This episode was very good. The way it was written, it does two things. First, it ends the season leaving Dr. Who once again by himself and secondly, it introduces Torchwood which is supposed to dovetail onto Dr. Who and keep the presence of British Sci Fi on the BBC.
In this episode the master is in full control of the world and his plan is to launch an attack. He turned the earth into an armed camp with two hundred thousand missiles containing individual black holes. Obviously they would be devastating to any planet if they hit. According to the episode of Dr. Who we know that the universe has many races on thousands of planets all over the galaxy. The master decides that he can wage war and catch them by surprise and rule the universe. That was his plan. However, one thing he had not counted on was that Dr. Who, even though he aged him to be approximately nine hundred years old, had told his companion, Martha to travel the world to find a weapon that could kill a timelord that could have been put in different spots and spread throughout the world, because it was suppose to be such a dangerous weapon. But what she was really doing was informing the earth’s population that at a certain point when the arch angel network was on, (which is a series of satellites that beams the whole world and unites the whole world with a psychic signal that makes the earth’s population easy to manipulate by the master) to think about the doctor. It also has a flaw which is that if all the earth concentrates on the same thing at the same time the psychic energy gets rebroadcast back through the satellites and back to the original source of the signal which is the base where the master has made his headquarters.
About the time that the master was about to put his plan into effect and launch the missiles, all of the people all over the world concentrated on the doctor, then their psychic energy was redirected back to the master’s headquarters. Dr. Who managed to regenerate himself, made himself young again and freed himself. Then he got his powers back and out smarted the master. At this point the master collapsed and Dr. Who told him he was going to imprison him for the rest of his life. He was not going to kill him but that he was going to keep him in the Tardis but keep him imprisoned.
That would have been the end of the episode except that the companion of the master who he had trusted implicitly shot him. When she shot him, normally it would not have killed him but he decided not to regenerate because he realized that was the one thing that he could do that Dr. Who could not control and it was his one way of finally having the last laugh on Dr. Who.
It kind of surprised me because I thought that they would keep him. The master had the makings of being a good villain that they could use from episode to episode. Then bring him back, but who knows, they might still do that. However, in this episode he does die. Once he dies, time reverses itself because there was a paradox in effect. The way the master took over the earth, he had these billions of small entities (they look like floating globes) but they had weapons and they carried out his every will.
What people of the earth didn’t know that inside of the globes were human beings that had been incredibly morphed until they were literally just a head which was just enough to control the globes. But here’s the thing. Those people inside of those globes were actually people of the future earth. In other words they were the last generation of humanity that was on earth just before it would be destroyed. The paradox is that if future people came back to the past and killed off a significant number of humans then how could they exist. Well, the way they got around this problem was that the time paradox was that the master had rewired the Tardis so that it became a paradox machine and held it in check. Once the master was killed and the paradox machine was destroyed by Captain Jack, time reasserted itself and things returned to normal. Most people had no knowledge of an entire year under the master’s rule. That’s how it ended.
The interesting thing about this episode was that they introduced Torchwood by introducing the main character which is Captain Jack. Captain Jack also played an important role in this last episode. This was a good way to launch to Torchwood from Dr. Who. I think they did a great job on it.
Well, you guys take it easy. I’m going down stairs to get something to eat and then curl up on my favorite mat for a long nap. Don't worry I'll be back.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Dr. Who-Sound of Drums
Dr. who is still ongoing. They had the first part of a real cliff hanger this past week. Dr. Who discovered that he is not alone. It’s kind of a take off from Star Wars. He found out that there is another timelord who calls himself the master. He’s kind of in sane, and a little paranoid. The Master manages to get a hold of the Tardis and by having that power source he was able to open up a riff in time and bring these strange beings to earth. There was six billion of them. One for every woman, man, and child on earth. What the Master told the beings to do was kill one tenth of the earth’s population, which they did.
The master disabled Dr. Who by using a biotransducer which aged Dr. Who by one hundred years. When he did this, Dr. Who was helpless to stop him so the way things are left, the master is in control and Dr. Who is one hundred years old. Things look pretty bad for earth because the timelord does not really care about the people, he just want to control them. But we will see how all of this works out.
I’m kind of anxious to see what’s going to happen. After all I’m a cat and I have nothing else to do except watch TV, eat and sleep.
