SF Debris Feed http://www.criticswatch.com/ Critics Watch en <![CDATA[SF Debris: TOS: The Menagerie (Part 1)]]>

Part 1. Opinionated Star Trek Episode Guide looks at the first part of the only two-parter of the original series. This part focuses on the original part of the episode before it becomes a clip show. Spock commandeers the Enterprise to bring his former captain to the only planet where going there might invoke the death penalty. Sounds like a plan, huh.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Sat, 19 May 2012 13:02:10
<![CDATA[SF Debris: VOY: Q2 (Part 1)]]>

Part 1. Opinionated Voyager Episode Guide skips ahead to look at the final Q episode ever, Q2, starring John de Lancie's son as Q's son. Neelix loses his mouth, so it's not all bad.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Fri, 18 May 2012 12:02:15
<![CDATA[SF Debris: VOY: Q2 (Part 2)]]>

Part 2. The conclusion: Q's son must learn how to be a Q by doing things no Q would ever do. Somehow this plan fails.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Fri, 18 May 2012 12:02:11
<![CDATA[SF Debris: VOY: The Q And The Grey (Part 1)]]>

Part 1. Opinionated Voyager Episode Guide looks at the next chapter of the Q arc, as Q decides he's going to mate with Janeway. It's even worse than it sounds. For those who miss the old days, this is even angrier than it originally was.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Tue, 15 May 2012 12:01:56
<![CDATA[SF Debris: VOY: The Q And The Grey (Part 2)]]>

Part 2. Q's plan to sleep with Janeway was actually the only way to stop a war - that's actually what every man says. See the mighty Q reduced to a mere shadow of what they once were in the stumbling fingers of Kenneth Biller.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Tue, 15 May 2012 12:01:54
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Gargoyles: The Mirror]]>

We continue our look at Gargoyles with The Mirror. Demona uses a magic mirror to summon the Trickster Puck. She seems surprised, then, that he spends the entire episode dicking her around.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Mon, 14 May 2012 13:03:27
<![CDATA[SF Debris: VOY: Real Life]]>

Opinionated Voyager Episode Guide looks at Real Life, or at least, the claim of what real life is. The Doctor creates a fake family to experience family life, and being Voyager it all goes terribly wrong.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Sat, 12 May 2012 12:02:07
<![CDATA[SF Debris: VOY: Death Wish (Part 1)]]>

Opinionated Voyager Episode Guide picks up where TNG left off, looking at the aftermath of the Q arc there and how it begins again here. In this installment, a member of the Q wants to kill himself, and through contrivance it's up to Janeway whether he lives or dies. Guess how that works out.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Fri, 11 May 2012 00:02:02
<![CDATA[SF Debris: VOY: Death Wish (Part 2)]]>

Part 2. The hearing continues, giving us Q's odd look at history-shaping impacts, Tuvok's annoyance with his own client, and a scarecrow! Bonus: the image of Q in a nightcap.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Fri, 11 May 2012 00:01:58
<![CDATA[SF Debris: DS9: Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges]]>

Opinionated DS9 Episode Guide kicks off our mind screw theme with the return of Section 31. Bashir is pulled into a complicated plot involving Romulans, Dominion bioweapons, and grapefruit juice, the horror!

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Critics Watch Movie Review Sat, 05 May 2012 13:02:13
<![CDATA[SF Debris: TNG: Relics]]>

Opinionated Next Gen Episode Guide looks at Relics, the one where they find Scotty. Scotty must team up with LaForge in a desperate attempt to save the ship from aliens smart enough to build a Dyson Shell but dumb enough to build it around an unstable star.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Thu, 03 May 2012 12:02:30
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Ghost in the Shell (Part 1)]]>

Part 1: A collection of cybernetic ventriloquist agents must stop a garbage man and an invisible guy from hacking some woman's brain to disrupt a conference. Enjoy as I try to edit around the nudity and gore.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Tue, 01 May 2012 23:02:05
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Ghost in the Shell (Part 2)]]>

Part 2: The Puppet Master makes his, or her, or its, appearance, accompanied by two of this films favorite elements: bare boobs and exploding bodies.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Tue, 01 May 2012 23:02:04
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Ghost in the Shell (Follow-up)]]>

Follow-up: A brief look at some of the film's aspects.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Tue, 01 May 2012 23:02:01
<![CDATA[SF Debris: VOY: Relativity]]>

Opinionated Voyager Episode Guide looks at Relativity, because while Star Trek loves to muck with time, nobody mucks like Voyager. Everything is slapped about with wild abandon until the end when it's all made better. Plus, Janeway literally drives a man mad, we all knew it was coming.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:02:00
<![CDATA[SF Debris: TAS: Yesteryear]]>

We kick off the Opinionated Animated Series Episode Guide with the classic Yesteryear. Spock ceases to exist in time, and to restore himself must return to his youth to stop his tiny shorts-wearing self from being killed by a lizard lion, with the help of his bear pet thing. It was the seventies, go with it.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:02:15
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Gargoyles: Awakening (Part 1)]]>

Part 1: A group of medieval gargoyles are betrayed by their Scottish allies and forced to sleep for a thousand years. Then Riker wakes 'em all up and hilarity ensues.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:02:43
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Gargoyles: Awakening (Part 2)]]>

Part 2: The Gargoyles have to rob three different facilities in one night, to get three disks totaling (rounded up) about 5 megs, or one billionth the amount of space currently dedicated to lolcat images.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:02:41
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Deep Space 9 - The Visitor]]>

Opinionated DS9 Episode Guide continues it's mucking with time theme with the DS9 entry. Sisko seems to die, so Jake grows up into Tony Todd to try to sort it out, and break tea cups.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:02:07
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Clone Wars: Nightsisters Trilogy (Part 2)]]>

Part 2. Asajj and the Nightsisters plot their revenge against Dooku by creating a new and extremely powerful assassin and... giving it to Dooku. Okay, it make more sense in context.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:02:15
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Clone Wars: Nightsisters Trilogy (Part 1)]]>

Part 1: We step into the world of Star Wars for the first time with this look at a season 3 trilogy. In this part, Asajj Ventress is betrayed by her boss, because his boss is feeling a little insecure. She doesn't take it well.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:01:59
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Cowboy Bebop: Asteroid Blues & Ballad of Fallen Angels]]>

We kick off our look at anime with Cowboy Bebop. Thrill as a team of space bounty hunters strive to have the destruction they wreak total less than the actual bounty they'll get for the dog. Plus, a cute dog.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:02:31
<![CDATA[SF Debris: TNG: Cause and Effect]]>

Opinionated Next Gen Episode Guide looks at this classic story by Brannon Braga, and I am not being sarcastic. The Enterprise blows up, but they get another chance to not blow up, and then they screw that one up too. Repeat.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:02:03
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Firefly: Shindig]]>

We return to the world of Firefly with Shindig. Mal and Inara's complicated relationship comes to a head when he punches a guy at a high society function, and thus will duel to the death. Includes my rant about impractical sword fights.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:02:36
<![CDATA[SF Debris: Babylon 5 - Voices in the Dark]]>

A look at the final Babylon 5 release, this two story direct-to-dvd anthology. Demonic possession and stopping future Hitler are both explored in this tale, plus the occasional bodily fluid gag.

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Critics Watch Movie Review Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:02:32