Archive for 'TV' Category
Star Wars Clone Wars Volume One by Genndy Tartakovsky (2003)
8 September 2006A series of shot Star Wars shorts done for the Cartoon Network to fall between the second and third Star Wars films. While I am not the biggest fan of Tartakovsky’s artwork, mainly because it is too strangely stylized (why does Anakin have a neck twice as big as his head) and because the actual [...]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 7 created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1998-1999)
7 September 2006What a way to go out. I can’t believe I stopped watching this show in it’s original run so early on, because I can honestly say this is the best Star Trek since the Original Series. This show was so different, and so much darker, with such deep characters that went through such a change [...]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 6 created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1997-1998)
1 September 2006The show had really taken off by this point, with the whole Dominion war, this show has gone somewhere where no Star Trek has gone before, and made a much richer and deeper universe. This show was incredible. Honestly I think one of the sorest points of the show is the opening. I like the [...]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1996-1997)
25 August 2006Damn, what a great show. Getting so good, and while not fully into the Dominion war yet, this season brings us through the dark buildup and right to it’s start with an explosive ending that I really didn’t see coming. The characters have been so well developed in this show, and then with Troubles And [...]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4 created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1995-1996)
22 August 2006Wow. Let me say that again. Wow. The show really returned with a bang with the 4th season, and especially with the changes implemented with the addition of Michael Dorn as Worf from the Next Generation and his romance with Dax and Avery Brooks returning with a goatee and a new bald look that brought [...]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3 created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1994-1995)
19 August 2006This season starts well and ends very well, though it did get a bit bogged down in the middle and a little boring. The stories are better when dealing with the Dominion, and the Maquis, and aren’t quite as interesting when they are the more original trek episodes. This season is good because things do [...]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2 created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1993-1994)
14 August 2006Honestly I must have only watched the first season of this show when it originally aired, and not the first 2 like I thought. Of course I think it was 1993 or 1994 when I started working in commercials and actually stopped watching Television for 7 years. Anyway I missed out. Not only does this [...]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller (1993)
14 August 2006I started watching this show when it first came out, and watched for the first 2 seasons, and liked it, but not the space station fact so they didn’t go anywhere, and I gave up television in 1993 for a period of 7 years (was working on commercials and just lost it, and gave up [...]
Anthony Bourdain; No Reservations (2005+)
13 August 2006I am a huge Anthony Bourdain fan, having discovered him with A CHEF’S TOUR on the Food Network, and now watching this show avidly. It really is not a cooking show, though Bourdain is a french chef a Les Halles in New York City, but this is him traveling the world and trying the real [...]
Late Night Buffet by Jim Henson Productions
22 July 2006I heard about this online and managed to get 3 tickets to the taping of the pilot episode of this new adult talk show by Henson featuring new puppets for TBS. Of course my girlfriend and their sister barely got in because they showed up late, and I didn’t get to sit with them, but [...]
M*A*S*H Season 10 created by larry Gelbart (1981-1982)
15 July 2006Another enjoyable season of M*A*S*H though without as many truly great episodes of some recent seasons, the show is still so enjoyable. Really a great show that still holds up to this day.
Entourage Season 2 created by Doug Ellin (2005)
14 July 2006I am still kicking myself for not starting to watch this show when it first came out and my mom told me I should watch it, and now I own the first 2 seasons on DVD and am avidly watching the 3rd on HBO. Damn this is a great show, and it really shined in [...]
Entourage Season 1 created by Dough Ellin (2004)
30 June 2006I have to admit I didn’t watch this show when it came on, in fact I didn’t get into it until the second season, but instantly loved it, and quickly watched the rest of it. This is a great show and is so spot on Hollywood, from the places they go to the people and [...]
Dinosaurs Seasons 1 and 2 created by Michael Jacobs and Bob Young and Brian Henson (1991-1992)
29 June 2006I remember loving this show when it came on, andwhen I was still in high school, though I didn’t even realize that it was on for4 seasons (probably because I went to college and stopped watching Televisionfor years). This is such an amazing show, the magic of the Henson Creature Shopand incredible well written and [...]
