Category: TV Dramas (Page 229 of 235)

So much for forgiveness

November 22, 2005 /

So Abruzzi finds God and dies because of it – are we supposed to read into that?

It looks like the group is down to seven, but Scofield has to solve two problems before the gang can break out: 1) arrange for an alternate getaway plan now that Abruzzi is not in the fold and 2) somehow get his brother out of the trouble he’ll no doubt be in after cold cocking a guard. What was that, anyway? Is punching a guy the only way to stall him? How about “How are your kids, Bob?” or “Who does your nails?” Hell, instead of hitting the guy he could have hit on the guy and it would have created fewer problems.

Prison Break, TV, TV Action, TV Dramas

Servilia pulls the strings

November 21, 2005 /

After last week’s blog entry, a reader wrote in wondering why I didn’t discuss the violent arena scene in more detail. My answer: I don’t know. The scene certainly deserves mention as it was one of the goriest scenes HBO has broadcast, and it almost makes up for the awful strobe-filled “battle scene” we saw in episode 7. But the best thing about the scene was the great display of the brotherly love that Lucius and Titus have for each other.

On to this week’s episode, which is also the season finale. Like another HBO franchise, “The Sopranos,” this series isn’t afraid to kill off a main character. Okay, everyone knew that Caesar was going to bite it soon, but who would have guessed that Niobe would take a header off a balcony? I’ll admit – that caught me by surprise. Servilia was the key that tied both storylines together. With the news of Niobe’s illegitimate son, she pulled Lucius away from Caesar’s side so that he wouldn’t be there to protect Caesar when the Senators made their move. It was actually quite brilliant.

Even more surprising than Niobe’s suicide was Titus’ former slavegirl pulling a 180 and grabbing the big man’s hand at the end of the episode. You would think that killing a girl’s boyfriend wouldn’t be the way to her heart, but apparently, you’d be wrong. The girl’s ex has to be rolling over in his grave at the thought of his murderer tapping his love, but there isn’t much he can do about it anymore. Darwinism, at its finest.

Looking forward to next season, it should be interesting to see how the new Republic moves forward and how Lucius deals with a boy that is not his own. Servilia’s threats towards Atia should provide material for another compelling storyline. Despite losing the considerable presence of Julius Caesar, the series is actually setting up pretty well for a second season.

Rome, TV, TV Action, TV Dramas

Not-quaman

November 21, 2005 /

Last week, Herc at Ain’t It Cool News revealed that, after the character Arthur Curry made an appearance on “Smallville” a few weeks ago, The WB is now in talks to put together an “Aquaman” pilot. Except that they won’t be calling it “Aquaman,” the character of Arthur Curry won’t know Lois and Clark (even though they clearly just met on “Smallville”), and he will apparently have absolutely nothing in common with the character on which he’s more or less based. Instead of having a mother from Atlantis and a father who’s a lighthouse keeper, Curry will be an environmentalist based near the Bermuda Triangle, where his mom disappeared. Exposure to water will give him superstrength, and he’ll be able to breathe water as well. You don’t really have to be a comic geek to know that, when you’ve got about fifty years worth of established mythos for a character and you opt to throw all of it out the window to make things match up to whatever the demographic research says is the way to go, it’s probably going to suck. Criminey, people, have we learned nothing from “Catwoman“?

Gossip, TV, TV Dramas

Why am I still watching this show?

November 18, 2005 /

I realize that pointing out the plot holes of an episode of “Alias” is much like pointing out the spines on a porcupine, but in last night’s episode there was one too egregious to ignore. Towards the end of the episode, Sloan enters the APO interrogation room and kills Gordon Dean by stuffing a cyanide tablet down his throat. Later, as a summary to the extensive investigation that was apparently conducted into Dean’s death, Jack tells Sydney that Dean must have had the tablet hidden under the skin in his mouth and that his death will go down as a suicide.

One problem – wasn’t the room being monitored by a camera? They had a bunch of equipment monitoring Dean and his vitals earlier in the episode. Did they purposefully turn them all off and leave the room completely unsecured? How about checking the timestamps on the security keypad outside the door to see if anyone entered the room around the time he died?

Oh that’s right, they were conveniently doing a system scan that shut down all the security systems right at that moment.

Let’s get home and build that crib.

TV, TV Action, TV Dramas

This is all very interesting, but who really cares?

November 16, 2005 /

November is the month of sweeps, the all important time of year when networks go ape-shit over how well their respective shows do in the ratings war, so why is it that “Lost” continues to air worthless episode after worthless episode? You know ABC, the show used to be considered a hit about a year ago, but at the rate you’re going, you might just be able to kill your two most promising shows (see also: “Deseperate Housewives”) at the same time.

After killing off Bitchie McHottie (AKA Shannon) at the end of last week’s episode, the series’ creators decided to reveal what happened to the tail-end survivors while Jack was off saving lives on the other side of the island. But in place of the usual episode rundown, I’ll stop myself short by saying, “Who the hell really cares?” Don’t we have enough major characters already? I think the last time I saw Kate as a prominent character was the second episode of the season. Isn’t she, like, one of the top three characters in the major plot line? Why are they even bothering introducing new characters at a time when they’re willing to kill off past cast members?

Don’t get me wrong. Mr. Eko is the coolest dude on the island. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it every week until he lets me down, but the show’s writers are going to have a lot of work ahead of them in order to make Ana-Lucia a worthy favorite. I know, I know, Sawyer was a bad dude at the beginning of the first season, and now he’s one of the favorite survivors, but does ABC really think this formula will work the second time around?

By the way, is it just me, or does the preview for next week’s show look a lot like the merger episode for “Survivor”?

Lost, TV Dramas

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