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Stargate Universe Season 1 episode 1-2 (2 hours):Air (1), Air (2)
Here is the skeleton of the 2 episodes as summarized by TV.com:
Air (1)
A research team studying the Stargate's ninth chevron is forced to flee through the gate when their secret base is attacked by an unknown enemy. They end up stranded on an Ancient ship named Destiny, billions of light years from Earth.
Air (2)
The evacuees from Icarus Base discover that the life-support system on the Destiny will fail in a matter of hours.
I've decided to remove this review, as it was WAY too long, and was more of a play by play review. What I have to say about the season premiere is that I was not satisfied with it. It left something to be experienced somehow. It really is not typical of the 2 other Stargate series, and leaves me wondering whether I will like this or not.
True that I was overly hyped over SGU, but even then, we are left with too many unresolved questions. There are too many dis-jointed plots. The characters include every single discipline of all Stargate series, with the exception of a medical chief let alone a doctor. I was left with the feeling I experienced when I first watched "Lost in Space", "Voyager" (though it became a favorite of mine) and somehow the movie Aliens.
I think I'll just have to grow into it. But lets hope that the producers don't keep us hanging. A new ploy being used by the writers, is having each episode rely on the following one. On Stargate Atlantis, most episodes had a definite resolve. Perhaps there was room left for future visits on the same topic, and the occasional 2 part episodes. The same can be said of the original Stargate series, SGC. I will not like the soap opera like episodic series unless it provides something much more meatier than what we are given.
Here's hoping that our next episode will have some resolve, and some verified communication with Earth. I too do not trust Dr. Rush, just as most of the expidition team members. The evacuees don't trust him either. He is creepy in a sort of hermit who doesn't communicate with anyone. This really is alienating everyone, especially since he has declared himself as the leader of the expidition supposedly by Gen. Oneall. We have no idea if this is true. Dr. Rush will not allow access to the ancient devices that allow communication with planets over great distances.
So then, it[s wait for next week. Hopefully the end of the episode will not completely leave us hanging again. "Lost" and "Voyager" at least did that for us. There was some kind of resolve at each episode.
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Smallville Season 9 episode 2: Metallo
Here is the skeleton of the episode as summarized by TV.com
Lois' new colleague, John Corben, undergoes a horrific transformation when he awakens from an accident with superhuman strength and a heart made of kryptonite. Determined to use his new power to further his vendetta against the Blur, Corben sets out kill the vigilante. However, the situation becomes even more complicated when Lois' own investigation leads her into Corben's hands.
I'm going to add skin to this skeleton. My personal opinion that is. For starters, the first few minutes before the opening credits, OMFG!! (F being frak or frag from SyFy's Battlestar Galactica LOL) Seriously though. I think this has got to be one of the darkest and disturbing scenes that Smallvile has ever produced. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the thrill of the new dark style, including a darker Clark Kent. It's remeniscent of the Batman that many of us grew up with to the more realistic "Dark Knight". Still, do not for one moment believe that I enjoyed the actual truck-run-over incident that created "Metallo" (John Corben), and left him in a pool of his own blood. Shortly after this scene, John Corben finds himself in an abandoned warehouse inside of a dirty surgical room filled with Mary Shelly like surgical instruments.
Next. What's up with Lois' flash backs to the missing 3 weeks of her life (End of season 8 through episode 1 of season 9). I'm sure it plays well into the series finale plot and all. But is anyone else tired of the character of Clark Kent being doomed to solitude explicitely because of his failed relationships? Mind you, the relationships failed because he neglected the world, and the world cannot take care of itself without the full cooperation and attention of "The blur".
With Jimmy Oleson dead, Chloe has become cynical and very hardened after Clark's refusal to change the past in order to save him from Clark's neglegenct duties of being mankind's savior. I get the feeling that soon she will be calling him Kal-El so as to help push him into the roll he should have been before Jimmie's death. She is however, keeping Clark on Jor-El's path. Her reasoning is that if he is going to embrace his Kryptonian side, and abandon his humanity, (with reference to Jimmy of course) he must commit to this path whole heartedly. This is where Lois' flash back dreams come into play. We are getting glimpses of a future where Kal-El puts Earth on the endangered list, by becoming romantically involved with Lois. Again. He can't multi-task. Save the girl, or save the planet.
Back to Lois. Lois is nabbed by Metallo (John Corben transformed after being mysteriously hit by a truck). The Blur saves her, but only after inadvertantly killing John Corben, A.K.A. Metallo. In an attempt to save Lois without being harmed himself by Metallo's Kryptonite fueled heart, Clark burns a plate of lead onto Corben's chest. No one likes a burned plate of lead on their chest. So, of course Metallo forcefully peels off the now cooled down plate of lead and along with it, his meteor-rock powered cyborg heart. Dead. Metallo is now dead.
Back to the first few minutes of the episode. John Corben is speaking with Lois on his cell phone telling her that he will expose "The Blur" for what he really is. A vigilante with no regard to the consequences of his actions. Ok, those weren't the exact words. He's holding up a picture of his sister in his hands. A sister that was killed by a murderer. This murderer we find out is a survivor of a bus crash "The Blur" saved. This is why John Corben blames Clark for his sorrow, and why Metallo begins his vandetta against him.
Tess Mercer is now back in shape and kicking the hell out of a punching bag just shortly after being violently held hostage by the Candorians. Oh, the new villains of the story (also from Krypton) are no longer referred to as Kryptonians, but Candorians. The city (Capitol city presumably) of Krypton. As is expected of Tess, she is on the hunt so to locate our Kryptonian... I mean Candorian friends. We quickly discover that Luther Corps. technology was used to build Metallo in a Frankensteinish way. A quilt of stolen technologies. We have no idea in this episode who created Metallo. We'll have to find out later. Just before the episode's end, Tess's assistant shows her pictures taken around the world of Kryptonian symbols burned onto the ground. This is where we are left in our cliff hanger. The assistant zooms in on one of the images (it's a digital photo on a tablet pc) and we see the image of Clark nude right in the middle of the El family crest burned on to the ground. We still don't know if Tess recognizes Clark or not, but we have to assume that she sees enough, including the El family crest, to know it really is him. I'm including a screen shot of this crop-circle like family crest on Tess' tablet pc.
All in all, I rather liked the episode. The plot line flowed well (even if my review here doesn't show it). We continue to be given mysteries to hold the audience in suspense for up coming episodes, and a direction of the inevidable end of Smallville the Series.
Screenshot:
The "crop circle" El family Crest with Clark Kent in the middle of it. As seen by Tess Mercer.
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Dollhouse Season 2 episode 2: Instinct
Here is the skeleton as summarized by TV.com
When Echo is imprinted as a new mother, her reactions are more intense than anyone predicted. Senator Perrin steps up his investigation, and Adelle pays November a visit.
I've decided not to write a review on this series, as I have lost interest this season. However, I did want to include Dollhouse on here since it is a Friday evening show. And of course, any links to any media content delivery services.
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