Tag Archives: Television

Spoilers AHOY! Let’s talk about those season finales! part 1

18 May

I’m up at my mom’s (a nice place to visit and come home to) and have been struck down by an evil genius stomach bug that has kept me here a week longer than planned. The one upside to this evil bug is that I’ve gotten to hang out with my family during the ends of some of our favorite shows and enjoy those finale cliffhangers together. (Though, my brother is annoyed because I keep snaking his chair)

Let’s just be safe- there be SPOILERS here!
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SMALLVILLE Minicaps / Season 1, Eps. 9-12

16 May
Smallville minicaps!  Hey, I can skip the theme music thanks to chapter stops on my DVDs?  Good to know.

Smallville minicaps! Hey, I can skip the theme music thanks to chapter stops on my DVDs? Good to know.

Stewart here, and be warned of spoilers within… Continue reading

SMALLVILLE Minicaps / Season 1, Eps. 5-8

10 May
Smallville minicaps!  Really, we can skip past  the theme music...

Smallville minicaps! Really, we can skip past the theme music…

Stewart here, and be warned of spoilers within…

Last time, we got introduced to the world of Smallville, Kansas, where a teenage Clark Kent discovers that his abnormal powers are probably from the fact he’s not from this planet.  He also has to contend with other things, like making friends with a slightly older but still bald Lex Luthor, juggling his friends Pete and Chloe, deal with his crush on Lana Lang, and just going through high school.  Oh, and occasionally he has to deal with people affected in various ways by the meteor storm that brought him to Earth.  Really, that’s all you need to know going in.  Anyhoo… Continue reading

What are you trying to say??

8 May

So… I don’t have normal TV at home. I use Roku and watch Hulu Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc to keep up with my shows. This week I am home visiting my family. Which translates to, “I have CABLE” or “MUST WATCH ALL THE SHOWS”. And there’s this thing that happens on TV that doesn’t happen on my Roku (mostly). Commercials. And after a few days I have to ask- what the hell are they trying to sell me? Continue reading

SMALLVILLE Minicaps / Season 1, Eps. 1-4

2 May

Stewart here, and be warned of spoilers within…

The beginning of the Smallville minicaps!  No need to start singing the theme music...

The beginning of the Smallville minicaps! No need to start singing the theme music…

A brief introduction: I’ve always been a Superman fan.  Yeah, he was a Boy Scout in tights, but he was also one of the more interesting characters in comic-dom to me.  You got the immigrant boy who is sent to a land foreign to him, who then grows up with values and moral decency to become that strange land’s hero.  Kind of inspiring to read something like that, and if that college-esque dissection didn’t do that for you, there’s the thrill of seeing someone fly and fight bad guys. Continue reading

Guilty Pleasures- To Sin With TV

30 Apr

I’ve had a lot going on of late, so it’s been difficult to work my way through it all in order to write a post. Apologies. Thankfully, my favorite minion has been on the ball! But I’m pulling it together today in order to start new series of posts- Guilty Pleasures. Like the title says, these are things that I love and adore, but I feel a little guilty for enjoying it. I obviously have a lot of these- you already know of my love for the bad movie but here are some more.

Actually, to ease into it… I’m just going to talk about the TV series from this last season that I consider my guilty pleasures. Continue reading

FARSCAPE Revisited Mini-caps / The Peacekeeper Wars

24 Apr
Takin' it to the limit (with the Farscape minicaps) one more time...

Takin’ it to the limit (with the Farscape minicaps) one more time…

Stewart here…and fair warning, some spoilers lie within…

Greetings fellow travelers of the Uncharted Territories, to the final (for the foreseeable future) mini-cap of Farscape.  So, after a multitude of factors (like ratings), some of which couldn’t be seen coming (like lack of money), Farscape left the airwaves after four seasons.  But loyal fans wanted to see the show come back (or at least get wrapped up properly), and their wishes got answered a year later, with the announcement of a miniseries in The Peacekeeper Wars.  Its one of the rare occasions where the fans were able to drum up the need for more of what they want after the supposed death bell rang. Continue reading

Should I Stay or Should I Go? — When Genre Shows Need to Stop

20 Apr

Stewart here…

Every television show has to end.  There is no way to really avoid that for many loyal fans, but like many of those fans, I wonder when that time comes, is it too soon or too late.   Keeping a show fresh and enjoyable for seasons is no easy task, but with changes in cast and crew, sometimes that task becomes harder to accomplish.  Sometimes a show should know, in the immortal words of Kenny Rogers, “when to hold ‘em”, and “when to fold ‘em”. Continue reading

FARSCAPE Revisited Mini-caps / Season 4, Episode 22 and Season Four Highlights

16 Apr
Farscape minicaps for season 4 would rather go out gracefully, thank you very much.

Farscape minicaps for season 4 would rather go out gracefully, thank you very much.

Stewart here…and fair warning, some spoilers lie within… Continue reading

FARSCAPE Revisited Mini-caps / Season 4, Episodes 18-21

8 Apr
Farscape season 4 minicaps should've voted on whether to bring a nuclear bomb to this.

Farscape season 4 minicaps should’ve voted on whether to bring a nuclear bomb to this.

Stewart here…and fair warning, some spoilers lie within… Continue reading