My One Big Eyeball, week of 12/03/07

That's one a week assuming a frickin' powercut doesn't lose me half a recap and irritate the hell out of me, of course. Anyway.

Battlestar Galactica 3x18 - The Son Also Rises
Episode Grade: B-

Written by Michael Angeli, which is notable because he also wrote "The Woman King". (And, seriously, read that recap, it's loving hilarious. The only thing I love more than Jacob loving an episode and going crazy drawing imaginary lines between everything is Jacob completely hating everything about an episode, up to and including the chip Michael Angeli inside his head, who is a horrible person in every way that a person can be horrible. The thing that makes you awesome is the thing that makes you suck, and all that.)

So, right. 41,399 souls in the fleet, which is one less than last week, which means at least one baby has been born since Kara died, since somebody else dies before the credits. That somebody is Baltar's lawyer, which is cool because his replacement, Romo Lampkin (AKA Badger), is rather excellent. He manipulates anyone and everyone, especially Lee, and wears sunglasses inside so nobody can tell what he is thinking, even though they probably couldn't anyway, and steals random shit all the time. So now it looks like Gaius might actually have a fighting chance in this trial, somehow.

So, Romo Lampkin, plus some of the Kara death fallout (the birthday card with the moustache got to me way more than anything last week did), do a fine job of making up for the bad parts of the episode, where for the second time running, Michael Angeli turns somebody into a serial killer for no reason whatsoever, only this time it's not some doctor we've never seen before, it's Kelly, who has hung around the background all the time and never really done anything significant. And that can break a man, I guess. So he starts bombing lawyers (which is totally OK, because lawyers are soulless, right? Don't you hate pants?). Oh, Michael Angeli.

Next week is part one of the season finale, so Baltar's trial might actually finally happen! Oh, my heart is all a-flutter.


Lost 3x12 - Par Avion
Episode Grade: A

Yeah, as "Flashes Before Your Eyes" already proved; it may have jumped 100 Dharma-branded sharks already, but that doesn't mean Lost can't occasionally be totally awesome.

So, Claire flashbacks this week, which have a long-standing tradition (well, OK, there have been two prior to this) of being A-grade episodes. In these, we learn that when she was younger, Claire was a goth, and was seriously hot. Oh, and DADDY ISSUES, of course; Jack's daddy is her daddy, which they basically told us already. Yeah, OK, we still don't particularly learn anything, but Claire was HOT. And, y'know, they can still be enjoyable to watch without teaching us much of anything. Also, she crashed her car into a truck and put her mother into a coma, which is something we didn't already know, I suppose.

Now, last week, when I said that Locke, Kate & Sayid were the least annoying characters they had left, I was forgetting Claire. Which I think is understandable since she has not actually appeared in any episodes for about a year, I don't think. But, well, she's a sweet girl, there's not really much else to her, and they give her just about the right proportion of appearances to make that not boring. OK.

So, she hatches a kooky plan to get off the island by catching a bird and strapping a note to its leg. Wait, I thought we agreed that trying to get off the island makes you a bad person, DENTIST. Anyway, Jin and Sun help out, but then Desmond and Charlie deliberately sabotage it because somehow this will cause yet another Charlie Is Going To Die to come to pass. Plus Desmond knows that he'll be able to catch a bird himself later. So, Claire gets mad at them for being weird, and for sabotaging her cunning plan, but then Desmond comes clean about the whole "I am psychic, and Charlie Is Going To Die" thing, and Claire is forgiving and Claire and Charlie are somehow capable of being really sweet again, in spite of "Fire + Water"? Dude.

So! Locke, Kate, Sayid and Danielle, plus prisoner Mikhal, the Russian fella from last week, continue their search for Otherville, and come upon a perimeter of pylons. While Kate and Sayid talk about shoe shopping or whatever, Locke gets bored and shoves Mikhal into the perimeter, which totally fries his brain like the hands of blue. Sayid yells at him about this plus blowing up the cabin last week, Locke does his best to remind us of the times when we have suspected him of being an Other, and then they cut down a tree and climb over the perimeter and find Otherville. And Jack! He is running towards them, looking like he's trying to escape, but actually, he's just playing some AMERICAN FOOTBALL (rah rah rugby soccer blah blah what) with Tom! And looking way happier than Jack ever does! Totally one of the best OMGWTFBBQ endings they have yet pulled.

All in all, can't wait for Claire's season four episode! Provided the ratings don't dwindle so much that the show gets cancelled before then, of course.


Scrubs 6x13 - My Scrubs
Episode Grade: A-

Ah man, what an appropriate title! Because this totally was my Scrubs, the one I've been missing since approximately the end of last season (though, on reflection, I'd lump the last three episodes of that in with the downturn of this season). Many, many hilarious moments, and a whole lot of continuity porn, eee. Still a little bit of wildly uncomfortable Family Guy stuff with the massage parlour trip with Kelso at the start, but it quickly picked up with a lot of jokes that, I think, started out like the not-really-funny stuff that's been going on all season, but found their way to funny again by bringing them onto a further level. No finer example than the caveman thoughtful voiceover fantasy sequence within a fantasy sequence.

That plus "And so in the end, I knew that what Elliot said about the way things were had forever changed the way we all thought about them." Hee hee! Just make sure it's not a one off, you guys! Please?