The Galactica has found water on a nearby ice planet. Now they have to get it to the fleet. The idea of using the prisoners aboard the Astral Queen is floated, and problems ensue in Bastille Day. Written by Toni Graphia this episode was first broadcast on 21 January, 2005. The episode features some of…
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Battlestar Galactica (2005) – 33, and Water
Just over a year after the miniseries aired, the first season of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica launched on 14 January, 2005. It opened with an episode titled 33. It’s tense, it’s well-crafted and a helluva way to launch the main series. Written by Ronald D. Moore who also served as the series showrunner, it finds…
Smallville (2005) – Blank, and Ageless
Blank was written by Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson. It first debuted on 27 April, 2005. Clark (Tom Welling) loses his memory after trying to stop Kevin Grady (Jonathan Bennett) from robbing the Talon. Apparently, Kevin has the ability to wipe his incidents from the minds of those he steals from, and Clark gets a…
Smallville (2005) – Onyx, and Spirit
It’s evil twin trope time on Smallville with Onyx. It originally debuted on 13 April, 2005 and was written by Steven S. DeKnight. LuthorCorp is experimenting with some kryptonite, developing black kryptonite, but the experiment goes sideways with Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) getting hit by some energy and being split in two – his good half…
Smallville (2005) – Sacred, and Lucy
The Kents learn that Virgil Swann (Christopher Reeve) has passed, just as Clark (Tom Welling) receives a package from him. It’s another of those Kryptonian stones, so it’s back to the caves, where Jor-El (Terrence Stamp) informs Clark that he has three stones to recover, they hold the knowledge of all of Krypton, with the…
Smallville (2005) – Recruit, and Krypto
The first thing we learn in this episode is that Lois Lane (Erica Durance) is a hard drinker on par with Marion Ravenwood. When the drinking game has a rough end, she finds herself arrested when one of the aggressive guys she was playing against ends up paralyzed. We know she’s not at fault, but…
Smallville (2005) – Unsafe, and Pariah
Unsafe debuted on 26 January, 2005. It was written by Steven S. DeKnight and Jeph Loeb. Alicia Baker (Sarah Carter) is back. Supposedly cured, she’s been released from the mental institution. But the first thing she does is go to see Clark (Tom Welling). For now, she’s unable to teleport, thanks to some low-tech solutions….
The Amityville Horror (2005) – Andrew Douglas
Okay, it’s not a great film, but wow what a cast; Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George (who I’ve made no secret about the crush I have), a young Chloe Grace Moretz, Rachel Nichols, and Philip Baker Hall. Best on the alleged true story, we are given yet another version of the story of the Luz family…
Stargate: Atlantis (2005) – Aurora, and The Lost Boys
McKay (David Hewlett) discovers an Ancient spacheship adrift in space. But not just any spaceship, a warship called the Aurora. Written by Carl Binder from a story by Binder and Brad Wright, this episode first aired on 23 September, 2005. With some help from the Daedalus and Caldwell (Mitch Pileggi), Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) and his…
Stargate SG-1 (2005) – Prototype, and The Fourth Horseman: Part 1
A previously undiscovered safety feature in the stargate is revealed in this episode when Carter (Amanda Tapping) plans to go to one planet, but the gate sends her to a different one. It’s preventing her from traveling to a planet that is now too close to a black hole. Carter is able to override it…
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