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After the truly mediocre season 3, I had little incentive to watch Merlin this year. The first five episodes have been sitting on my hard drive unwatched and I was debating whether I should subject myself to it at all. To my surprise, the first two episodes of the season were very good; mostly due to Santiago Cabrera's Lancelot. The actor managed to make me fall in love with the character;

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After last week's D episode, we get another. Poor continuity, poor plotting, inconsistent characterisation: why is this show so uneven? SFScope has a fantastic review of this episode that is a lot more measured and detailed than I have time to be and which pretty much sums it up. You can read it here http://bit.ly/mXNpvY. This show has so much potential and there is a part of me that truly

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Yay! Evi’s finally dead!Is it my imagination or did that episode make no sense?But yay! Evi’s finally dead.You know what makes a character’s death more emotional? Not knowing that she’d been brought in to die from the second she walked on screen. I fist pumped the air and my only regret is that it wasn’t more drawn out and painful. Actually, my only regret is that it didn’t happen eight episodes

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For an episode that had as its premise one of the most overused concepts in sci-fantasy – the time loop – ‘Audrey Parker’s Day Off’ is probably the best episode of Haven so far. So good in fact that it may be one of my favourite episodes of television ever.From the minute Audrey was woken by Chris at 7:32 on her ‘day off’ to the final scene of her hiding - white-faced and shellshocked - from the

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There was a point during the episode ‘As You Were’ in Season 1 when I found myself contemplating whether it was the worst episode of television I’d ever seen. It turns out it was merely a small taste of the awfulness that would be ‘Roots’ a season later.My disappointment then was minimal. After all, I’d enjoyed the show so far but wasn’t invested in it. Episodes like ‘Fur’ and ‘Butterfly’ had

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Haven is two for three after this weekend’s fantastic episode; arguably the best of the show so far. Admittedly the main ‘trouble’ – about machines coming to life to kill anyone who might come between them and the man who fixes them – was in some places hilariously ridiculous (the first scene had a fisherman being pelted by a load of dead fish by a homicidal boat), the rest of the episode was a

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Dear writers of Haven I apologise profusely for last week’s rant. After the awesome season finale last year I was, I’ll admit, slightly disappointed in the big sloppy mess you served up to me last week. But this week you’ve really come through and have given us one of the best episodes of the show so far. Firstly, Evidence was not in it (hallelujah), you had both a victim of the Troubles and a

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So, Haven is finally back on our screens and the first episode can be summed up in one word. CLUNK. Not to say the first season was a thing of wonder and beauty because it certainly wasn’t. It had its flaws but they weren’t the mythology, direction, acting and characterisation. Plotting? Yeah. But the fundamentals of a show - the things we tune in for every week even if an individual episode is

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With the supernatural mystery series that is Haven returning to our screens on July 15, it’s inspired me to start some speculation on the surprisingly-interesting Stephen King inspired programme. Haven’s first season aired last year and did not exactly send the airwaves buzzing with excitement. It has most noticeably failed the YouTube fan video test of new cultural zeitgeists. Its final episode

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Supernatural is boring, Doctor Who is goddawful, Sanctuary is enjoyable, Chuck has started retconning itself at land speeds so far unrecorded by man and is fast becoming a ludicrous, meaningless mess, and the Vampire Diaries is fricking awesome. How the hell did that happen? What planet have I moved to? Can I get home? Is there a bus? A super sonic jet? I mean, seriously. The highlight of my

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Chuck versus the Break UpScore: B- ‘Chuck the painfully and embarrassingly jealous’ is rolled out for this episode, which has Sarah and Bryce posing as an overly-affectionate couple for a mission. The goodCasey. I love how the guy wanders around listening to everything but just pretends he doesn’t see or hear it. His digs throughout this season about Chuck and Sarah’s relationship are hilarious.

