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With the last half-season of Battlestar Galactica coming soon, everyone is making their predictions about major plot points. I do not know the identity of the final Cylon, or the the ultimate ending of the series. I am going to make a prediction that there has to be, and will be, a third “miracle” involving [...]
You are just going to have to accept the mysticism inherent to this week’s episode, or it will drive you nuts. Things happen that cannot be explained rationally through pure materialism. Deal with it, or move on. Also, if this was, by chance, the first episode of the Unit you’ve ever watched, please know that [...]
A card game, David Mamet, and Ricky Jay: how could it go wrong? I didn’t react as unfavorably to this episode as many others did, but it was a disappointment.
This episode was repeated last Sunday night. I wasn’t planning on posting about this episode, because it is a repeat from last season and therefore out of sync, but, damn, it is a beautiful piece of work. I’m putting almost the entire discussion below the fold because of spoiler concerns.
This was depressing, and maybe a bit disappointing. After a hiatus of three weeks since the last episode, I think most fans were hoping for more, especially because the prior episode ended on a bit of a open-ended note. Reading some forum posts, many people seemed to have believed that the crisis that diverted the [...]
Well, this has certainly taken me all week, but fitting, perhaps, because this is a cliffhanger 2-part episode. The episode had 2 main storylines. One, about Kim and her shady boss is concluded in this episode. The second, about the team planning and executing a raid on a supposed anthrax manufacturing plant in Uzbekistan, is [...]
In order to prod myself to write here a bit more regularly, I’m going to try regular episode blogging of one or more TV shows, starting with The Unit. This show is in its 4th season, and has never been a giant hit, but manages to get renewed every year so far. Produced and sometimes [...]
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. Burnt Norton, of Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot. While waiting [...]
OK, so the title is a bit much, but it’s not completely unwarranted, as I’ll set forth below. Joss Whedon — the creator of , among other things, both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel — is an atheist, but he is also too good of a writer to allow his personal beliefs overly infect [...]
How do you go from portraying (1) a part-demon, son of two vampires, abducted while an infant and raised in a hell dimension, to (2) a WASP son of a socially important Manhattan family who attended Deerfield Acadamy, and end up playing the same character? I’ve been watching Mad Men from its beginning, and although [...]
