Torchwood Ep 10 upcoming

BBC Programme Information have published plot details of Torchwood's tenth episode which airs 10pm, Sunday 17 December on BBC Three."When a plane which took off in 1953 makes an unexpected landing in present-day Cardiff, its three passengers are shocked to learn that they can never go back to their own time, as Russell T Davies's sci-fi thriller continues.The Torchwood team, led by Captain Jack Harkness, helps the passengers settle in contemporary society, but this simple task has painful emotional consequences.The cast includes John Barrowman as Captain Jack, Eve Myles as Gwen, Burn Gorman as Owen and Naoko Mori as Toshiko."For those without access to BBC Three there's another chance to see this episode on Wednesday 20 December on BBC Two.

Jericho: Red flag

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Well, the episode basically centers around an unusual arrival. Basically that of relief supplies. The thing that confuses the townsfolk is this, the planes are soviet planes that haven't been made since the seventies, and the supplies are all Chinese...


to start the episode Jake and some of the new militia are turkey hunting for thanksgiving, and are worried that they won't be able to fight when the time comes because they cannot shoot turkey. out of nowhere they hear noise and see big planes on the horizon, the first planes they've seen since the attacks. They start to drop something with parachutes.. Jake opens one and it turns out to be food. Apparently they packets have been dropped all over town, and is causing quite the stir. In the center of town the people are gathered wondering what to do when the mayor tells them they can't eat the food. The mayor and some of the others think that this might be another attack,that the food might be poisoned. Of course the townsfolk,who are starting to get really skinny due to lack of food. Mayor Green takes the food and asks Gracie if they can store it in her store, but he interrupts a raid by Jonah and some of his boys. they had a deal with Gracie to supply her store in exchange for certain things, but things are getting scarce and they are taking what they want. The mayor makes a new deal with Gracie, one of the conditions being that her price gouging is over, so that she can store the food there. Meanwhile, back at the ranch Mimi comes to Stanley telling him that they have some parcels. She tells him about the two drops they got. One like the others, and another one is a rather large generator. She sends Mimi to town to tell everyone their good luck.

Gray tells the mayor that they need this food, and to prove that he thinks its not poisoned he breaks open some crackers and eats them. He seems to suffer no ill effects.

the Hawkins are starting their Thanksgiving dinner with no turkey and the kids are kind of miffed that Robert missed the thanksgivings before this one.

Jonahs men steal the generator from Stanley, and rough him up pretty well in the process. When he stumbles back into town Jake and the mayor mount a posse to get the generator back from Jonah.

We get a pretty serious shootout at Jonahs compound, but out of nowhere the flatbed truck with the generator comes screaming through the gates. Emily is driving it. She snuck into the compound and stole it out from under Jonahs Nose. The men regroup and head back to town.

While packing the parachutes away they make a discovery. RF-ID tags the US military uses for its equipment are in the parachutes. Who sent the food is a complete mystery.

The new generator set up. Robert goes and gets his family. they are made at first he missed his thanksgiving again, but this time he takes them out and shows them the generator. when the switch is flipped lights in the town start to come on. Robert tells his son, "this is what daddy did at work today"

Gracie is happy with the way things turned out, she goes into her darkened store. But out of nowhere somewhere grabs her from behind covers her mouth and stabs her in the gut. She drops like a sack of bricks to the floor.

Back to Barrow

There is a new video post up at the 30 days of night site... Looks like they are getting Barrow built. Can't wait to see this movie. I hope they get the atmosphere right.

In a sleepy, secluded Alaska town called Barrow, the sun sets and doesn't rise for over thirty consecutive days and nights. From the darkness across the frozen wasteland, an evil will come that will bring the residents of Barrow to their knees. The only hope for the town is the Sheriff (Josh Hartnett) and Deputy (Melissa George), a husband and wife who are torn between their own survival and saving the town they love.

http://ghosthousepictures.comingsoon.net/news_article.php?articleid=46

Buffy Season 8...

