Buffy The Vampire Slayer S:01 Ep:04

Posted on by Elwood Jones

Episode title: Teacher’s Pet

Original air date: January 24, 1998

“No, you’ll just give me a cryptic warning about some exciting new catastrophe, and then disappear into the night. Right?” – Buffy

Am I wrong in thinking that this show has always been at its strongest when it ironically doesn’t feature vampires? I know a controversial opinion especially when vampires are currently riding high in the fantasy charts alongside cowboy’s, firemen and medieval stable boy (you know depending on what works for you) meaning that they are always treated with way more fanfare than I felt they deserved. Still you only have to look at some of the best episodes of the series to realise that a large quantity only featured vampires as a background threat if at all. I guess the fact that the show never limited itself to just vampires is where it strength lied and again we get another week free of the fanged menace as well as one of the first stories to put one of the group other than Buffy as the lead as here we get a Xander-centric story.

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iZombie S:01 E:13

Posted on by Bubbawheat

Episode Title: Blaine’s World
Original Airdate: 6-9-15

It seems like it’s only been a few weeks since iZombie started and it’s already time for the finale. There’s been plenty of buildup on several fronts and the payoff is a lot bloodier and more explosive than I would have ever expected. As far as my predictions go, I was very close to being right on one count, but wrong everywhere else. It took things in directions that I wouldn’t have ever seen coming, but they ultimately make a whole lot of sense for both the story and the characters themselves. And it sets itself up very nicely for an interesting season two.
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The 2014-15 Channel:Superhero Ratings Scoreboard

Posted on by Bubbawheat

We don’t do a whole lot of news posts here, but I love me some statistics now and again so I whipped up an infographic showing how this year’s shows stacked up against each other. There were some clear winners like the Flash and some unfortunately clear losers like Constantine. But enough talk, let’s share the stats and I’ll break them down just a bit for you.
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Tiger and Bunny S:01 E:03

Posted on by Bubbawheat

Episode Title: Many a True Word is Spoken in Jest
Original Airdate: 4-17-11

This is the first episode that had no part of it included in the first movie so it was all new to me. It also focuses on what I think is the most interesting aspect of the show as a whole, and that’s the show within a show. Here, Hero TV’s crew follows the newest hero on the block Barnaby to get some footage of him when he’s not out saving the city, and of course since Wild Tiger isn’t the most popular hero on the block, he’s generally pushed off to the side and given lines to read. But when they start filming in a newly finished building, there’s a bomb threat and Tiger and Bunny are forced to work together once again to save the day, if they don’t kill each other first.
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Heroes S:01 E:01

Posted on by Bubbawheat

Episode Title: Genesis
Original Airdate: 9-25-06

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Heroes, even though I own the first season on DVD, I never did re-watch it after seeing it on September 25th nine years ago. It has a diminished reputation as the later seasons continued to decline in quality, and there are some reveals that don’t really feel like reveals anymore. There were so many different connections between all of the characters, but it managed to never feel overly convoluted, at least not in the beginning. There was also a notable lack of special effects for the most part, the pilot was more about the characters than the spectacle, something that I also remember would be the first step in its downfall at the end of the first season, but we’ll get there in time. For now, let’s take a look at how the show started all those years ago.
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The Walking Dead S:02 E:02

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The Walking Dead Season 2

Episode Title: Bloodletting
Original Airdate: 10-23-11

The episode opens with a flashback of the day Rick was initially shot. Shane meets Lori outside of Carl’s school to deliver the news and watches from afar as Lori tells Carl. Cut to present day, Rick runs through a field struggling to carry his son who was just accidentally shot in the woods. Trailing are Shane and the shooter, Otis. Rick comes upon a serene farm and calls for Hershel, as directed by Otis. Hershel examines Carl and informs Rick and Shane that the bullet shattered and he has to remove all six pieces to save Carl. In order to be successful, Hershel needs a long list of medical equipment. Shane and Otis, also a former EMT, volunteer to get everything from a nearby abandoned FEMA station.

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Batman Beyond S:02 Ep:06

Posted on by Elwood Jones

Episode title: Bloodsport

Original air date: October 23, 1999

Throughout the history of DC and Marvel comics there have been a number of times were characters have appeared in either comic which have shall we say bore a resemblance to a character in the rival publication I.e.  Deadpool >Deathstroke, Green Arrow>Hawkeye, Darkseid>Thanos, Superman>Captain America and the list goes on. True this could be seen as one party trying to cash in on the success of another, or if anyone who’s ever taken a writing class will tell you, the first lesson you learn is that there are no original ideas only variants.

This week sees another of those examples as Stalker, a big game hunter arrives in neo-Gotham determined to hunt what he considers to be the ultimate prey….Batman.

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Saturday Morning Memories: Swat Kats

Posted on by Bubbawheat

Welcome to the first entry of Saturday Morning Memories. I haven’t watched Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron probably since it was first on TV, there wasn’t a whole lot I remembered about the show other than one of the cats were named Razor and it was a pretty fun cartoon. This time around I rewatched the first four episodes. I tried to watch all of them with my eight year old daughter Jena, but she wasn’t all that interested and only watched most of two episodes with me over the course of a couple days. Before I get too far into it, I will say that it was both better and worse than I remembered, but it did bring back a lot of memories of the show.
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold S01 E19

Posted on by laundryroombruce

Episode Title: “Legends of the Dark Mite!”

Original Air Date: May 29, 2009

It’s quite the unplanned coincidence that the same week that Bat-Mite #1 is released by the new DC You, I review the first appearance of Bat-Mite in Brave and the Bold. This imp from the 5th dimension has a ton of potential for this series, but the question is will he be used to his fullest, or seem like a gimmick.

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Daredevil S:01 E:09

Posted on by Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne

Super hardcore bloody ninja fighting, GO! Well, as story framing devices go, it’s kinda hard to beat a super hardcore bloody ninja fight, I guess. Although how Daredevil is walking around without super intense pain and organ damage for four more episodes is left as an exercise to the viewer… Continue reading Daredevil S:01 E:09