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.

Fringe 2.13 “The Bishop Revival”

A wedding crasher shows up at nice Jewish wedding and suddenly guests begin to turn blue and suffocate. Not exactly the best way to start your new life together, although the groom was one of the suffocates, so I guess the wedding is off.

Who ya gonna call? The Fringe team of course! Only certain people were targeted by the toxin that caused their asphyxiation and it turns out that they were all related. Also, the team learns that the toxin is released when exposed to heat, so now they know how the perpetrator administers the toxin.

Unfortunately, the toxin is released again and the Fringe team has more victims to study. This time, the toxin targets only people with brown eyes. Walter takes a sample of the toxin back to the lab to study. While viewing its molecular makeup, Walter notices a signature built into the toxin itself. A seahorse, his father’s scientific signature. His father was once a double agent working out of a Nazi laboratory.

Turns out the German man who is killing large groups of people with his deadly designer toxin, found the formula that Walter’s father invented during WWII. He has figured out how to target specific genetic traits, and he makes a special batch just for Walter. Fortunately, the Fringe team has figured out how to combat the toxin and Walter is saved. Ta Da! Then they go and save a whole gaggle of people at the World Tolerance Conference, which would have been the perfect place for an evil mastermind to release his toxin. Oh, and surprise, surprise, the now deceased evil mastermind has somehow lived in his youthful state since working in the very same lab with Walter’s father all those years ago. Walter altered the toxin to attack the German man and killed him. Isn’t it strange that he lived for so long without aging only to be killed by his very own toxin? Poetic justice I suppose. Moral of the story: Don’t piss off Walter!

Matt says: OK episode, better than the disease of the week episode from last week but not as strong as some of the season’s earlier episodes.  We learn that entire Bishop clan is an absolute menace to society.  Grandpa Bishop was a part-time Nazi and the creator of specifically targeted toxin.  I think someone needs to got back into time to cut that family tree down and it would solve most of their problems.  I do like the Blue Candles of Death…scary.  We also learned that don’t take Water’s sweater or he will reap vengeance upon your ass.

Vampire Diaries 1.12 “Unpleasantville”

This show is killing me. I think it takes a little piece of my brain every week.

There are more vampires in town. One of the posed as a pizza deliver man and got himself invited into Elena’s house. Now she is in terrible danger! Yeah, ok. Like she hasn’t been in danger this whole time. Her brother is a total idiot as he just hands his ancestors journal over to his history teacher like it is nothing. I mean c’mon. I wouldn’t give up one of my family heirlooms to anyone, teacher or no.

Back to scary other vampires. The male vampire is crank calling Elena’s cell phone and stalking her. Meanwhile idiot Jeremy has been talking with a girl who is totally hitting on him, but dosen’t realize that she too is a vampire and only after his journal. Stefan gives Elena the compass to keep her safe. But she just leaves it on her bed, leaving herself vulnerable for attack. Which is exactly what happens, but surprise, big bad Stefan is there just in time to save her. YAWN.

So Stefan and Damon (who are apparently buddies now) take Elena to the dance. Two dates for the price of one. They are trying to use Elena as bait, which works and the end up torturing and killing the John Travolta vampire look-a-like. Jeremy’s girlfriend sees the whole thing and runs. But where does she run? To the bar to visit her other co-hort. The vampire ex-jock who is hitting on Bonnie. Is there anyone in this damn town who isn’t a vampire? Oh, I forgot about Caroline and Matt. They are back, and still annoying.

Then there is that whole thing with the history teacher and Damon. He’s pissed cause Damon killed his woman. I am not sure what he is planning but he better get on with it. And of course Damon is still trying to open the crypt and get Katherine out.

Supernatural 5.12 “Swap Meat”

Gary, a teenager with way too much time on his hands, has gotten himself involved in some dangerous witchcraft. Dangerous but hilarious. The show opens with Sam (who is actually Gary in Sam’s body) sitting at a bar talking with an attractive woman named Crystal, drinking a banana daiquiri. Um, ok. A bit odd for sure until Sam says “Crystal, I would love to have the sex with you!” Nevermind that his particular Crystal is also a dominatrix, she’s pretty hot. So, I’ll take it! Sorry Coxie, I know you are jealous. But I am married anyway, so I won’t be having the sex with your SPN boyfriend. No worries.

Sam and Dean are in town to investigate a haunting at the home of their old babysitter. Unfortunately, Sam runs into a bit of trouble. Gary (the nerdy teenager) has taken over his body and therefore Sam is forced to reside in Gary’s body, as a teen. Which is Hilarious! Sam’s role in this episode is priceless.

Dean thinks he is still working with the real Sam and is quite confused by Sam’s new “personality”. However, Gary/Sam is actually quite helpful hunting down the poltergeist. Once that is all said and done, Dean starts to realize, something is definitely not right with his brother. By the time he figures it out, the real Sam has been abducted by some of Gary’s friends and is being held for a Demon to come and collect Lucifer’s vessel. To top things off, they are planning to give Dean over to the demon too. Gary/Sam wises up quickly and helps Dean exorcise the demon that has taken up residence in his friend’s meat suit. Sam gets his body back, Dean gets his brother back…Alls well that ends well. By the way, I thought I would be clever and make a Freaky Friday reference here, but Sam and Coxie beat me to it!

Dollhouse 2.13 “Epitaph 2: Return”

The last Dollhouse….I’m kinda sad!   This show has really gone into overdrive since they found out it was going to be canceled.  It had gotten really good and now I am actually going to miss it!

The show starts out by confusing me right off the bat.  Guess I missed the episode Epitaph 1, but you can watch it on the internet to get caught up.  No worries, It didn’t take me long to figure out what was going on.

Caroline 2.0 has taken up residence in a little girl and she is traveling with a smart ass dude and a redhead.  They happen upon the bad guys who take the prisoner.  Lucky for them, Echo and the gang are planning a raid on the facility they are in and they are rescued.  The raid is mainly to rescue Topher from the clutches of the evil ones and they succeed.  Only Topher isn’t the same as he used to be.  As a matter of fact, he isn’t even funny or sarcastic.  He is REALLY messed up.

Topher thinks he can develop a pulse that will wipe everyone and turn them back to their normal selves.  So the whole gang heads to the dollhouse to go underground (they don’t want to return to their former selves) and set off the pulse. Anthony/Victor and his band of techhead warriors provide the protection and the transportation. When they arrive, they have to fight their way in and Paul is abruptly shot and killed.  OH NO.  Poor Paul!  Echo never told him that she loved him.  Alpha is there taking care of the dolls and being all nice.  WHAT?  When did Alpha join the crusade?   Topher creates the machine that will deliver the pulse and plans to set it off in Adele’s old office.  Not until the very end does he let Adele know that he plans to sacrifice himself to set off the pulse.  It must be engaged manually and the explosion will kill anyone in the vicinity.

Matt says: This was more of shout out to the Dollhouse fans than anything else.  This episode was continuation of the “lost” 13th episode from season one which was only shown in the DVD collection.  But Felicia Day was back so it is all good.  Obviously the episode was very rushed as they had to cover alot of ground in just an hour.  Again, I really like some of the ideas developed and wish that they were given more time.

So this ends the run of Dollhouse.  My thought about the series, an opportunity missed.  The first season become boring and the first half of the second continued the trend.  When Fox canceled the show and Whedon had to speed it up to finish the story and it became excellent.  They should have had a plan from the beginning which includes a set amount of seasons to pace the show more evenly.  Lost and Battlestar Galatica figured this out and the shows got much better.  The viewers patience is not unlimited.  I wish there could be a reset button for this series but it will just fall into the annuals of failed Sci-Fi TV series.

Caprica 1.2 “Reins of a Waterfall”

Zoe’s avatar is hiding in the Cylon body. She is trying to keep her existence secret from Daniel and she is doing a good job. He believes she is gone.  He also believes that if she is gone, so is the avatar he created of Joseph Adama’s daughter.  Joseph’s son William, is hanging out with his uncle who is part of the Taurin mob and skipping school. So that isn’t good. But Lacy is now hanging out with Sister Willow who is in a group marriage and taking calls from a Cylon with Zoe’s voice.  The kids who survived are getting a little strange in this show.

Zoe’s mom is coming to grips with the fact that her daughter could have been a terrorist.  She had a boyfriend that her parents didn’t know about (the actual terrorist) and she was running away from home.  Unfortunately, Amanda feels compelled to announce her little revelation to everyone at the memorial.  I don’t think the Graystone’s are going to be very popular around town for a while.

Matt says: So this is the first official episode of the series.  It was kinda ho-hum.  I got the whole ghost in the shell plot thread, need to move beyond it into something more interesting.  Also the constant switching of views between the Cylon and Zoe is becoming tiresome.  Not much happened in the first but I have faith in Ronald Moore, he is the master of the calm before the storm.

Spartacus Blood and Sand 1.2 “Sacramentum Gladitorium”

The Thracian is now in Gladiator Boot Camp.  He gets his long hippie hair cut off (I liked the long hair) and he gets treated like crap and practically starved while he is “training” at Batiatus’ ludus.  He is bullied by the top Gladiator Crixus.  Turns out Batiatus is in debt and he needs the Tracian to come through and make him lots of money to repay his debts.   The Legate is looking for revenge, so he comes to the ludus to torture Spartacus with stories of his wife being tortured and sold into slavery.  That is OK because Spartacus only fights well when he is angry and after a promise from Batiatus to help reunite him with his wife, he has something to fight for.  He passes the Gladiator test by defeating Crixus (who else) and Batiatus is happy.  But Lucretia is not happy because Crixus got hurt.  I think he was her little somethin’ somethin’ on the side.  DUDE – not cool to piss of Xena!  I half expected her to jump from the balcony with that circle thingy doning her warrior princess cry.

Which brings me to another point.  Are we really supposed to believe that Xena is boinking the comic relief from The Mummy? I am just not buying it.  Oh, and this episode had lots of nakedness and plenty of gore again.  But this time the nakedness was fair, not just the ladies!  Lots of naked Gladiator types.

Matt says: Spartacus goes to gladiator school to learn fightin’ and stuff.  It is pretty much like any other school with the popular kids picking on the new kids.  Actually, I am kinda getting into the grove of this show with it’s highly stylized comic book graphics and slow-mo action.  I am still not sure how far they can push the story line but I am along for the ride for now.

Lucy Lawless nekkid update…only one boob shot tonight and a sex scene.

Heroes 4.17 “The Wall”

The title of this episode says it all.  The Wall.  Peter and Sylar and a wall.

