Category: mar2002

He’s from the streets, yo. He wears an earring. By Matt Springer March 09, 2002 “I don’t want or need you to bail me out again,” Diana/Sheridan said to Brian in the episode’s opening moments. Hon, you’re the most crapola waitress I’ve ever seen. Maybe you need a hand, eh? And so she gets one, in the form of bartender…

John, you are a dog person. By Diana Estigarribia March 20, 2002 If you’re not a Doggett fan, you can just stop reading right now. Ahh…still there, I see. Even those of you who are anti-Doggetts have come around now, haven’t you, after seeing “Audrey Pauley”? Just as I suspected. “Audrey Pauley” is the episode this Doggett-Reyes shipper has been…

Worshipers? This ought to liven up my endless tragic voyage. By Dan Wiencek March 19, 2002 Who doesn’t like space pirates? Well, most sci-fi writers and fans, I guess. Gene Roddenberry flat-out forbade any space-pirate plots on Star Trek, and once he kicked off Rick Berman wasted no time in putting out a space pirate story (a two-parter, no less). Then there…

This episode rules. Also, down with Eddie Cahill’s Forehead! By Sarah Kuhn March 06, 2002 OK, after watching this episode, I have decided that my new hobby is going to be picketing The WB for 1) Making us wait weeks upon end before returning to Mr. Tall, Dark and Tormented and 2) Replacing it throughout said weeks with sucky Glory Days,…

Wow. Good really IS dumb. By Matt Springer March 09, 2002 I’ve been told that Fridays on most soaps are big days, but that they also end often in a cliffhanger. Well, lookit me. All hangin’ and cliffy and all that. But before we can hang off a cliff, there’s forty-four minutes of nothing much happening to watch. Eve, Ivy,…

Insane in the membrane. Insane in the brain! By Sarah Kuhn March 13, 2002 Hey, it’s the Twilight Zone episode. Or the Outer Limits episode. Or the every single incarnation of Star Trek obligatory mind-fuck episode. The episode that twists everything and goes, [booming, Klingon voice] “Is this reality? Well, is it???” However you slice it, it’s a premise that’s been dragged out time and again…

Scully, your son must die. By Diana Estigarribia March 05, 2002 Carter and Company tackle another of the remaining questions in The X-Files mytharc–i.e., just what the heck did Scully give birth to?–in the opener of a fast-paced edge-of-seater. You may have wondered what ever happened to that spacecraft discovered by Scully on her little African jaunt a while back. Well, seems…

Timmy, nooooooooo! By Matt Springer March 04, 2002 We begin today’s “adventure” in a coffee shop. Hey, I thought this was a supernatural soap, not an episode of Friends! I want some spells, I want some excitement, I want some Zombie Charity! Right quick! Fortunately, I don’t have long to wait, as we’re soon treated to Luis having a creepy/sick/riotous flashback…

Will the Pill’s not-so-excellent adventures. By Sarah Kuhn March 05, 2002 Apparently, the Alias writers decided that it’s time to start inflicting torture on the audience rather than Sydney or one of the other hapless SD-6ers, as this week’s episode is all about Will the Pill. Personally, I’d rather have my teeth yanked out whilst wearing an unbecoming cherry-red wig than watch…

Bad Hair Scully makes Syd’s life hell. By Sarah Kuhn March 12, 2002 So, yeah. Sydney looks like some woman from an old-ass Rambaldi prophecy. After partially decoding the writing on the Syd-centric page, the DSR, which is basically the X-Files division of the National Security Agency, decides they need to stick their busybody noses into Sydney’s biz-iz-ness. Incidentally, the…