This is a very good week. The December 7 schedule
has no fewer than seven serious contenders for the
pick of the week. Care to see which of them won out?
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Free eBooks all month
eReader.com is giving away free eBooks every day this month. Logistically, it’s a sale of $0, so you’ll need to create an account to take advantage of the deal. This also includes submitting a credit card number, which I’m told is used as part of the eBook encryption to discourage file sharing. Still, free books are free books. The promo is here.
Lost Discussion: “Raised by Another”
Claire, very close to giving birth, has her backstory told.
Episode Summary from ABC.com.
Smallville Review – “Scare”
Next week’s episodes: the season three finale and
season four premier.
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Weekly Comics Discussion
This week is a good week for trade paperback
collections. I’ll be picking up the cheap reprint of
Batman: The Dark Knight Archives Vol. 1 from
DC. DC is also releasing the third printing of
Green Lantern: Rebirth #1 and the second
printing of Green Lantern: Rebirth #2, both
of which I highly recommend. (I’ll review all six
issues when they’re out.) A reprint of Identity
Crisis #2 is also out there, as well as the
trade paperback of JLA: Another Nail. The
Marvel comics materials I’m picking up include
Essential Iron Man Vol. 2 (to be reviewed by
theangrymob at some point), Exiles #55 (part
one of a three part arc that runs through December,
and finishes the content of the next TPB, so I may
switch back to trades after this story), Marvel
Age Spider-Girl Vol. 2, New Avengers
#1, and Ultimates 2 #1. I’ll be
passing on the Avengers Disassembled tie-ins to
Thor (which will be the last collection of
that title for some time) and Spectacular
Spider-Man (which includes the introduction of
organic web shooters and a super spider sense that
will be around for some time).
Comic Review – “Fantastic Four: Disassembled”
The Fantastic Four have much better comics tying into
the Avengers event than the Avengers did. Perhaps
that’s because the only difference the Avengers
tie-in made was some dialogue in issue 517.
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Star Trek: Enterprise – “Awakening”
The plot thickens and the body count rises…
Lucas Wants Star Wars Holiday Special Banned
chad writes, Abandon hope, all ye faithful. Here is a short article explaining why we will never see an official DVD release of the Star Wars Holiday Special. A source at Lucasfilm is quoted as saying, “The Holiday Special was the biggest f***-up ever.”
“Enterprise” ratings on the rise
joe__gee writes, Accourding to this site, which collates the Nielsen Ratings for “Star Trek: Enterprise”, season 4 got off to a slow start but is now showing improving ratings. This could just be a blip, but perhaps we’re seeing Trek faithful returning now that Manny Coto has taken the helm and seems to be steering Trek back towards its established history. Maybe we’ll get a season 5 after all? The final ratings and shares are statistical numbers that have some flexibility. The numbers that look promising to me are the total viewers; the total number of people actually tuning in has increased by over 15% this season. It’s a good sign.
TV Review – “Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season Five”
We’ve had a request for season six, but I like to
review things in order when I can, so this review is
coming first. There’s also a vague spoiler warning
attached to this.
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