Doctor Who 2005 Season 1 by Various directors, Executive Produced by Russel T. Davies, Julie Gardner and Mal Young (2005)
10 June 2006The return of the Doctor to the small screen in Britain and on the Sci Fi channel in the US, and this time with much improved Special Effects. If you read my blog at all you will know that I think that Tom Baker is the definitive Doctor, and really can’t be surpassed, but then [...]
Doctor Who Story 078 Genesis of the Daleks by David Maloney (1975)
10 June 2006Tom Baker is really the Doctor Who, he was the quintessential Doctor Who, and is the best Doctor ever. He has even talked about playing The Master in the new Doctor Who, which would be amazing. Especially since he really hasn’t returned as the Doctor except in one movie with 1 other Doctor. This is [...]
Jay & Silent Bob Do Degrassi (2005)
1 June 2006This is a 3 episode Arc of the Canadian High School Drama Degrassi: The Next Generation. I have never seen the show before this, and saw it because of Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes being in this story arc, supposedly making a movie called Jay & Silent Bob Go Canadian Eh. This is only for [...]
Northern Exposure Season 4 (1993)
20 May 2006Damn this was such a good show and so off the wall and quirky with great characters and more character development. This is really a fun show, and this is the longest season yet at 25 episodes. At first I really felt like this was leaving Fleischman and O’Connel behind, but by the end they [...]
Doctor Who Story 102 The Power of Kroll (The Key To Time Series, Part 5) The Power of Kroll by Norman Stewart (1978-1979)
19 May 2006The 5th part of the quest for The Key to Time must have been horrible to film, shot out in swamps with Tom Baker in big hip wader boots as he trudges through the swamps, with a whole bunch of people in green body makeup. I love the miniature effects too, the mining facility and [...]
Doctor Who Story 103 The Armageddon Factor (The Key to Time Series, Part 6) The Armageddon Factor by Michael Hayes (1979)
19 May 2006First off the disc is mislabeled, saying it is only 91 minutes long, when it is more like 150 minutes long, being a six episode series instead of the normal 4 issue series, as they need that much to finish off the Key to Time series. This is an enjoyable series and a good ending, [...]
Doctor Who Story 101 The Andriods of Tara (The Key To Time Series, Part 4) by Michael Hayes (1978)
18 May 2006The search for the parts of the Key of Time continues with more fun with Tom Baker, this time on a planet much like medieval England, but with electric swords and androids. This is an amazing Doctor Who adventure, and I love that it has an overall continuity even though each story is completely different [...]
Doctor Who Story 100 The Stones of Blood (The Key To Time Series, Part 3) by Daroll Blake (1978)
18 May 2006Part 2 of the Key of Time series of Doctor who sees the Doctor returning to England for a mission involving aliens and hyperspace. More fun as the Doctor must use his wits to escape the clutches of a 4000 year old woman and 2 justice machines. There will never be as good a doctor [...]
Doctor Who Story 099 The Pirate Planet (The Key To Time Series, Part 2) by Pennant Roberts (1978)
18 May 2006Written by the late great Douglas Adams, this is another great adventure of the 4th Doctor by my favorite writer. Can you really beat that? Of course not. And you get an entire planet that is a Pirate ship. Time to get your Doctor Who on!
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
Doctor Who Story 098 The Ribos Operation (The Key To Time Series, Part 1) by George Spenton Foster (1978)
17 May 2006I grew up on Tom Baker the 4th Doctor Who’s show on PBS, and always enjoyed it, and loved the theme. I hadn’t really thought about it in years until the new 2005 Doctor Who series with Christopher Eccleston as the 9th Doctor, and have once again got the fiend for more of the Doctor, [...]
Red Dwarf Season 8 by Ed Bye (1999)
6 May 2006The final season of Red Dwarf, the Smeg you say, yes this is the final season, and the first time it has been released in the US. They released 1-7 on VHS, and then stopped, and then started on DVD and I had to wait this long to see the 8th season of my favorite [...]