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Chuck versus the SeductionScore: B+Team Chuck have to get the real intersect cipher from former KGB agent Sasha Banacheck (the always-underrated Melinda Clarke ), something that apparently can only be done by having Chuck seduce her. Honestly, they couldn’t come up with a better plan? A solid episode with lots of laughs and the odd embarrassed squirm as CIA super seducer Roan Montgomery (John

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Chuck versus the First DateScore: ATeam Chuck try to get the new intersect cipher back from awesome bad guy ‘Mr Colt’ (Michael Clarke Duncan) unaware that Casey’s been ordered to kill Chuck as soon as the new computer is complete. Believing he’s about to be free from his spy life, Chuck and Sarah go on their “first real date”/”second first date”. The goodI loved this episode so it’s difficult

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Chuck versus the MarlinScore: AIs there a show more blighted by misfortune and network interference than Chuck? Ok, so Firefly got jacked around more but that was Fox and what else do we expect? Just as the show got picked up for a full season, the writer’s strike hit and the season suddenly ended when it was finally starting to pick up pace. As such, “Chuck versus the Marlin” became the season

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Chuck versus the Undercover LoverScore: AAfter last week’s wince fest, Phil Klemmer wrote this Casablanca-inspired gem that is possibly my favourite episode from the first season. Chuck flashes on a "douche bag convention" of Russian arms dealers and in doing so finds out that Casey’s lover Ilsa Trinchina is still alive after faking her own death in Chechnya several years before. As Chuck tries

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Chuck versus the Crown VicScore: CFollowing Sarah’s choice of Team Chuck over Team Bryce, Chuck and Sarah go undercover on a mission to foil a counterfeiter - a mission made more difficult due to Chuck’s jealousy and general all-round idiocy. Meanwhile, Morgan behaves like a dick as well. And if a general sense that this episode was painful bleeds through this review, it’s because it was. The

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Chuck versus the Nemesis Score: B+ What the world needs is definitely more Klingon. Bryce Larkin comes back from the dead with the answers Chuck’s been after and he brings a new nemesis with him. Fulcrum is our bad guy. Write it down. Of course, it’s not the only nemesis referred to by the title. Bryce Larkin is, after all, awesome and it's hard not to feel intimidated by the woman you

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So, having been inspired by the significant improvement in Chuck Season 4 versus the generally-awful Chuck Season 3, I've decided to come off hiatus and finish the Chuck me Tuesdays segments. I'll try to do one a week until I catch up to the current season. How Chucktastic is that?

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...Then please take 5 minutes to complete my survey. I'm doing a statistics course and as part of it I have to conduct a social research project. I've become very interested in online communities and so am investigating how they're formed, who is attracted to them, and why they become involved. If you wish to participate, Click here to take survey. It's conducted through Survey Monkey and is

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This blog is on hiatus. I no longer have the time to write it and was anyway not getting the response from readers that I would have liked. If anyone has an interest in Merlin fan fiction, they can still find my writing over at Mnemosyne77 Merlin fan fiction.

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How bizarrely wonderful was the Sanctuary season finale? After 10 lacklustere episodes of pure mediocrity, episode 11 stepped up the pace and then the double-length season finale was very enjoyable. It was the little things that made the difference (after all, the big things about the show remain ridiculous. The plot line revolved around a gargantuan underwater arachnid that could control the

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So, I'm no longer going to be boring you with fanfiction. This blog isn't really the right place for it anyway. But if you are interested, then you can put an author alert on me at my profile page here. I honestly haven't had much to say about TV at the moment. Merlin finished up, proving once and for all that the writers only had one good season in them. They also realised they had one really

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Alright, this fan fiction thing having run completely out of control, I need a new nick. I've been meaning to ditch 'genfie' for a while anyway and 'Morgana21'? Yeah, I had to come up with something in 10 seconds. My current thoughts are: Repetitive Meme PostModern Trickster Repressed Spinster (courtesy of my brother who's been calling me that since I was about 12) Random Thoughts Looking For

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Ok so, no new recaps because... I got inspired to write more fan fiction. Now it's really getting embarrassing. I'm considering counselling (or at least a 10-step programme to stop me demanding reviews from people).This one's a work in progress. After the serious romance of my previous work, I decided to write a comedy. It's called Body Swap and yes, at this stage I'm considering changing my

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Where have I been the last few weeks? As embarrassing as it is for this satirical recapper to admit, I have been sidetracked by the world of fan fiction. Merlin fan fiction, to be accurate. In researching my rather scathing Merlin review recently, I wandered in to see what fans of the show were doing and... didn't wander out.I was until recently denying to a friend that I would ever admit to this

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So, there's this show called Merlin and it's mostly made for kids. It's a rewritten Smallville set in a rather anachronistic Middle Ages where everyone bathes and Prince Arthur doesn't have songs written about him because he gloriously slaughtered several thousand people and then slept with his half sister. Guinevere and Merlin are servants, Morgana is the King's ward, Prince Arthur is the same

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Having been stuck on a tropical island in a dust storm and being reduced to the Stargate SG1 drinking game, I thought I would republish the rules. They're here.