"Buffy." Just say that one word out loud at a comic book convention and you'll find that everyone has an opinion about the cult favorite—and critically lauded—television show that lasted seven years. In addition to "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," creator Joss Whedon's opus resulted in a popular spin-off "Angel," and their combined popularity led to the Whedon launching "Firefly," a short lived sci-fi/western on Fox. While the latter series have been popular in their own right, it's "Buffy" that has become like a religion for so many fans invested in the tale of a lone woman tasked with saving the world from supernatural forces. Featuring some of the most dynamic and layered females characters on television, in addition to anti-heroes such as Angel & Spike, "Buffy" has continued to expand its reach with the consistently high-selling DVD sets. Fans have always longed for more tales of Buffy Summers and her "Scooby Gang," with rumors of made-for-television sequels surfacing every few months and now they have reason to celebrate.
Well Buffy fans, rejoice, for Joss Whedon recently spoke to "Entertainment Weekly" about "Buffy" Season 8—the comic book! "We're picking up almost right after season seven left off," he told the magazine. "I don't know exactly why it or how it happened. I just thought, 'Oh, I could do that! It would be fun!' It happens to me every now and then, and causes me to commit to things I really don't have time for."
Still, fans would love to see their favorite "Buffy"—and "Angel"—characters on their television screens again, but Whedon told "EW" why it's not likely. "I had been thinking about doing some TV movies based on 'Buffy' characters, but we could never get anything resembling financing together that was realistic, so it fell by the wayside. But that whole failed endeavor made me start thinking about what would happen next, and what the stories and mythology would be. I realized there was a lot to say, and it could make for a really fun comic book.''
Whedon also told the magazine that we'll see very minimal involvement from the "Angel" cast, as that series has their own comics published by IDW Publishing, but there will be a focus on the large amount of slayers now in the world. The scribe will also be using some ideas he originally included in the pitch for the spin-off "Slayer School," as well as introducing some interesting new conflicts into the lives of Buffy & Co. Don't expect to see a resolution to the "Angel" series, as Whedon hinted at other plans for the titular vampire-with-a-soul.
Comic book fans know that this isn't the first canonical adaptation of the Buffy-verse, with the "Fray" mini-series, from Dark Horse Comics, that introduced a very important weapon into the universe, used in Season 7 of the "Buffy" series. Whedon's also no stranger to comic books, with the uber-popular Marvel Comics series "Astonishing X-Men" under his belt, and his upcoming tenure on the fan-favorite "Runaways."
You can check out "EW's" website for more details and images from this new "Buffy" series.

Via Comic book Resources

Battlestar Galactica: Hero

Eyes sweaty/panicked and covered in goo…

Then on colonial one the president is going through Baltar’s things and re organizing things. They plan on putting a portrait of Baltar in the bathroom. Finding some older papers they realize that its Adama’s 45th anniversary in the service. They plan on giving him a medal for service to boost everyone’s mood.

Back on Galactica we have alarms and warnings. Three Cylon raiders are coming in fast. They send a squadron out to cut them down. Two of them are cut down, and they start to get radio signals from the third cylon fighter. Adama orders an escort for the Cylon fighter. Down in the hangar bay the guards have the fighter circled, and the crew give it a wide berth. It starts to leak some goo, and suddenly a hatch pops open and a man falls out. He looks around, and sees Adama, he rises to his feet and Adama comes to him they salute one another. He asks “is it really you sir” Adama replies, “yes, it’s really me. Welcome home bulldog.”

Credits…

We flashback to Adama in an office with other men talking about a stealth ship, and the one pilot he trusts. Bulldog.

Back aboard Galactica Doc Cottle has confirmed that Bulldog isn’t a cylon using his military records. Adama is on the phone with Roslyn telling her that he is a man captured three years ago. Adama asks him how he escaped a base ship, he tells him that he was in a cell for three years. The service and accommodations sucked so he left. After a little laugh. He tells Adama that all the cylons started getting sick, and its spreading, getting worse. Flashing back to the Base star we see Xena looking rather rundown talking to him. Asking him about why he works out, and tormenting him through the bars. He hits her through the bars and apparently pushes her nose through her face into her brain killing her. It looks really gross.

