Stargate Universe 2.08 – Malice [TV Review]

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Nov 182010
 

You all know what happens when the hero’s girlfriend gets killed by the bad guy. He goes on a rampage of revenge and nails the bad guy no matter how many government agencies want to keep him alive because he knows tings, Right?

That is exactly what happens in Malice. The bad guy is especially deserving. He has been foul since we first saw him. It is Simeon, the Lucian alliance patriot who realizes that Ginn, Eli’s new love interest is spilling secret to Homeworld Security. Rush’s new found love Interest Amanda Perry is in Ginn’s body at the time Simeon kills her.

Rush is the one that finds Ginn’s lifeless body. Simeon goes on a killing spree killing guards left to right and arming himself before he escapes through the gate.

Young is doing a good job in this episode, he chats convincingly with the boffins on the bridge and he acts like a leader. I like that.

It is emotional when TJ closes Ginn’s eyes with finality. Eli is shocked but he is trying not to show it. Eli is probably the guy most of us identify with and root for. He was finally getting lucky after being the third wheel for so long, it is sad but it is also good television. He will come out of this different, the question is how. Don’t get me wrong I love Ginn.

While they search for Simeon they learn Amanda is dead on earth too but they also learn that Simeon has information on the attack planed on Earth. That gets Rush out of the room he goes after Simeon.

Simeon took a hostage and booby trapped her at the gate hoping to catch the whole pursuit force in one blow but Rush beats them to it and radios back stopping them from entering while disabling the proximity fuse of the mine. It will still explode but it gives him time to throw it away. The explosion was significant but the slow-motion effect was a little much.

Rush goes after him with a kino. But they keep getting ambushed, he even lures Lt Boobs into a trap, she survives but not all of her squad is so lucky. The man hunt take time so they have to do something about the jump clock back at the ship.

Eli tries to stall the clock but they have nine hours to do what Rush has not succeeded to do in six months. Chloe was only in briefly but her blueberry powers, which she doesn’t seem to have full control over whatever she says managed to reprogram Destiny’s course so they could jump back. Wonder what that means. Are we going back to the Blueberries now? Their absence is starting to get old. Chloe tries to talk to Eli. Eli is losing it and wants to go after Eli with a gun but Young manages to convince him to stay.

Scott and Rush have a very mature conversation, a lot of good talks that shows progress this episode. Interesting that the first thing Rush does is lie about that he found a way to track Simeon.

In the end Rush goes after Simeon alone, after Greer gets wounded and Scott takes him back to the gate, since time is running out.

The way it all works out in the end is pure Rush. Rush has to live with a lot. And now he has to add the choice he made today. The consequences for humanity might be huge.

Good story and damn good television.

Next week is when the Destiny gets its shuttle back, and some old friends come and visit. I can’t wait, only two more episodes before the hiatus now? It looks more and more likely that it will be some cliffhanger involving Chloe and the Blueberries but I could be wrong.

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Chuck 4.08 – Chuck vs the Fear of Death [TV Review]

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Nov 172010
 

It is hard not to get a bit excited about this week’s Chuck. His mommy trashed his Intersect and now he has to find a way to get it working again. The agency calls in a gang of boffins that try to ‘lift the rock that blocks him from using the Intersect’.  The Ninjas was a nice touch.

I didn’t enjoy that part as much as I enjoyed Jefster getting creepy with the latest Greta (Summer Glau). OMG she is hot! She played a CIA assassin assigned to the Buy More and Jefster is outclassed on so many levels it is hard to know where to begin. Morgan is caught in the middle. Entertaining, Summer Glau played a different kind of creepy, of the more deadly kind. Operation Get-A-Greta involves the whole civilian staff and ends in an interrupted cage-match between Greta and Jefster where Case saves the day.

Case is grounded protecting Chuck while Sarah chases Mommy all over the world. “I wake up with my trigger finger twitching” he tells. It is like most of the stuff he does highly entertaining.

Sarah and Chuck got some downtime before he goes after the latest cure, “The Fear of Death”. He and the latest boffin go off to Switzerland and danger.

The episode ends with a cliffhanger.

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The Walking Dead 103 – Tell it to the Frogs [TV Review]

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Nov 162010
 

He might be a bigoted redneck but I feel sorry for him up there on the roof. Handcuffed to a pipe on the roof besieged by zombies is not the way for any man to go.

Rick meets up with his family and they have a nice little reunion before the tension starts to show. He hints about going back for the man they left on the roof. Deryl the man’s equally socially challenged brother is upset to say the least.

Laurie, Rick’s wife is wishing she hadn’t moved on just now, isn’t she. Rick is grateful, but he doesn’t know anything of what happened yet. The thunder storm in the night reflects the inner turmoil of Laurie and Shane.

