Monday, January 17, 2011

House - 7.09 Larger Than Life

The Team treat a man who fainted after he saved a woman who have fallen on the subway tracks. House tries to get out of Cuddy's birthday dinner with her mother.

I missed this show while it was in repeats. I rather enjoyed Candice Bergen as Cuddy's mother.

Seven out of ten.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Cape - 1.01 Pilot

Cop Vince Faraday is framed for crimes he didn't commit and takes on the persona of the comic book hero "The Cape" to fight crime in corrupt Palm City.

The Carnival of Crime is enough make me stop watching. In fact it did.

Four out of ten.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Lost Girl - 1.08 Vexed

Bo pursues a lead about her mother.

It finally feels like this show is starting to get some traction under it.

Eight out of ten.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Burn Notice - 1.08 Wanted Man

Michael and Fiona help a man wanted as a jewel thief.

Seven out of ten.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - 1.10 Move Along Home

The station engages in it's first formal reception with a new species from the Gamma Quadrant who are extremely interested in games. Sisko, Bashir, Dax and Kira become trapped in a game.

Six out of ten.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Supernatural - What's Wrong With Sam?

The below is all speculation.

I rather liked the "Sam is still Lucifer's Vesel" theory until the "Third Man" episode as I think Castiel would mention that to Dean, no matter how rusty his people skills are, especially given Cass' position on resuming the path to Armageddon.

I'm assuming Sam is Sam, otherwise this whole season is rather a cheat.

1.Sam hurt/abandoned/killed Adam while in the cage, possibly to earn his release. The guilt is eating him alive and he can't confess to anyone, particularly not Samuel and Dean as both would find hurting family extremely abhorrent, especially Dean in the context of Sam hurting their younger brother. Sam is once again intent on becoming the best hunter in the world in act of penance. (His current behavior, including the obsession with hunting and willingness to sacrifice people, is rather similar to his behavior in "Mystery Spot" after Dean's final death). Sam is subconsciously hurting Dean because of his presumed inability to forgive Sam the unforgivable.

2. Through a Hell time paradox (time works different down there), Sam was one of the souls or the only soul Dean tortured on the rack. Explains why Sam didn't want Dean around and is willing to risk Dean's life so casually. Would explain Sam's personality issues around Dean and why he spilled the beans to the Campbells about Dean being a torturer in Hell.

3. Sam still has "demon vision" from the pit and Dean is at least partially, if not completely, a demon. Explains why Sam didn't want Dean around and is willing to risk Dean's life so casually.

4. 2 & 3

5. Dean never made it out of Hell.

6. Dean's been in a psychiatric hospital since Sam died in season 2.

7. End of the series reveals it was all Dean's hallucinations since John left him alone and he went off his meds.

8. Dean's been catatonic or suffering delusions since Mary or Sam died in a house fire Dean lit when he was four.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4.03 Brothers

Data takes control of the Enterprise, to met Doctor Soong, his creator, while it is on an emergency trip to a starbase to save the life of one of it's crew member's children.

Soong had designed a basic emotion chip for Data which Lore tricks Soong into installing the chip into himself.

This episode was an interesting backfill of character history and it was rather frightening to see what Data is capable of.

Eight space ships out of ten.

Notes
Data can perfectly mimic Captain Picard's voice.

Data mets his creator, Doctor Noonian Soong and Lore joins the pair. Soong survived the attack of the crystalline entity. Soong is dying. Soong has humanoid skeletons and apparent dinosaurs.

Data was created after Lore and has complete free will. Soong hoped Data had become a cybernetist. Soong had intended to fix Lore and says the only difference between the two is a bit of programming