Peter and Sylar are playing patty cake in Sylar’s brain which is totally boring. Finally a mental brick wall appears all around the city and Peter decides the only way out of Sylar’s brain is through that wall. So what does he do? He gets himself a sledge hammer and tries to chip away. To no avail. So Sylar picks up a hammer to help. Um guys… there are propane tanks behind you, why don’t you blow a hole in it. Or climb it. Or try anything except hitting it with a little sledgehammer. Turns out Peter just have to forgive Sylar and the wall starts crumbling. Oh, so it’s that kind of wall…..

Samuel is trying to get Claire to hate her daddy and move to his side of the coin. He has one of his henchman show Claire her dad’s memories. Turns out he was married before and a special killed his wife and unborn child. So he got mad and joined the company. The Eric Roberts shows up and gets him to “take a wife”. Might as well pick the closest woman, Sandra the waitress. Claire is upset by these memories and she runs off to pout. But she still isn’t turned from her father. Samuel decides she needs some time to think things over and he buries her and Noah in a trailer. Samuel and the Carnies are of to New York City to wreak havoc with Emma and her Cello of death. Next week is the season finale, what are we going to do without this ridiculous show?

Matt says:  Oh my, this show is sinking to new levels.  Peter and Sylar stuck in Syler’s mind that is a desolate city.  What the hell sense does that make?  Why does Peter want to free a mass murderer? Just to save Emma and her cello of death?  There are so many other ways besides freeing the Charles Manson of the Specials.  But all is good in the Heroes universe cause Peter & Sylar are best buds now.  Sylar promises that he has turned over a new leaf and knows how to swing a sledgehammer to prove it.  Good luck with that.  Maybe Sylar can join the quilting bee now?  The interesting part of the episode was that we delved into HRG’s past and discovered what made him join The Company.  But it’s funny, I don’t remember 1985 being in black & white, maybe because that was soooooo far back in time, like close to the 1950′s or something.

Lost 6.1-2 “LA X”

Lost is back! I love this show even though I still don’t really know what is going on.  Juliet ignited the bomb and everything went back to normal on the plane before the crash… or did it?  We alternate between 2 realities, one where everyone lands safely and moves forward with thier lives and one where they are still on the island but in the present.   Sawyer is beyond pissed thinking Juliet is dead and it is all Jack’s fault.  Until they find Juliet in the rubble from the hatch and the poor woman has to die all over again.

Back on the plane. Jack is sitting next to Desmond which makes no sense (because he was never on the plane), talking to Rose and Bernard.  Kate is on the plane too, in handcuffs and Charlie is ODing in the bathroom.  Boone is there, John Locke and Sahid. Let’s not forget Hurley and Sawyer. We even see Claire at the airport in the cab.  So this reality assumes that the bomb reset everything  and they never crash on the island.  But that whole Desmond siting has me confused.

Meanwhile, on the island Sawyer is burying Juliet with Miles while the rest of the gang takes Sahid to the temple to try and heal him.  Jacob appeared to Hurley (cause he is dead now)and told him to take Sahid to the temple if he wanted to save him.  Once there they are abducted by some Island people and are taken to the temple.  After some convincing and a super secret note that Jacob hid in a giant ankh, the island hippies take Sahid to the healing pool and promptly drown him.  These island hippies kinda suck!

John Locke is really dead and the smoke monster is using his visage to move around the island.  He also used Ben to kill Jacob.  Not cool Ben!  The real dead Locke is outside laying in the sand.  So when fake Locke walks out with Ben, everyone is suprised.  Then fake Locke kicks Richard’s butt and hauls him off like a sack of potatoes.

Plane Jack is trying to find out what happened to his fathers coffin.  Seems Oceanic lost it.  Can this airline do anything right?

And then, Sahid wakes up!  Thank goodness!  Who would kick ass if he was dead?  Sawyer can’t do all the ass kicking by himself.  And I see a Sawyer vs. Shepherd showdown on the horizon!  Let’s just hope the brawl isn’t over Kate!

Matt says: Ah, Lost is back but it is bittersweet since this is the final season.  I can’t believe they actually reset the series all the way to the very beginning.  At least there was some very cool cameos.  But where was Micheal and his son?  I have a feeling that the theme this year is to show how the castaway’s lives suck since they didn’t go to the Island.  I do have to hand to the creators the show actually got much weirder.  It was stupid to have Juliet come back to life only to die in Sawyer’s arms.  Guess that they were attempting to give Sawyer a second chance at an Emmy moment and but they really needed Juliet to go fight off some V’s.  Oh yeah, drowning someone tends to KILL THEM.  What a bunch of morons!  I don’t see them lasting very long against Johnny Cash…errr…The Man in Black (MIB).

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 no V,  Flashforward, Stargate Universe, Vampire Diaries, or Supernatural.

Fringe  2.12 “Johari Window”

The Fringe gang visit a sleepy town called Edina when investigating a missing boy, and some dead law enforcement officers.  The boy, changed right before their very eyes.  He went from looking like any other normal kid, to having facial deformities.   The town of Edina is located near a military base and there is a constant humming noise that resonates throughout the town.

Walter starts to remember bits and pieces of a project he once worked on called Project Elephant.  The military was experimenting with using EMP’s as camouflage, changing a person ‘s perception of what they see rather than changing the subject itself.  The experiment went array, leaving a town of people with deformities.  These people want nothing more than to live normal lives without being under the scrutiny of the outside world.  They are hiding in broad daylight.

Matt says: Where is Charlie? I know I saw him last week on the show.  Did he disappear again?  Another monster of the week episode – yawn.

Dollhouse 2.12 “The Hollow Men”

Sierra and Anthony come back to the house expecting to find their friends and start a war with Rossum, only to find the war has started without them.   They have to piece together what has happened and where to find their friends.  Luckily, Topher left behind a wedge “Topher 2.0″ and Anthony imprints himself to try and figure things out.  They discover Boyd’s secret identity as founder of Rossum and head off to save their friends from a traitor.  But not before making a couple of improvements to Anthony.

In Tucson, Boyd, Adele, Topher, Echo, Paul & Mellie are storming the Rossum headquarters to bring it down when Dr Saunders….er… I mean Whiskey…. er….. Claire….er…. I mean Clyde Randolph shows up to take control of the situation.  Clyde has decided to inhabit Claire’s body since his actual body is trapped in the attic.  Will this girl ever get her own body back?  I mean seriously, how many different entities have lived in there?

Boyd loses his cover and Topher, Adele and Echo find out just who he is.  He has been pulling the strings all along.  Echo/Caroline is special in that her spinal fluid contains some kind of antidote to being wiped.  They plan to use her spinal fluid to create a vaccine that will make the recipient immune to wipes.  Of course Boyd has lost it, telling them all that he loves them like family and just being all geeky now.

Paul & Mellie are kept busy looking for a weapons cache, when suddenly Mellie’s catch phrase is broadcast over the intercom, initiating her sleeper personality, making her attack Paul.  Only the real Mellie can’t take it, professes her love to Paul and kills herself.  Yikes!  Paul finds Boyd for help, ’cause he is the only one left that doesn’t know Boyd is the bad guy.  Caroline is escaping and Boyd tries to stop her.  He will even kill her if he has to.  No need, Topher shows up with one of those remote wipe guns he created and wipes Boyd of his personality.  Boyd is now in a doll state and Caroline straps him up with explosives and instructs him to pull the pin on the grenade after she has left.  Boyd goes out with a bang.

Flash-forward 10 years – The Thoughtpocolypse (so dubbed by Topher) is raging and everyone is fighting for their lives.  Well, everyone who has lived thus far…

Matt says: We learn in this episode that Boyd is insane in the Membrane and he made Caroline an offer she that couldn’t refuse.  Also Dollhouse is going out kicking and screaming.  But I think they went a bridge too far by jumping to 2020.  That was just dumb.  Should have ended when they blew up the Dollhouse.  Goodnight everyone, Elvis has left the building.  The end and have a nice day.  I must stop now as I am past my cliche limit.

Heroes 2.15 “Pass/Fail”

Sylar shows up at college to “learn” from Claire. He somehow lures her to an empty classroom and proceeds to make a comparison list of their lives via the chalkboard. Really? Now Claire has to attend Sylar-class? While Sylar is too busy monologuing and analyzing Claire, she stabs him with a pencil in the eye and escapes. After faking to kidnap her roommate Gretchen, Sylar takes on Gretchen’s visage to get close to Claire and figure out how to win friends and influence people. Once the grasshopper has learned his/her lesson (who was the padawan here?), Sylar reveals himself and takes off to leave Claire with Gretchen and their latent lesbian tendencies. But the best part of all this is when Claire calls Sylar Emo… He is totally Emo right now, and quite frankly, it is getting boring. He used to be a mass murderer and now he’s a philosopher/matchmaker?

Hiro is busy with his self analysis / trial that is going on in his head while he is unconscious and possibly dying. (yeah, right. No one ever dies on this show. I am still waiting for Nathan to re-emerge …zombie Nathan anyone?) He finds himself pitted against his arch enemy Adam Monroe in a sword fight to defend his honor and his life. His father acts as judge to this trial and his mommy comes out of the mist to heal him. Yeah, yeah… he wins, he lives…woopie.

But worst of all this week was Samuel. His mushy gushy courting of his childhood sweet heart was just too syrupy sweet, and when she turned him down his childish temper tantrum was too predictable.

Matt says:  NOOOOOOOOOOOO…..Hiro starring is his own version of Defending Your Life.  He is guilty and sentenced to death…Yeaaaaah.  Then he was 10 feet from walking into the light and disappearing FOREVER.  But no, his ghost mom saves his ass.  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, damn you ghost mom, damn you.  Sylar sends Claire a friend request but she declines so they must have a “share their feelings” moment to get past their problems.  Really! Thought I was watching a Lifetime movie instead of Heroes.  Samuel really, really, really needs a girlfriend or he is going to explode.  Try eharmony dude.  Instead he just goes crazy.  Man this show really needs to learn how to write bad guys.

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 no V,  Flashforward, Stargate Universe, Vampire Diaries, or Supernatural.

Dollhouse 2.11 “Getting Closer”

The grand plan is to imprint Echo with her oringinal persnoanlity Caroline, only when they get ready to add another personality to chorus that lives in her head, they find the wedge is missing.  Duhn duh duh…  A few flashbacks of Bennet and Caroline in college later, we learn the reason behind Bennet’s animosity towards Caroline.  And I gotta tell ya, I don’t really know what her problem is.  Caroline was just trying to keep Bennett out of trouble.

