20-second Summaries & Reviews

[sinanju]

Belated reviews, actually, but--reviews nonetheless.

Smallville (WB) -- Lana Lang demonstrates superhuman healing powers as she recovers from multiple fractures (compound? not sure) of her leg in short order, with brief cliched overcoming the pain efforts. Lex is driven further into madness by his father. Clark and Lex demonstrate immense slashy goodness, ending with a 20 second hug complete with expression of ultimate contentment on Lex's face. ("Why does Lex Luthor hate Superman so much in the future?", I ask snippy. "'Hell hath no fury....'--that's why." Summary: For God's sake, just kiss each other already!

Angel (WB) -- This was The Harmony Episode (tm). A lackluster effort overall, with cliches aplenty. Spike appears in small doses and provides a bit of real acting. Fred...not so much. Angel is a humorless jerk. Mercedes McNab (Harmony) is lovely to look at (and I enjoyed the eye candy very much, thank you), but her character can't carry a whole episode. Summary: Mutant Enemy still don't know what they're doing.

Stargate: SG-1 (Sci Fi) -- Someone on the alt.tv.stargate-sg1 usenet group summed it up most succinctly. "The worst Star Trek episode ever written." 'Nuff said.

ER (NBC) -- The adventures of the Indian medical student/intern (whatever the hell she is) in the NICU, or yet another "very special episode" in which we all have our hearts warmed by a "miracle baby's" fight for life. Sorry, I tuned in to watch ER, not NICU. Besides, I'm mostly interested in the characters down in the ER. I watched about 15 minutes, then turned it off. Summary: I just couldn't bring myself to care.

Comments

[snippy]

I can tell you didn't watch ER. The "miracle baby" didn't get a miracle. The ep was about Neela facing her inability to distance herself emotionally while still fighting for her patients. By contrast Abby thought the supervising doc hated her, but in the end said supervisor asked Abby to pick neonatal care as her speciality because she had all the right stuff.

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

We just watched our tape of Smallville and Angel this evening. I didn't find Smallville as slashy as you did, but I did find Lana's recuperative powers amazing. The return of the ex-baddies from previous episodes made me think if The Trio on Buffy. Too much.

Angel: Patrick chuckled at Harmony throughout. Me, not so much. Not at all, in fact. I've never been able to really reconcile the way characters in the Whedonverse manage to conveniently forget/blithely forgive the murderous, treacherous and simply assholish things that other characters have done, simply because the ME staff wants to keep the actors around. Oh, and Angel was a butthead.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Re: slashiness--not even the oh-so-contented hug at the end? I liked the return of the three bad guys; a nice bit of continuity, that--though it makes me wonder how Superman could possibly have a secret identity. Way too many people already know about Clark's powers.

Yes. Angel was a butthead.