There were honorable deeds in “A Man Without Honor,” though predictably not from the man in the title, but from many others, including women. The episode of Game of Thrones also treated us to several variants of the cat-and-mouse game featuring fleeting escapes, not-so-veiled threats, and the best of it all, cat and mouse switching places to our delight.
“Alienated” turns out to have much less to do with Earth’s alien problem and far more to do with the fate of one of the show’s original cast members.
“Brave New World (2)” felt every bit like a series finale. In fact, the whole two-part season finale of Fringe did. From the plethora of high-stake events to the way relationships between the series regular characters were all brought to some sort of satisfactory conclusion, everything seemed to signal an end-of-story narrative rather than your standard end-of-chapter storyline.
Besides Theon Greyjoy who wreaked havoc on Winterfell, other major characters were either in danger or were flirting with it in “The Old Gods and the New.” The Game of Thrones’ episode was filled with danger, from the kind that makes you wonder who’s next on the chopping block to the kind that makes you wonder whose heart will be caught next. Virtually no significant character was spared, including dragons.
Arriving on the scene under a month ago, Legend of Korra – the follow up series to the critically and commercially acclaimed Avatar: The Last Airbender, has had a stiff legacy to uphold. However, with the writing involvement ofAvatar: The Last Airbender series creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the show has been off to a very good start.
“Brave New World (1),” the first half of the two-part season finale of Fringe made us worry about its victims (or those likely to become victims), and it made us feel for the series’ regular characters in a story that paid much more attention to its pace than to its consistency, but it worked beautifully.
The team’s reconnaissance of an alien world becomes more like an awkward family trip with divorced parents as Superboy and Miss Martain bring Beast Boy to Rann.