Until next week, bye.
The master disabled Dr. Who by using a biotransducer which aged Dr. Who by one hundred years. When he did this, Dr. Who was helpless to stop him so the way things are left, the master is in control and Dr. Who is one hundred years old. Things look pretty bad for earth because the timelord does not really care about the people, he just want to control them. But we will see how all of this works out.
I’m kind of anxious to see what’s going to happen. After all I’m a cat and I have nothing else to do except watch TV, eat and sleep.
Until next week, bye.
Painkiller Jane-Endgame
This was the season finale of Painkiller Jane.
We got a chance to see what happens when she finds out that her powers were not natural. They were given to her by this multibillion dollar researcher. All the people that they had been chasing are failed experiments of his.
Last week Jane was at NICO along with the rest of her team when suddenly she switched sides. She was taken over against her will and she started to help the inmates free themselves. Also, they were killing people. The problem was it came down to a show down between Jane and her team and they realized that they may have to kill her. But, how do you kill somebody, that no matter what you do to them, they heal and keep coming. Thank goodness they discovered that a portion of Jane’s brain was highly developed. They figured this was the portion that was being controlled by the researcher. They used high frequency light to disrupt her thought process and then they were able to subdue her. Now the way it was left, once they could subdue Jane they were able also to sabotage the link between Jane and the researcher so he could no longer communicate with her. But they did it in such a way that the researcher would have no idea that now he only sees what she wants him to see. Whenever Jane decides that she doesn’t want him to see she can concentrate and cut him off.
The nice thing about this is, the way the season ended, you figure out that they know they will be constantly surprised at the neuros they are going to have to catch. Eventually, they will have to catch the researcher.
There is a possibility that the show might be extended, because they do have a continuous villain. If you don’t have a good villain, you don’t have a good show.
I look forward to seeing Painkiller Jane hopefully next season.
We got a chance to see what happens when she finds out that her powers were not natural. They were given to her by this multibillion dollar researcher. All the people that they had been chasing are failed experiments of his.
Last week Jane was at NICO along with the rest of her team when suddenly she switched sides. She was taken over against her will and she started to help the inmates free themselves. Also, they were killing people. The problem was it came down to a show down between Jane and her team and they realized that they may have to kill her. But, how do you kill somebody, that no matter what you do to them, they heal and keep coming. Thank goodness they discovered that a portion of Jane’s brain was highly developed. They figured this was the portion that was being controlled by the researcher. They used high frequency light to disrupt her thought process and then they were able to subdue her. Now the way it was left, once they could subdue Jane they were able also to sabotage the link between Jane and the researcher so he could no longer communicate with her. But they did it in such a way that the researcher would have no idea that now he only sees what she wants him to see. Whenever Jane decides that she doesn’t want him to see she can concentrate and cut him off.
The nice thing about this is, the way the season ended, you figure out that they know they will be constantly surprised at the neuros they are going to have to catch. Eventually, they will have to catch the researcher.
There is a possibility that the show might be extended, because they do have a continuous villain. If you don’t have a good villain, you don’t have a good show.
I look forward to seeing Painkiller Jane hopefully next season.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Painkiller Jane-The Beast of Bolmar
This episode is about a small village that's not far from Nico which is the facility where all of the captured neuros are detained. There was a series of attacks between the hours of eight and nine at night. People are killed and clawed horribly to death and there is no sign of the actual killer. The killer doesn't seem to be human. How Jane and the group get involved is that one of the guys gets attacked by this thing. The leader of the group senses that it might be because of the nature of the attack that the neuros may be the cause of it. Ironically he's going to be right because they find out later on after they go through some things, Jane gets attacked. As a matter of fact all of them get attacked. At one point the beast could have killed Jane but it didn't. It left her alive. They realize something, that this thing, whatever it is seems to respond to different people in different ways. You find out later that there's a young boy who is an orphanage who has been adopted by the owner of this tabern, who is mean and kind of a rough guy. Because the boy is not really his he treats the boy horribly and there is a lot of built up anger. The boy is only twelve years old, but you get a clue when the owner of the tavern gets killed by the beast.
