Tv Nibble: V is like the smallest firework in the box… Marginally better than a Sparkler!

I have criticised V no end since it began, but this weeks episode certainly trumps the others, but it wasn’t that hard to do. This week’s episode “It’s Only the Beginning” concludes the first four episode “Pod” and leaves us “wanting more” (more descent Tv!)

It seems then that the first four episodes, which I guess were supposed to tell a story, ended up telling us that the V’s are bad and more are on the way and that if the Human’s are to survive they must stop being predictable and beat the V’s at their own game.

Ok… Did we need 4 episodes to tell us that? Even from the trailer we knew more V’s were coming and lets be honest, we know the formula for an alien invasion show, this weeks ending was no big surprise.

Certainly the Joshua, the Fifth Column and John May are all more interesting to me than a, admittedly nice, CG camera pull out across the milky way. Also, what are Anna’s plans for Tyler and what does “He is the One” really mean? I know V is not scheduled to run for very long, but they could at least put a little more mystery in to keep us interested, to make us speculate on plot twists.

Oh well, I hope the next “pod” delivers at least more action, if not better scripts, acting and intrigue. Until 2010, this is goodbye for V.

Caravans Are Back

Top Gear returned to our screen a couple of weeks ago and this week will see episode 3.

So far the boys have driven across Romania in search of a legendary road built up in the mountains, in a visually beautiful Grand Tour, filled with laughs and fast cars.

Last week they set out to design and build a better electric car for less than you can buy a G-Whizz and as always with Top Gear, they were ambitious but rubbish… but maybe not as rubbish as the G-Whizz.

This week however sees the return of that staple of Top Gear comedy, the caravan. Is there really enough laughs left in caravanning to supply yet another episode of the best comedy to come out of the BBC in years? The answer, probably!

So make sure you tune in this week for the best of British humour!

My Two Cents is 100…

…Posts Old!

Even in the short time that Two Cents has been alive we’ve seen some miraculous events.

We’ve witnessed the birth of Dollhouse, Fringe, Rescue Special Ops, Stargate: Universe, Caprica and Flash Forward. Together we witnessed the miracle renewal of both Dollhouse and Chuck and we were there to witness that spectacle-of-Tv-that-never-was Epitaph One.

But we’ve also had some hard times too. Since Two Cents has arrived on the internet The Unit, Reaper and Dollhouse have all come to an unfortunate end. I’m pretty sure that it’s not my fault though…

As we head into the next 100 posts we have even more excitement to look forward too. The last ever series of Lost, the return of everyone’s favourite spy Chuck, the finale of Supernatural, Bill Adama’s return in Caprica and lots more.

It’s been a rollercoaster of a time and I hope you’ve all enjoyed reading this space just as much as I have enjoyed filling it.

This has been My Two Dollars… Until next time…

Tv Nibble: Heroes Try to Keep it in the Family

This weeks episode of Heroes “Thanksgiving” had some good moments and some corny-as-hell moments too. The focus was very family orientated. Noah and Claire, Samuel and the Circus and Peter and Nathan all had equal air time.

Claire and Noah did little more than fill time. While entertaining enough there was little that was ground breaking. The fact that Noah and Sandra seem to take Claire’s newfound bisexuality in stride speaks volumes about how accepting they have become.

Peter and Nathan confront Angela about the dead body in her lockup. Over dinner she confesses all. We have never seen Angela in such a weak moment before, but the way she tries to justify her actions says so much about how she looks at the world. She tells Nathan (Sylar) that he has his own memories and he looks like he always did and that is what matters. However, it seems that that is not true as Sylar takes over and holds Peter and Angela hostage.

Sylar’s “take over” moment is very pantomime. I’m really enjoying Nathan’s troubled “who am I” personality, but I hate Sylar (I always have) and I don’t doubt that I am in the majority in saying we’d rather have Adrian Pasdar than Zachary Quinto and if someone has to go it has to be Sylar.