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Take one drink anytime:Jack says, "Fer cryin' out loud."Jack says, “Bad example”.Teal'c says, "Indeed."Teal'c raises an eyebrowJack cuts off Sam in the middle of her technobabbleJack mispronounces a technical or alien wordSomeone makes a Wizard Of Oz referenceJack and Daniel get into an argument over civil rights (Two sips for “But Jaaacck”)Something splats against the gate's irisA beautiful

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Is it because it's too intelligent and the average TV watcher isn't smart enough? Is it because it takes too much work?Join the discussion over at The Tribal Mind.

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Score: ASo in this analogy, does that make Bryce a smuggled penis?Continuing the “everyone around us has something to hide” theme, Chuck is ordered to investigate Lou’s smuggler ex-boyfriend with predictably disastrous results. Bryce comes back into his life in a somewhat unexpected fashion.Anyone who has over-achieving friends will know the affect they can have on your ambition. In the

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Score: A-Chuck is enamoured of the adorable Lou (played adorably by the adorable Rachel Bilson) but how to woo the sandwich maker when you have a fake girlfriend? A fatal truth serum, fake sex life, nuclear codes, and a tiny Russian gymnast all feature in Chuck’s battle with the truth.The goodOnce again, Chuck's natural heroism comes to the fore. Faced with the seemingly-inevitable death of

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As a writer and a TV watcher, I am extremely ambivalent about 'ships. Human relationships are a very natural thing to write about and when ships are done well they can keep people tuning in week after week...at least until they get sick of the soap opera.But after watching some episodes of Castle (allowed to be mentioned in this blog because it stars sci fi/fantasy god Nathan Fillion - have I

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Score: AAdore him or despise him, Bryce Larkin is an integral part of Chuck and this is the episode where we get the background we’ve been waiting for. Wondering why Bryce got Chuck kicked out of Stanford? (sip). It’s all here, it all makes sense, and it turns Chuck’s perception of his life upside down.The good“It was the worst day of my life, getting kicked out of here.” – Chuck.Zachary Levi and

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Well, if you like genre television then the next month or two is the one to watch. How things perform overseas determines whether we get these shows down south, but with a few new Australian free-to-air channels devoted to genre shows things are definitely looking brighter for us Antipodeans.Here's a list of what's on now or is starting soon:True Blood Season 2 - one of the best shows on

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Score: A-Trust. Who do we trust? Why do we trust them? Who is worthy of our loyalty and …oh hang on…just a moment…yep, it’s another trust episode and so soon after the first.Chuck’s tendency to trust people gets him into trouble again when he tries to help an escaped CIA asset who’s accused of murdering his handlers. One of the few episodes where the B plot (that’s B for Buy More) is more

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Score: A-"This is the part where we hide," – Chuck.Containing so many pop-culture references that I was forced to create a new section in this review called “The geekalicious”, Chuck versus the Sizzling Shrimp has Chuck’s spy life impacting on his real life for the first time. Chuck talks a (yet another young, hot) spy into defecting and is forced to break commitments to friends and family to

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What would happen if J.J. Abrams decided to remake the X Files? Well, you’d probably get a flashy, complicated but ultimately hollow endeavour that only makes sense if you don’t spend too much time wondering about the fact that it makes no sense. It would capture the zeitgeist. It would mysteriously get picked up for a second season. It would start on Australian screens in August 2009 (did you

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Score: B+Trust. Who do we trust? Why do we trust them? Who is worthy of our loyalty and how do we know? People lie to us for our own good and tell the truth to manipulate us. Trust in relationships is one of Chuck’s main themes and ‘Chuck versus the Wookie’ is the first episode devoted to it. Well, that and hot chicks showing a gratuitous amount of flesh.Carina, an undercover DEA agent and

