Lower Decks

Two of my favorite characters on this show are Ben and Richard.  I’ve been fascinated by Ben’s character from the moment we met him as “Henry Gale” and I have the strong belief that Michael Emerson is easily the best actor on the show (and I think all of them are pretty solid).  Richard is [...]

I’m not sure if it was intentional, but on the sixth episode of the sixth season (not sure what the third six would be to complete the 666 metaphor) deals a lot with evil.  Characters are forced to face evil around them, evil in those close to them, and evil in themselves.  It’s one of [...]

For a while, I thought this episode was going to be a waste of time.  It all seemed so generic – random bad guy goes insane and kidnaps the love interest.  Random character is injured but Clark saves the day.  And while the villain was mildly interesting and the B-story was intriguing, that’s what it looked [...]

Jack Shephard was one of my favorite characters from the first couple seasons of LOST.  And what wasn’t to like?  He was the reluctant leader who took charge because no one else would.  He did a lot of things for the good of the group, and despite his feelings, he respectfully stepped out of the [...]

Once again, we have a Smallville gimmick episode.  Clark gets (insert random power) that makes everyone on the cast act funny for an episode.  This time, Clark gets the power of persuasion from a fairy with kryptonite dust – and that’s actually the plot.  It makes Chloe over-protective and Lois over-domestic.  There’s actually some good [...]

Going back to his first episode in season one, Locke-centric episodes have always made me sad.  From his problems with his father to his issues with Helen (not to mention his injury), Locke’s story always had a way of making me feel sorry for the old man.  But the addition of the “flash-sideways” gives a [...]

Warrior Angel first appeared in Smallville’sfirst season as one of the show’s first allusion to Superman.  From visual clues (the cover to the first comic book for both Warrior Angel and Superman are almost identical) to character clues (Warrior Angel and his nemesis, Devilicus, are very similar to the stories of Clark and Lex), it [...]

After an amazing premiere, we get into the meat of the show’s final season.  I’m sure a lot of people will see this episode as a “filler” episode, but I think the hour does a lot to set up the stage for the show’s final season.  We get to find out what happened to Sayid, [...]

Smallville’s first two-hour movie in the show’s history is a pretty solid event.  Not only do we get Smallville’s version of the Justice Society (including major appearances by Doctor Fate and Hawkman), but we get the first on-screen references to a lot of mainstream DC heroes.  Not since the original Justice League episode has an episode of [...]

In the past few weeks, in speaking to people about my anticipation of this season’s premiere, I found out that LOST had a lot of fans that jumped off the  bandwagon at some point.  Maybe it was during the show’s second season, which failed to capture some of the magic until the injection of the [...]