Paul and Victor go to kidnap Bennett and coerce her into repairing Caroline’s damaged wedge when Paul sees November in the DC house.  So he liberates November and Bennett.  When they get back, they learn that Dr. Saunders is back.  Boyd has been hiding her at his house and cozying up to her nicely.  Boyd comes back to the house with Dr Saunders and gets shot defending Adele.    Boyd takes off and leaves Dr Saunders in the dollhouse.  Just when Bennett is finally about to fix the wedge, Dr Saunders comes  along and puts a bullett her head!  WHAT?  Dr Saunders shot Bennett. OMIGOD. Did that just happen?  But wait, there’s more…

The house is under attack and being evacuated.  All of the dolls get out and Echo is in the chair, about to be shot, when none other than Boyd steps in to save her.  Boyd, who has evidently been much more than head of security, he has been running the show since day one.  WOW!

Matt says: Holy jaw-dropping Batman, Dollhouse had 2 legitimate WTF moments.  I just can’t believe that the Terminator finally got terminated.  I am still in shock that Dr. Saunders took out Bennett in the Dollhouse war.  I almost felt sorry Topher, almost but not quite.  Once you think about what happened, it makes the second revaluation less surprising.  Boyd Langton is ultimate bad guy.  Really! Joss Whedon is pullin’ out all of the stops and going for broke.  I can honestly say I have no idea where this show going but I know it’s going to a fun ride.

Fringe  2.11 “Unearthed”

So this was the missed episode that should have aired during the first season and you can tell. A simple monster of the week type episode that left us saying “so what, let’s get back to the good stuff!”

A teenage girl named Lisa suffers from an aneurism and dies. At the exact same moment, an ex-navy service man is murdered. As her organs are about to be harvested she wakes up spouting alpha numeric codes that mean nothing to her. (Wow, how terrible would that be?!?!)

The Fringe team is called in to investigate and Walter immediately figures out that Lisa is housing 2 different consciousnesses, her own and Andrew Rusk’s.  When they finally figure out how to kick Andrew’s consciousness out of her body, it is too late. He has taken control of her body and is about to use Lisa to kill his wife. (To be fair, she did have him killed first. But then he was a huge jerk who beat on her, so I maybe they are even.) Peter shows up in time to jump in the middle of things and almost gets himself shot. Good thing Charlie shows up with his tranquilizer gun and shoots Lisa before she can shoot Peter with her real gun! See, now don’t you all miss Charlie!?!?

Matt says: Lost episode?  Come on, whatever.  It was like a bad horror movie plot with the stupid bad guy comes back to life ending.  But, it was nice to see Charlie again and makes me realize what guts it took to kill off such a beloved character.

Heroes 2.14 “Close to you”

This episode is apparently all about bridges. They keep repeating this theme throughout the episode. Burning bridges, building bridges, crossing bridges, painting bridges…um, maybe I went a little too far.

Parkman is back and he brought his strange mind control face with him. Seriously, have you ever noticed the odd face he makes and how they zoom in on him when he is reading peoples minds or trying to control them? That is freaky enough, without his whining and wanting to get back to cooking his ratatouille.

HRG drags Parkman away from his cooking to help him chase down Samuel’s girlfriend.  They try to use her as bait to find the carnival. Only it backfires in their faces and she gets abducted by Samuel leaving HRG and Parkman bumbling around like a couple of lost kids. There goes one of those bridges…

HRG spends the rest of the episode trying to make up with Claire, though I am not really all that sure of what he did that was so wrong… so now he is trying to rebuild bridges he burned in the last episode…

Peter is hanging out with Emma cause she used her siren song to call him to her.  Angela shows up and is like “dude, where did you meet this girl” in her own rude way.  So Emma leaves and Angela explains to Peter that she dreamed Emma was going to kill thousands of people.   Peter wanted to know why so he took his mother’s power.  Still on that quest for lamest power ever, huh Peter? Perhaps Peter is trying to “bridge” the gap between he and his mother…

Hiro and Ando are bumbling around a mental institution.  Hiro gets himself committed so he can free Dr. Suresh (whom he is calling Watson. whatev!)  Ando pulls a classic comedic, “oops I swallowed a tranquilizer pill” and ends up locked in closet playing with his red lightning power.   They end up escaping the mental ward and Suresh has the idea that Ando should use his red lightning to administer shock treatment to Hiro and cure him.  Shockingly it works (pun intended) and they teleport out of trouble.  Too bad there were no bridges to cross on their run through the woods.

Matt says: This was a double annoying episode with both Hiro and Parkman featured.  Man, I hate both characters and having them in the same episode is like a double dose of Kryptonite.  It was funny to watch HRG and Parkman race around in a SUV like Jack Bauer chasing down terrorists.  As with every episode, nothing is accomplished and the characters end up back at square one.  Wow, HRG is in the doghouse with his daughter.  Shocker!  Claire’s mood changes from episode to episode, first I love you dad then I hate you then I love again.  Got it! Boring! Does this show ever move forward?

And here’s a little teaser for next week… George Takei is back!

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 no V, Fringe, Flashforward, Heroes, Stargate Universe, Vampire Diaries, or Supernatural. Not much too watch this week, but atleast we still have super-charged dollhouse episodes to entertain us!

Dollhouse 2.9 “Stop Loss”

Victor’s contract is up and he is leaving the dollhouse and his love Sierra behind. Before he signed up with the Dollhouse, Victor was a soldier named Anthony. Just when he finally makes himself comfortable and locates a confined space to sleep in (the bathtub) a bunch of dudes in black ninja-like outfits break into his hotel room and kidnap him. They are trying to recruit him into their super top secret elite force of soldiers who can communicate with each other by thought. They all function using a “group mind”. Sounds like they are being absorbed into the Borg collective to me. And that is kind of what it is. Itis a Rossum secret project called mind whisper.

Boyd sends Echo out with Sierra in tow to free Victor from the collective. Apparently Echo is the only one who can do anything on this show anymore, since she has like 40 people in her head. Talk about personality disorder. Anyway, Echo plugs herself into the collective and her 40 personalities overpower the others and she orders them all to go home. Freeing Victor to be with his love Sierra.

But not so fast. She tries to let them go but all 3 of them get remote wiped. Adele has been drunk most of the episode, but she sobered up just in time to recapture her actives and prepare them for the attic.

Dollhouse 2.10 “The Attic”

Finally, we get to see what the attic is!

Echo is living her worse nightmare inside her own mind. Remember the old head of security, Dominic? Well, he is still in the attic and somehow he has found a way to move into other peoples nightmares. He saves Echo from someone who calls himself Arcane. A dark menace who targets newbies to The Attic and tries to kill them inside their nightmares.

Now Dominic and Echo are traveling from mind to mind piecing together what is happening to them while thier bodies lie dormant in The Attic. Luckily the find Sierra and Victor and team up to catch Arcane. Only Arcane is an illusion. He is really Clyde, a scientist from London who helped create the very technology that holds them prisoner. But he has a lot of answers.

Turns out it is just a large mainframe that runs off of human brains (the most powerful computers). They keep the brains running on high adrenaline to keep them powerful and running strong enough to keep the mainframe going. The only way out is if you flat-line, the system disengages and then you have to be brought back to escape. If anyone can accomplish this, Echo can. Victor and Sierra follow suit, by killing themselves in their minds and Echo is there to revive them.

Mean scary Adele is not as bad as we think. She actually planted Echo into the Attic to try and figure out the system so they could bring it down, along with Rossum. Oh, and while all this was going down, Topher has loaded Paul with active architecture and remapped his brain. Boyd and Topher decided to replace part of his brain to make this work and to get around the damaged part of his brain. They keep eluding to what they had to take away from him and what he has lost, but we still don’t know what that is. It can’t be good. Damn this show is good now.

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 no V, Flashforward, Heroes, Stargate Universe, Vampire Diaries, or Supernatural.

Fringe 2.10 “Grey Matters”

Crazy people in mental institutions are suddenly showing up sane. Yes, you heard me right.  I said SANE.  One of the frozen heads has been reattached to a body and he is now running around performing impromtu brain surgeries on unsuspecting mental patients curing them of thier ailments.  Turns out he is removing a piece of another brain from thier own.  This foreign brain tissue was causing thier madness and causing them to experience someone elses memories.  Who’s memories could they be?  You guessed it.   The pieces of brain matter that have been implanted into the patients came from Walter’s brain.  They house his memories and these people have been acting as incubators for Walters memories until they were liberated by the frozen head.

And what does this mad neurosurgeon want with the pieces of Walter’s brain?  He wants to reconnect the tissue with Walter so that Walter will remember how to open the window to the other side.   So he abducts Walter and gets what he wants, and he gets away from the Fringe team by using Walters life against them.  Olivia has to let the frozen head go to save Walter’s life.

You might be wondering who took these pieces from Walter’s brain in the first place… It was his old friend William Bell.  And I just realized that if you haven’t been watching this show, you would have no idea what the heck I am talking about.  Frozen heads?

Matt says: Another wacky and entertaining show from the Fringe Division.  Only on Fringe can they get away with a storyline that involves an alias head that can bring on the apocalypse and brain matter being used as ROM.  This one freaky show but I love it.  I like how they finally explained Walter’s mental issues and why he went insane in the membrane.  This gives a good explanation as to why he can’t remember certain things.  Anytime Leonard Nemoy in on screen, it is just great and he is perfect for this role.

Dollhouse 2.7 “Meet Jane Doe” and 2.8 “A Love Supreme”

2.7 “Meet Jane Doe”: Echo has gone Hobo…She is wondering the streets aimlessly eating out of dumpsters when she decides to help a woman who is starving by stealing food from the grocery store.  Unfortunately, the woman gets arrested and Echo gets away, leaving the poor starving woman in jail.    Flashforward to 3 months later… Echo is a nurse.  How in the sam hell did that happen?  Any way, she appears to be a nurse, but turns out she is working undercover, training and shacking up with Paul.  Boyd is apparently in on it too.  They only one who dosen’t know that Echo has been found is Adele who is still reeling from loosing control of her house.

Topher has invented a device that will remote wipe and imprint anyone, anywhere. Even if they aren’t a doll.  When he tells Adele about it, he thinks his discovery is safe.  But little does he know that Adele is about to hand the plans over to Harding (the new evil boss) just to get her job back.  Who is evil now?

Adele goes crazy with power after she gets her house back.  Echo and Paul return to the dollhouse. Is that such a good decision?

