Once on Sci-fi, Always on Sci-fI

Smallville: Arrival
Grand season premiere and weak CGI (again computer effects look bad). Clark and Chloe are off to the newly created Fortress of Solitude while 2/3 of the evil Kryptonians cause havoc in search of Kal-el.
The Kents once again get knocked around like volleyballs and Clark saves the day.
The banishment of the bad guys into the phantom zone was right out of The Superman Movies with the same spinning black diamond also the chamber where Superman’s power can be removed was similar to today’s storyline.
One of the coolest parts was Leonard Roberts (Forrest Gates) of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as bad guy #2 and James Marsters (Spike) of Angel as Brainiac.
Yesterday Amy Acker of Angel was on Supernatural.
There should be three bad guys but I think the main bad Kryptonian is in the movie Superman Returns and they don’t do crossovers.
Coming soon Dean Cain is in talks to do an appearance and they already filmed the scenes with Aquaman (some Ambercrombie & Fitch model)
Back to the episode Clark loses all his powers again and Chloe is at Lex’s mercy again.

Alias: Prophet Five
After the great season finale last year where a truck hit Vaughn and Sydney. We see it was just a plot by a rogue agent to find out that Vaughn really is and some other implausible storyline. Back to the interesting part...Vaughn is dead three times over. We then catch up to a now pregnant Sydney four months later trying to find out the truth about her dead man.
By the way the funniest part of this episode was watching them trying to cover up Garners huge belly. They try everything, the big purse, the wrap, the towel, an all black outfit and they even used a freight train to cover up the belly.
I usually only watch the first and last episode of Alias, but it is so much like Lost that it is funny.

Night Stalker: Pilot
Another no show monster show, I miss Darren McGavin.

ER: Nobody’s Baby
Danny Glover is playing nice and low key as one of the doc’s estranged father.

I missed Joey and Everybody Hates Chris, I’ll catch up on repeats I did catch a bit of the live Will & Grace it was kinda sucky…cough…Baldwin…cough.

Summer Was Short

Lost: Adrift
A surprisingly boring episode, we just relive last week's episode from a slightly different angle. We do learn that the guy in the shelter is Desmond.

Veronica Mars: Normal is the Watchword
Great episode, we find out how Veronica spent her summer.
First we see the guy at the door is Logan. He gets in trouble but gets out of it. Veronica gets Logan but keeps Duncan. The colored people 09ers are getting targeted but Veronica is there to help. Race relations are on edge as the haves are ruining the have-nots summer.
And yes you could see the whole bus thing from a mile away but it was still cool when they show the smoke and everybody is staring over the cliff as Veronica loses another friend.
So this years mystery why did the bus crash and who knew ahead of time.

Wonder Women

If I don’t discuss a show I watch it’s because it wasn’t good enough to post about.

Bones and House will return on November 1 because of MLB playoff.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit : Design
Part one of two episode crossover. It started with an alleged rape victim wanting to commit suicide and take her unborn baby with her. Her story unravels and Detective Olivia Benson is getting pissed. We learn that this victim is really a date raper of men. She uses an electrical probe to siphon sperm from each guy including Mark Mcgrath.
Her accomplice is her evil mom played by Lynda Carter. Daugther fakes her death then when caught she trades her baby for her freedom, but the story is not over it concludes tomorrow in Law & Order.

Commander in Chief: Pilot
Better than I thought Madam President is no wuss and has a great military knowledge.

Mrs. Garrett's Breast

King of Queens: Vocal Discord
Typical episode but a pleasant surprise to see 79 year old actress Charlotte Rae as a senior-community actress willing to go topless for a play.

Prison Break: Riots, Drills and the Devil
Great episode I want more. Scofield needs some time to drill so he sets up a lockdown that turns into a prison riot. His brother gets caught with a rookie guard, the brother is knocked out but the guard is going to be used as a stress reliever for horny prisoners.
The governors daughter is the prison doctor and she's trappped in the med bay looking like a steak in front of a pack of hungry dogs.
If that wasn't enough Scofields escape hole was discovered by the rookie guard and the pervert-prisoner.
Damn this was a great episode.

Surface:Episode 2
Speaking of good episodes this show is above and beyond Threshold or Invasion. We see the monster 15 times this episode from the sickly baby to a dead one to a huge beast that eats a small boat from beneath, yes from beneath it devours. A great closing shot even with the sub-par special effects. I'll say this again COMPUTERIZED MONSTER ARE NOT GOOD, USE PUPPETS PLEASE.

Las Vegas: Fake the Money and Run
Still funny and clever.

Charmed, I missed half of yesterdays episode: That made me mad.
The Jets lost: That made me madder.
The Giants lost: That made me maddest.

Chad Pennington is out for the season: I'm not sure that is a bad thing, nope it's bad really bad. Brooks Bollinger, starting quarterback?

More Dang Shows

Love Inc: Pilot
This was the show Shannon Doherty was fired from before it began. Holly Robinson Peete plays the boss of a Love Inc. a dating service. The show is nice better than I thought but only if nothing else is on.