The beast comes into the tavern, knocks the doors down, drags him out and does not attack any one else and kills him. You start to figure out that obviously there's a tie between the boy and the tavern owner. It's only two people, himself and the boy that live together, so you figure it has to be the boy. Sure enough you find out that the boy is the son of one of the nueros that's kepted at Nico. She has been chipped so she is suppose to be harmless and she is. Apparently, she was pregnant when they brought her to Nico and she had the son. She passed down an ability to her son. The boy could only create this thing when he is in REM sleep. They figured out the best thing to do with him was to reunite him with his mother and solved the problem by chipping the boy.
They showed Jane's motherly side to let you know that inspite of her tough exterior, that she's just like any other woman on the inside. That is, that she has motherly instincts.
Take it easy everybody, I'm going to get a small snack and then maybe I'm sleep until next Friday.
The beast comes into the tavern, knocks the doors down, drags him out and does not attack any one else and kills him. You start to figure out that obviously there's a tie between the boy and the tavern owner. It's only two people, himself and the boy that live together, so you figure it has to be the boy. Sure enough you find out that the boy is the son of one of the nueros that's kepted at Nico. She has been chipped so she is suppose to be harmless and she is. Apparently, she was pregnant when they brought her to Nico and she had the son. She passed down an ability to her son. The boy could only create this thing when he is in REM sleep. They figured out the best thing to do with him was to reunite him with his mother and solved the problem by chipping the boy.
They showed Jane's motherly side to let you know that inspite of her tough exterior, that she's just like any other woman on the inside. That is, that she has motherly instincts.
Take it easy everybody, I'm going to get a small snack and then maybe I'm sleep until next Friday.
Dr. Who-The Family
This week's episode was the second part of two parts. This one is called the family. This is a group of creatures which is a family and they require the timelord's knowledge in order to survive. If they don't have that then they have a limited life span and they are dead within three days. The doctor, because he relizes that they are on to him, he has taken his personality and hidden it in a watch. He appears to be human even though he is not.
The bad part about it is he completely looses all recognition and for all intensive purposes becomes another person, so he has a normal life that he has created for himself. Although his past is all fabricated, he believes it to be real. His companion, Martha knows that he has done this, so she disguises herself as a maid at the school where the doctor is teaching and she kind of keeps an eye on him and at the end of a month, she is suppose to take the watch and open it and restore his personality.
Well, unbeknownst to everybody one of the students at the school comes across this watch and being like any other teenager, he is curious and pockets the watch and doesn't know what he has. He doesn't realize that each time he opens it up, the family of aliens are able to get a whiff of the doctor's presence. They honed in on the watch every time the teenager opens it. They recognize that the doctor is one of the people at the school, and so they attack the school. But, here is where it gets to be cute. The British have a tendancy to be able to do this. They will take something old fashion and purposely for example like a scarecrow and put it into a modern science fiction drama. The crazy part about it, is that it works.
The fact that they explained them as re-animated creatures that they are able to control, it's a different twist on the regular sci fi stuff that you plan. You get so use to gadgets and what nots so instead of strange gadgets, you have scarecrows. The scarecrows are kind of like the phantom army. The aliens are using scarecrows to attack the school, but the students are able to hold the scarecrows off, because of their training. Remember this is pre World War I days. Part of their training was to train them in the military science to prepare them so when they graduated from that school that they could go and serve in the British armed forces. Once the standoff between the aliens and the students and the scarecrows were over, the aliens decided to go back to their ship and use the cannon on the ship to literally bombared the countryside thinking that this would bring the doctor out.
At that point the doctor has fallen in love with a different maid at the school and wants to marry her. The woman starts to realize that there was a strange book that she found with the doctor that has his handwriting in it with all of these drawings. She starts to put two and two together and what Martha is saying to her too about the watch. She realizes that the doctor is not really who he seems to be even though she is in love with him. So she convinces the doctor that he is going to have to make a choice and that he is going to have to give up this life that he thinks he has for the other life which he has no idea he has which is really him.
Around that time the young man that has the watch shows up. The bottom line is the doctor is then reconstituted and of course in doing that the life he would have had with the woman is no more. Once he is back to his senses he deals with the situation with the family. Abruptly, he is able to split them up and neutralize them. By him having his personality back, he realize that he doesn't belong there and he and Martha get back on the tartus and that is pretty much the episode.
