Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead. The Second Special of the 2009 “Gap” Year is Stunningly Average
It was a big weekend for British science fiction as two cult programs made returns. While I’ll be covering the return of Red Dwarf after it’s decade long absence later this week, Doctor Who returned for the second of 4 specials to air in this “layoff” year after series 4. This also takes us one step closer to the close of David Tennant’s era as the lead actor in the longest running science fiction program in television history.
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Lost: Dead is Dead & Heroes: Turn and Face the Stranger. Two Reviews Shortchanged in One Brief Article!
Since my life this past week has plunged into the twilight world of an intriguing bargain bin Nintendo Wii game, playing the XBOX Live Arcade download of Robotron 2084 until my eyes have started bleeding and pounding down some time with our Nintendo DSi I have had not much time to reflect on this week’s episodes of Heroes and Lost. 
This is actually a tragedy since between both of these programs provided some decent entertainment this week. If you watch both programs, hear me rant for a few paragraphs. If you watch one or the other you can skip the parts you don’t care about.
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Lost: Whatever Happened, Happened…or Did It?
I’m going to cry lack of imagination on Lost this week. Not only did they feel the need to explain away something that really didn’t need explaining, they made the show inherently less interesting by doing so. This really starts at the conclusion of the previous episode when our favorite Iraqi castaway gunned down the puberty-primed Ben Linus.
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Heroes: Into Asylum - Just When We Almost Forgot What Good “Heroes” Was Like…
I’m going to commit a rare crime today, so I’ll cut to the chase immediately. I unashamedly admit that I thoroughly enjoyed Into Asylum and it didn’t take much reflection for me to realize that I had watched the best episode of Heroes by since the first season. I even hesitate to call it a fluke since it really does seem that the trend has been up recently. Into Asylum hopefully plants a seed for what could make this show successful again.
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LOST: He’s Our You- The Time Paradox Theories of Einstein, Hawking, Doc Brown and Sayid Jarrah?
Those who have this overwhelming urge to shoot a 12-year old boy had the chance to live vicariously through Naveen Andrews Wednesday night. Speaking from a strictly personal viewpoint I rarely have the urge to pump bullets into a 12-year old with the small but notable exception of my own son. However for the sake of my family and personal freedom I generally resist. In this case however, finding out how this shooting of a minor will turn out should be quite a ride.
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Heroes Gets an “Oh Snap!” for Cold Snap
Cold Snap is Bryan Fuller’s first full writing credit since his return to Heroes this season. He’s on the rebound since his show Pushing Daisies was put six feet under. Fuller’s influence was apparent with the multitude of Star Trek references. However, fans hoping for an overnight cure for bad and mediocre Heroes for the last two years are a little overly optimistic. Fortunately, the show has been slowly showing some signs of life more recently and while Fuller’s return is welcome I’m certainly not hanging the hopes of the show on one man. I do feel that in the course of the show, Fuller has demonstrated that he understands many of the elements that made the show so succesful early in it’s run, perhaps even more so than creator Tim Kring himself.
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Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak Part 2. What the Frak? All This Time It Was Just “Goddidit!”
I’ve been chewing all weekend on Daybreak Part 2 and Battlestar Galactica in general as an artistic endeavor. While some of you may have watched me mercilessly gush praise over the program I have to admit that while the series finale left me highly entertained and emotionally heartbroken I did have some disappointment with the direction they took it. For a program that rooted itself so deeply in the science half of “science fiction” I was genuinely perplexed and let down by the amount of hocus pocus spiritualism in the final half of the two hour conclusion.
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Lost: Congratulations Namaste Class of 1977!
I love happy reunions. We’ve been working all season for this moment and when we finally get there everybody hugs, tears well up, and for a brief moment everything was wine and roses. Of course, panic ensues and it seems like Sawyer is going above and beyond to make things smooth and safe for the second round plane crash survivors. Yes, there’s panic and concern but everyone’s on the same side now, right?
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Galactica: Daybreak Part 1- Facing the End
I’ve actually toyed with the idea that I won’t watch the series finale next week. It is with some shame that I have to admit that even though I’m a grown man that loves his action flix, Star Trek and the occasional adult magazine I tend to allow myself to get a little overly emotional in the face the conclusion of a nearly 5 year investment of my time and attention. And so, yes, I did start the process of beginning to choke up during Daybreak Part 1.
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Heroes: Shades of Gray - Bryan Fuller Tries to Stop the Bleeding.
Last Monday, I was simply too apathetic to say anything worthwhile about Heroes. I guess the only thing less inspiring than watching an inexplicably terrible new episode of Heroes each week was watching a totally mediocre episode. I guess if you don’t hate it and you don’t love it, it’s hard to muster enough motivation to even discuss it. I’m not going to wax poetic about Shades of Gray, the first episode on the books with Bryan Fuller back in the Heroes writers’ room, but I’m not going to tear it to pieces.
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