A good teaser should make you eager to see the rest of the episode. If, even with my project to watch everything, I very nearly turned the episode…
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Month: June 2010
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I have some helpful advice for any writers considering using narration of any type for TV or movies: don't. It has never, ever worked. It certainly doesn't work…
So far Deep Space 9 is painting a puzzling picture of Bajoran society. So far we've seen terrorists, farmers and priests. Not exactly the kind of rounded picture…
The 'nothing is real' plot is very hard to pull off in TV. In a movie we don't know the background, but here the viewer knows for certain…
Another important marker in the development of the series, the start of the friendship between O'Brien and Bashir. It's been said before by others, but what the writers…
It is tempting to describe this episode as a one-hour long excuse for why the aliens in Star Trek are just 'humans with bumpy noses and foreheads'. Very…
Deep Space 9 focuses on the gamma quadrant for the first time. It's a bit of the setting that so far has only gotten short shrift. Even here…
This is an interesting episode - in retrospect it's really the first real step into the major plot arc of the series, the Dominion. But I suspect that…
Jean-Luc and Nella, sitting in a Jeffries Tube, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. It's an unusually quiet, character centred story - unusual but welcome. It's a nice change of pace, and a…
OK, I'm just going to point out the obvious: this is *Die Hard* on a starship. The ever-reliable TV Tropes [records over 20 TV shows that have gone…