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Score: BBetter on a second viewing, ‘Chuck versus the Tango’ has Chuck on his first mission in the field. You’d think the Government might have given the poor guy a bit of training first. But they didn’t. So he whines a little, flirts a little, dances the woman’s part of the tango and nearly gets tortured but it all turns out well in the end because Sarah and Casey kick some serious ass.The

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Score: C+In their second episode, the writers of Chuck made a serious misstep. “Chuck versus the Helicopter” is silly and clichéd and it’s not surprising that many viewers simply switched off after this episode aired. Chuck suspects Sarah or Casey might be dirty when a Doctor who was trying to get the Intersect out of his head dies in suspicious circumstances. Chuck ends up flying a helicopter,

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Score: A-Fast-paced and absorbing, the pilot episode takes us into the action right off the bat by contrasting video game playing ubergeek Chuck with super-spy hottie Bryce Larkin in action. As Chuck alienates girls at his birthday party with talk of his computer-game inflicted injuries and his long-lost love, Jill, Bryce Larkin breaks into the Intersect computer with some seriously Buffy-esque

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Chuck reviews are incoming. To help you enjoy them, I've developed the "Chuck me" drinking game.Any suggestions are welcome.Take one sip when:Chuck flashesChuck says he’s freaking out or tells someone not to freak outSomeone mentions Bryce LarkinSomeone mentions Chuck getting thrown out of StanfordSomeone mentions JillSomeone says “awesome”Someone calls Devon “Captain Awesome” or “Awesome”There's

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Six months after I waved goodbye to Torchwood Season 2, I've suddenly had requests to recommence my recaps. Australia's ABC has begun playing the series from the beginning on ABC2 and this perhaps has prompted the sudden interest. Now that my schedule has has been freed up, I'm willing to consider finishing off the season but will only do so if I get enough interest. Want Torchwood? Comment and

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Tribal Mind, one of Australia's more successful TV blogs, has coined a new phrase for tricks television writers use to try to maintain interest in a failing show. "Burst the URST" means to resolve the unresolved sexual tension between two characters and as far as TV phrases go, this one is gold.All of David Dale's work can be found at Who We Are, including the URST post.

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I've just discovered that those lucky Australians with Fox8 will be sitting down to Chuck Season 2 from July 1. The station has announced it will begin Season 2 straight after Season 1, meaning Chuck fans will get a straight run through to new episodes.It is, as the man said, Awesome. Nearly awesome enough for me to get Foxtel...but not quite... Chuck you later.PS - for those interested in recaps

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Derivative. Cliched. Silly. All true. So how come I love Chuck so much? I guess it just speaks to my geek.Season 1 of the wacky adventures of the geek-turned-secret-agent has been released in Australia and I can barely contain my inner geek girl. And yet the show shouldn’t work. From its ridiculous premise (electronics store employee gets entire CIA and NSA database downloaded into his brain), to

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I think it's pretty well established that this blog is written by a continuity pedant. A well-constructed show is going to get more kudos from the Recapper than one that's not. It's certainly why the Season 4 finale of Supernatural was a truly awesome piece of storytelling, topping off the best season they've ever produced, and why I suspect the Smallville writers are about to have a lot of very

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Smallville fandom is an unusual bunch. I defy anyone to find another show with such a polarised fan base; most of which live in complex fantasy worlds of their own devising.Don’t get me wrong, this is not necessarily a criticism. Smallville is incredibly literal, has inconsistent characterisation, and no sense of continuity. It’s no surprise then that many fans see the main story as happening in

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With a new contribution by guest writer RLB, the Recapper has started a new area of the site. Called "epic fail", it will contain all of RLB's reviews of movies and TV finales that disappoint.As well as the previous review of Battlestar Galactica, RLB has now reviewed the latest X-Men film. The producers of this should have taken the advice of a certain US President who said, "it's the plot,

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By guest contributor RLBI have seen X-men Origins: Wolverine and I don’t want to hold any punches… it was rubbish.It pains me to say this as X-men is a great franchise (overall) and Hugh Jackman deserves any and all success in life. However, this movie fails, and I mean FAILS to deliver on pretty much any level. The major problem though, is the plot.The first 20 minutes of the movie jump from

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Spock is hot. What? What were you expecting?Some cerebral, intellectual analysis involving lots of large words? This is not a cerebral film, people. This is big explosions and cool special effects and improbable science. This is good acting and fantastic characterisation and, oddly, amazing music. Damn that score was effective. Unfortunately, this is also obvious product placement, women walking