Rick is going and Laurie tries to stop him. His sense of honor forces him back to the city while Shane and Ricks son goes and tries to catch frogs.

This pisses of the ladies of the camp who ended up the designated washing crew. “The world ended didn’t you get the memo” one of them says.

Laurie tracks down her son and drags him away from Shane. “That is over too, tell that to the frogs.” she tells him. Shane was the one telling Laurie Rick was dead. Laurie displays some righteous anger at that. Shane takes his anger out on the wife beater instead, beating him to almost pulp.

They find the guys sawn off hand next to the handcuffs.

Gory Days, Gory Days!

I like the way this is progressing, the characters are quite human but in an overall positive way. They all had to make hard decisions to survive and they will continue to do so, I am sure. So understandable that they already ordered a second season!

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Lost Girl 1.08 [TV Review]

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Nov 092010
 

Bo stumbles down the corridor in high heels and in pain while Dyson punch a bag. This episode starts and end darker than before. Bo need sexual healing but Dyson tells her he is busy! This was the last time, for your own good he tells her.

This is the first episode I have seen Kenzi in the same hair throughout it, blond, long and curly. Kenzi’s contribution this week is mainly rooting for team Dyson and saving the world from robot hookers!

Time to pick a team Bo! That what they all want, Light & Dark, Dyson & Lauren. Bo is rather cold this episode, she is rather ruthless and fed up with the whole situation. The whole change feels a bit sudden for me like they missed the episode that pissed her off? I did not like the Bo I saw at the beginning.

She is getting some information from Siegfried, the vamp or short fat and fanged as Kenzi calls him. He leads her to a woman on death row said to have information on Bo’s mother, which she denies when Bo and Kenzi con their way into the prison.

Meanwhile a mean mind controlling Fae kills Siegfried for betraying the Family business.

They also try to kill Bo but she kills her assailant frying her with electricity. Smells like fried bitch!

A big part of this episode is Lauren and Bo’s relationship that goes from interested, to steamy to betrayed in one episode. The Light Fae’s wants to avoid war with the darks so Ash, their leader orders Lauren to distract Bo while the Dark evacuate the dark Fae killer, which of course Bo finds out after having sex with Lauren. “You are in my bed, because he told you to.” “Don’t forget your dog caller.” Bo says harshly handing Lauren’s Light Fae necklace back.

Trick is really going the extra mile for Bo. She gets her own Witchblade. This one is made of unicorn horn and protects the user from mind control among other things. That woman on death row, she was mind controlled to kill her own children. Bo seeks out the real killer while the woman is being executed. She only wanted to live a normal life with a human and they punished her for it.

Bo is about to force the truth out of the guy when Dyson shows up and stops her, letting the guy go. It could be that she was about to kill him and the Dark Fae would not stop at anything to kill her in revenge then. He talks her down. They were only trying to trick you. Nobody knows anything about your mother.

Trick saved the condemned woman covertly. He shows up in the morgue – “We need to talk”.

There is Light and there is Dark and then there is Trick, curious.

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Lost Girl 1.07 – Itsy-Bitsy Spider … [TV Review]

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Nov 032010
 

I just watched the latest Lost Girl episode and it amuses me that Kenzi always changes hairstyle so many times. I think this is the first time we have seen her blond. Poor Kenzi she is just helping this super chipper real estate woman cleanse a house after a murder suicide as a fake shaman when she picks up an itsy-bitsy little spider in her hand bag. There seems to have been a series of murder suicides in the wake of this spider, something that is tingling in Dyson’s spider sense unbeknownst to the two dear psychotic-to-be roommates. A little bickering over cleanliness can so easily turn into an axe murder as the spider feeds on their angst.

There were many things I liked with this episode, not least the interaction between Bo and Kenzi. Especially comments before they get bitten by the spider. Kenzi is trying to bring her flirt on Pete the pizza delivery boy but he confesses his love for Bo after a glance. I wish I had man slaves to do my bidding! Kenzi say when they ‘fight’ over cleaning. And somewhat later Bo says ‘I am picky not psychotic’. It was a nice touch.

‘Nobody kills my best friend but me’ comes a bit after the fact.

Lauren is stepping out of the background into the light this episode. There is a lot of focus on her and her and Dyson’s dislike for each other. The whole love triangle thing already feels a bit old but I keep telling myself that it’s more to it than that. I am pretty sure by now that Dyson and Trick suspect something significant about Bo something foretold or lost. The question is does Lauren know too? She isn’t totally meek and pure; she can be ruthless as she proves when she sets Bo and Kenzi in quarantine ready to burn their house down. More things are afoot than might be obvious at a glance if I am right.

Next episode might shred some more light on Bo’s past as she comes across someone who might know something about it during a case.

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