2.8 “A Love Supreme”

So now Echo has gone crazy… or atleast Adele is treating her like she has.  Echo is isolated and wearing a straight jacket.  Topher learns how special Echo is, so now Adele truly is the only one left out in the cold.  But, there is a good reason for that.  She is crazy with the power!

Echo is back in business and when she goes out to “service” a repeat customer, she finds him dead.  Seems all of her old customers with a romantic engagement are turning up dead.  That is because Alpha’s back!  And he is leaving clues for the doll house with the bodies.  The dollhouse gets to Joel (one of Echo’s clients) before Alpha does and tries to protect him inside the confines of the house.  But, the security of the Dollhouse is no match for Alpha.  He breaks in and employs the classic bait and switch.  Using Joel as bait, when he is after Echo’s real love, Paul Ballard.  Alpha leaves Paul brain dead and now Echo is trying to find a way to save him.

Matt says:  As my wife would say, “What the what?”  The first episode was OK but seemed to get a little sidetracked.  But at the beginning of the second episode the show just rebooted itself and is moving at warp speed.  I have never seen that happen before and I guess that is point where the writers discovered the show was canceled.  Seriously, if you missed the whole “3 months later” message then you are lost for good. Dollhouse has been a slow series to develop, not anymore.  The producers are cramming as much storyline in as they can get anyway with in each and every minute.  I do like Echo having the ability to recall any one of her personalities.  I was kinda sad to see Alpha mind wipe Helo…errrr…Ballard.  There is way too much process right now but I can say that I am enjoying the show more now and even look forward to watching it every week.

Dexter 4.12 “The Getaway”

As season finale’s go, this one was a doozy!  After being outed by Arthur Miller (Trinity) Dexter follows him from the police station in the hopes of getting him alone and ending this charade once and for all.  He is careless and while weaving in and out of traffic, he knocks off a guys side mirror.  As he is in pursuit of Trinity he keeps right on going, tracking him down, knocking him out and hiding his money and identification, while the guy with a broken side mirror has tracked him down.   Forcing him to leave a sleeping Trinity in the back of his van as the cops haul him off to the slammer. Just like a man, he let his temper get in the way of the big picture.  Now look at the trouble he has gotten himself into.

Deborah finds out that her dad was sleeping with Laura Moser, mother of  her former fiance’, aka The Ice Truck killer.  After some googling, she also figures out that Dexter was also a Moser.  Lucky for Dexter, she dosen’t know that he already knew and his secret is still safe.

When Dexter’s wife sprung him from his cell, he rushed back to the van where he left Arthur, only to find him missing.  Arthur was too busy terrorizing his family one last time before fleeing town.  He googled (lots of googling going on this episode) D. Morgan for Dexter’s address and went to exact some revenge.  Trinity was disappointed to discover that this D. Morgan was actually Deborah and he was in the wrong place.

Miami Metro homicide is actually still investigating the Trinity killer and they have discovered his cover of the 4 walls build sites.  They unearthed a 10 year old boy and got a photo of Trinity.  Let the man hunt begin.

Arthur repainted the Mustang and fled the city.  But crafty Dexter was right on his heels.  He sabotaged his car and when it broke down, Dexter pounced.  After a drawn out kill complete with a toy train, an old song from Arthur’s childhood playing in the background and some scary naked John Lithgow, Trinity is dead and floating in the ocean somewhere. Thank heavens I do not have to witness any more naked John Lithgow!  Dexter heads home to get his bag and fly to the keys to meet Rita for their belated honeymoon, only to find her dead in the bathtub, and the baby sitting in a pool of his mothers blood, just as Dexter had been found.  Trinity got his revenge after all, and I was left dumbfounded!  Holy Crap!  That is just so wrong on so many levels!  I guess that is what makes this show great! Expect the unexpected.

Matt says:  Holy crap Batman, that ending just blew my mind.  I never guessed the producers would go that in direction.  Rita has not been a favorite character of mine but man, oh, man to go out like that.  Dexter is going to be in a world of hurt next year.  Overall, season four was absolutely incredible, I would rank it behind Season two which was possibly one the best seasons of a TV series EVER!.  They hit the themes pretty hard in finale.  Can Dexter control the demon? Can Dexter succeed where Trinity failed? Will the Dark Passenger win? I guess we will never know as the Dark Passenger will be going off the tracks next year.  Probably the most powerful images of the finale was when Trinity’s family is being lead away by the police and Dexter imagines that it was his family.  WOW.  Just an incredible show.  Man I can’t wait for next season to see what happens to Dexter and his killin’ clothes.

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 no V, Heroes, Vampire Diaries, or Supernatural.

Flash Forward 1.10 “A561984”

Agent Benford and Agent Noh head to China despite direct orders from Wedeck  They are hunting down the woman who predicted Agent Noh’s murder.  When they finally find her, having a lovely dinner with her body guards, they threaten her until she gives them more information about the facts surrounding Demetri Noh’s untimely death.  Only, they really don’t want to hear this news, since she tells them that Mark is going to kill his partner and friend Demetri with his gun.  She has seen the serial number of his service piece in her flash forward.  Mark goes crazy and tries to take her hostage, but he dosen’t get very far before he is stopped by the CIA.  Wedeck is so angry, he breaks his flat screen tv… dude! you don’t just throw stuff at your flat screen!  Mark gets fired over the phone.

Meanwhile Lloyd Simcoe is making a mess of things, he held a press conference to tell the world that he and Simon are responsible for the blackout.  This does not go over well, and people everywhere are looking to kill him.   He goes to the hospital to have his son moved to a secure facility and is met with much resistance.  Only Olivia will help him.  When she finally gets an ambulance to come and pick up Dylan and Lloyd, the drivers turn kidnappers and take off with Lloyd in the back.  Olivia is left shocked with a very upset Dylan.

Simon tried to do some damage control but when that didn’t work, he went to the FBI.  Now he appears to be helping Wedeck find out who make the Plasma Afterburner, which he claims to have designed.  D Gibbons, suspect #1, shows up in Nhadra Udaya’s house (the woman in China).  And just what is the connection there?  And Janis is up to some very important business.  Finding the best fertility clinic. Okay then.

Matt says: What I learned from this episode is that China has some rally big TV’s on the outside of their buildings.  Beyond that the whole plot line on the China adventure was just plain stupid.  Agent Benford kidnaps the women in front of her bodyguards and then is surrounded by police.  Really! What was your endgame here?  He is lucky not to be dropped down a black hole and forgotten.  Actually, that may have been better for the show overall.  There is a ray sunshine that did come out this episode, Simon Campos joining up the FBI.  This could potentially be an interesting pairing and provide some explanation as to what is what is going on.  The other shocker was that this show is on hiatus until March 2010.  I will continue to watch it when returns but it is on a very short leash.  There had better tighten up their story lines and work on making their characters more interesting or this show will not see 2011.

Fringe 2.9 “Snakehead ”

Some totally gross parasitic worms have nested in a boat full of people coming to America on a cargo ship.  The Fringe team finds them hatched and exiting their incubators via the mouth. Large squid-like worms burst free, and Dr.Che takes in the afflicted under the guise of helping them.  When the parasite hatches, he dissects them and harvests a strange gland.

Walter managed to get his hands on one of the worms and is studying it.  When he figures out the worm has a drug like excretion, he goes to China town in search of herbalists who may use this excretion for medicinal purposes.  Trying to be independent, he ventures off by himself.  Astrid follows him and ends up loosing him in busy China town.  When she returns to the lab, she is attacked by members of an Asian gang and the worm is stolen.

Olivia and Peter are investigating the home of one of the senders of a wire transfer that they traced to the gang operation.  They find that the house is locked up tight and there is hand sanitizer everywhere.  The house of  a supposed germaphobe.   This leads to an investigation that reveals people are paying for the excretions of the gland from the worm which acts as a super immunity  boosting enzyme.  Saving people with immune deficiencies by implanting it directly into their spleen.

Luckily, the Fringe team dispenses with the good Dr. Che and the whole worm operation ceases to a grinding halt.

Matt says:  Another good episode.  Again, Fringe has successfully transformed this show beyond the plot.  The characters are the most fascinating items and continually amaze me how much I tend to care what happens to them.  The whole Bishop father – son dynamic is very touching.  If John Noble is not up for Emmy then I will be amazed.  The show continues to be the best on TV.

Dollhouse 2.5 “The Public Eye” & 2.6 “The Left Hand”

“The Public Eye” – Madeline aka November has decided to come out to the world about the Dollhouse via press conference with Senator Daniel Perrin. Adelle and the staff of the Dollhouse come to the conculsion that the Senators wife is a doll.  In order to get the Senator off of thier backs, they send Echo to his hotel room where she drugs him and makes him think he slept with a hooker.  When the Senator tries to tell his wife about the “hooker”  Echo convinces him that he is the doll and they both go off the grid.

Topher devises a disruptor that will stop a doll in their tracks.  Cynthia (the senators wife and handler) gets hold of the disruptor and captures both Perrin and Echo.  She whisks them off to the DC branch where they will be reprogrammed.  Only Echo is in for a little more as she is faced with the DC version of Topher Brink, and her name is Bennett Halverson.  Turns out Bennett doesn’t care much for Echo, and now she has her strapped to her table… uh oh…

“The Left Hand” - Out to get back their disruptor and their doll, Topher and Adelle travel to DC.  Topher meets who he thinks is his perfect woman in Bennett only to find out that she is certifiable.  Sure, she is hottie with a seriously smart brain, a dead arm and some librarian glasses, but she is also over the edge crazy!  The Senator and Echo escape the DC Dollhouse but Bennett has a little surprise for Echo.  She has downloaded an assassin imprint into the senator.  When Topher finds out her secret, he knocks her out with a quick punch to the melon, and disables the Senator.  Topher was able to hack into Bennett’s system with a little help from… well himself.  He was able to work from both locations by implanting himself into Victor.  Which was hilarious!  You can never have too many Tophers running around.  Before he could be disabled, the assasin Senator killed his handler Cynthia but Echo managed to fend him off and escape.

Echo is running free, while November has been recaptured and is currently being reprogrammed in the DC Dollhouse.  The Senator was captured and reprogrammed to fall right back in line.  At the Senate hearing, he refuted the existence of the Dollhouse completely.

Matt says: Where the flip has this show been?  A great episode before the hiatus and now two more solid episodes.  Next weeks trailer also has up my anticipation of this show.  The war among the Dollhouses came out left field but it is a great plot line and should prove interesting.  Summer Glau is great again as the nerdy programmer with a slight psycho edge.  Echo is free and on the run.  This show has me excited all over again.  I can’t believe that I am thinking this but I am kinda sorry it was canceled.  Damn you, Joss Whedon, damn you!  You made me like Dollhouse again.

