When next Thursday rolls around, you’ll want to make sure you have a crying towel on hand and a few friends to squeal to come 10:00 because the next episode of Supernatural is one of the best of the season.
The angels were kind to me this week, giving me the episode early – which was a boon because I won’t be able to watch it come Thursday. Believe me, though, I’ll be thinking of all of you because I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on this one.
Look at Dean over there, all crushed and serious. . . .
SPOILERS AHEAD
But …read more

I’ve been putting off writing a review of last week’s episode of Fringe and now I think I know why. I have nothing to say about it. It’s that simple.
“What Lies Below” was a basic story about a viral contaminate lose in an office building. Olivia and Peter arrive on the scene just in time to be part of the quarantine and it isn’t long before Peter is infected.
The promos on this looked great. Like a lock-down horror movie where the people you love have gone psycho. But the actual episode wasn’t nearly as exciting as the promos led me …read more

There’s nothing like a good origin story, those moments where the bits of the puzzle come together and you see the picture underneath? Like the first time anyone utters the word Cylon or the name Adama. It gives you a little thrill and that’s the joy of Caprica.
Prequels aren’t easy. People already know how the story turns out so you have to find a different way to build suspense. And then there are all the ground rules and backstories that are already set in stone, so the road is already fairly well mapped before you get there. To make this …read more

I had intended to start this review with a quick definition of a Johari Window but the concept is a little too deep for that. You can read all about it on Wikipedia, but suffice to say it’s an experiment that has to do with the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us. If you saw the episode, then the connection is fairly obvious.
The entire episode has a very tight X-Files feel about it some of which came from the location. Unlike most Fringe episodes, this one took place in a small town tucked away behind …read more

If you sat down to watch Fringe tonight without forewarning of its “special” nature, you were probably very perplexed when agent Charlie Francis showed up to aid Olivia in the investigation. No, it wasn’t some odd Pam Ewing dream, it was a left over first season episode that escaped and was never aired.
I’m all for all the Fringe I can get, so I don’t begrudge them airing an old episode, but they should have at least put a disclaimer at the beginning. I mean, Fringe is confusing enough without throwing Charlie at us months after he died. (And was Astrid’s …read more

READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!
At the end of every calendar year, most people take the opportunity to look back but I’ve decided to use this as a chance to look forward. I pulled out my crystal ball and set the dial for 2025. First off, don’t worry about that whole 2012 thing – we make it out okay.
Now here’s a look at the scifi shows that will be airing in the 2025-2026 season.
After covering every major city on the Earth, Jerry Bruckheimer gives us a look at some out of this world police work on CSI: Mars and I promise …read more

This weekend I got my first look at Demons, the badly named UK paranormal adventure series. Aside from the fact that single, simple word TV titles make them difficult to look up on the web, Demons just doesn’t accurately describe this amusing cross between Buffy and Primeval.
The show revolves around Luke Rutherford (Christian Cooke), a young man who is the last in the Van Helsing line but doesn’t know it. The story lays out the idea Abraham Van Helsing and Jonathan Harker were all real and that they were all coopted by Bram Stoker for his book Dracula. Like the …read more

This past weekend, BBC America aired the start of David Tennant’s last hurrah as Doctor Who. The holiday special is called Doctor Who: The End of Time and they are giving the old boy quite a send off.
Knowing is time is growing short, the Doctor is tasked with tracking down the Master (John Simm) who has risen from the grave in time for another Christmas. He’s even more wild-eyed and wicked than ever as he uses a piece of alien technology to turn everyone on Earth, except for Wilf and Donna (Bernard Cribbins, Catherine Tate) into copies of himself. But …read more

The first quarter of the new TV season is coming to a close. With their biggest episodes running this month for sweeps, we can now look forward to weeks of reruns for the rest of 09.
But before they go, here’s a quick look at where I stand with the current crop of futuristic, non-realistic, ghostly, ghastly, makes-you-wonder, shows on TV.
Read Part One here.
Dollhouse
What can I say about this one? I’d like to rename it Whedon’s Folly as I feel that the Joss-meister got too wrapped up in his own fantasy and forgot he had an audience to feed.
Dollhouse started off …read more

The first quarter of the new TV season is coming to a close. With their biggest episodes running this month for sweeps, we can now look forward to weeks of reruns for the rest of 09.
But before they go, here’s a quick look at where I stand with the current crop of futuristic, non-realistic, ghostly, ghastly, makes-you-wonder, shows on TV.
V: The Series

We’re only a few episodes in but I’m into V for the long haul (which means waiting until Spring of 2010 for the second half of the season.) I’m enjoying the pace of the reveals, I like the characters …read more