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Wow, it's been a huge month for TV. For those of you still seething over the Battlestar Galactica finale, our guest contributer RLB has given his detailed opinion in a scathing review. RLB rather amusingily stands for "Recapper's Little Brother" and yes, he was the source of the 18 missed phone calls mentioned in my previous post.Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles finished its second season

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“You will know the truth” - bad writing can ruin even the best shows again and again and again.Guest contribution by RLBBackgroundIn 2003 the new re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica blasted onto the small screen with a 3 hour miniseries watched by over 4.5M people in the US, making it the third-most watched program in history on the Sci-Fi ChannelOften compared to shows like “Lost” and “

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Too. Many. Retcons. Can’t. Cope.Night time at the formerly Lair of Lex, now apparently the Lair of Tess. Because running a global diversified multi-national from Smallville makes sense: almost as much sense as CEO of aforementioned diversified multi-national spending most of her time editing a daily newspaper in Kansas.Tess is curled up by the fire, obviously riveted by a large book with the

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After a month of intensive voting and input by a whole SEVEN people, the Recapper announces the definitive "worst scifi/fantasy show" as voted by "some people who could actually be bothered but are in no way representative of anything". And it is....a TIE. Dark Angel and Torchwood have two votes each and take out the award jointly. Personally, I'd have gone more for Tru Calling or Crusade but as

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The Recapper is not a Battlestar Galactica fan. While The Recapper can appreciate the show on technical grounds, The Recapper likes her shows with a sense of humour and BSG is the ultimate "serious, this is very very serious, look at my serious face" show. That's the technical description.But the series finale of the show has caused such a furore on the forums and blogs of the world's geeks that

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Jenny Turner has written a piece about Twilight in the London Review of Books and has expressed everything I wanted to much more accurately and in much more poetic prose. I highly recommend it."It’s not that the books read like Mormon propaganda exactly...(but) religion bulges out in unacknowledged places – in the interest in immortality and eternal bonding, sects, and the very odd and uninformed

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With only two weeks left in the poll on worst show, we have a total of 4 votes for 4 different shows! And not a single vote for Crusade, which I find bizarre. That show was terrible.I had 111 visits to this blog in the last month from 5 different countries. I'm still trying to come to terms with why people choose to comment on posts (or in my case, don't) particularly when some of these people

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Dear Mr Milch and HBOI am respectfully writing to you as per the request of my poor aged mother, now well past her 60th birthday, who discovered Deadwood only in the last year and has now viewed all three seasons of the Emmy and Golden Globe award winning show.She rang me this morning in much consternation over the show and asked me to facilitate the forwarding of the following sentiments to you.

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Remember in season 5 of Buffy when the quality suddenly slumped and we all sat determinedly through 3 seasons of truly awful television wondering why we were still watching? It’s because, in my house and probably in yours, whenever you complained someone said, “trust the Joss, the Joss has a plan”.And thus we come to my preliminary opinion of the Dollhouse, Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku’s latest

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I've mentioned so many bad sci fi/fantasy shows in passing lately that I was inspired to do a poll on the worst shows ever. I had some difficulty with the list. Should I for example include shows, like Primeval, that are still airing? Should I include shows like Lexx that are deliberately, almost gloriously, awful? After having the misfortune to watch some Smallville recently, I was tempted to

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Josh Whedon has a new show? And it's just started in the States? And as soon as I'm allowed to use my unbelievably-maxed-out internet connection again I'll be doing a review? I. Am. Excited.A few questions spring to my mind about the whole thing though. Why oh why is the God of TV writing going back to Fox? What could they have possibly offered him that would encourage him to go through all that

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Only a few weeks after I rather presciently advocated watching True Blood, it has just started on Australian screens. For those of you about to navigate the textual EXTRAVAGANZA that is the new vampire show (and you know who you are), I could not begin to do the show justice like Television Without Pity's Jacob. His fascinating recaps on the show are on their website. Personally, I think he's far

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So, I was trying to do a Top Ten Stargate SG-1 list of episodes that I was possibly going to recap. It was too hard. So here's the Recapper's guide to Stargate SG-1. Thanks go to Wikipedia from whom I shamelessly ripped my episode descriptions.Stargate: The filmDaniel’s dead, sir: Part 1It was buried in the sands of Egypt. But it’s not anymore and we can travel through it to other planets! How

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As promised, I've written my review of Twilight. It can be found here.Please feel free to comment. I know at least one person disagrees with me. I would be very interested in your opinion.