But, what makes it nice is there is one last twist and that is the young man that had the watch actually does have the vision to see the future. When he was holding that watch he recognize he was seeing a point in time that he did not realize was going to be not even two or three years later in World War I when he and his school buddies were going to be standing in a spot where a shell was going to land and they are going to die. But because he remembers it the doctor tells him to keep the watch with the date and time on it. So ironically while they are at war fighting the Germans in World War I, sure enough at this point where enemy shells come down and the guy looks at the watch and it reminds him of what he had seen and he was able to move him and his brother out of the way and they survived. When they came back from the war they lived long lives. At the end of it you see at the funeral of one of the students there's the young man who had the watch who is now a very old man who looks over and there's the doctor and Martha kind of off to the side at the funeral. The old man gives them a wave and a smile and then they are gone.
I loved the writing in the episode. The British out did themselves. One of the things I like that they do is they let you know who the writer of the program is up front. Because trully without the writers actors don't have a lot to work with.
It's time now for me to take a break and have a good cat food snack, them I'm going to curl up and take a nap while the humans are busy working.
The bad part about it is he completely looses all recognition and for all intensive purposes becomes another person, so he has a normal life that he has created for himself. Although his past is all fabricated, he believes it to be real. His companion, Martha knows that he has done this, so she disguises herself as a maid at the school where the doctor is teaching and she kind of keeps an eye on him and at the end of a month, she is suppose to take the watch and open it and restore his personality.
Well, unbeknownst to everybody one of the students at the school comes across this watch and being like any other teenager, he is curious and pockets the watch and doesn't know what he has. He doesn't realize that each time he opens it up, the family of aliens are able to get a whiff of the doctor's presence. They honed in on the watch every time the teenager opens it. They recognize that the doctor is one of the people at the school, and so they attack the school. But, here is where it gets to be cute. The British have a tendancy to be able to do this. They will take something old fashion and purposely for example like a scarecrow and put it into a modern science fiction drama. The crazy part about it, is that it works.
The fact that they explained them as re-animated creatures that they are able to control, it's a different twist on the regular sci fi stuff that you plan. You get so use to gadgets and what nots so instead of strange gadgets, you have scarecrows. The scarecrows are kind of like the phantom army. The aliens are using scarecrows to attack the school, but the students are able to hold the scarecrows off, because of their training. Remember this is pre World War I days. Part of their training was to train them in the military science to prepare them so when they graduated from that school that they could go and serve in the British armed forces. Once the standoff between the aliens and the students and the scarecrows were over, the aliens decided to go back to their ship and use the cannon on the ship to literally bombared the countryside thinking that this would bring the doctor out.
At that point the doctor has fallen in love with a different maid at the school and wants to marry her. The woman starts to realize that there was a strange book that she found with the doctor that has his handwriting in it with all of these drawings. She starts to put two and two together and what Martha is saying to her too about the watch. She realizes that the doctor is not really who he seems to be even though she is in love with him. So she convinces the doctor that he is going to have to make a choice and that he is going to have to give up this life that he thinks he has for the other life which he has no idea he has which is really him.
Around that time the young man that has the watch shows up. The bottom line is the doctor is then reconstituted and of course in doing that the life he would have had with the woman is no more. Once he is back to his senses he deals with the situation with the family. Abruptly, he is able to split them up and neutralize them. By him having his personality back, he realize that he doesn't belong there and he and Martha get back on the tartus and that is pretty much the episode.
But, what makes it nice is there is one last twist and that is the young man that had the watch actually does have the vision to see the future. When he was holding that watch he recognize he was seeing a point in time that he did not realize was going to be not even two or three years later in World War I when he and his school buddies were going to be standing in a spot where a shell was going to land and they are going to die. But because he remembers it the doctor tells him to keep the watch with the date and time on it. So ironically while they are at war fighting the Germans in World War I, sure enough at this point where enemy shells come down and the guy looks at the watch and it reminds him of what he had seen and he was able to move him and his brother out of the way and they survived. When they came back from the war they lived long lives. At the end of it you see at the funeral of one of the students there's the young man who had the watch who is now a very old man who looks over and there's the doctor and Martha kind of off to the side at the funeral. The old man gives them a wave and a smile and then they are gone.
