So how did Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama (Jamie Bamber) and Colonial One survive the Cylon assault? The EMP generators that were offhandedly mentioned in part one, saved the day. The second half of the miniseries was first broadcast on 9 December, 2003. It was written by Ronald D. Moore and Glen Larson (as Christopher Eric Johnson)….
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Battlestar Galactica (2003) – Episode 1
Ronald D. Moore, who was a driving storytelling force behind Star Trek: The Next Generation, took Glen Larson’s beloved (but expensive) 70s television series and retooled it. He and his creative crew and cast delivered a proof-of-concept miniseries, which would introduce us to the characters and situations that would drive this incarnation. The miniseries aired…
Taken (2002) – John
The penultimate episode of the Taken mini-series first aired on 12 December, 2002. Leslie Bohem continues delivering a solid script that picks up exactly where the previous episode left off. Looks like we’re on the end run of the series now. Mary Crawford (Heather Donahue) has entered the crashed alien craft, while General Beers (James…
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…
Taken (2002) – Dropping the Dishes
Lisa (Emily Bergl) and Charlie (Adam Kaufman) realize that Allie (Dakota Fanning) has saved them by taking them out of time and returning them two hours later, after Allie has agreed to go with Mary Crawford (Heather Donahue) and Wakeman (Matt Frewer). Dropping the Dishes, the eighth episode of the Leslie Bohem-scripted miniseries, which was…
Taken (2002) – God’s Equation
The Steven Spielberg executive-produced miniseries continued on 10 December, 2002 with the seventh episode of the ten-episode series. The episode, God’s Equation, was written, as all the rest have been by Leslie Bohem, and it moves the narrative to 2002. Charlie’s (Adam Kaufman) nightmares are becoming worse, even as he conducts interviews with possible alien…
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) – Matt Shakman
Marvel brings their first family into the MCU with The Fantastic Four: First Steps. It’s charming, and has some solid casting, but it never really has the impact that this iconic team deserves. And that may be due to superhero fatigue. Marvel and Disney have upped the audience of dosage of superheroes that everything feels…
Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) – Gareth Edwards
It’s lost some of its magic. There is too much green screen and visual effects, and almost no practical work when it comes to the dinosaurs, and it’s glaringly obvious. There’s no majesty when we see the dinosaurs now, because they don’t look real anymore. You can tell they are all done by VFX artists….
Predator: Badlands (2025) – Dan Trachtenberg
I loved Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey. It was amazing. It took an IP that continues to endure and intrigue and shake it up in a new way. So when I heard he was cranking out another one, I was ready to see what he did next. Predator: Badlands ends up being a middle-of-the-road entry, one that…
Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) – Colin Trevorrow
Jurassic World: Dominion is the sixth film in the Jurassic franchise, and it seemed very intent on wrapping up lots of plot threads that ran through, or surfaced in the series. I’ve watched it twice now, and I will say this, enjoyed it much more the second go round. I will also say this. We’re…
The Mind Reels 