Then we have Roslyn asking him about Adama’s secret mission. They tell her about an ore mining outpost too close to the cylon border, and he was shot down by the Turnons in cold blood. He got shot down, and they lost contact. Roslyn is amazed by him surviving. Roslyn sends her assistant to check and see if any of Bulldogs family survived. When they are alone Roslyn asks Adama what really happened. He tells her to trust him, he will fix it. When she leaves Adama throws things around in frustration.

Back aboard Galactia we have Xenabot roaming around, but she is quicklky captured. The guards fire on her at her own order. Xenabot wakes up aboard the cylon basestar in a bed with Baltar and Caprica six. Naked. It was a dream.

Tigh is laying in bed smoking, drunk again, unshaven smelly. We finally get a good look at his eyesocket. Adama comes in telling Tighe that Bulldog escaped. Tighe is amazed, and asks him if he is there to talk to a friend of an XO. Tighe knows what is going on. It’s going to be quite complicated. Tighe wants to know if Adama will tell Bulldog what he did, he reasons that he will find out sooner or later. Adama leaves.

Tighe is left alone in his misery, remembering his wife. Someone pounds on the door. It’s Bulldog.

Adama is in his office looking through photo albums of his children. Apollo comes in and Adama tells him that its time they talked. Tighe gripes about Adama, and how he’s busy covering his ass. Especially considering how Bulldog was captured.

Adama shot Bulldog down… Simply to maintain cover. It was a covert mission, and the Cylons had discovered them. The sole purpose of the mission was to figure out of the Cylons were going to attack. Apollo figured out that the colonials knew that the Cylons were out there readying an attack before they did it. There were theories that the cylons were in hiding building a war machine…

The Admirals under the Adar administration sent a stealth mission across the armistice line and see if there was any suspicious activity. The cylons would of course see this as an act of war. Bulldog went across the line, saw nothing. Out of nowhere a vessel jumped out of nowhere and Bulldogs ship went nuts. More ships showed up, and Adama ordered Bulldogs ship shot down. Tighe tried to talk him out of it, but he knew how vital it was that he wasn’t captured. The Valkyrie sends a missile after Bulldog but he ejects before it strikes.

Adama admits that the unknown ships were Cylons, that he started the war. The reason the Cylons attacked was because the Colonials crossed their borders. Apollo tells him that it was just as much the Admirals fault, he isn’t solely to blame.

Back on the base star one of the sixes is asking Xenabot about her dreams. Xenabot tells her that the dreams are different, and that god is sending her a message. She then gives a centurion orders to kill her and erase any memory of it. When she is dead she has flashes, she is in a convert hall looking at someone dressed in white, she has flashbacks, and then she wakes up in a new body. She tells them that there is something beautiful, miraculous between life and death.

Back on Glaactica Starbucks is going over the footage of Bulldogs flight. She stops it and asks herself “why do they keep missing” She rushes off. Bulldog is in his room, and he looks mad. Bulldog calls Adama, he needs to talk to him immediately.

Starbucks tells Tighe that the Cylons had Bulldog dead to rights, but they didn’t kill him. They let him escape.

Bulldog attacks Adama, really beast the piss out of him. Then he ties his hands behind his back with his belt. He asks him why he lied to him, and starts to choke him.

He rants about how he stayed alive by thinking of Adama coming to save him… He escaped because they left the door wide open. Adama asks if they let him escape. Bulldog thinks that he beat them. Just then Tighe shows u, in uniform might I add, and kicks Bulldogs ass. He tells him that they are all expendable, and that the cylons let him go, and he tells him to ask himself why. He is doing what they want, trying to seek revenge. And he almost gave in to what they wanted. He gives Adama his gun, and keeps talking to Bulldog about dignity, and how he is trying to find his honour. Adama asks Tighe how he put the bottle away.