Stargate Universe 1.10 “Justice”

Sergeant Spencer has been shot and killed.  An investigation insues to find his murderer, and it was determined that he was murdered because the gun is missing.  Anyone who is a suspect cannot search the quarters of the occupants of the ship. Only those with alibies.  Eli and Lt. Scott commence searching the quarters as they were playing poker at the time of the shooting with several other witnesses.  When they get to Col. Young’s room, Eli sees something in the air vent.  Ta Da… The murder weapon.  Now Col. Young is the main suspect and he gives up command to Camille Wray, the HR specialist on the ship.

Dr Rush takes advantage of this regime change to get Wray to let him experiment with the chair.  He takes a team with him and they work in shifts. One of the members of the team decides to try out the chair, thinking it is the only way to find out how to get home.  The information download is too much for him and he is now in a catatonic state.

Meanwhile, Eli is checking the footage from the Keno to see if there is any information as to who killed Sgt. Spencer.  When he finds some missing footage, he goes to the back up that he keeps on this laptop.  Spencer wasn’t murdered, he killed himself.  But where is the gun?

The away team has found a old spaceship on the surface of the planet they are exploring.  Dr Rush is called to come and investigate.  Col Young follows.  While on the planet, Col. Young confronts Rush about the fact that he planted the gun in his quarters.  When Rush admits to the deception, a brawl ensues and Col Young kicks Rush’s ass!  While he deserved a good ass kickin’, I am not sure he deserved what happened next.  Col Young left him there… On that planet…. all alone…. Dude!  That is HARSH!

Matt says: Finally, I believe the game changer has arrived.  This was a pretty hum-ho episode until ending.  Dr. Rush is left behind on a alien planet.  Uh oh, he is going to be pissed but luckily he has an alien spaceship nearby.  I hope the show follows Dr. Rush and how he escapes from the planet and hopefully meets up with some alien races.  I am going to love it when Dr. Rush and Colonel Young meet up again.  It won’t be pretty.

Dexter 4.9 “Hello, Dexter Morgan”

Batista is questioning Christine, trying to get her to give up the identity of the Trinity killer.  But she is holding strong.  Arthur calls Dexter to find out why someone who stopped a kidnapping wouldn’t go to the police with the kidnappers identity.  Dexter er…. I mean….Kyle… claims he want money, when we all know that Dex just wants the kill for himself.  Trinity is out chasing down all of the Kyle Butlers in the phone book looking Dex, planning to kill him.  One Kyle is very unlucky and runs into Arthur while he is trying to break into his home.  When he threatens to call the police, he disposes of him.  Guess which favorite blood guy gets called in to work the scene?  Thinking ahead, Dexter sets a trap at the other Kyle Butlers residence, but he misses Trinity.  Now Trinity knows that his name really isn’t Kyle Butler.

Dexter tries to set up another suspect as the Trinity killer to get the cops to back off of their investigation.  Dexter still wants to kill Arthur himself and he wont get the chance if the police find the real killer.  Christine who was released from custody, calls Deborah to come over after she has an especially disconcerting phone conversation with her daddy, Arthur.  Christine decides to confess to the shooting and just when you think she is going to give up the name of her Daddy, the Trinity Killer, she goes and shoots herself. UGH!

Arthur has a thing or two up his sleeve too.  He calls Dexter from the arcade where he abducted the boy.  Dexter takes the bait and goes to the arcade in search of Arthur.  Only Arthur is lying in wait, and he follows Dexter back to the office.  He gets by security and finds Dexter sitting right in his lab.  He just walked right in, past all those detectives.  Really?  Now he knows Dexter’s name, now he knows where he works.  He can find Dexter and hurt him or worse, Arthur can find his family.  Now Dexter really had to kill Arthur, and he better make it fast!  Gawd… I love this damn show!  Too bad there is only 1 episode left for the season!

Matt says: Wow, when this show is good, it is very good.  Things are getting pretty tight for Dexter, who is going to get Trinity first, he or Deb?  I also love Trinity turning Terminator by using a phonebook (do people still use those?) to hunt down Kyle Butler.  But Trinity is not as good as Arnold and stops after one.  Dexter’s interior monologue usually provides a chuckle or two, my favorite line was “Love thy neighbor….bullshit”.  The last line of show was absolutely chilling, “Hello, Dexter Morgan”.  Man I cannot wait for next week.

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 Fringe, Supernatural and Vampire Diaries were all repeats.

Flash Forward  1.5 “Gimme Some Truth”

The Agents are in DC trying to get approved for more funding. The congress is making them jump through hoops, even going so far as forcing them to submit for lie detector tests. Agent Wedeck is buddies with the president and gets offered the position of director of homeland security. Unfortunately, he has to turn it down when Senator Clemente gives him a hard time and denies his funding. Agent Wedeck has to use extreme measures and bribe the president to get what he wants, therefore giving up his chance at working in the White House. And when he finds out that Agent Benford’s flashforward is a haze because he had been drinking, he is sorry he went to such lengths.

We find out Agent Janis Hawk is a lesbian but this relationship dosen’t even last the whole episode. After she broke up with her girlfriend, Agent Hawk is shot as she is walking down the street. OMG, WHAT?

Meanwhile, the Agents in DC are involved in a shoot out with a van full of people. First the van rams their car and then they are getting shot at. Not good!

While everyone’s lives hang in the balance, some idiot texts Olivia to tell her Mark was drunk in his flash forward. First of all, Text on TV is HUGE. I wish my phone had those huge letters when people text me. Secondly, who sends anonymous texts? I mean, seriously. Who would tattle on Mark to Olivia to help the break up of their marriage? Not cool man, not cool!

There was no Lloyd Simcoe sighting this entire episode. Olivia must be lonely.

Matt Says: This is a What The episode.  It starts off with a loud explosion then back tracks to the event leading up to it.  Senate hearings over funding?  Come on! If the President arranged the hit on the Flashforward crew then why did he appoint the barracuda as his VP?  I am still on the fence about this show but it needs to pick a direction and move forward.

Stargate Universe 1.5 “Light”

The ship is still powerless and flying straight for the star. Colonel Young decides to have a lottery to determine who will board the shuttle and who will have to stay behind. One Pilot, the Medic and 15 other people get to flee the doomed ship while the others are left aboard. There are no real inhabitable planets nearby and the best one is a frozen tundra type planet (which we labeled Hoth). No one is looking forward to trying to survive on that rock!

The ship approaches the star and to everyone’s surprise the ship regains full power and does not break apart or melt, no one dies. Everything is actually back to normal. Now, we only have to get those people in the shuttle to come back, but since the Destiny is on it’s own auto pilot, the crew can’t stop it and the ship is moving too fast for the shuttle to intercept. Dr Rush comes up with a “slingshot around the planet” theory which allows the shuttle to build up speed and meet up with the Destiny. Yay, everyone is saved and back on the ship. Everything is back to normal, even Rush’s cranky attitude. Boy, nothing is easy for these poor people.

Matt says: OK episode, I called at the beginning of last episode that the Destiny would have to fly through the sun to recharge the power systems.  I do enjoy this show as it is the only Sci-Fi show on TV and has huge potential but I would like to see the creators take some chances and push the story line a bit.

Dollhouse 2.4 “Belonging”

This episode is the story of how Sierra came to the dollhouse. A rich and powerful man named Nolan wanted her, but when she refused and later ended up in a mental facility, he had her taken to the dollhouse. Now she is the perfect girlfriend. He can just pay the dollhouse to send her over for a night of nookie and send her back without having to actually have a relationship or worry about her actually liking him. Wow, I guess that is having your cake and eating it too. Only, it will never last.

Topher actually feels sorry for Sierra because she is scared of the man who hires her regularly. The next time Nolan hires her for good, Topher sends her out with her real consciousness and she ends up killing Nolan. Topher runs over to help and Boyd shows up! Thank goodness, because Boyd takes charge of the situation. Boyd’s got skills! Was he in the mob or something? Because he’s got tools in his car that people use to dispose of bodies and he jumps right into action. Topher has to help “clean up” and Sierra gets to return to the dollhouse and have her brain wiped. Lucky Sierra, she kills a guy and gets to move on without the remorse, Topher has to live with what he has done.

Matt says: Shame this show is going on hiatus for a month and comes back until it runs out of episodes then it is bye-bye.  The reason it is a shame was that this was the first episode in a long time that was really darn good.  It started off the normal slut for hire but then slip into questions of moral ambiguity and sacrifice.  Wow, never thought it had it in you to actually question is this right?  Too little, too late.  And Summer Glau is back just in time to Terminate another show.  Just kidding…don’t hurt me.

Dexter 4.5 “Dirty Harry”

So Super Agent Lundy is dead. Deborah is wounded and taken to the hospital, but she lives. Deborah is feeling guilty for Lundy’s death, she admits to Anton that she cheated on him and she breaks up with him. So yesterday she had 2 men, now she has none. Not good! Especially since she spends the rest of the episode blaming herself for Lundy’s death and being seriously depressed. Poor Deborah.

Rita gets nosy and answers Dexter’s cell phone to find that there is a leak in his apartment. Say what? Dexter is still holding onto his apartment? Well, we knew that, but Rita didn’t and now she is ticked off! So mad in fact that she just tells Dexter to sleep in his apartment for the night. Lucky for him, this gives him free reign to chase after Trinity. No explanations needed.

Dexter is out for revenge and has come to the conclusion that Trinity shot his sister. Trinity is out hammer shopping at the local hardware store for his upcoming bludgeoning. Dexter investigates Trinity and tries to stop this unknown killer from murdering his next victim, only he is too late. Dexter watches Trinity bludgeon a proprietor of a coffee shop via the buildings security cameras. Since he can’t stop him from committing this murder, he decides to follow him home and surprise him. Just when he is about to stick that hypodermic needle in Trinity’s neck, Dexter discovers that Trinity is just like him. A family man, with 2 kids, a home and a wife. That is just hitting a little too close to home isn’t it?

Matt says:  Wow, this show went in a direction I didn’t expect with Trinity acting as a mirror for Dexter.  How is Trinity able to live with his Dark Passenger and maintain a family?  Dexter is about ready to go to school and learn a few things.  Nahhhh, Trinity is going on the table with a clear wrap dress.  Actually this season is turning out better than I thought and I like the direction it is going, totally unexpected.

