TV Reviews
Stargate SG-1: Hathor
Stargate SG-1: Hathor in season 1 of the series is one that I actually like in some ways and one that is disturbing in other ways.
In this episode, the Goa’uld Hathor takes control of our very strong SG-1, and most other males at the SGC. Because the men …
Stargate SG-1: Into the Fire
Season 3 of Stargate SG-1 picks up where the second season cliffhanger left off. In Stargate SG-1: Into the Fire, Jack O’Neill makes the sacrifice of allowing a Goa’uld to enter his body. This is done to protect his two teammates. Sam and Daniel watch in …
Stargate SG-1: Out of Mind
Stargate SG-1: Out of Mind is the final episode of the second season, and it’s the first part of a cliff hanger. It brings with it a tragic loss. I mourn it to this day. Alas, it was the end of the shag, of Michael Shanks’ …
Stargate SG-1: 1969
1969 was indeed a very good year, at least for the team members of SG-1 when they end up walking through the Stargate and finding themselves not in their own time anymore.
Stargate SG-1: 1969 is really a super fun episode that I adore watching. The team’s reaction to their …
Stargate SG-1: Show and Tell
One of my very small pet peeves about Stargate SG-1 is that oftentimes in the early years, if there was a child’s story, it was always Richard Dean Anderson’s character who had the poignant connection with the child. The only exception was Cassandra, the alien child Sam had …
Stargate SG-1: One False Step
Stargate SG-1: One False Step is one of my very favorite episodes of the series, mainly because there is such wonderful interplay between the characters of Jack (Richard Dean Anderson) and Daniel (Michael Shanks). These two performers have such awesome comedic timing. They can speak in unison, …
Stargate SG-1: Serpent’s Song
Stargate SG-1: Serpent’s Song is an interesting entry in the SG-1 second season. Peter Williams returns as Apophis, seeking asylum from the Tau’ri of all people. Unable to leave the injured Goa’uld behind, SG-1 brings him back to Earth. Then things really start to heat up, …
Stargate SG-1: Holiday
One of the most riveting episodes in season 2 of Stargate SG-1 is called Holiday. It’s a standout episode for Michael Shanks, who not only plays his usual character of Doctor Daniel Jackson, but also the part of Ma’chello, an aged and infirmed inventor of things to defeat …
Stargate SG-1: A Matter of Time
Stargate SG-1: A Matter of Time isn’t one of my favorite episodes of the series, probably because Michael Shanks is only in one scene, the last one. This is because his girlfriend had given birth to his child, and he took some time off. For me, Daniel …
Stargate SG-1: The Fifth Race
Close to perfection: that’s what Stargate SG-1: The Fifth Race is. This second season episode is pivotal to the Stargate SG-1 lore, and it’s extremely well done.
In this show, Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) accidentally downloads the knowledge of the Ancients. Unfortunately, he can’t process it. …
Stargate SG-1: Touchstone
Stargate SG-1: Touchstone continues on the second season with style and adventure. Here, the team has to find what amounts to a weather machine that has been stolen from a planet SG-1 has recently visited. In fact, the inhabitants believe that the SGC stole it. Watching …
Stargate SG-1: Spirits
Love it, love it, love it! That’s how I describe my feelings towards Stargate SG-1: Spirits. This second season episode doesn’t get a lot of acclaim, but it’s been a hit with me from the first time I saw it.
The opening scene catches us off guard with …
Stargate SG-1: The Tok’ra Part 2
Stargate SG-1: The Tok’ra Part 2 concludes the story where the Tau’ri are introduced to new allies, the Tok’ra.
The most dramatic moment comes when Sam’s dying father actually becomes a Tok’ra, allowing a symbiote to join with him. We first met Jacob in the Secrets episode and that’s …
Stargate SG-1: The Tok’ra Part 1
Midway through the second season of Stargate SG-1, there was a two-part episode that gave us more information on the Tok’ra race, which had been introduced earlier in the year in the episode In the Line of Duty. Stargate SG-1: The Tok’ra Part 1 is an interesting episode.
However, …
Stargate SG-1: Bane
Stargate SG-1: Bane gives us a lot of big,huge, honkin’ bugs, as Jack O’Neill says. Opening scene is a hoot; I love it. Essentially, Teal’c gets stung and then has a really nasty reaction.
