Steven S. DeKnight wrote and directed Justice, which first debuted on 18 January, 2007. It’s a big one, and the Justice in the title refers specifically to the coming together of a team of super-powered allies to put a stop to Lex’s (Michael Rosenbaum) now active Level 33.1. Oliver (Justin Hartley) recruits Clark’s (Tom Welling)…
Star Trek: #29 – The Trouble with Bearclaw (1986)
Tony Isabella wrote The Trouble with Bearclaw, issue 29 in DC Comics ongoing Star Trek series. Tom Sutton continues to deliver fantastic pencils, while Ricardo Villagran does the inks. The series to date has heartily embraced canon, and continues to tie itself to established continuity. And that makes for fun reading. That being said, Bearclaw……
Three Days of the Condor (1975) – Sydney Pollack
Man, I just enjoy Robert Redford’s work, so I figured it was time for a rewatch of this conspiracy thriller classic. Redford plays Turner, a CIA analyst, whose assignment is to scan books and find plans, dirty tricks, and other ideas that may have been used in ops, or that they can use. He’s written…
Battlestar Galactica (2009) – No Exit, and Deadlock
No Exit was first broadcast on 13 February, 2009. Written by Ryan Mottesheard, it gives us a brand new intro and also shows us Ellen’s (Kate Vernon) death at Tigh’s (Michael Hogan) hands and her rebirth and discovery that she’s a Cylon. She’s the First, she ‘created’ the other models. Anders (Michael Trucco) is under…
Star Trek: Lower Decks (2023) – Twovix, I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee, and In The Cradle of Vexilon
Season four of Lower Decks got underway on 7 September, 2023 with Twovix. Written by showrunner and creator Mike McMahan, this one, obviously, is going to make a comment on the controversial Tuvix episode of Voyager. And for deep cuts, there’s a visual reference to Threshold, Freeman (Dawn Lewis) investigates Janeway’s decision from the Tuvix…
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Doomsday World (1990) – Carmen Carter, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, and Robert Greenberger
It’s been awhile since I dug into a TNG novel, as I continue to work my way through the Pocket Book series of books. Still, since I recognized a couple of the authors’ names, I figured I was in fairly good hands. Set during season three, Doomsday World just seems fairly rote and doesn’t do…
Battlestar Galactica (2009) – The Oath, and Blood On the Scales
Written by Mark Verheiden, The Oath debuted on 30 January, 2009. It also shows us that Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani) is going to be a real problem. When a number of the ships in the fleet refuse to let Cylon engineers board them to update their engines, Adama (Edward James Olmos) has had enough. He threatens…
The Bad News in Breaking Training (1977) – Michael Pressman
The Bad News in Breaking Training is the first of two sequels to the 70s classic. Both Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal are obviously missing, but they also mention Japan very early on, so the third film was already being prepped. This time out, the Bears are supposed to head to Texas to play in…
The Bad News Bears (1976) – Michael Ritchie
I haven’t seen this one since I was a kid, and watching it now in the 2020s, some of it is jarring, and honestly, it’s hilarious in its shocking bluntness, though the casual racism thrown around… wow! Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) is a drunk, former ballplayer who has been bought and paid for to coach a…
Smallville (2006/2007) – Subterranean, and Hydro
Before he was Teen Wolf, Tyler Posey showed up on Smallville as Javier, a migrant worker, in Subterranean. Written by Caroline Dries, this episode debuted on 7 December, 2006. While Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) and Lana (Kristin Kreuk) mull over Lex’s wedding proposal and Lana’s pregnancy, Clark (Tom Welling) gets involved in helping Javier. Javier was…
