Robots and Vamps

We occasionally watch a bit of TV…. Alright… fine, we admit it. We watch A LOT of TV. So here is the weekly rundown of shows that we watched this week and the quick and dirty on what we thought of them. Is there something we should be watching that we are not? Let us know and we will check it out.

This week there was no Fringe or Dollhouse.

Flash Forward 1.6 “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps”

Janice is on the mend, but has to endure another surgery which leaves her with little possibility to have children. Well that is NOT what her flash-forward says!  Lloyd is back, oh, yip-pee. Agent Noh and Agent Gough are playing scavenger hunt by chasing blue hands all over the city. Oh, and it is Halloween!

Agent Noh and Agent Gough can’t sit around the hospital anymore, so they follow up on the blue hand lead.  After following all of  Blues Clues, they find an old abandoned house full of bodies.  One of those bodies has….gasp… a blue hand.

Agent Mark Benford bides his time in a different way.  Trick or Treating with his daughter Charlie (this gets confusing for me, because I still call Dominic Monaghan, Charlie from his Lost days).. anyway, everyone is out trick or treating when a kangaroo hops by… What the What?

In a last ditch effort to get Dylan a Halloween costume, Lloyd turns his son into a tiny Flava Flav.  Mini Flav escapes the hospital and catches a bus across town to the Benford house, where the children get along famously, unlike the men.  Once Lloyd arrives to get Dylan, he realizes this is the house and Penny…er…Olivia (gee I wish Lost would start!)  was the woman in his flash-forward.  Mark gets all territorial and tells Lloyd to leave in his best macho voice.  Lloyd leaves, Mark and Olivia fight. Obviously we are now definitely going down the right path for everyone’s flash-forwards to come to fruition.  Way to go on that whole, we can change our future thing!

Matt says: This was by far the weakest and least interesting show so far.  I was afraid that this would happen, the story seems to be dragging and not pushing forward (hee hee).  The whole plot line involving Olivia Benford’s future cheating is sooooooooo old and soooooooooo boring.  I don’t care! Move along, get a divorce or don’t, I don’t care.  The problem with this story line is that it started before we had a vested interest in either character.  With Lost we had a vested interest with Jack, Sawyer and Kate before they started in with the love triangle and it was by far more entertaining.  This show needs to get very interesting, very quick or it won’t have a second season.

Vampire Diaries 1.7 ” Haunted”

Vampire Vicki is a real handful. She keeps running off to see her brother and/or her boyfriend Jeremy.  Stefan and Damon keep having to chase after her to save the humans from her insatiable thirst. It is Halloween so Vicki shows up at the school Halloween party dressed as ….you guessed it… a Vampire.  She really is trying to learn how to deal with this new way of life, but her creator isn’t much of a teacher.  And as a result, when she bites Elena, Stefan has to stake her.  Bye bye, Vicki.  No more Vicki the Vampire… Damn. She really was one of the only interesting parts of this show.

Bonnie is learning about her Witchy roots from her grandma (Jasmine Guy).  Turns out the necklace that Damon gave to Caroline, that Caroline gave to Bonnie; it once belonged to her Great Great Grandmother, Emily Bennet, a powerful witch.  When Damon tries to take it back from her, it burns him.  Looks like we have found one of Damon’s weaknesses.

Poor Jeremy, nothing goes right for this kid. First his parents die and he becomes the school drug pusher and then his girlfriend dies a horrible death after attacking his sister.  Then his sister decides what is best for him and asks Damon to erase his memory.  Don’ t you think he is old enough to make that kind of decision himself?

Supernatural 5.7 ” The Curious Case of Dean Winchester

The boys are investigating cases of rapid aging when they discover the victims are betting their years away in a high stakes poker game.  There is a “Man Witch” in town who has lasted hundreds of years traveling from place to place, winning years from his opponents. When Bobby finds out the “He-Witch” is in town, he comes to try and get some of his youth and non-paralyzed body back.  Only he ends up loosing 25 years.  Dean plays to save Bobby, and he does, only to loose 50 years himself.

The boys and Bobby have to find out how to save Dean from premature heart-attack ( a result of all those cheeseburgers) without loosing any years themselves.  Just when they thing there is no hope, the “She-Witch” shows up in their hotel room with the reversal spell. Well, that is just a little bit of awesome!

Dean and Bobby try to work the spell while Sam distracts the “man-witch” with a poker game.  Only the “Man-Witch” is onto them and Sam has to win Dean’s years back fair and square.

There are some GREAT old guy moments; like when old Dean says his body is getting all “creaky” and when he threatens Bobby with putting “killing him on his bucket list.”  What would this show be without Dean Winchester? Gotta love him!