I loved the writing in the episode. The British out did themselves. One of the things I like that they do is they let you know who the writer of the program is up front. Because trully without the writers actors don't have a lot to work with.
It's time now for me to take a break and have a good cat food snack, them I'm going to curl up and take a nap while the humans are busy working.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Dr. Who - Human Nature
By Bonehead Brooks
This week Dr. Who was really good. What they have done this week is have Dr. Who to the place where he basically had to become human because he’s being chased by a group called family. It’s kind of neat that he could actually take his persona and put it inside of a watch. I like the twist in the plot where someone else get the watch and his sidekick Martha is having to try to stay near him so that after a certain amount of time he’s going to use her to restore his personality. However, since the watch gets stolen by a student and the student doesn’t know what he has and ends up revealing Dr. Who’s identity and location then it becomes a two part show with a nice cliff hanger. This is a great way to end the season.
The nice part is being that I’m a cat I don’t have to change the channel. I can keep it on the Sci-Fi channel and watch Dr. Who and Painkiller Jane one right behind the other.
Then after that it’s off to get some more cat food and then go to sleep.
This week Dr. Who was really good. What they have done this week is have Dr. Who to the place where he basically had to become human because he’s being chased by a group called family. It’s kind of neat that he could actually take his persona and put it inside of a watch. I like the twist in the plot where someone else get the watch and his sidekick Martha is having to try to stay near him so that after a certain amount of time he’s going to use her to restore his personality. However, since the watch gets stolen by a student and the student doesn’t know what he has and ends up revealing Dr. Who’s identity and location then it becomes a two part show with a nice cliff hanger. This is a great way to end the season.
The nice part is being that I’m a cat I don’t have to change the channel. I can keep it on the Sci-Fi channel and watch Dr. Who and Painkiller Jane one right behind the other.
Then after that it’s off to get some more cat food and then go to sleep.
Painkiller Jane - What Lies Beneath
By Bonehead Brooks
Painkiller Jane has gotten back into my good graces because the dream sequence was really tacky but, they made up for it. Now what has happen is we get to find out the true origin of Painkiller Jane and how she got her powers of regeneration. We find out that she is given her powers by this multibillionaire that actually owns the research company. We also find out that most of the people that they are chasing have been created by this same person. Then they find out that the neuros, (these are people with abilities that have been chasing them) are mistakes that this guy created and unleashed on the planet and they have been locking them up and putting them away. We also find out that Jane is under his influence and he is controlling her against her will.
This is a two part episode. Next week they are suppose to have a huge prison break in the area where they stored all of the neuros to keep society safe. All of them are going to be released presumably by Jane.
The writing this week was nice and crisp and I like this twist right now in the end. At least we understand where Jane’s powers come from. How do you get powers that bring you back from the dead?
Well this is it until the next time. In the meantime, I’m off to chow down, then find me a nice corner, curl up on a pillow and go to sleep.
Painkiller Jane has gotten back into my good graces because the dream sequence was really tacky but, they made up for it. Now what has happen is we get to find out the true origin of Painkiller Jane and how she got her powers of regeneration. We find out that she is given her powers by this multibillionaire that actually owns the research company. We also find out that most of the people that they are chasing have been created by this same person. Then they find out that the neuros, (these are people with abilities that have been chasing them) are mistakes that this guy created and unleashed on the planet and they have been locking them up and putting them away. We also find out that Jane is under his influence and he is controlling her against her will.
This is a two part episode. Next week they are suppose to have a huge prison break in the area where they stored all of the neuros to keep society safe. All of them are going to be released presumably by Jane.
The writing this week was nice and crisp and I like this twist right now in the end. At least we understand where Jane’s powers come from. How do you get powers that bring you back from the dead?
Well this is it until the next time. In the meantime, I’m off to chow down, then find me a nice corner, curl up on a pillow and go to sleep.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Dr. Who - 42
By Bonehead Brooks
Riley, the Doctor and Martha have 42 minutes to find out what force is taking over the crew of Riley’s spaceship.
This was one of the better episodes.