One of the pleasures of this episode is Tom McBeath as Harry Maybourne. …
Stargate SG-1: Secrets
Much as I don’t like Jaffa-centered stories, I’m also not fond of the Abydonian storylines on this series either. Stargate SG-1: Secrets, however, is a story that takes place in good part on Abydos. It’s been one Abydonian year to the day that Daniel left the planet …
Stargate SG-1: Family
Stargate SG-1: Family is the second of the Jaffa-centered episodes. This time, Teal’c’s son has been kidnapped by Apophis, and SG-1 goes to save the day. Unfortunately, Teal’c gets a shock when he discovers his wife, Drey’auc, has dissolved their marriage and remarried, all in an attempt …
Stargate SG-1: Message in a Bottle
Stargate SG-1: Message in a Bottle is a good episode that isn’t a big favorite, but is still a very enjoyable show with some nice moments in it.
In this second season program, SG-1 finds an object off-world and bring it back to the SGC to study. This is …
Stargate SG-1: Thor’s Chariot
Stargate SG-1: Thor’s Chariot is a follow up to the wonderful Thor’s Hammer episode from season 1. Now that the team has destroyed the hammer in order to save Teal’c, the planet is being overrun by Goa’uld. When the SGC learns of the events, they have to …
Stargate SG-1: Need
The early years of Stargate SG-1 are often called the vintage years. Jonathan Glassner was leading the team of producers, directors, and writers, and he just brought forth a slew of quality product. Stargate SG-1: Need is another one of these shows, one that can and is …
Stargate SG-1: The Gamekeeper
Stargate SG-1: The Gamekeeper continues the tradition of great SG-1 episodes. This one stars the remarkable Dwight Schultz. He’s an incredible actor, and he really does a great job as the Gamekeeper. He’s worth watching all by himself.
The main plot in Stargate SG-1: The Gamekeeper is …
Stargate SG-1: Prisoners
Stargate SG-1: Prisoners is a huge favorite of mine. I can watch this episode over and over again, and I have, many times.
In this show, the team end up being transported to a prison colony for what Jack terms, jaywalking. Now, they have to figure out how …
Stargate SG-1: In the Line of Duty
Stargate SG-1: In the Line of Duty is an okay episode, but quite honestly isnt’ a big favorite of mine. The main point of the story involves Samantha Carter becoming the unwilling host to what the SGC thinks is a Goa’uld. In actuality, this is the show …
Stargate SG-1: The Serpent’s Lair
Season 2 of Stargate SG-1 opens with an emotional conclusion to the season-ending arc of the prior year. It’s a gripping tale that will bring tears to many, smiles to even more, and an absolutely wonderful ending that spawned the legendary Space Monkey.
Stargate SG-1: The Serpent’s Lair has …
Stargate SG-1: Within the Serpent’s Grasp
Stargate SG-1: Within the Serpent’s Grasp is the last episode of season 1, the end of the 3-story season-ending arc, and the first of the 2-part cliffhanger. That’s a lot of show!
As mentioned in prior reviews, Daniel Jackson has a way of getting through to Jack O’Neill, and …
Stargate SG-1: Politics
Stargate SG-1: Politics continues the season 1 ending arc with the first of the annual ‘clips’ shows. Essentially, for budget purposes, one episode of SG-1 per season is some kind of show where the bulk of the story is shown using clips of past episodes. The new …
Stargate SG-1: There But For the Grace of God
The first season of Stargate SG-1 wraps up with a three-story arc that actually then leads into a cliffhanger for season two. The first story of this arc is There But For the Grace of God, one of the best shows in the series and this is definitely …
Stargate SG-1: Tin Man
I really enjoy this season one entry. Stargate SG-1: Tin Man is a bit of fun for me. Our team is cloned, well, actually, they become synthetic copies of themselves, and the process of them finding that out and dealing with their emotions is just awesome.
Richard Dean …
Stargate SG-1: Solitudes
Stargate SG-1: Solitudes has some great moments in it and continues to be an episode I think of fondly. There’s a lot of angst in it, and we see the determination to survive and to never give up on many of the team’s faces.
A Stargate malfunction tosses Jack …
Stargate SG-1: Enigma
Stargate SG-1: Enigma is another good episode from the first year of this great TV series. Actually, for the Daniel lovers, I think it’s just cool to see him covered in ash. He’s so cute!
This episode also has one of my favorite bloopers. There’s a moment …
Stargate SG-1: Cor-ai
Continuing on with season one of Stargate SG-1, the episode entitled Cor-ai has some fine moments in it.
