Television

Supernatural – Two Minutes to Midnight

With the Apocalypse within days and major catastrophes about to occur we find Sam, Dean, Bobby, Castiel, and Crowley trying to dispatch the last two horsemen and bring the four rings together.   Bobby sold his soul to Crowley who of course is the top dog of the crossroads demons and so we get some unpleasant and pleasant results from that.  Sam and Dean go after Pestilence and isn’t that a nasty thought!  Finally there is a showdown between Dean and Death that is not to be missed.  Oh, and Chicago is about to get wiped out…

Stargate Universe – Sabotage

This was one of the better episodes of the first season of Stargate Universe.  We again get to see the lighter side of Nicholas Rush.  The person who is brought to work with him is a colleague that he has known since she was young.  She was the person he turned to after his wife died.  They became close friends and she always saw more in their relationship.  Kathleen Munroe plays a dazzling Dr. Amanda Perry.  She’s a woman who has been severely disabled since she was nine yet overcame those odds to be one of the brilliant minds of her time.  She even next to Rush understands the most about Ancient technology and how it might be manipulated or understood.  So the catch is the person who is switching places with her will be put into a position of maintaining their sanity while being in a body that can basically just function.  This is a pretty big jolt to ones psyche.   Amanda has been that way most of her life.  This person must handle the situation knowing it is a temporary one, but necessary to their survival.  In the end Camille played by Ming-Na does an outstanding job of coping with the understanding that she will spend her time at home with her partner Sharon played by Reiko Aylesworth.

Flashforward – Course Correction

The title ’Course Correction’ is an apt name for an episode predominantly focused on determinism and avoiding a fate prophesied.  Another few pieces of the jigsaw slot into place for both the audience and the Mosaic investigation. Old sub-plots are re-addressed, some possibly unnecessarily, but they stimulate some interesting ideas and continue the theme of the meandering flow of time.

Glee – Bad Reputation

Quick Notes: This is my first TV review, I normally write for the video game section of Player Affinity. However, I felt like dipping my hands in the TV section for once, since I’ve been a fan of Glee since the first episode.

Spoilers are in this review.

This weeks Glee was excellent, if not flawed in some ways. It was pure fun from the great song selection to the choreography, you just could not help but to be entertained while watching this episode. The first 10 minutes set up a great arch for the rest of the episode; a “glist” was made that ranked some of the Glee members on their promiscuity, Rachel being the lowest.

Lost – The Candidate

About ten minutes into this episode, I started formulating a basic blueprint of what I was going to write about this episode.  I was going to go on a lengthy tangent about how Lost should be spending less time with pointless, expository scenes and focus on answering some of the long-standing questions.  I was going to ramble on about how there’s only three episode left after this, so time shouldn’t be wasted on scenes that don’t matter in the long run.  But it appears the phrase “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” is still important advice to follow.  Tonight’s episode of Lost was heart-breaking, action-packed, emotional and written incredibly well.  While I don’t believe it was the best episode of the season, it certainly elicited the strongest reaction from me once the credits started rolling, and if this episode tells us anything, it’s that Locke means business and that he’ll stop at literally nothing in order to get what he wants so he can prove to Jacob that man is inherently evil.  There was a lot going on tonight, but unlike previous episodes, the writers took the time to flesh out these more emotional scenes.

V – Hearts and Minds

After a superb start, which consisted of charred corpses and moral conflict, this episode slides quickly into mediocrity and eventually disaster. The lowest point in the series, Hearts and Minds, acts as a lesson in audience alienation (pun not withstanding), containing glaring plot holes, illogical character behaviour, and lazy direction.

The episode begins frantically with Hobbes aiming a ground-to-air missile at a V shuttle. After the inevitable explosion and destruction of the aircraft, Ryan, Father Jack, and Hobbes scurry to explore the result of their most outlandish strike against the V’s. To their horror, amongst the wreckage, lies not the husks of dead lizard people, but the burnt remains of Human passengers. At this point, the title sequence commences and I rub my hands together like a trench coat wearing, curb crawler.

Castle – Food to Die For

A return to the more comical and whimsical Castle that we now know and love, after last week’s more dramatic set of events. Plenty of great one-liners and an escalation to the sexual tension between the two lead characters.

The crime mystery in Food to Die For, unsurprisingly revolves around the death of a star Chef; who after winning a reality TV cook-off, has been thrust into the spot-light and Castle and company are quick on the scene to sift through the slew of suspects and false leads. Like an Agatha Christie novel, every character seems to have motive for the murder and like any good whodunit, the audience is kept guessing until the very last moment.