Dr. Who and Martha ended up on a ship in which the engine was failing and they were falling into a sun. They couldn’t get back on the Tardis because the temperature of the room that it was in was so high that they barely were able to get out of that room before the door started to seal. It’s an age old plot. The ship falls into the sun and you have to get the ship started before it eventually burns up. The Doctor discovered that the sun was alive and because the crew had been taking hydrogen from the sun to uses as fuel for the ship’s engine, the sun began to retaliate by taking over the life force of some of the crew members. That’s a bit of a stretch but it’s what made the episode entertaining.
The ship had these doors between the location of the crew and the control room, and the only way to get through the doors was to answer a lot of riddles correctly. The time element and the fact that they didn’t know why the ships engines were not working plus the fact that you had to know all of these crazy answers and a couple of the ship’s crew had been taken over by these sun particles and turn in to killers. That was a little bit of a stretch. But that campiness with Dr. Who, it worked out perfectly.
I thought this was a well written episode and when you look at it, it had several twists that kept you interested and the uncertainty about whether or not they were going to make it in time. When you put all of this together it made a great episode. I highly recommend it for any one who wants to watch it.
Riley, the Doctor and Martha have 42 minutes to find out what force is taking over the crew of Riley’s spaceship.
This was one of the better episodes.
Dr. Who and Martha ended up on a ship in which the engine was failing and they were falling into a sun. They couldn’t get back on the Tardis because the temperature of the room that it was in was so high that they barely were able to get out of that room before the door started to seal. It’s an age old plot. The ship falls into the sun and you have to get the ship started before it eventually burns up. The Doctor discovered that the sun was alive and because the crew had been taking hydrogen from the sun to uses as fuel for the ship’s engine, the sun began to retaliate by taking over the life force of some of the crew members. That’s a bit of a stretch but it’s what made the episode entertaining.
The ship had these doors between the location of the crew and the control room, and the only way to get through the doors was to answer a lot of riddles correctly. The time element and the fact that they didn’t know why the ships engines were not working plus the fact that you had to know all of these crazy answers and a couple of the ship’s crew had been taken over by these sun particles and turn in to killers. That was a little bit of a stretch. But that campiness with Dr. Who, it worked out perfectly.
I thought this was a well written episode and when you look at it, it had several twists that kept you interested and the uncertainty about whether or not they were going to make it in time. When you put all of this together it made a great episode. I highly recommend it for any one who wants to watch it.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Dr. Who - The Lazarus Experiment
By Bonehead Brooks
Professor Lazarus claims he can rejuvenate himself with his Genetic Manipulation Device.
The episode of Dr. Who was pretty good this week. It was about a Professor Lazarus who was seeking the fountain of youth. He wanted to try to change himself back to being a young man. He and his wife looked to be in their eighties. He was successful in becoming more youthful, but he paid a price. When he turned himself back young again, he altered his DNA which turned him into a human monster and, of course, Dr. Who end up killing him. He killed him with loud music from an organ in an old church which he couldn’t stand so he lost his balance, fell and died.
The thing that struck me about this episode which was kind of neat is that there really is a difference between the British and the Americans take on how they treat racial characters. The co-star, Freema Agyeman who plays Martha Jones, is black and in this particular episode you get to see her whole family, her mother, her brother and her sister and it was interesting to note that the entire interaction between black and white characters was racially neutral. Those parts could have easily been replaced with white characters playing the same parts and you would not have to replace any of the mannerism, their speech, any interaction between characters. I think that uniquely shows how the British American humor reflects each others culture. If the same episode been written for American television by an American company, the black characters would have had a different interaction in the social mix with the other characters.
But the actual point to the story is that if you mess with nature there is a price to be paid. I believe that is true. There is a price to be paid. Evolution worked a very long time to develop human beings and for man to come along and mess with it, I think you do pay that price. I think that was the main point of the show.
Professor Lazarus claims he can rejuvenate himself with his Genetic Manipulation Device.
The episode of Dr. Who was pretty good this week. It was about a Professor Lazarus who was seeking the fountain of youth. He wanted to try to change himself back to being a young man. He and his wife looked to be in their eighties. He was successful in becoming more youthful, but he paid a price. When he turned himself back young again, he altered his DNA which turned him into a human monster and, of course, Dr. Who end up killing him. He killed him with loud music from an organ in an old church which he couldn’t stand so he lost his balance, fell and died.
