The Orville Season 2, Episode 4: Nothing Left On Earth Excepting Fishes
This week on The Orville we get one of the best episodes yet, as another of Mercer's relationships goes sour, Gordon decides to be all he can be and a dangling plot thread is resolved. Oh, and we learn...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 5, Episode 11: Seeing Red
This week on The Flash, we get an episode that's slightly better than last week's dull misfire, which I freely admit is not saying much. Seeing Red is still riddled with miles-wide plotholes,...
View ArticleDumber Than A Fifth Grader
For the past year or so I've been attempting to keep politics out of my blog, mainly to try and preserve my own sanity as well as yours. I'm making an exception today.In response to the brutal cold...
View ArticleThe Orville Season 2, Episode 5: All The World Is Birthday Cake
This week on The Orville we get an episode that's very reminiscent of old school Star Trek. You know, the kind that uses the metaphorical lens of sci-fi to give us a thinly veiled message about our...
View ArticleGood News, Everyone!
This week The CW announced it was renewing ALL the various Arrowverse shows for another season! Huzzah!I knew The Flash would be renewed, but I was a little worried about Legends Of Tomorrow, as its...
View ArticleR.I.P. Dick Miller
Sad news for B-movie fans: Actor Dick Miller died this week at age 90.You may not know the name, but you'll definitely recognize his face, as Miller was the best of the "Hey, It's THAT Guy" character...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 5, Episode 12: Memorabilia
This week on The Flash... well, everything changed.For months now I've been moaning about the fact that the Cicada storyline has outlived its usefulness and has become tired and stale. The show keeps...
View ArticleHave You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?
For reasons I don't pretend to understand, many scientists are convinced that our entire universe isn't real, and is in fact some sort of hologram. If that's true, I think it's time to try turning it...
View Article"Woke" Peep
Oh, Disney... you never learn, do you?Remember the character of Bo Peep from the first two Toy Story movies?She was sweet yet sassy, and the object of Woody's affections. Voiced by Annie Potts, Bo was...
View ArticlePlease Stand By
Sigh... Posting's probably gonna be kind of light around here for the next few days, as we're currently experiencing technical difficulties here at Bob Canada's BlogWorld. I was typing away last night...
View ArticleBack In Business!
And we're back!As I mentioned earlier this week, I was typing away on my trusty laptop, and after a while I looked up at the screen and saw a bunch of gibberish. Apparently one side of the keyboard had...
View ArticleThe Orville Season 2, Episode 6: A Happy Refrain
Well, that was... different. An entire episode devoted to simple character development, without single second of action or element of danger.Not that that's a bad thing, mind you. Sometimes it's nice...
View ArticleIn Space, No One Can Hear You Retch
For several years now, toy company NECA has been making highly detailed action figures from the various ALIEN movies. This week they released a figure of the terrifying alien hybrid from ALIEN:...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 5, Episode 13: Goldfaced
This week's The Flash is a lean, stripped-down affair that features little or no superpowers. Last week I praised the writers, as it looked like all their padding and wheel-spinning was serving a...
View ArticleR.I.P. Hitler, Er, I Mean Bruno Ganz
R.I.P. to Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who died this week at age seventy seven.You likely don't recognize his name, but you definitely know his face. Ganz famously starred as Hitler in the 2004 WWII drama...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 5, Episode 14: Cause And XS
This week on The Flash, we get another one of those Groundhog Day-esque episodes the Arrowverse seems to love so much. Legends Of Tomorrow did one last year with Here I Go Again, and now it's...
View ArticleHappy 20th Anniversary To Office Space!
Grab your TPS reports, because it sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays! It's hard to believe, but Office Space was released a whopping TWENTY YEARS AGO today on February 19, 1999!The film,...
View ArticleFlagged Post (February 2019)
I've posted this many times now, and I'm going to keep doing it until something changes. Which will be never.DATELINE: Cleveland, Ohio–– In response to overwhelming consumer demand, this week the...
View ArticleIt's All You Can Do (February 2019)
Whew! It's been quite a year so far here in America. We're only two months into 2019, and already there've been nearly FORTY mass shootings so far.I realize how hard it is for our politicians in...
View ArticleThe Orville Season 2, Episode 7: Deflectors
This week on The Orville there's good news as well as bad. The Good: We get our first ever Talla-centric episode. The Bad: We get yet another in a seemingly endless series of glimpses into Moclan...
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