The one thing that has always confused me about this episode, though, is just why Jack O’Neill is so snarky with Daniel Jackson. The two, along with Sam Carter, spend the …
Stargate SG-1: Singularity
Stargate SG-1: Singularity from season one is just a great one to watch. One of the main lures is the friendship of Daniel Jackson and Samantha Carter (Michael Shanks and Amanda Tapping). It’s one of the shows where they really get to work together a lot and let …
For Warrick Episode
I finished watching the latest season of CSI: Las Vegas season 9, first episode entitled,
“For Warrick”. I could not believe it myself that they have actually killed Warrick’s character in this series. I have like seen him in all of the episodes of the CSI Las Vegas. He was …
John and kate plus 8
John and kate plus 8 is a reality show about a young couple who have sextuplets and a pair of older twin sisters.
The show started when the sextuplets were just babies until today were their four years old. It just seems like i got addicted to this …
Bodylicious TV Programme, NDTV Good times
NDTV Times is a TV Channel which started about a couple of years back. This channel addresses the issues of the cosmopolitan and urban global Indian audience. We are avid watchers of this channel. This channel has very interesting programmes like ‘Bodylicious’. This programme has three types of …
Home Improvement: To Build or Not to Build
I was watching the tail end of a Home Improvement episode today at lunch “To build or Not to build” and will say I was very impressed with it.
I wasn’t sure what the episode was about at first, but it turns out it was a Mother’s Day episode revolving …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fool for Love
Well, it only took a couple of seasons but we are finally finding out a bit more about the vampire character Spike. In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Fool for Love, we get a lot of flashbacks to his past. We learn he was called William the Bloody …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Family
Willow’s girlfriend Tara has been around for some time now but has always been a bit vague in terms of her past. That’s why I actually liked the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Family.
We learn a bit more about Tara’s family, a group of witches who seem to treat women …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Place Like Home
Have we forgotten about Willow lately? It seems that she doesn’t have too much of a role in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes lately. She’s there, just not very prominent.
Take the episode No Place Like Home. Buffy is starting to feel like something weird is going on at …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Replacement
Every once in a while, I’ll come across a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode that uses a concept that has been done maybe a dozen times in various other shows and cartoons. The Replacement is one of those episodes.
Once again, the series decides to focus on one of the …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Real Me
Well, it took 5 seasons but Buffy the Vampire Slayer finally has a sister (I say that because most shows try to mix things up a bit by adding another character through a pregnancy; usually a sibling). But, the interesting thing about the episode “Real Me” is the sister …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy versus Dracula
I finally got around to watching the 5th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer today; starting with the first episode, Buffy versus Dracula.
It wasn’t a bad episode but not quite as good as I expected it to be.
As you can guess by the title, Buffy gets to face the …
Mr. Monk Goes Underwater
When the episode “Mr. Monk Goes Underwater” first aired, I had to be somewhere and didn’t get a chance to watch it. Tonight, I finally got a chance and found it to be entertaining.
This was definitely a funny episode because Monk, who is afraid of everything, finds himself onboard …
The Simpsons: The Wife Aquatic
I finally got to see the entire Simpsons episode The Wife Aquatic last night. And, overall, I feel I wasn’t very impressed with it.
The plot of this episode started out promising. Marge wants to go to an island that presented plenty of childhood memories. But, when they get there, …
Hogans Heroes: The Well
I haven’t been able to watch the show Hogan’s Heroes on TV Land recently but finally got a chance to watch an episode of it today. And, it turned out to be an episode I hadn’t seen before; “The Well.”
Overall, I feel this episode is one of the better …
Monk - The TV series
I like watching comedy TV shows but they have to be interesting as well. I don’t like vulgar comedy or that which is developed from some one’s mistakes and mishaps. A comedy show can also be intelligent.
There have been many such comedy series - one of …
Jerry Springer
I was flipping through the channels the other day on the television set and I just had to stop and take a second look because I was sure that I was seeing things. Two girls were ripping at each other’s hair; one pulled a big hairball off of …
Oprah Winfrey
I tried to watch recently on two different occasions. I had a hard time getting through each episode. The first time, I gave her the benefit of the doubt; I thought it was just the topic that I was not very interested in. She was really …
Doraemon
I am watching Doraemon for many years,like about 12 years,and I have seen all of his episodes.When I was a kid,I just loved t watch this show,and till now I watch Doraemon.It is fun,and it is very relaxing.This TV show is about a futuristic cat called Doraemon,who came to …
The Big Bang Theory: Bath Item Gift Hypothesis
I have started watching The Big Bang Theory on CBS on Mondays at 8:00PM and just watched “Bath Item Gift Hypothesis” on December 15, 2008. It was a very funny episode and definitely hooked me as a fan of the show!
Sheldon is one of the funniest characters on …
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