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It’s probably obvious to all my dedicated readers (who will now be sending me recommendations for a universal emoticon of sarcasm) that my enthusiasm for recapping Torchwood has waned significantly in the last year. While 2007 was characterised by a freezing Canberra winter and a number of dedicated Torchwood watchers (and recap readers) in my immediate vicinity, 2008 in the tropical North was

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Bella loves Edward. Edward loves Bella. Bella and Edward won’t have sex because sex is dangerous and evil. Welcome to Twilight, the latest in US-based religious extremism and neo-puritanism currently sweeping the world and making sure all your children are aware of right and wrong. Right of course being puritan morality and wrong being everyone who is different.In some places, of course, Meyer’s

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So, I have a confession to make. I recently had an operation and, while I was recovering with icecream, jelly and a truckload of painkillers, my brother rented Flash Gordon for me to watch. He said it was the perfect recovery TV show and I have to admit that I really enjoyed it. So, regardless of the effect this will have on my reputation (assuming I have one), I've written an argument as to why

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I’m increasingly ambivalent about what’s coming out of the SciFi channel and their decision first to remake and then to cancel their 2007/08 version of Flash Gordon is a prime example.On the one hand, I admire the channel’s tendency to persist with a show that isn’t rating. When compared to networks like Fox, which infamously cancelled Firefly after 13 episodes, SciFi will always inspire some

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Is it just me or are vampires everywhere I look these days? In the last fortnight I've been exposed to the bizarre cult world of Twilight and all I can say after seeing the film and reading all the books is...watch True Blood. It's better. In fact, for its lush production, seventeen layers of subtext, ability to make you truly think (and its tendency to wander over into soft porn on occasion), I

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Meat Team Torchwood. They hunt aliens! They drop their weapons! They trip over their own feet! They’re the most famous secret organisation ever! Stay tuned for the exciting adventures of the Keystone Cops for the New Millennium!Tonight on Torchwood: the most competent member of the team is a chubby, self-recruited haulage company owner and the writers try desperately to convince us that we should

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Developed from 8 webisodes, Amanda Tapping’s new show, Sanctuary, has just started on the sci-fi channel in the US. Both the webisodes, and the new series, are distinguished by being almost completely green-screened. While the webisodes were filmed almost as a stream of consciousness narrative with each episode blending into the next, the concept has been refined into the more familiar 42-minute

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How long has it been since I recapped a Torchwood episode? Three months? I feel like it’s been for freakin’ ever. I can’t even quite remember what I last wrote. Dark City? A noble sacrifice for humanity? Torchwood running around achieving little but exposition in someone else’s story? Oh hang on, that’s this episode. The early episodes of the X-Files I’ve been watching as my “reward” for

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Recapping Torchwood takes a variety of skills and experience (ok, no skills and experience but the sentence had to start in some way) but the most important thing is a permanently-pickled liver, preserved for all eternity by the vast quantities of alcohol required to watch episode after episode of Jack's never-ending obliqueness, Gwen's omnipresent hypocrisy and Owen's indescribable cheek bones

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Torchwood recap writing checklist.Comfy chair (check)Laptop: (check)Episodes of Torchwood and no questions about how they were acquired: (check)Ongoing supply of alcoholic beverages: (check)Checklist done, roll on Season 2.A Cardiff street at night; an old lady presses the button to cross the road; a car pulls up at the light. The old lady looks stunned: it’s some kind of blowfish man driving a

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Once upon a time there was a very low-budget science fiction film called Stargate and despite the fact it only cost a few million to make it was quite a good film and people liked it so much they decided to make a television series based on the same premise. Unfortunately it doesn’t have James Spader in it but we enjoy it anyway. With 10 seasons, more than 200 episodes, a spin-off and two DVD

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Welcome gentle viewers to this evening’s production of the season finale of Torchwood. Tonight’s incoherent Buffy-mined mess is brought to you by Chris Chibnall who we hope will soon be moving on to new projects and leaving Torchwood to other writers. A lot of thought has been given to my rating and while at least one other recapper has given the episode a D, I have considered whether it really