However what was really interesting this week was the discovery that we have a new supervillain in Samuel Sullivan. Before this point he has always been ambiguously good in a self serving way. Now, however, we know that he killed his own brother in his pursuit for power and having gone that far, it seems unlikely that he will turn back. However Samuel is not truly evil, he’s inquisitive, he wants to explore his power to it’s fullest extent, unfortunately he doesn’t really care who he might hurt in his pursuit of this goal… And of course that means somebody is going to have to stop him!

I still have high hopes for this season but it has had some terrible moments. I know its not nice to show favouritism but please, get rid of Quinto and give us some new villains. Hopefully next week Heroes will really step up its game and start to bring all the storylines together and deliver some really fantastic action in the run up to the close of season 4.

Tv Nibble: Don’t Blink or You’ll Miss It

Well, after having too much to say last week for a Nibble, this weeks Flash Forward seems a little on the empty side. Sure there is plenty of story, that is, if you are tuning in to see if Bryce manages to find the love of his life.

But if what you are really interested in is, in fact, the blackout and those responsible then you will find this week’s episode severely lacking. Demetri and Mark decide to disobey orders and head off to Hong Kong (something we’ll pick up next week). Under the stress of having his daughter back in his life Aaron falls out with Mark. No sign of Simon or Lloyd or the Three Star gang.

Really very little happens at all. We learn that Bryce has cancer, but the blackout changed his life and made him feel he had something to live for. That something is a girl in Japan. He learns Japanese and heads off for orient but when he is unable to find the girl he returns home, downtrodden. However, as it turns out he has misread his flash forward and they are destined to meet in a Japanese restaurant in LA.

Hopefully next week will reveal a more interesting plot thread as Mark and Demetri set out in search for the woman that told Demetri when he would die!

Tv Nibble: To Kill The Queen

A couple of weeks ago I talked about The Clone Wars and what a fantastic set piece they delivered us. Unfortunately the follow up episode was lacking something.

This weeks episode “Brain Invaders” was set after the destruction of the weapons factory on Geonosis. The bugs have been driven into submission but still Poggle the Lesser evades capture. Jedi Master Luminara tracks Poggle to the temple, below which dwells the Geonosian Queen.

Her great bloated body is spitting out eggs to bolster the failing ranks of the bugs, while a strange worm keeps the dead enslaved to the hive mind, creating a series of zombie warriors.

This episode felt a little odd within the mythology of the show, I’ve certainly never heard of anything similar to Zombies in the Star Wars mythology but that didn’t really detract from the episode. It certainly wasn’t the best episode but it was fun and by the end Obi-Wan and Anakin had rescued Luminara and Poggle the Lesser was in handcuffs.

Although, how long he’ll remain that way…?

I wonder about the future of the show… I know it’s the Clone Wars, I just wonder if they could take it up to Episode III and then beyond into the Rebellion years, after the formation of the Empire. I would really love to see a Clone Wars take on Revenge of the Sith, they could easily spread it over half a season or so and really explore it in depth… Oh and obviously, make it ten times better!

Tv Nibble: I didn’t get it…

Ok, so I just finished watching this week’s episode of SGU “Life” and I’m pretty confused as to the point of it.

Firstly it did nothing to address last week’s episode. Are we to assume that everything worked out ok and that the water is no loner contaminated? Or has the Destiny not yet arrived at the planet of the chest-burrowing aliens?

The core part of this episode focused on Dr. Rush finding a chair the Ancients used to transfer data from one mind to another. Rush believes that he can use the chair to find the master override code and take control of the ship. However Col. Young refuses to let Rush experiment on any of the crew after a similar device discovered by SG-1 nearly killed the, then, Col. O’Neill.

Rush then invents some data that leads the crew to believe they would be able to go home, if Rush could use the chair. Young doesn’t believe him and Eli discovers the lie. Which all seems rather pointless.

Also Lt. Scott discovers he has a son. Col. Young thinks Col. Telford is sleeping with his wife and the ship’s bicycle Chloe sleeps with the ship’s nutjob Greer.

All in all this episode felt pointless, it resolved nothing from the week before and gave us very little in the way of a story either. A very disappointing episode.