Season Three of Galactica got underway on 6 October, 2006. Occupation was written by showrunner Ronald D. Moore. New Caprica, and its human inhabitants are under Cylon rule. It’s been four months since the Cylons arrived, and Baltar (James Callis), as president, is little more than a figurehead, doing everything the Cylons ask. There is…
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Stargate SG-1 (2002) – Fail Safe, and The Warrior
SG-1 take on Deep Impact and Armageddon in Fail Safe. Written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, this episode was first broadcast on 5 April, 2002. A large asteroid is discovered in the solar system, it’s path is determined to be on a direct line for Earth which may cause an extinction level event. O’Neill…
The X-Files (2016) – Babylon, and My Struggle II
Every season of The X-Files has a low point, even shortened seasons like the limited event series that was season ten. Babylon is that low point. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad episode, it’s just not up to snuff with the rest of the stories in the season. First airing February 15, 2016, series creator…
Star Trek: Discovery (2017) – Choose Your Pain, and Lethe
Captain’s log: December 2256 Kemp Powers pens the teleplay for Choose Your Pain from a story by Gretchen J. Berg, Aaron Harberts and Kemp. It first aired on 15 October, 2017, and sees a familiar character return to this version of the Trek Universe. While Micheal Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) starts to worry about the pain…
Bermuda International Film Festival – The Attack – Ziad Doueiri
The Bermuda International Film Festival screened The Attack last night, a gripping drama about a Palestinian doctor working in Israel. Dr. Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman) is an Arab working in a Jewish world, he’s a prominent and successful surgeon, has a beautiful wife, and friends. But when a suicide bomb claims the lives of 17…
The Mind Reels 