At first I detested the new Battlestar Galactica. Starbuck a girl? Way too much sex, not enough substance. The show has come along nicely since then. I'm really enjoying it.

    Did anybody see the episode of Justice League last weekend? It now airs at 10pm EST on Cartoon Network. It is not a kiddie show any more that is certain.     This past episode, "A better world", had Superman lobotomizing enemies (when they were lucky) and killing them when they were not so lucky. Of course, this was all an alternative dimension version of the Justice League we saw but the very fact that they showed the JLA taking the gloves o...

Dear Producers of Smallville, We don't like Lana. She is not a compelling character. She was never a compelling character. We do not see why the character of Clark is interested in her when Chloe, the other female interest, is so much more....well...interesting. Your episode with the boy who became Magneto was an interesting but the fact remains, we don't care if Clark and Lana are together. We know they won't be together and so any build up is a false one. Sincerely, Tired of Lana ...

In my opinion Shattered was the best episode of the season. It had the strongest characters of the show doing what they do best.  Synopsis: Lex gets the proof he needs that his father and Morgan Edge murdered Lex's grandfather. Rather than offing him, his father puts into motion a series of events that makes Lex look like he's crazy and ultimately does make Lex crazy (through a combination of false premises and drugs). Lex turns to Clark for help and Clark, the loyal friend does what...

I hate Lana Lang. There, I said it. I just can't stand her character. The Lana-less portion of the episode was excellent though. This season has really picked up steam since the return from "the break". Last week's episode was great too. In this episode, a freak accident causes Clark to temporarily lose his vision. During that time, his super hearing power makes its first appearance. Clark can now, when he concentrates, hear things from incredible distances. The main story had to do w...

Justice League Episode Guide I'm starting from season 2 because this was the season when they started targeting adults. The results have been amazing. Smarter stories, better dialog, and more interesting characters. It's not that season 1 was "bad" but it was a kid's show with "standard kiddie plots". Season 2 Episode Name Description Review Twilight Darkseid tricks the justice league to help him in a plot t...

Saw Return of the King Today. I very much enjoyed it. It could have used a little editing to weed out some scenes that needed to be tightened up and the pacing at times was slow. But wow. What a masterpiece of movie making. LOTR will go down as the greatest movie trilogy of all time. It is simply astoundingly good. The crap that was Matrix Reloaded helps remind us how even the best of concepts can go terribly bad and so the excellence of Return of the King shouldn't be taken for granted. ...

This week's Smallville raises a bunch of new questions about the Superman universe. That was basically what the episode was about other than showing a bunch of necking by the characters. So what questions are raised? 1) Why was Jorel sent to Earth? 2) What does the medallion mean going forward? 3) Who killed Lex Luthor's Grand father? 4) How did the Luthor's succeed given that Luthor's grand father was a crook and a murderer? 5) Is Jorel good or bad? It was an interesting ep...

    Lately I've been watching "Smallville beginnings" where they show episode 1 shows. The plots may have been far fetched with the freak of the week stuff. But the use of characters was much more interesting back then. It is easy to forget what a compelling character Chloe is and how much potential there is for Pete.     Then you see this season's episodes which tend to have stronger plots but a poorer use of the characters and a general sloppiness to ...

New people move next door to Kent's. An adult man and a teenage daughter who has been in coma for like 6 years. Somehow though she is able to get into Clark's dreams. Turns out the uncle was drugging her to stay her guardian so that he could control the estate. Not a bad plot. A few things though. First, where is Pete Ross? Remember him? The kid who knows Clark's secret? You'd think he and Clark would do investigating together. Nope, doesn't even occur to Clark. Instead, he and Lana investig...

This week's Smallville was pretty good. Acknowledging the "freak of the week" concept, the show introduced a vigilante who is out to kill all the meteor freaks before they can do anything. When Clark saves Lex Luthor, now identified as a meteor freak himself due to unnaturally good health, the freak executioner learns Clark's vulnerability after a scuffle brings causes some kryptonite to fall out of the killer's backpack. Armed with this knowledge, the killer makes kryptonite bullets and p...

    The second episode of this season of Smallville starts where Exile left off. Bo Kent and Red Kryptonite infected Clark battling it out at the top of a building. Good clark wins the day and just like with Superman 3 where evil Superman is able to "turn good again" and all is forgiven, much the same is true here.     But this episode has some troubling idiocies. For one thing, when Clark's parents are held at gun point, Clark literally demonstrates in fr...

I've been waiting for months for the Smallville season premiere and now that's it's come, I don't know what to think. Clark Kent, the Man of Steel, is now a criminal. There's no "reset" in the episode. I can't fathom what the writers were thinking. When we left young 16 year old Clark Kent, he had accidentally blown up the family barn and in the process killed Ma Kent's unborn child. Depressed, he purposely put on a red Kryptonite ring. This is key because he knew what this would do to him ...

When we last left of, 16 year old Clark Kent had just caused the death of the Kent's ownborn child. But as if that weren't enough, he voluntarily put on a class ring with red kryptonite on it which tends to make him not such a nice guy and fled to Metropolis. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor's plane had gone down somewhere without us knowing who had caused the crash. How will Clark recover from all this? How does Lex make it back? That's the big question and it's going to be interesting to see how th...