Archives for the ‘Reviews and Recaps’ Category

February 4, 2010

Review: Star Wars: Clone Wars Episode 2.12 – “The Mandalore Plot”

- by Grace Hebert | Filed under: Clone Wars,Featured,News and Commentary,Reviews and Recaps,Star Wars

Review: Clone Wars: Episode 2.12 – “The Mandalore Plot” “If you ignore the past, you jeopardize the future” (sounds like BSG rhetoric doesn’t it?) Mandalore is part of a league of neutral nations in the clone wars. Duchess Satine of Mandalore is suspected of building an army for the Separatists, though she leads the neutral [...]

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February 3, 2010

Review: Fringe 2.14 – “The Bishop Revival”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

Brookline, MA.  A wedding is taking place at what appears to be an old tudor mansion.  The Jewish groom is nervous and breathing hard, the Gentile bride is beautiful.  The matriarch of the groom’s side notices a man in the back she doesn’t recognize.  The groom takes his inhaler to the bathroom.  The grandma repeats, [...]

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Review: Lost 6.1 –
“LA X”

- by Jeff Barrus | Filed under: Featured,Lost,Reviews and Recaps

At long last, Lost begins its final season. Opening up where season five left off, we see the detonation of the nuclear device, Jughead, and its immediate aftermath. In many ways, the two rival theories about the consequences of the detonation are fulfilled, which should leave some fans pleased, some fans angry and casual viewers [...]

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February 2, 2010

Review: Caprica: “Rebirth” Episode 1.2

- by Grace Hebert | Filed under: Battlestar Galactica,Featured,News and Commentary,Reviews and Recaps

Caprica – Rebirth Last week’s Caprica left us wondering about the future of the centurions because Zoe’s identity appeared to be wiped from the robot. However, in a befuddling turn of events, at least to Daniel Graystone, the MCP only works in one robot. He refuses to admit the connection has to do with his [...]

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February 1, 2010

Review: Caprica: “Pilot” Episode 1.1

- by Grace Hebert | Filed under: Battlestar Galactica,Featured,Reviews and Recaps

Before I begin discussing the show in depth, I’d like to point out a little about the ads for the show. The ads depict Zoe biting into an apple. As we all know, the Cylons are devout monotheists. And in the Christian tradition, the apple represents sin and Eve bites into the apple, bringing sin [...]

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January 28, 2010

Review: Dollhouse 2.12 – “The Hollow Men”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Dollhouse,Featured,Reviews and Recaps

So now we know.  Now we find out what’s next.  Now we find out how it links to our future vision seen in Epitaph One.  But we haven’t seen it!  It’s the DVD only episode that was unaired.  It’s part of a show that’s been canceled.  A show that early on was well and truly [...]

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Review: Dollhouse 2.11 – “Getting Closer”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Dollhouse,Featured,Reviews and Recaps

Three years ago. Caroline uses a horny middle management suit to get into an executive office.  She handcuffs him and rifles through the files.  She finds a file on herself (Caroline Farrell) and one for Bennett noted with “Full Scholarship.”  She hits a remote and opens a video cabinet and sees security feeds into the [...]

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January 26, 2010

Review: Dollhouse 2.10 – “The Attic”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Dollhouse,Featured,Reviews and Recaps

A woman’s voice says, “Welcome to The Attic.  We’re so glad to have you.  Echo, still suspended in the Saran Wrap nutrient bath is being attended to by a technician who puts needles in her head to monitor her brain and a tube down her throat to keep warm fluids running through her body.  If [...]

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Review: Sons of Anarchy – Season 1

- by Jeff Barrus | Filed under: Featured,Reviews and Recaps,Sons of Anarchy

Sons of Anarchy is FX’s original series about an outlaw motorcycle club in the fictional northern California town of Charming. Founded by a group of disgruntled Vietnam veterans in the 1960′s, the Sons of Anarchy (or “SAMCRO” as they are called by their members) would go from being a group of friends celebrating motorcycles and [...]

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January 24, 2010

Review: Star Wars: Clone Wars Episode 2.11 – “Lightsaber Lost”

- by Grace Hebert | Filed under: Clone Wars,Featured,Reviews and Recaps,Star Wars

“Easy isn’t always simple” The episode begins in a fashion similar to Episode II: Attack of the Clones.  Anakin and Ahsoka are in the underbelly of Coruscant, looking to arrest a weapons smuggler.  Anakin goes into the bar alone to arrest the smuggler, while Ahsoka waits outside.  Unfortunately, a wave of aliens flees the bar [...]

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