The LOST Interrobang: 8008s! (S6E10)
Posted by theashcan in Television, The Lost Interrobang on 01. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
Knowing that the ingredients for a good LOST episode is a healthy mix of “!!” and “??” Jef and Anupa will be interrobanging the show’s final season every week. As LOST winds down to its conclusion, can its creators dish out all the needed explanations without resorting to exposition? Can they keep up the mystery [...]
Caprica: End Of Line (s1e9)
Posted by Simon in Television on 28. Mar, 2010 | 2 Comments
Taking a page out of the Battlestar playbook, Caprica is executing its first season like BSG did its last — by splitting it into two halves. I found the final 0.5 season of BSG to be some of the most disappointing television I’ve ever seen, so one can only hope that Caprica will not befall [...]
Caprica: Ghost In The Machine (s1e8)
Posted by Simon in Television on 22. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
From what we’ve seen so far, Caprica is at its best when it focuses on just a few quality stories and tells them with meticulous fervour. This can often stand in stark contradiction to the ambitious, sprawling, ever expanding universe Caprica is simultaneously trying to craft. Episodes like this weeks however, where we essentially only [...]
Caprica: The Imperfections of Memory (s1e7)
Posted by Simon in Television on 15. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
This episode had characters flying vipers and somebody uttered the phrase: “all of this has happened before and all of it will happen again”. If Caprica is trying to distance itself from its Battlestar Galactica heritage, it certainly seems to have no qualms throwing out universe details to appease it’s BSG migrated audience. By my [...]
Caprica: Gravedancing (s1e4)
Posted by Simon in Television on 21. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Week three of Caprica grounds us a little more in the strengths of this fledging show. After some Days of Our Lives level melodrama stretched multiple plot points a bit thin last episode, “Gravedancing” really does a good job of refocusing on a few stories and really giving them room to breath. As usual, spoilers [...]
