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This was a very straightforward, enjoyable episode, made up of three parts: (1) introduce and test the new team member, (2) Betsy’s television interview about her abduction and rescue, and (3) a mission to find and kill the man who killed Hector, which also gives us the first chance to see the new member in [...]

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Mar 13th, 2009 | Filed under Television, The Unit

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 [...]

Jan 12th, 2009 | Filed under Television, The Unit

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 [...]

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Dec 6th, 2008 | Filed under Television, The Unit

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 [...]

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Nov 30th, 2008 | Filed under Reviews, Television, The Unit

Croesus was a king of ancient Greece. A few decades before the events that inspired the movie 300, he had the idea to invade and conquer the Persian empire. So he consulted the Oracle at Delphi, who famously advised him that:
If Croesus goes to war he will destroy a great empire.
Thinking that this [...]

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May 11th, 2008 | Filed under Battlestar Galactica, Sci Fi, Television