Heroes 4.7 “Strange Attractors”

Claire is enjoying hell week er… rush week with her bff/girlfriend Gretchen. When the sorority sisters come to kidnap them Claire darn near kicks their asses. After a fun, up close and personal ride in the trunk, the girls are left in an abandoned slaughter house to find clues for a treasure that will buy them a free pass for hell week. Gretchen is almost killed twice and 2 airheads are running around the building screaming at every little thing. Claire hurts “invisible girl” and exposes her to the airheads. But she exposes herself too, since she is impaled by a piece of metal and heals immediately before their eyes.

Parkman is plagued by Sylar’s consciousness. Sylar can take control of his body. Parkman thinks he has found a way to control the Sylar side of his brain. All he has to do is drink himself into oblivion to make Sylar disappear. Or does he? When Matt passed out, Sylar takes control of his body again and now he isn’t giving it back.

Noah is trying to help Jeremy after he got arrested for killing his parents. He calls in Traci who pretends to be Jeremy’s next of kin to get him released. Traci gets a surprise visit from Samuel while waiting for Jeremy to get out of the pokey. Samuel is a man of many talents and he takes her to the carnival where he tries to convince her to bring Jeremy to live among others like himself. Oh yeah, and she can come too if she wants. When the police finally release Jeremy, a mob is waiting outside. Jeremy looses control of his anger and he kills a man who threatens him. Immediately he walks back in the jail, but Officer Gil and his redneck buddy escort him out the back door where they chain him to a car and drag him down the street. This does not make Samuel happy. Straight out of a western, Samuel walks down the main street in his boots and duster, looking totally bad ass. Only he doesn’t need a gun, he just brings a building down on those two idiots! Too bad he didn’t do that before they killed the boy.

Matt says: OK, this season is much better than last.  I think they need to stick to small stories in the future.  I enjoyed about 1/2 this show, Matt Parkman is moving into Hiro territory as characters I hate.  The whole Matt Parkman v Sylar is getting old quick and I could care less who wins. Noah is still the best character on the show and needs to become the focus.

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.

Flash Forward 1.4 “Black Swan”

A guy called Ned Ned saves a lady from drowning in a bus just after the black out. What he can’t figure out is why in his flashforward he is a black man rocking leather pants in a club. Ned Ned confeses his top 3 fears: leather pants, clowns and escalators. I mention this because Ned Ned is not alone. Clowns are freaking scary and also are one of my top fears. (shudder) About a month after the blackout, Ned Ned shows up in Olivia’s hospital. He has pain and thinks he may have injured himself in the rescue attempt. Olivia’s colleague Dr Bryce Varney discovers that Ned has Addison’s disease which explains why he saw himself as a black man in his flash forward. Addison’s disease increases melanin. Olivia dosen’t want to believe that the future is set because her marriage has fallen apart, so she dismisses Bryce’s diagnosis and almost kills Ned Ned. Bad Olivia!

No wonder she is so edgy about it all. Everytime she turns around Lloyd Simcoe shows up. He is always there, even in her flash forward…. Always there….. kinda creepy! Guess who isn’t always there…Her husband Mark Benford.

Mark is usually traveling, trying to figure out what caused the blackouts. This time it is off to India… Well we thought they said India, but after much speculation and some rewinding we discover that they are only traveling to Indio CA. Which makes way more sense when you take into account the jive talking pot dealer they capture and question…Yo… When the pot dealer…not weapons dealer… drops his pimp necklace, Agent Benford gets distracted and gets jumped by the wanna be hash dealer…Yo.

There was a lot of silliness in this episode. Weird Jazz music, bad jokes and strange goofy pot dealers. At one point Olivia calls Mark the Shakespeare of cheesy dad humor. So now we are drawing lame parallels to Joseph Fiennes’ movie career?

Matt says: What’s up with the music in this show?  It didn’t match the action on screen at all and was very strange.  I have to say that this is the first time I have ever watched a action chase scene set to jazz music…it just didn’t work and needs to stop.

Fringe 2.5 “Dream Logic”

People’s nightmares are coming to life. But only people with sleep disorders. Only people who are enrolled in a sleep study and have decided to let a Dr. implant a chip in their heads.. ‘Cause that sounds normal. Sure just implant a strange chip in my head to make me sleep better and chase those bad dreams away. There is no way anyone would use this technology for evil…..

Olivia is asking everyone she sees for their business cards. Seems like a weird OCD thing going on, but infact Sam assigned this task to her. He asked her to get a business card from everyone she sees who is wearing red. Then she is supposed to circle the first and last letter of their names and play word jumble until she reads what she wants to read. HUH?

Agent Kashner is this weeks redshirt. He has to baby-sit Walter and gets duped into being Walter’s test subject. Poor Agent Kashner.

Turns out the Dr running the sleep study was stealing his patient’s dreams. But was pretty convincing as the innocent Doc because he had a whole Jekyl/Hyde thing going on.

Matt says: Another stellar episode from the best show on TV.  I love Walter and his hatred for all things humid.

Vampire Diaries 1.6 “The Lost Girls”

This week we get to flashback to 1864, Mystic Falls VA. Just before the crazy Katherine turned Stefan and Damon into creatures of the night… Oh wait, they have rings… I forgot… Creatures of.. Creatures of…. I dunno. I guess they are vampires, kinda.

Stefan still has Damon’s ring so now he is truly a creature of the night. He can only go out and feed after the sun goes down. So he brings a toy back with him to entertain him during the day. Vicki… Damon feeds Vicki some of his blood, then kills her. Turning her into a vampire, like it is no big deal.

The grown ups use their trinkets (including the watch, which is actually some kind of vampire compass or something) to hunt down a vampire and end up injuring Stefan. Damon comes to his rescue with a whole macho “nobody kills my brother but me” kindof vibe. Stephan just gives Damon back his ring, he doesn’t even put up a fight. Yay, Damon can go out in the sun again. Woo… hoo….

Aunt Jenna dosen’t have to worry about her creepy ex-boyfriend coming around anymore because Damon killed him. But how will Elena’s brother get his watch / vampire compass back? And Elena dumps Stefan because she just can’t handle it anymore.

WHY am I still watching this show?

Supernatural 5.6 “I Believe The Children Are Our Future”

The boys head to a town where people are dying as a result of urban legends. A babysitter gets itching powder on her brush and she scratches her brains out, an electronic buzzer electrocutes a person, the toothfairy comes and pulls out all of a dad’s teeth, kids get ucers from coke and poprocks, etc. etc. etc. Something strange is happening.

Turns out there is a kid in town who believes in all of these Urban Legends and is making them come to fruition. He is so powerful, all he has to do is think something and it comes true. Who is this kid? Well, he is half demon and half human, created from a virgin birth, he is the Antichrist. And right now, he is the most wanted kid on the planet. Angels and Demons alike are hunting him. Castiel finds him and tries to kill him, only the boy turns him into an action figure. Sam and Dean reason with the kid and talk him into leaving his family for their own safety. Only he sneaks out and leaves everyone, after turning them all back to normal. Even Cas.

Funniest parts. The boys test out a joy buzzer on a ham and it cooks it through. The whole episode, Dean is eating off of this damn ham.

Dean gets a hairy palm… dude, really?

Dollhouse - preempted by baseball

Here’s something to tide you over….

Matt says: This week on Dollhouse was a very special episode in which all dolls were programed to play baseball.  Echo’s mission was to sleep her way through both teams to make them happy.  Then something weird happened to Echo’s programming and she went crazy.  Playoffs got canceled after this unfortunate incident.  Really, I was pretty happy when I thought the DVR forgot to record this show and I wouldn’t have to sit through another crappy episode.  But no, it was just preempted by Baseball.  Sigh.

Stargate Universe 1.4 “Darkness”

Dr Rush sure is a grumpy gus! He is running around the ship yelling at everyone about loosing power and stuff. Turns out he was having caffeine withdrawals… I know how you feel Dr Rush, if I don’t get my coffee in the mornings… WATCH OUT!

Dr Rush is out of commission for while and the others have to try an figure out how to get the power back. So they start looking for inhabitable planets. Now they are in trouble because their ship is heading for a sun. Uh oh. They don’t have any power to steer away from it.

Colonel Young keeps using the communication stones to report back to earth which means switching consciousness with Lou Diamond Phillips aka Colonel David Telford. Not a good idea and Colonel Telford wants Colonel Young out of there. He doesn’t feel as though he is doing a good job and uses his time on the ship to find out just exactly what is going on.

So they are stranded on a powerless ship, in the dark, heading straight for a sun. And where are the poor people who went through the stargate to the other planet 2 episodes ago? That plan is starting to look better and better.

Matt says: Good, not great episode.  They need to pick up the pace as I do not want sit through entire season of Dr. Rush fixing each and every system on the ship.  I get the point, the ship is falling apart, Danger Will Robinson, Danger; now move on to something else more interesting.

Dexter 4.4 “Dex Takes A Holiday”

Dexter’s family is going on a trip and he is home, and free! He can wear his killin’ clothes, go to his killin’ apartment, kill people. You know, visit his old hobbies before he was married with 3 kids. He’s got it made. Tracking down a dirty cop who killed her husband and little girl. Easy peasy.

What the heck is the Trinity Killer doing yelling curse words at drunk people like he suffers from turrets syndrome? He even uses the “c word” I HATE the c word! Whatever he was doing, he becomes distracted when he figures out that Agent Lundy is in town investigating him.

Angel and Lt. Laguerta come to Dexter for relationship advice…. Really? Dexter? Well, maybe Debra should see him for relationship advice too cause she cheats on Anton with Special Agent (old dude) Lundy. And as they are smooching goodbye, they both get shot! What the What? Noooooo! Not Debra!

Matt says: Dexter got a weekend at home away from the family; Matt also got a weekend at home away from the family.  Wow, art imitates life again.  No, I didn’t get to kill a psycho cop but I did go see Zombieland in my movie watchin’ clothes.  Great movie by the way.

Heroes 4.5 “Tabula Rasa”

Hiro is in the hospital because of his brain tumor. Let me tell you, Hiro in a hospital robe… not a pretty sight. Peter figures out that they need a healer to help Hiro and he absorbs Hiros teleporting power to find Noah aka HRG. Noah jumps right back into things by helping Peter find a healer. Once he finds one, Peter absorbs the Healers power and has to catch a plane back to the hospital. When he finally gets there, Hiro is gone. Seriously? Why didn’t Peter just teleport the Healer back to the hospital with him? That way he could travel fast and heal Hiro. Also why is it that sometimes Peter touches people and gets their powers and sometimes he touches them and doesn’t. Seems like Peter only absorbs powers when it is convenient for the story line.