The thing that struck me about this episode which was kind of neat is that there really is a difference between the British and the Americans take on how they treat racial characters. The co-star, Freema Agyeman who plays Martha Jones, is black and in this particular episode you get to see her whole family, her mother, her brother and her sister and it was interesting to note that the entire interaction between black and white characters was racially neutral. Those parts could have easily been replaced with white characters playing the same parts and you would not have to replace any of the mannerism, their speech, any interaction between characters. I think that uniquely shows how the British American humor reflects each others culture. If the same episode been written for American television by an American company, the black characters would have had a different interaction in the social mix with the other characters.
But the actual point to the story is that if you mess with nature there is a price to be paid. I believe that is true. There is a price to be paid. Evolution worked a very long time to develop human beings and for man to come along and mess with it, I think you do pay that price. I think that was the main point of the show.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Painkiller Jane - Thanks For The Memories
The writers painted themselves in a corner with this episode. It looked like they either ran out of money or realized too late that it was a bad plot so they used one of the most obvious escape routines in the book. You know, write yourself in a corner and then make it all a dream and that’s what they did.
By killing off everybody and having it so that you knew something was wrong when her boyfriend (who was living in her apartment with the little girl who pretends not to know her) , she doesn’t put up a fight and she goes and just leaves and start wandering the streets. I thought that was a little strange. Imagine if someone came to your house and you know it’s your house and they are there with somebody else. Would you just walk away and not ask any questions? Wouldn’t you call the police? I mean something is wrong with that but that’s they way they wrote this episode and then of course in the end you find out that it was all a dream.
Usually when writers do this they paint themselves in a corner that they can’t get out of so the obvious solution is to make everything a dream so then they can get back to normal.
By killing off everybody and having it so that you knew something was wrong when her boyfriend (who was living in her apartment with the little girl who pretends not to know her) , she doesn’t put up a fight and she goes and just leaves and start wandering the streets. I thought that was a little strange. Imagine if someone came to your house and you know it’s your house and they are there with somebody else. Would you just walk away and not ask any questions? Wouldn’t you call the police? I mean something is wrong with that but that’s they way they wrote this episode and then of course in the end you find out that it was all a dream.
Usually when writers do this they paint themselves in a corner that they can’t get out of so the obvious solution is to make everything a dream so then they can get back to normal.
Dr. Who - Evolution of the Daleks
By Bonehead Brooks
I liked this episode. It was first class. I like the fact that because this is a British production, there were no racial components. There are black characters in it, but they are not treated any different from the white characters, which is definitely different from the American TV programs.
I also liked the fact that in the end, the love story between Toludo Bankhead and her boyfriend (who had been turned into a pig man) was resolved because the doctor was able to save his life. He was not able to turn him back, but in the end it made no difference to her. She is a show girl, and you would have thought that she wouldn’t want to be with a man that look like a pig in the face, but it was suppose to show that love conquers all. So in the end they ended up together which I thought was good.
I thought it was a well ended episode with a few nice twists. They also kept the Empire State building because there is one remaining dalek that has shifted in time somewhere else. He is by himself, so now he’s going to have to resolve how he will continue his race because there is only one of him and he can’t reproduce. He will probably be faced with the same choice that his leader had, which is why the one that he killed off had looked ahead and seen that the only choice was to merge with some other species. Now the remaining dalek is going to have the same choice because will only be him.
I liked this episode. It was first class. I like the fact that because this is a British production, there were no racial components. There are black characters in it, but they are not treated any different from the white characters, which is definitely different from the American TV programs.
I also liked the fact that in the end, the love story between Toludo Bankhead and her boyfriend (who had been turned into a pig man) was resolved because the doctor was able to save his life. He was not able to turn him back, but in the end it made no difference to her. She is a show girl, and you would have thought that she wouldn’t want to be with a man that look like a pig in the face, but it was suppose to show that love conquers all. So in the end they ended up together which I thought was good.
I thought it was a well ended episode with a few nice twists. They also kept the Empire State building because there is one remaining dalek that has shifted in time somewhere else. He is by himself, so now he’s going to have to resolve how he will continue his race because there is only one of him and he can’t reproduce. He will probably be faced with the same choice that his leader had, which is why the one that he killed off had looked ahead and seen that the only choice was to merge with some other species. Now the remaining dalek is going to have the same choice because will only be him.
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