Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

I FINALLY watched the first two episodes of Airwolf. Good grief it has been a long time coming. Granted, how many times have I passed the box set at Walmart, but just the same good ole Del Rey Network hooked me up. I waited out the fourth season to get over with (not bothering with it, nope) before the first season returned for me to excitedly peruse. The pilot was kind of hilarious to me and still by the end, expectedly tragic. Look, I knew poor (and quite lovely) Belinda Bauer wasn’t making it out of the pilot alive although I would have loved for her to be a major part in the series. This was still in the action genre “all boys club” era so that would not be the case, but while available she leaves an impression as The Firm’s agent (and eventual spy), Gabrielle. The Firm is like this alternative CIA agency that works outside of the government but with them (well, sort of). The Firm’s head, Archangel (Alex Cord), seeks the help of pilot (living in some gorgeous British Columbian

  I am an unashamed fan of women wrestling, and if you were to follow me on my Twitter account this is beyond an understatement. And I just LOVED the first season of the Netflix original series, G.L.O.W. In fact I wrote reviews for every episode. Every part of me wants to binge the hell out of the second season, but I’m applying restraint because I would hate to watch all of the episodes in like a few hours, considering each is only twenty-five / thirty minutes. That said, if the remainder of the season is as entertaining as Viking Funeral (the actress playing the Viking wrestling character is fired by Sam Sylvia for speaking up against his ornery outburst at all of them, mentioning that he wasn’t responsible for the success of the pilot when he tries to throw his clout around), then I’m ecstatic for what is left to come. I just loved the pacing of the first season, too, and the running time was perfect because I felt with every episode that they could tell an episodic stor

I’m not an X-files fan who is inconsiderate towards Patrick or his FBI Agent, John Doggett. I quite like him, even when he’s at odds with Mulder and Scully over all things extraterrestrial/supernatural. One day I plan to write about the oil rig / black oil episode which had Mulder losing his position in the FBI, canned while Doggett is put in charge, but for now I have had John Doe on the backburner, planning to eventually get to it because I wanted to discuss a non-Mulder episode (it is almost exclusively about Doggett). Doggett awakens in a warehouse in a Mexican border town with no recollection of who he is. Immediately, we are stuck with the familiar thought of, “Yet another amnesia plot?!?!” But the “memory vampire” gimmick where a cartel “protector” uses a unique power to “siphon” memories from those that pose a threat to his bosses (named Caballero, played by Zitto Kazann) is quite a creative way to tell an amnesia story! Patrick is so good in this episode, to complain t

Giles Barton (Ralph Bates) in Lust for a Vampire (1971) This was a somewhat first time viewing of Lust for a Vampire , although it does feel familiar, as if I had at least seen bits and pieces of it at some point. My favorite single still besides the very one below is of Bates at his study desk with the skull, scrolls, feather-quill ink pen, stacked books, crowded with no empty space available, the lamp lighting his eyes, his face down into his work while Richard Lestrange (Michael Johnson) gobbles booze (after professing his love for Carmella, a woman he doesn't even know) while grousing about his current status (in love but unable to secure affection, at a job at the girls' school that hasn't brought satisfaction). Bates is a historian, totally engrossed in the Karnstein lore, eventually offering his servitude to Carmella. Carmella, fog accompanying her as if a pet following her every move. Giles Barton declares his loyalty to Carmella Carmella gets a good

I really felt highly about 33 , the first episode of the first season of Battlestar Galactica . Particularly gnarly is the ongoing plot of how the cylons are exhausting the officers/crew of the BG by warping behind them, waiting 33 minutes before jumping to their position. Because the cylons are not human, rest and sleep aren’t a bother but for those on the BG and accompanying colonial ships, not getting the much needed downtime is a burden. Stimulants and dogged determination can only do so much. Dualla is so undermined by mental exhaustion she missed her colonial civilian ship count by one (the ship, Olympic Carrier, has 1300 humans), resulting in them getting left behind when they jump on their 228 th time. Starbuck, at the beginning of the episode, has red, sleep-deprived eyes, trying to blink widely and rub them so that she can remain alert, eventually succumbing to the demand of Apollo to take her stimulants. As revealed in the previous episode, Sharon “Boomer” Valerii, is a