Sylar is still trying to find himself, again. The Carnies are pushing him towards remembering who he really is. Why on earth would anyone want Sylar to remember who he really is. Especially if you have powers! He will just slice open your melon and steal your powers! Seriously! C’mon people use your heads! Sylar remembers who he is and what he has done and gets baptized into the carnie family. Weird. Why do you have to get carnie baptized?

Also Samuel sets things up so that Sylar has the opportunity to kill the cop that was after him. Only he chickens out and superfast knife guy (Edgar) has to come and clean up the mess. Superfast knife guy is also Superfast jealous knife guy, cause Sylar and Lydia are hitting it off.

Matt says: Believe or not, this is the second episode in a row that I enjoyed.  Will miracles never cease.

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.

Flash Forward 1.2 “White to Play”

The new playground game that is sweeping the nation is “black-out”. All the kids lay on the ground for 2 mins 17 seconds and pretend they flashed forward. Kinda creepy…

Did Cameron from Ferris Bueller’s day off just make a cameo appearance?

Agent Mark Benford is unraveling some of his clues from his vision. D. Gibbons person of interest is actually a lady who bakes cupcakes, but it turns out someone has a clone of her credit card and is using it in a place called Pigeon, UT. He travels there with Agent Noh and tracks the card user to an abandoned doll warehouse. Can I just say, dismembered doll parts are creepy… oh and dolls hanging from the ceiling by their necks is creepy too!

Anyway – Dude gets away, warehouse explodes with agents inside but somehow the survive, and Agent Noh gets a little more proof that he might be dead in 6 months.

Mark and Olivia continue their angsty discussions about their relationship and poor Charlie is acting out at school because no one has even bothered to ask the little girl what she saw. Seriously bad parenting… completely selfish. On top of that, Daddy burned the friendship bracelet she made him. That is a bit harsh don’t ya think?

Matt says: I am really curious about the direction this show is going.  It is taking some aspects from novel and adding a few of their own.  Who is the mystery dude at the ballgame?  There is a whole plot behind the blackout?  Interesting…maybe they need to pull the team in from the Fringe division?

Fringe 2.3 “Fracture”

A bomb has exploded at a train station, killing innocent bystanders but apparently there is no bomb residue. This is very odd, so the Fringe team is off to investigate. There was no explosive residue because it turns out that a human was the bomb. There are little bits of crystallized human all over the scene. Walter even tastes a piece before he figures out what it is.

Project Tin Man is an abandoned military project, but not all have abandoned it. Soldiers inject themselves daily with a serum of some kind and when certain radio waves are emitted, their bodies crystallize and explode. Walter gets to put one of them back together like a puzzle. Oooh, fun!

The soldiers are sent out to intercept brief cases that are being exchanged between operatives of the alternate universe, but the case gets through when Olivia and the Fringe team save a soldiers life and keep her from exploding. The information in the case is said to be very important and could be our demise…. The information is about Walter.

Matt says: This show keeps getting better and better.  I was not sold on it about half-way through last season but now it has got me hook, line and seeker.  It is easily one of favorite shows on TV right now.  I was not really crazy about the Olivia character last year but they have made her more angsty this year and I am liking the changes.  Walter is just the best character on TV, next to Ari Gold.

Vampire Diaries 1.4 “Family Ties”

Stefan and Elena are going to the annual Founder’s Park dance and what a coincidence so is Damon and Caroline… Elena sees the first guest list to the Founder’s Park dance mounted in a frame on the wall. Noticing that Stefan and Damon Salvatore are names on the list, the brother reply with a “Oh, um, yeah. That’s not us…. Those are our……. Umm…… Ancestors…Yeah…. Right….” Ok maybe that is not exactly what they said, but it’s close enough.

Tyler actually invited Vicki to the dance but he kept her in a corner all night. Supposedly Vicki is considered “trashy”. After Vicki finally wakes up and sees Tyler for what he is, she leaves and heads over to see Jeremy. Tyler’s mom is a piece of work to, she even tells Tyler “That is what happens when you bring the trash to the party.” Nice….

Tyler’s mom is borrowing family heirlooms from Elena & Jeremy to display at the party, only Jeremy has kept one that she is desperate to get her hands on, a pocket watch that has been handed down for generations.

Elena finds Caroline’s bite marks and confronts Damon over her friend’s safety. In a rage Damon tries to kill Caroline but his strength fails him and he falls ill. Turns out Stefan has spiked Caroline’s drink with Vervain. Vervain that their living relative Zach grows in a hidden room in the basement. It reminds me of a hidden pot crop. Stefan locks Damon in the hidden room (which happens to have a really secure door) with the plants to keep him from killing others. Boy is he gonna be pissed off whenever he gets out of there!

Aunt Jenna is bitter over a man. A news reporter who apparently cheated on her when she was young, and who is now looking for a second chance. But is he what he seems to be? He is after the pocket watch. The adults who meet in secret seem to know that the Vampires are back in town and they need certain artifacts to rid the townsfolk of their evil.

Supernatural 5.4 “The End”

Dean is now in Kansas City, my home town! After talking with Sam (he calls to beg Dean to take him back) and Castiel on a cell phone (which is hilarious in itself), Dean falls asleep. Only to wake up on Aug 1 2014 in post apocalyptic Kansas City. Note to self…. Move before 2014. Things are NOT looking good around these parts.

Turns out Zachariah has thrust Dean into the near future to show him what will happen if he follows his current path and doesn’t let Michael use him as a meat suit. The Croatoan Pandemic is sweeping the world. President Palin is running the show (OH GOOD LORD!) Dean tracks Bobby to an encampment where he finds his baby…. The Impala. Only his car as seen far better days and while he is lamenting its current state, he gets knocked out, by his future self.

This near future is all turned upside down. Cas is now a hippie stoner human, Dean is using his torturing skills that he learned in Hell, and Sam… Well Sam said yes and now Lucifer is riding around in his body… or as Dean puts it…. “Lucifer is wearing you to the Prom.”

Dean 2 has found the Colt and is headed to kill Sam/Lucifer. Dean 1 goes along for the ride and ends up witnessing his own death. Sam/Lucifer snaps his neck with his ridiculous while loafer that matches his ridiculous white suit. Dean 1 mouths off to the devil cause that is just how he rolls and he is thrust back into his own time.

Zachariah is all like “now will you say yes to Michael?” and Dean is all like “Nah!” Castiel zaps him out of there and he calls Sam to meet him. They kiss and make up, and all is well in Supernatural land again. They boys are back in town.

Dollhouse 2.1 “Instinct”

Echo is a mommy in this episode. What kind of freak pays to have a doll come and be mother to his baby boy. That is too damn crazy! Topher thinks he has created a masterpiece imprint this time in that he can affect the body too. Only that comes back to bite him because Echo can’t let go of her need to protect that baby. After they play house for a while, the assignment goes wrong and the client terminates it. Echo’s mind wipe doesn’t do the trick and she is off to save what she thinks is her baby.

Hey guys, don’t fret… Even though she is suddenly a breast feeding mommy, you still get lingerie shots of Echo! Only here’s what I want to know… What new mom with a young baby wears lingerie like that? Seriously!

Matt says: I am about done with this show.  I sat through the entire first season and the first two episodes of the second season and it is not getting any better.  There is no point to the show!  I was hoping for more of a reboot in the second season but it is just more of the same and it is boring.  The big conflict is that someone is going to shut down the Dollhouse.  Big whup!  This just means that some rich guy cannot get his freak on with sexy doll.  What really pisses me off is that Fox canceled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and kept this show.  I do not expect that this show will make it to a third season, so enjoy while it lasts.

Still the best part of this show…

Stargate Universe 1.1 “Air: part 1” & 1.2 “Air: part 2”

Eli Wallace is a nerd. A nerd who graduated from MIT yet has no job and a sick mom. Perfect recruitment material for a far out military mission. Eli, solved a complex equation that was embedded in a video game and as a result is off into space helping Dr. Nicolas Rush dial the 9 chevron address on a Stargate located in an off planet military base. The base is suddenly under attack and the good Dr. Rush dials the 9 chevron address rather than earth’s address.

The crew and civilians that escape through the Stargate are now on an ancient ship traveling through the far reaches of the universe. The ship is so old, the life support is failing, the communications don’t work and the Stargate requires too much power to try dialing random addresses to find a way back home.

They all just have to find a way to survive until they can find their way home or to some other inhabitable planet. Dr. Rush seems a bit off and it is obvious he has his own agenda. You can tell he is hiding some information but we just don’t know what yet. I just hope he isn’t planning to go Full Monty on us. That would be weird.

Matt says: My opinion, excellent pilot episode.  There are some wrinkles to iron out but I like the initial direction this show is going.  It is not as good as Battlestar but the storyline has more potential.  It has sort of  a sort of Star Trek Voyager vibe mixed nicely with the Stargate universe.  It is nice to see a true Sci-Fi on TV, let’s hope it can stick around.

Dexter 4.2 “Remains to Be Seen”

Well, the car is totaled, the body is still missing and Dexter hasn’t had a wink of sleep.  Now he’s got a concussion and he can’t sleep until he is cleared by the Dr.  Paranoia is setting in and Dex is afraid he won’t find Benny(the body) before the authorities do.  It’s not in the car, its not at the crash site. Where the heck is Benny?

Debra is back to her old foul mouthed self, thank god!  She is quite possibly the best cusser I have ever seen!  That girls got real talent!

Dexter witnesses Detective Quinn skimming off the top of some evidence cash.  Quinn gets nervous that Dexter will report him.  Just last week he was a complete ass to Dexter and now he is trying to be his BFF.

John Lithgow is one creepy serial killer!  He spent this whole episode stalking his next victim.  Thank god he kept his clothes on they whole time.

Angel & Lt. Laguerta are secret lovers…yes… that damn song is running through my head now.

Matt says: Dexter is still one of favorite shows on TV and one of the best written.  I am just concerned about the plot.  We’ve covered the whole dual serial killer bit before and the whole Lundy subplot.  I am not sure I like the married with children Dexter.  But I faith in the show writers that they will ratchet up the tension and put Dexter in some very bad situations very soon.  Got a feeling Dex will need his killin’ clothes alot this season.

