closer to the end of the season, I got more excited, because I knew that something big was going to happen to the city, and that something big was going to happen to Dr. Carson, who is one of my favorite Atlantis characters.
I will not provide spoilers. I will just say that yes, I cried. I cried like I did when I watched Pay it Forward. The end of the season had a very Voyager feel to it. And no, I don’t mean that in a bad way. Four stars.
This is what happens when I browse through the Netflix streaming list. I go clicky-clicky, and then watch mediocre anime. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t good, either. One of the first original vampires? Okay. The last surviving vampire? Um, all right. Are those demons? What are those things she keeps killing? Why are they hiding in human host bodies? Okay, you killed the big baddie. Now some of the talky talky to let me in on the background? No? Huh, they rolled credits.
WTF. Animation quality was good, action was good. Something about the lips of some of the characters bothered me. Enjoyable watch. Three stars.
Amazon bullies Print On Demand publishers. There’s also a Wall Street Journal and a Publishers Weekly article on the subject.
Grand River Coffee, which was previously a Cornerstone Coffee, feels like a hotel lobby. They even have a waterfall running down a pane of glass.
Stargate: Ark of Truth is the perfect wrap-up for season 10. If it had been cut in half, at a cliffhanger, it would have served as the season 10 finale and the season 11 starter. It has replicators, a banished Morgan LaFey, the ascended Orusai, and plot tie-ups. It has everything that was missing in Season 10.
While playing like a double-length episode, it still takes advantage of feaure-film special effects, soundtrack, and camera work. Unlike 99% of the movies that the SciFi channel puts out (craaaaaap), this straight-to-DVD release was quality.
Also, Teal’c is a badass. Five stars.
Heroes: Season 2 was not as cohesive or a-to-b as Season 1 was, but I didn’t see that as much of a drawback. We learn a lot more about the previous generation, and that this super power thing has likely been going on for a very long time. Nearly every character gains depth, save Syler. That jerk. There is definitely an end-of-the world plot going on, like in the first season, but it’s implied that this is the normal course of events for people with these powers, and always has been. Very MiB in that regard.
On a technical note, I streamed this from Netflix’s servers. While the quality was good, the wait time was high (direct correlation, methinks). I’m still miffed that I’m forced to use IE to view streamed content, and that it uses Windows Media Player for its “viewing rights verification process” or whatever. But overall, it was a pleasant experience.
Five stars.
This is supposed to be the last season, right? The show was canceled, yes? Well, yes and no. Instead of tying up, or even really making any sort of climactic progress against the armies of the Ori, this is just another season of Stargate SG-1. They’ve got just as many retrospective episodes, character history episodes, Jaffa infighting, Baal (GOD! JUST SHUT UP YOU CLONED JERK), the NID, actual Goa’uld implantations, and Tok’ra bailouts as past seasons. What it doesn’t have is a conclusion. In fact, it has the opposite of a conclusion. Hell, it didn’t have a buildup or climax, so why would it have a conclusion?
I enjoyed nearly every episode, on its own. But even if it hadn’t been the last season, there would have been a cliffhanger at the end. It feels like I was in the passenger seat of a car that was being driven off a cliff.
Because of the strength of the individual episodes, the small amounts of Ori plot advancement that did happen, the twist involving