Next we are in Colonial one, and Adama is giving Roslyn his resignation. She of course doesn’t accept it. She gets rather authoritative. She thinks he is being Naïve, she thinks the admiralty set him up to start the war they wanted. They did a thousand things good, and bad every day over forty years to provoke the attacks. She gives him a piece of paper showing him the medal of distinction thing. She proposes that since he wants to pay a penalty, he should get the medal the next day. She tells him that its not for him, its for them. He is to be what they need; a hero. That is his penance. Even if it kills him.

The Ceremony is quite nice, on the hangar deck in front of the crew and reporters she pins the medal on him and he stands back and takes the applause.

Bulldog is leaving, and Adama gives him his uniform. He doesn’t want to, but Adama tells him that once a pilot always a pilot. They salute and he sees bulldog off.

Later in Adama’s quarters Tighe shows up. They face off for a second; Tighe says he won a medal. Adama makes fun of it saying he got it for good attendance and playing well with others. He wants Tighe back in CIC, but Tighe doesn’t want that. That’s not what he came to talk about. Adama asks if he wants to talk about what happened to his wife. He says he needs a drink, Adama says he does too, he gets some drinks and they sit down at the table together.

And that’s the last till Dec 2… !@#$!@#

Awesome Episode. Not so struck on Bulldog, seems like too much of a pasted on hero for my liking. But I liked the setup of the episode, I don’t think that Adama caused the war. The things the Cylon are into mentally are too intricate to be simple retaliation for a border incident., but letting Adama have that seed of doubt was a very good weapon to have in their arsenal. Starbuck is starting to become herself again, which is also good. Also Tighe isn’t quite where he was, but they are talking, which is in and of itself a good thing. He may not be his XO yeat, but he is still his friend.

Jericho: Crossroads

Crossroads
First aired: 11/15/2006Writer: Robert Levine Director: Paul McCrane Guest star: Richard Speight, Jr. (Bill) , D.B. Sweeney (Goetz), Christopher Wiehl (Roger McNamara), James Remar (Jonah Prowse), Aasif Mandvi (Kenchy Dhuwalia), Candace Bailey (Skylar Stevens), Clare Carey (Mary Bailey), Bob Stephenson (Jimmy), Darby Stanchfield (April Green), Alicia Coppola (Mimi Clark)

To start we have a bunch of Hummers at Stanley’s farm. They are filling their tanks with Stanley’s gas. He warns them off, but they say they work with the federal government, and that they will reimburse them, they are in charge of helping people get what they need, food medicine, and things. The leader CXXXXX asks about Eric Green but Stanley tells him that he can’t help him. Jake has been sitting up all night since they escaped from Ravenwood. Eric tries to ask him about where he’s been but he deflects by asking Eric about Mary. Just then Stanly, Bonnie, and Mimi show up and tell Jake and Eric about the men. Jake knows that they are the mercenaries from Ravenwood.

Jake is trying to describe to the townsfolk who Ravenswood are. Robert advises that they fortify and try and keep the scouts from Ravenswood from getting into town. Jake advises them to block Tacoma Bridge, but Stanley’s and about 30 other families are on that side of the bridge. They will just have to come into town until things blow over.


April is giving Gail an update on the mayor’s health. He’s going to be ok. April hasn’t told Eric that she’s pregnant…

Jake some townsfolk are fortifying the bridge, and Robert accuses Jake off attracting the Ravenswood people.

Emily and Heather are looking over Emily’s wedding dress; Heather had brought her some flowers as a sort of wedding bouquet. Emily was supposed to be married today, and Heather is trying to keep her occupied.


Robert and Jake are manning the fortifications, and Jake says that this isn’t the first time Robert had a run-in with Ravenswood, Robert wants to know if he even knew he was in over his head.

Eric and April are talking; April tells her that she drew up the divorce papers when she didn’t think they had a future together, but she does now. Eric admits that he doesn’t think they have a future anyway. He’s in love with someone else. Mary. She calls him a son of a bitch and walks out.