Ghost Whisperer: Pilot
I can’t accurately judge this show because the commercial gave away the entire episode, but one thing I found bad was at the end when she sees a family of dead people it looks interesting but when they previewed next weeks episode it was a different storyline. I guess they don’t follow up from week to week. This non-follow-up is a sign of bad writing.

Desperate Housewives: Next
It’s a comedy for women, no biggie.

Grey’s Anatomy: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
They continue from last season with all the sex and inter-office pregnancies and disease swapping. They even were doing some procedures from House. This is a drama with some comedy put in.

Sci-Fi Whatever Today Is

I'm so behind because of college and other stuff but here are some short reviews of what I've seen.

Stargate Atlantis: Aurora/ The Lost Boys
Blah, blah, blah sucky.

Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus
Best damn season finale in a long time. When the two guys run to stop the raping of Sharon II you wanted that old bastard do die, and he did.

Firefly: Ariel
Good episode you really get to know who Jayne(Adam Baldwin) really is.

Tuesday September 27 the Sci-Fi channel willl have a Firefly Marathon . The first ten episodes.

TV Guide: Sept. 25 - Oct. 1

On the cover we have CSI Returns with four of the actors, I don’t watch the show so no big whoop. The accompanying article is 5-pages long.

Good Things To Read Inside:

• Grey’s Anatomy is back Sunday.
• 4 pages of behind the scenes pictures of this falls shows.
• Hurricane Katrina coverage and the bad FX movie Oil Storm.
• Noah Wyle will be back on ER for an episode and Nov. 21 Medium will be in 3-D.
• Lost casting news which I did not read.
• Amanda Tapping of Stargate was pregnant last season and does a crossover episode with Atlantis next season.
• A small tribute to Bob Denver.
• How Joss Whedon to Firefly to the big screen. It was an under $50 million shoot, so any gross above that would call for a sequel.
• Hilary Duff turns 18 Barbara Walters turns 74, you can see Duffs future in Walters.
• The TV Guide people are preparing you for their change in format telling you to look for local listings on TV Guide Channel, TVGuide.com or TVGuide.com/movie.

Thursday Shows

Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody hates Pilots
Funny and well acted.

Joey: Joey and the Big Break
Not funny and badly acted.

Twins: Pilot
Funny, Sarah Gilbert is playing straight in every way but she does throw jabs at her family. Nice to see Mark Linn-Baker on TV.

Reunion: 1987
I saw most of this episode and while it was good I was not into the show after last week's Presidential Address.

ER: Canon City
Sarah Gilbert is back and I'm not sure if she's straight in this one, not that it matters she'll be out in few episodes, I mean fired.
This episode features the conclusion to Nurse Samantha Taggart's missing son and her journey, everything is fine at the end.
Also we meet a bunch of newbies.

Love Inc.:
Give me a minute I'll post something about after I finish drinking rewinding.

More X-Files To Watch

I just got in the mail today The X-Files Mythology Vol. 2 - Black Oil for details on price check here at Amazon, my copy was free.


Now when will I watch it?

Between the ten shows I watch everyday, these two blogs(Coined For Money is the other), my college classes( by the way Circuits and Systems Analysis 101 is not hard and would be easier if people stopped begging for my notes and lab reports) and my occasional personal life it may be months before I see them.

In the box you get 4 DVDs with 15 episodes from season 3, 4 and 5. Some episode have commentary, there's a mini-documentary and a little paper timeline of the "Black Oil".
Plus a $5.00 rebate for each of the Mythology volumes you buy, there are 4 in all.

Lost & Such

Lost: Man of Science, Man of Faith
Good episode the catch up in the one before they had Peter Coyote talking about the plot of last season and they kept bringing up the back of the plane.
We find out in the new episode that a cool apartment is in the hatch and an old acquaintance of Jack, who told Jack to "Lift it up".
Walt appeared for a bit and looks older and taller.
Did anyone see a slight mistake on the show. The hatch had QUARANTINE in black letters during the show and the same hatch had QUARANTINE in red letters during next weeks preview.
For those of you playing the Lost numbers game they appeared on the injection bottle CR 4-81516-23 42
FOR INJECTION

Invasion: Pilot
Wow this show is badly acted crap. Surface and Threshold is better.

Standing Still is still funny.
Yes, Dear should be canceled.( Also short hair on cute women makes them not so cute.)

Tuesdays Shows

Bones was O.K.

Gilmore Girls was better and Alexis Bleidel finally spoke her native spanish, she's Mexican.

Supernatural was fine, but the dead girls tombstone said Jan. 24 1984-Nov. 02 2005, hmmm.... she died in the future.

Law & Order: SVU :Demons
Meloni's character gets even creepier then last year, also Robert Patrick was great.

House was the best.
In "Autopsy" a 9 year-old dying girl gives everyone a little hope. Just like the Mad TV sketch the find something wrong with her that they fixed but something else is wrong so they must kill her to save.
The fact that the Australian guy kisses the little girl was enough to hold my scattered mind.
Also they gave the girl some tickets to the American Museum of Natural History which I also have was kinda cool.

My Name Is Earl: Pilot
A loser must change his life to get good things in life. Not bad Jaime Pressly was better then expected she stole the show and I like Earl's laid back attitude.