One line reviews
March 03, 2008
The upper body is a little mechanical, Sarah Connor Chronicles: episode 1.7
Dear John, we know your mother gave you away to foster care while she was in the crazy house, and that’s a tough thing to get over, but you need to pull yourself together, and grow a frickin’ pair....
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In this episode a struggling-to-survive Derek Reese flash backs to the future (ha!), wherein he meets the alive-in-the-future-but-dead-in-the-present Andy Goode, who, either by some miracle of modern science, or frak-up by show staff, hasn’t aged a day....
0 Comments 0 Trackbacks Continue reading "So...what was the deal with the basement? Sarah Conner Chronicles: episode 1.6"...Agent Ellison talks to the hand, Sarah Conner Chronicles: episode 1.5
Chess dork Andy Goode discovers life’s ultimate check-mate....
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It's a mine field out there, Sarah Conner Chronicles: episode 1.4
John gets himself locked in the back of a cargo truck carrying stolen metal used to build Terminators in the future, conflict ensues, and he learns a valuable lesson or something, and meanwhile, that little snot-nosed know-it-all FBI agent that...
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All the best spies work in fast food: Chuck, episode 1.13
Chuck is in great demand as Captain Awesome wants his approval, a CIA agent wants him relocated, and an opposing secret agent wants him dead, and if that isn’t an allegory for the trials of the common man, I don’t...
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In this ep we learn that the tin man (Casey) does have a heart, it’s just that the woman he’s given it to isn’t a Russian photo journalist so much as a French spy, and not dead so much as...
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Jerky and robotic, but certainly not freakish: Sarah Conner Chronicles, episode 1.3
Proving what I’ve thought all along: chess is clearly the gateway drug to evil computing, and also, although not stated, Cameron has apparently experienced some wacky robot-from-the-future computer glitch since the first episode, which prevents her from “blending in” at...
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Time travel is the next big health fad: Sarah Conner Chronicles, episode 1.2
Okay, so we are all a little confused about how the terminator head could find it’s way through the time vortex when only organic matter can travel through time, but when you’re on the run from killer robots from the...
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When Roombas attack: Sarah Conner Chronicles, episode 1.1
When the chips are down, and yer being chased by a killer robot from the future, and you’ve exhausted all the typical scenarios we’ve already seen in the movies, at least you can time travel 8 years into the future...
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You can tell by the shoes: Journeyman, episode 1.13
Dan’s mark turns out to be a traveler as well, and his untimely death turns out to be the trigger for Dan’s first travel, which, in that regard, ties a tidy sucky little bow around the whole series if this...
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Dan learns that leaving modern technology in the mid 1980’s probably isn’t something you’ll read about in Responsible Parenting magazine, but gender swapping kid aside, those monitors kicked ass (and I’m pretty sure would be completely unusable)....
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Seriously, just throw the damn apron away: Journeyman, episode 1.11
Although it’s the secondary stories that add the life to this series, this week I got a significant amount of satisfaction in knowing that the universe isn’t above a little blackmail (because, quite frankly, I’m not surprised)....
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I'm going underground with Heroes, episode 2.11
I hope there is some tragic twist to this whole “blood heals everyone” thing, like it’s temporary, or it turns them into bubblegum or something, otherwise my “fear of loss” (as the old salesmen say) is completely gone, and no...
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The Crown Victoria had it coming. Chuck, episode 1.11
This week we learn that money counterfeiting can be a metaphor for unrequited love, and that blowing up a stern NSA agent’s prize Crown Victoria, no matter how satisfying and cathartic, will be used as a mislead to consequences down...
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Pineapple! Chuck, episode 1.10
Question: if you were part of a secret organization within the CIA whose sole purpose was to destroy the “intersect”, but you didn’t know where it was, and Bryce says to you one day, while on his deathbed, “The intersect...
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The this-show-gets-better-with-every-episode-award goes to: Journeyman, episode 1.10
So, the lesson here is that when being sucked through time, even though you have no idea what it is, stick to your freaking cosmic mission, or your wife will be making ketchup sandwiches for psychopaths in the present....
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Is "hard salami" a sex joke? A one line review of Chuck, episode 1.9
Chuck flashes on Lou’s ex boyfriend, which leads the agents to intercept an illegal shipment that contains…HOLY CRAP BRYCE LARKIN IS ALIVE!…dramatic conflict....
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One line review: Smallville, Episode 7.8
Clark discovers kryptonite comes in a not-so-fun blue flavour, meanwhile Lana Lang has worn out her welcome by about 6 seasons....
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