Heroes 4.4 “Acceptance”

Oh goodie…. Hiro is back and he is still working that ridiculous Dial-a-Hero gig.  Someone calls from the roof of his own building and is threatening to jump.  Hiro has to stop him.  Turns out, the jumper lost his job due to an indescretion at a end of year party.  He drank too much Saki, copied is bum and disgraced his family.  Hiro travels back in time to prevent the bum copying from happening, 47 times.  Finally Hiro does the unthinkable, he talks to the guy.  WOW. What a novel idea! And it actually works!  Oh and the subtitles are starting to bore me.

Angela tries to play “this is your life” with Nathan/Sylar….I mean Nylar, but it backfires.  Nylar can see the memories/images from objects just by touching them.  He sees his old girlfriend hit her head and die.  Covered up by his family, this incindent was kept secret from the girl’s mother.  Until now.  Nylar isn’t too smart and decides to tell her the truth.  As far as I can tell, Millie (the girls mother) is drunk most of the time and it is probably not a good idea to tell her “the truth”.  My theory turns out to be correct when she hires a hit on Nylar.  Shot and buried, we finally believe that we are rid of Nylar, but wait…. no…..a hand emerges from the shallow grave… its…. its…. Zombie Sylar…..AAAGGGGHHH.

Traci is having a moral delima and can’t decide if she wants her old job back as a lobbyist/hooker.  Noah/HRG is lost and dosen’t know what to do with his life, he only knows that he wants out of the Company. And Peter makes a cameo appearance, he must be too busy working his EMT gig. Then we see those carni-heroes for like 2.6 minutes.

YAWN.

Matt says: Double YAWN.  Good gawd, every time I think I can start liking this show again along comes a clunker episode.  This episode had EVERYTHING I hate about Heroes.  Hiro needs to go away, NOW.  They have totally wasted his character and turned him into a buffoon. Next to Hiro, Nathan is worst character on TV.  He is self pretentious little prig and needs to disappear.  Every week I tell my wife this last episode but I keep watching this train wreck.  We seem so far away from season 1.

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

Fringe 2.2 “Night of Desirable Objects”

This week on Fringe the team follows a lead on some disapperances in Pennsylvania.  Pennsylvania obviously dosen’t know how to hang their excessively large and imposing location signs.  They place them in the road, or in the field, or where ever.  Anyway, after carefully navigating around the most incovenient signs… we find that there is a golum like creature under the ground sucking poeple down holes and eating them..pretty much…”my precious”.

Olivia now has spidey hearing and at the end of the show she is sitting in the tub listening to the bubbles pop.  I don’t have to tell you what this actually sounds like… Her spidey hearing doesn’t kick in all the time though, or else she would have heard Peter coming up the stairs and maybe she wouldn’t have tried to shoot him in the head. hmmm?

The sheriff is named Sheriff Golightly. All I can think of is are we watching Fringe or Breakfast at Tiffany’s?

Imposter Charlie is creeping me out.  I want the real Charlie back!  Imposter Charlie goes to the “secret room” to communicate with whoever he is talking to in that alternate universe he is from.  I am seriously disturbed by the fact that their method of communication is a typewriter and a mirror.  Really? REALLY?  I mean do they even still make typewriters?  Are the people in this alternate universe so technologically naive that we have to use typewriters for Pete’s sake?

Best Walter line of the episode: “I plan to pee in 23 minutes and I will need help with my fly because my hand is numb.”

FlashForward 1.1 “No More Good Days”

FlashForward is all based on 1 event that effects everyone in the entire planet.  Everyone’s consciousness was sent 6 months into the future for 2 minutes and 17 seconds.  When everyone wakes up, there is mass hysteria.  Buildings are burning, planes are crashing, streets are full of auto collisions and there is looting going on (…only in LA).  We follow the stories of several people as the try to figure out why their future is the way it is.  Shakespeare in Love dude (Joseph Finnes) in particular is trying to figure out what his future entails. In his vision he is drinking again and we see alot of a friendship bracelet on his wrist.  I don’t know….his whole future is hinging on this friendship bracelet and when his daughter actually gives him said bracelet, he freaks out.  Poor little girl, she only wanted to give her Daddy a bracelet that she made.  GEEZ.

RaV top 10 safety tips for Flashing Forward…

1. No surfing during your FF (you will probably drown)

2. Refrain from flying on a plane or helicopter, they tend to crash when the pilot blacks out.

3.  Please exercise safe driving – otherwise all cars will be wrecked when you wake up and there will probably be some pretty angry people wanting your insurance information.

4. Do not get involved in a police chase – truthfully you should try to avoid this anyway but when you black out it just makes your wreck that much worse.

5. Avoid random office fires

6. Do not climb telephone poles – If you must climb on telephone poles, please make sure you use your safety harness.

7. If you experience something embarrassing during your flash forward (ie. sitting on the toilet, having sex with someone other than your spouse), DO NOT share your vision with others when you wake up.

8. If your child makes you a friendship bracelet and gives it to you, DO NOT freak out on them.

9. If in your FF you see someone from Lost or ER run the other way.  So far they do not seem to be having good luck with their futures.

10. If you see nothing during your FF this is not a good sign.  You are probably dead in 6 months, so you should live it up. Party hard and enjoy the short amount of time you have left.

Vampire Diaries 1.3 “Friday Night Bites

So, we are still watching 2 150+ year old vampires fight over a teenage girl.  Stefan even goes so far as to join the football team to impress her (she is a cheerleader after all) Awww, isn’t that cute?  A cheerleader and her Jock vampire boyfriend.  Well at least until she quits cheerleading and ruins the whole stigma for me.

All the football players suddenly like Stefan because he is a good wide receiver. Well of course he is, he has incredible reflexes. Even Matt kisses and makes up with Stefan. It doesn’t take much to win over some teens and Mr. Tanner (teacher and football coach)  The only one who still dosen’t like Stefan is Tyler. But Tyler is a jerk anyway.

Tyler and Jeremy are still fighting over Vicki…YAWN.

Bonnie is becoming quite interesting with her witch powers. More interesting in fact than the main character Elena.

Damon is being his usual bad boy self.  He might be bad but he is the most interesting part of this show.  He tries to kiss Elena but she is immune to his powers of suggestion.  Turns out Stefan gave her a necklace with Vervain in it which makes her immune to a vampires gaze.  And they still have those Lapis rings that allow them to be in the sun all day… what other exceptions to the vampire rules can we come up with?  I can’t seem to get use to this whole new idea of vampires functioning during the day.  The fact that they can only come out at night is part of the mystique of vampires.  Now they are just immortals who drink blood.  If you keep removing their dangerous qualities what is left?

Supernatural 5.3 “Free to Be You and Me”

Supernatural has the best music! This episodes opening song is Simple Man by Lynryd Skynryd.

The boys are still broken up and going about their own business, Apocalypse be-damned.  Dean is out hunting, Sam is working at a bar… What? Sam is wasting time working at a bar? Wussy!  Ok, say the end of the world is near but you don’t want to help fight to save it. Ok, fine. But would you spend your last days working in a bar? NO THANK YOU!

Castiel comes to Dean for help.  He needs to trap the ArchAngel Rafael who killed him…er Smote him, to find out if he knows where God is.  So they find his vessel (who is now a catatonic shell) and wait for him to return.  Rafael tells them that God is dead. huh? How’s that?  And they leave him trapped in a ring of fire. (should’a played some Johnny Cash here).

Castiel tells Dean that if Rafael escapes from the ring of fire, he will kill him again.  When Dean finds out that Cas is an Angel virgin he takes him to a strip club and tries to hook him up with a girl named Chastity. This is all too damn funny and you just have to see Cas’ face.

Sam is being visited in his sleep by his dead girlfriend Jessica, only it isn’t really Jessica…It’s Lucifer.  Lucifer informs him that he is really his chosen vessel.. NUH UH! Sam is Lucifer’s vessel and Dean is Michael’s vessel and the 2 brothers are destined to fight each other? NO WAY!

Meanwhile, some of the other hunters find Sam in his bar and learn that he actually started the Apocalypse.  They force him to drink demon blood and and go after the demons who killed their partner. Guess Sam is back on the wagon again.

Best Dean lines of the episode:

Dean kills a vampire ” Eat it Twilight!”

Dean on Castiel being killed by Rafael : “You were wasted by a teenage mutant ninja angel?”

Dollhouse 2.1 “Vows”

Um, Echo is on a job, which dosen’t require her to dress up as a dominatrix or hooker of any type.  Sorry guys… There is a shot of her in Wedding lingerie though.  Turns out Agent Ballard er.. ex Agent, is using her to get to an arms dealer he has been trying to catch for years.  I thought he liked her and wanted to free her.  Guess he has been sucked in like the rest of us.  Kicking and screaming until he just gave up and conformed.  This show is a bit boring right now and very predictable.

Best part about this show…

Dexter 4.1 “Living the Dream”

Dexter is now married with children and the youngest one dosen’t seem to know what sleep is yet.  So the guy who works all day volunteers to take the night shift with the baby.  He really is a sadist!  Lack of sleep keeps him from doing what he does best…. Killin’ folk.  Poor Dex, he hasn’t killed in a fortnight and he really needs to get his fix.  Damn kids, always ruining your plans to have fun.

Agent Lundy is back and I am not sure what Deborah ever saw in that guy.  Anton (her current fling) is way better lookin’ than wierd old agent Lundy.  He is investigating serial killers on his own time for his retirement. What?  Dude should be on a beach somewhere knockin’ back a Bahama Mama rather than working and making poor Dexter paranoid.  Like Dexter needs more stress…

Angel and Lt. Laguerta are hittin’ it in secret.  I don’t see that being secret for long.   No one in this precinct can keep a secret but Dexter.

John Lithgow is this years serial killer du jour. For the love of Greedo, no more naked John Lithgow. YEESH! That is freaking creepy enough!

Heroe’s 4.3 “Ink”

Claire is having to deal with her new college gal pal Gretchen, learning about her ability.  HRG threatens to send in the Haitian to “fix things” but he let’s Claire talk him out of it. Bad Idea,  there is something about this Wretchin’ Gretchen girl that I just don’t like.

Samuel is now stalking Peter, supposedly to get him to join his little band of misfits.

Sylar is still messing with Parkman’s mind.  So that makes things interesting.  Parkman has fallen off the wagon and is now reading thoughts again. Which means we get to see the patented super close up, tilted, eye scrunching, Parkman face. oh goodie….

There is a new deaf girl who can see sound.  She actually sees sound as bursts of color, which is something different and seems to be a completely useless ability thus far.

There was no Ando or Hiro in this episode and that is a good thing… a very good thing.

Look out for the premier of Stargate Universe, Friday, October 2.