Stargate Universe 1.6 “Water”

Oh Gee, first we lost our air and it took 3 episodes to get it back, then we lost our power and had to fly through a star to recharge the ship, now we are loosing water.  Some teeny-tiny aliens came aboard and are stealing it.  They are peaceful, until you shoot them or come after them with a flame thrower.  Then they tend to get a little pissy.

Lieutenant Scott and Colonel  Young comprise the away team as they travel to an ice planet  (wittily dubbed the Hoth system by Eli) to try and find some non-poisonous ice that they can convert into water.  When a tremor hits, Lieutenant Scott falls in a cravase and gets stuck.  Meaning Colonel Young has to wait and save him just in time to get back through the ship before it gets too far out of range since it is still pretty much running on autopilot. And he does just that.  They both make it back to the ship just in the nick of time.

At least things on SGU are consistent.  There is always a problem, they always fix it in the nick of time, and everybody hates Dr. Rush!

Matt says: Another OK episode, but we are continually going over the same issues, low water, low power, etc.  Got it.  Let’s move onto to something more interesting.  The character dynamics is setting up nicely and I am enjoying the conflicts.  The writers need a game changer soon to give the crew of the Destiny something to do.  I am still not sure what type of show this yet.  Is it a Star Trek exploration type of show?  Is it a Battlestar Galactica edgy with a crew on the run type of show?  After six episodes I am still not sure.

Dexter 4.6 “If I Had a Hammer”

This episode started out very oddly.  Both Trinity and Dexter are in church singing hymns.  That is just so not right!  Rita decides that she and Dexter need therapy.  That’s it, take the serial killer to therapy and see how that turns out.  Oddly enough, Dexter comes out the victor because now he has his own “garage” in the back yard to keep all of his stuff in.  Rita even gives him a padlock. How convenient!

Dexter is getting to know the Trinity killer ….er Arthur Mitchell.  He goes on builds with him where the congregation from the church build homes for the needy.  Somehow Dexter keeps showing up without any tools, so Arthur gives him his bludgeoning hammer as a gift.  After following Arthur around for a while and observing him, Dexter learns that he has been recreating the deaths of his Mother, Father and Sister.

Debra finally figures out that the vacation murderers did not shoot at her and they did not kill Lundy.  Now she thinks Trinity was behind it.   Guess Debra has a new investigation to focus on.

Pressure at work forces Angel and Lt Laguerta to call it quits.  Fine, they were starting to get boring anyway.

Matt says: This was a prototypical set up episode.  Not much happened except preparing you for final run to the end.  I really like dynamics between Dexter and Trinity.  Dexter is learning to survive as a “normal” person with a family based on tips from Trinity.  Only problem is that you can’t pretend to have feelings and Dexter keeps his feeling way down deep.  I am sorry but building a shed will not save this marriage.

Heroes 4.7 “Once Upon A Time In Texas”

Matt was super excited when he found out this episode was all about is favorite character… HIRO.  Hiro goes back in time to try and save Charlie from Sylar…again…    He even talks Sylar into healing Charlie from her aneurysm which is actually pretty smart of Hiro (Omigod!  What just happened? Hiro did something smart!) At one point he proves how ridiculous he is by tricking his past self into doing what his future self wants him to do… what??? Anyway, while Hiro is bumbling about trying to save his true love, he is being duped by Samuel aka “the puppet master”  He has total control over all of these rogue heroes and slowly, one by one he is reeling them in.  He even kidnaps Hiro’s precious Charlie in order to manipulate Hiro to help him with his own past.  About eight weeks ago, something bad happened that ended up with Samuel standing over a very dead looking Suresh.

Meanwhile, Noah almost cheats on his wife Sandra, but decides against it.  Who is the woman agent who keeps coming on to him?  Where the heck did she come from?

Matt says: You know when you are riding as passenger in a car going 60 MPH and your buddy suddenly hits the brakes causing your head to hit to smack the dashboard, just as a joke? Yeah, not funny!  Well my head hit the dashboard several times during this episode.  All the nice momentum built up over the last few episodes came to a crashing halt as soon as Hiro’s face appeared on screen.  Man, this was a tired story line.  Plus it was like watching some idget take the longest way home when they could have taken a short cut to get to the same place.  All this way to blackmail Hiro? Really! Hiro is not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, Samuel could have just promises some shiny things and Hiro would have agreed to help him.  A total waste of an hour.

Coming Next Week:  V Starts tonight!  When I was young my parents wouldn’t let me watch the original series. Not cool!  Just try and stop me this time parental unit!