The penultimate episode of season two gives us a little bit of time travel. Written by Brad Wright, one of the showrunners, 1969 first aired on 5 March, 1999. Carter (Amanda Tapping) is updating a gate’s address, working to account for solar gravity, and General Hammond (Don S. Davis) gives Carter a note without a…
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Stargate SG-1 (1997) – Children of the Gods
I loved the sense of wonder and adventure that the original Stargate film made me feel when I watched it, but I was reticent to dive into the series until well after the first season was released to DVD. My friend Dennis loved it, and swore by it and said I should give it a…
For Special Services (1982) – John Gardner
John Gardner’s second 007 novel, updating Ian Fleming’s James Bond for the 1980s, is on the book shelf this week, and delivers the crisp, solid, sex and violence filled thrill ride we’ve come to expect from England’s top spy. This story, set largely in America, sees the return of Bond’s old nemesis, SPECTRE, with the…
