Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

Three astronauts in peril in Death Ship  I see why SYFY often adds so little of the fourth season. The one hour episodes are just so long and drawn out. In His Image, about a robot coming to realize he is just that by eventually encountering his human creator, Jesse-Belle about a country beauty with no money setting her heart on an engaged boy named Billy-Ben through witchcraft, Mute about a telepath unable to talk after being "adopted" by a grieving couple who lost their daughter as she grapples with her ability to think and communicate through thought, The Thirty-Fathom Grave about a former sub officer seeing the ghosts of those he once served with while on a ship hearing hammering sounds from the sub below, and Death Ship about astronauts seemingly caught in a cyclical limbo loop around a planet all could certainly work in 30 minutes but during a marathon, it can be brutal, swallowing up great marathon time better served for shorter episodes.

**/**** *Edit: I forgot to mention a very adorable scene where Troi gives birth and Riker is off to the side watching with wonder in his eyes, telling her congrats. He was thrown off by her pregnancy while in the meeting to discuss it. And Worf being in the sickbay with security is a fun bit of trivia considering these two would both be in romantic relationships with her in the series*  Oh, yes, the early seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. That love it/hate it relationship continued until Season 3 really seemed to find the show's footing. The Child frustrates me. There is even cruelty in the writing where a life entity happens to be in space when the Enterprise is about to leave with dangerous cargo carrying a deadly plague held in a containment module designed by newly minted Chief Engineer, LaForge. This entity decides to go through a speedy birthing process using Counselor Troi as its human carrier, growing quite fast. Dr. Pulaski (Muldaur in her lone season, replacing G...

Oh, my, do I see why this got under folks’ skin. Luca won’t just give the audience exactness, the total truth because most of us will never see what happens behind that door where these two characters were, unless real evidence can truly specify real details, what is left is behaviors and pokes at us with a stick to see how our own beliefs and way of seeing things will decide with certainty if Maggie acted out of desperation to get Hank fired so her plagiarism (or did she?) would remain secret or if Hank used plagiarism as a weapon to escape sexual assault allegations. Is Maggie even using Alma’s past as a weapon against Hank so she can remain protected from some perceived discovery of “being a mediocre student given clearance to be in a major professor’s orbit due to rich parents”. Or is Hank exactly as Maggie said: he continued on her after she said no, assaulting her in the process, very much deserved of his fate, despite how hard he worked to get to where he was (no trust fund or e...

Night of the Meek intro  As always I will be dropping one or two posts about the New Year's Eve and Day marathon from SYFY on the blog, but I hope to watch a few episodes on Christmas Day before heading off to a family get-together. The blog has always been quite popular with the TZ marathon posts. I'm excited to see if there is any juice left to squeeze that I haven't already from years of doing this for my favorite ever show. This is sort of a bookmark, so I might add more to this post in the future. These episodes below are the ones I hope to watch from Christmas Day morning during SYFY's first marathon. I will try to watch some Friday after Christmas (I'm off work that day) as well, but I don't want to wear myself too much because of New Year's coming up. I will be using the DVR (I have Youtube TV) so I hope to follow in order. "Night of the Meek" will be shown at 7 but I won't be home so I plan to watch it and "Changing of the Guard...

Probably will remain my favorite Rohmer film. Maud challenges Jean-Louis during Christmas holidays in what he believes relationship wise, the two debating about the past and what they might or possibly expect from the future. Francoise happens to be Jean-Louis' interest while Maud, not ideal to his perceived romantic plans, stirs up attraction and warm feelings he eventually pushes away thanks to convenient circumstances like her moving away and getting the chance to develop a relationship with Francoise  -- A Christmas backdrop and Rohmer focusing on a divorcee nurse, a Marxist professor, and a Catholic engineer for Michelon hoping to have a relationship with a blonde on a bike he saw at Eve Mass in Clermont, France.

I wrote the below for my Letterboxd but felt it was probably better meant for this blog. Seen by less people and might mean something for you if this is known to you, too: Watching this just brought up a whole lot of memories I wasn’t anticipating. I was Veronica in my household, and I get how she felt. I LOVED my sister and brother but they were exactly like Tiffany…you understood what they were going through and didn’t, tried to be as supportive and loving as you could and often were the brunt of a lot of bickering and frustration; if not you, your parents or other siblings. There would be a time of peace, and they could be so much fun, so cool. Then other times explosive noise directed right at you (or at your mom). I would talk to them and then to mom, conversations that would often leave me exhausted, but it wasn’t that I couldn’t feel for them or just want them to be okay, to  have relief from the mess going on in their brain. And if you have a family chock full of mental ill...