With only Heather O’Rourke and Zelda Rubinstein the only returning cast members from the previous installments, that should be a bit of an indicator of how far the series has already fallen. On the flip side, the series has added Tom Skerritt and Nancy Allen, as well as Lara Flynn Boyle in her feature film…
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Farscape (1999) – Exodus From Genesis, and Throne for a Loss
Brian Henson directs the third episode (despite the fact that it aired second) which was written by Ro Hume. It first debuted on 26 March, 1999. Watching the episodes in the right order allows this one to make a little more sense. Crichton (Ben Browder) is still confused about everything in this end of the…
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) – Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah
Mike (Will Smith) and Marcus (Martin Lawrence) return for a fourth time in Bad Boys: Ride or Die,. While I like the franchise, and I like the characters and the way the series has expanded, this one felt a little slower and not exactly top heavy but not as engaging as it should have been….
Stargate SG-1 (1999) – Learning Curve, and Point of View
SG-1 is conducting overtures and studies with a peaceful planet whose children are highly intelligent. Legacy was written by Heather E. Ash this episode first debuted on 22 July, 1999. Teal’c (Christopher Judge) is paired with a young boy, Tomin (Lachlan Murdoch) to teach the society about the Goa’uld, while young Merrin (Britt Irvin) returns…
Northern Exposure (1991/1992) – Seoul Mates, and Dateline: Cicely
Northern Exposure’s Christmas Episode walked away with the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in A Drama Series. Written by Andrew Schneider and Diane Frolov,this episode first debuted on 16 December, 1991. Lots is going on in Cicely, Joel (Rob Morrow) gets his first Christmas Tree and learns that the Raven is important…
Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Call to Darkness (1989) – Michael Jan Friedman
We’re still early into The Next Generation novel series, this is only the ninth in the series. Set in the second season, while the third season was just getting underway on television, the book had to be written while the second season was in production. And that means not everything was going to work as…
Stargate SG-1 (1999) – Fair Game, and Legacy
Carter (Amanda Tapping) gets promoted to Major in this episode, a wonderfully nice moment for the character, but things get interrupted when O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) gets beamed aboard an Asgard ship, which leads to the story for the episode when he has a conversation with Thor (voiced by Michael Shanks). Written by Robert C….
Salem’s Lot (2024) – Gary Dauberman
Maybe it’s all the Universal Monster movies I’ve been watching lately, but I found that, for the most part, Dauberman’s adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel (the first one I ever read), Salem’s Lot, works. I don’t like how he changed the climax of the film. He moves it out of the Marsten House…
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) – John Sherwood
And just like that, my time with the Universal Monsters comes to an end. The final film to round out my viewing was The Creature Walks Among Us. Unlike some of the other Universal Monster movies this one actually works as a sequel to the previous films, picking up the narrative thread from Revenge of…
Farscape (1999) – Premiere, and I, E.T.
I remember my friend Dennis raving about Farscape, but everytime I tried to get into it, I wouldn’t get hooked. But I found the key, if you could get to the episode PK Tech Girl, you would be hooked. Having only gotten through the series once, I decided it’s time for a rewatch and can’t…
The Mind Reels 