For previous installments: Season 9 Season 8 Season 7 Season 6 Season 5, the shortest of all seasons, was never planned to be the final season of the show since The X-Files: Fight the Future was already in the works. It also features Scully, the believer, and Mulder, the skeptic, reversing roles, as seen during … Continue reading
Continuing from Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the TV series, Marvel’s Agent Carter. Notably, Agent Carter would return following this series in Avengers: Age of Ultron as a hallucination, as well as for real in a scene of Ant-Man. I haven’t seen the show until very recently, which … Continue reading
Featuring Keanu Reeves (The Matrix film series, Point Break, Speed, My Own Private Idaho, The Devil’s Advocate, Constantine, The Day the Earth Stood Still, River’s Edge), Dolph Lundgren (Masters of the Universe, Universal Soldier), Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers, Star Trek: Nemesis), and Udo Kier (Blade), Johnny Mnemonic is a cyberpunk action thriller film based on the on the story of the same name by William Gibson. The dystopian view of … Continue reading
For previous installments: Season 9 Season 8 I personally disliked Season 7, as it was much more a soap opera/romance between Mulder and Scully than anything else, and it wasn’t a very good season overall. While this element was similarly present during Doctor Who Series 2. As a fan of Doctor Who, I’d know for … Continue reading
It’s no surprise after covering Interview with the Vampire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and it’s spin-off, Angel, that I would get to the television series, Dracula. It features Jonathan Rhys Myers (Velvet Goldmine), Katie McGrath (Merlin, Supergirl), Jemma Redgrave (Kate Stewart in Doctor Who), and Neve McIntosh (Ayala, Restec, and Madame Vastra in Doctor Who). … Continue reading
Featuring Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands, The Ninth Gate, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Charlize Theron (The Devil’s Advocate, Æon Flux, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Snow White and the Huntsman), Gary Grubbs (Angel, Will & Grace), Clea DuVall (But … Continue reading
Airing during the same season of GCB, I was also immensely drawn to Smash. It featured Debra Messing (Will & Grace), Megan Hilty (Broadway’s Wicked and 9 to 5), Angelica Houston, Uma Thurman (The Avengers, Gattaca, Batman & Robin), Jeremy Jordan (Supergirl), Leslie Odom Jr. (Supernatural), and Christian Borle (Legally Blonde: The Musical). According to … Continue reading
With similar aesthetics to Mutant X (like it’s budget, and writing) and influences like Xena: Warrior Princess (humor), Dark Angel (cinematography), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (super heroine), and Charmed (trio of super heroines), Birds of Prey is a strange series, similar to Smallville Seasons 1 through 7 (with similar Executive Producers Michael Tollin, Brian Robbins, and Joe Davola), with having a … Continue reading
For previous installments: Heroes (Reborn): Volume IV – Awakening Volume V – Redemption Volume VI – Fugitives Volume III – Villains Volume II – Generations Heroes, during it’s first season, is particularly amazing. Every episode within holds some value to the overall storyline, which is what makes it absolutely brialliant and completely perfect. According […]
You probably don’t remember the Season 9 intro of The X-Files, because until binge watching recently, neither did I. The intro is hardly iconic even though it is updated from the outdated intro of seasons past, yet The X-Files is itself both iconic and influential. At the time it left the air, it was the … Continue reading
For previous installments: Heroes (Reborn): Volume IV – Awakening Volume V – Redemption Volume VI – Fugitives Volume III – Villains Character Analyses Claire Bennet Generally, the ability discovered that she can regrow back limbs is ridiculoys, and stupid. Furthurmore, she is protected again, this time by Wes Rosen. Niki Sanders New foe Bob … Continue reading
Featuring Lauren Ambrose (In & Out, Torchwood: Miracle Day), Seth Green (Heroes, Austin Powers film series, Idle Hands, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel), Clea DuVall (She’s All That, But I’m a Cheerleader, The Faculty), Donald Faison (Clueless), Selma Blair (In & Out, Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde), Nicole Bilderback (Bring It On!, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Leslie Grossman (Popular!, What I Like About You), Sara Rue (Pearl … Continue reading
For previous installments: Heroes (Reborn): Volume VI – Awakening Volume V – Redemption Volume IV – Fugitives Villains is a considerably clunky volume being only slightly better than Generations. I honestly could barely handle getting through watching this one. The main foe this volume is none other than Arthur Petrelli, who isn’t much a great … Continue reading
The Green Death is the final story to feature companion, Jo Grant (whose tenure began during Terror of the Autons). In the following serial, and Season 11 premiere, Sarah Jane Smith would be introduced in The Time Warrior, however, Jo would return in The Sarah Jane Adventures story, “Death of the Doctor.” After mentioning Metebelis III … Continue reading
Continuing from The Doctor, The Widow, and The Wardrobe is Asylum of the Daleks, Like The Name of the Doctor, I disliked it, because both stories require a descent amount of knowledge of the Classic Series in order to fully understand the context of things referenced, which only come off as nonsensical to the casual viewer. … Continue reading
Continuing from The Masque of Mandragora is The Hand of Fear, featuring the final regular appearance of companion Sarah Jane Smith. According to A Brief History of (Time) Travel regarding the production of the story: In February 1975, the longtime Doctor Who scriptwriting duo of Bob Baker and Dave Martin watched as their most recent contribution, The Sontaran … Continue reading
Continuing from Last Christmas and The Husbands of River Song is The Return of Doctor Mysterio, the twelfth Doctor Who Christmas Special. The fact that people had to wait an entire year for a new story certainly has played a large role in how I view it, as fandom certainly did with The Trial of a Time … Continue reading
Continuing from The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, and The Androids of Tara is The Power of Krull, the worst story of the entire season in my humble opinion. Much like another episode I will covering soon, the special effects are far too obvious to actually make this a really good story. According to … Continue reading
The Masque of Mandragora is the first pseudo-historical () since The Gunfighters not to be set in Great Britain. Additionally, the second control room is first introduced which will remain until The Invisible Enemy. Additionally, the story is the first to offer an explanation of how both the Doctor and his companions were able to … Continue reading
Continuing from Season 8 (Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Colony in Space, The Dæmons) and The Sea Devils is The Time Monster, the second to last story featuring Roger Delgado as the Master, and the final time the Doctor and UNIT would face against him on “present day” … Continue reading
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