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Previously on Torchwood: Owen met Dianne, Owen lost Dianne, Owen got mauled by a Weevil, Owen wanted to die. And after all that you’d be forgiven for thinking this is going to be an Owen episode. But it isn’t.Cardiff by day, the VOC comes round a corner with a screech of brakes and blares its horn as it races across an intersection without pausing. It pulls up in front of an old building and we

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Previously on Torchwood: Owen met a girl who didn’t want a relationship so he decided he must be in love with her but she left him and now he’s all sad.Now on Torchwood: the first and most abiding rule of any recap is to try to keep people interested; to try and come up with something new. Both I, and I’m sure my readers, are very very tired of the words ‘rip off’, ‘homage’, ‘inspired by’, ‘based

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“Good evening ladies and gentlemen. And how are you this fine evening? I’m the Doctor. No, just the Doctor. Well, not the Doctor per se. In fact, you could say I’m feeling merely a remnant of my former self, seeing as I’m just a hand…in a jar. Why am I a hand in jar? Well, I’m not entirely sure. You see, I’d only recently come into being when all of a sudden there was a sharp pain and I was

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Meet Eugene. Eugene is an armchair philosopher so we start the episode with his musings on the meaning of life. He’s not speaking into a video camera so the episode is already better than the Doctor Who episode from which it drew its inspiration (see, I’m avoiding the word ‘rip off’ this week; that’s maturity, that is).Oh, Eugene is also dead. As the camera comes into focus and zooms down on

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Torchwood episode 8 – They Keep Killing SuzieGen’s rating – AIrony Defn 1. the first episode of Torchwood that’s actually quite good is the first one they play in the new timeslot of 12am Wednesday morning so nobody actually got to see it.Yes, Torchwood has been dumped by Ten and so I should probably can the recaps. But I’ve gone this far and there’s only five more episodes to go so what the hell

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Before I begin, I would first like to offer my heartfelt apologies to all fans of the brothers Winchester who were furious at my insinuation that Supernatural is anywhere near as bad as Torchwood. I meant only that it is not the greatest show ever made and would certainly never imply that it’s not superior. In fact, after watching an episode of Torchwood I’d almost go so far as to say that

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Motel Hell, Delicatessen, Soylent Green, Doctor Who ‘The Two Doctors’, X-Files ‘Our Town’, and The Hills Have Eyes. If you thought Torchwood was juvenile, unfunny and derivative, then feast your eyes on ‘Countrycide’, where the only thing original and witty is the name.For tonight’s viewing pleasure we have: an isolated village (check); people disappearing (check);

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Welcome one, welcome all to the very exciting fifth episode of Torchwood: a show dedicated to a top-secret organisation of people in very long black coats who don’t have much of a confidentiality agreement since they constantly announce their presence to everyone they meet. They even have Torchwood-branded pyjamas.Tonight’s episode is about fairies. You all know the joke I could make about that;

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Well, here I am, fresh from last week when I could actually say something positive about this show and I prepare myself for an episode that’s unfortunately called ‘Cyberwoman’. God I hope that’s a metaphor or something. If not, I prepare myself with some trepidation for a robot sex toy that yells out a post-coital “Delete!” before cutting their partner’s brain out. Oh dear, I shouldn’t have

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“Torchwood: outside the government, beyond the police. Tracking down alien life on Earth and arming the human race...etc etc. The pre-credit sequence looks as though it isn’t going to change each week. Torchwood walks in a cool way, it rains a lot, there’re aliens and then……Torchwood is running through the streets of Cardiff. Back at the Hub, Toshika is both tracking everyone through the CCTV

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“Torchwood: outside the government, beyond the police. Tracking down alien life on Earth and arming the human race. The 21st century is when everything changes and you’ve got to be ready“. The Cap’n speaks the dialogue we already hate and we get flashbacks of last week’s episode, including the time when Jack inexplicably stood on a building. That was important, I’m glad we were reminded of it.The

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Opening credits – very trendy, very Supernatural.The camera pans across the bright lights of Cardiff and before I continue on to demolish this particular programme, let me say congrats to the production team for setting their show in the city in which it’s filmed. Very refreshing. So, on to our very first continuity error, less than 30 seconds in, as we pan across the bright lights of Cardiff

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