At the battlements the hummers start to arrive. People are panicking and running behind the makeshift barricade of wrecked cars. The Ravenswood men tell the people of Jericho that they have to clear the road, that they are here on government orders to collect supplies and that their cooperation is mandatory. They start a small shooting skirmish. The Ravenswood people make an ultimatum that they have four hours to clear the road. Jake and Robert decide to destroy the bridge.

Back at the town hall Eric is gathering up ammo and weapons with the other men. Jericho. Jake, Gray, and Robert are trying to talk Eric into letting them blow up the bridge. Eric doesn’t want to. It would isolate everyone on that side of the bridge, the farms, and Stanley, and whatever.

Heather and Emily are getting ready for their Hike. Heathers truck is a rattle contraption and involves a lot of TLC to keep it from exploding. The bells of Jericho Toll…

Emily sort of spaces out and fantasizes about her wedding day, dress, flowers, and Heather as her maid of honour. The town is beautiful, and so is everything else.

Heather comes back out and tells her that they can’t hike because everyone was told to stay indoors.

Robert and Gray are going against Eric’s wishes and are making explosives to destroy the bridge. Jake goes to tell the people on the other side to come over.

Mary, Heather, and Emily have the last bottle of single malt scotch. That’s phase two.

Jake goes to Stanley’s and tells them that the bridge is going. Stanley is planning on staying with the farm.

Bonnie and Stanley are staying; Mimi tells Stanley that he is the connection that Bonnie is staying for, not the house.

The girls are drinking at Mary’s and the doctor sidles up to Emily and ask what she’s celebrating. They talk for a bit about how bad it is in the world since the bombs.

Eric confronts Gray over what he’s doing. He tells him that they have gone over his head and are going to blow the bridge.

Back at the Greens, eric talks to his father. His mother tries to talk him about his marriage, but he;s too intent on talking to his father about the bridge. His father tells him to stop them no matter what he has to do.

Eric goes to the bridge and takes a truck and drives across towards the Ravenswood people. The flare goes up that the Ravenswood people are coming. They know they can’t save Eric. There isn’t any time.

Back at the bar the girls are playing darts and Emily is talking with the doctor. He was in Los Vegas with no water or power, threw himself at the Red Cross and they took him to Kansas. Emily admits that she was supposed to be married tonight. She fantasizes again about the way her pre wedding party was supposed to be. She wanted to listen to polyester bride over and over again. She starts to fantasize through Heather that she was marrying for security instead of love, and will be bored.

Jake is trying to blow the bridge as the Ravenswood people get closer, but they are on top of him. He tells them that the bridge is wired but if they don’t turn around they will blow it. Jake tells him what he knows about Rogue River. Jake has the bomb attached to a kill switch, and if the snipers kill him it will go off. Robert starts picking off the Ravenswood men with a sniper rifle; this causes them to rethink their plans. They have a bit of a showdown, and then cars start to show up. It’s Eric, Jonah, and a the survivalists. They have Ravenswood surrounded. The Ravenswood people leave, but tell them basically that the government will send them back to “rebuild” Jericho, he sounds quite threatening.

Jonas tells the people of Jericho that the next time they want to blow up his way into town they should talk to him, and that they should learn to fight for themselves.

Emily is fantasizing about the way things could have been. She’s talking to her “dead” fiancé and he’s telling her that she’s attached to Jericho, and she knows why.

There is an angry mob and they still want to blow the bridge. They are led by Gray. Mayor Green shows up and tells them Gray isn’t in charge. He is telling them how important the bridge is. Gray tells the Mayor that the people should decide what to do.

Jake goes to his father, and tells him that they need a security force. Trained, and sanctioned by the mayor. The Mayor gives Jake a book, a US Ranger guide his father, Jakes grandfather used when he landed at Normandy. He tells Jake to make sure they do it right. Gail confronts Eric; Eric has no plans on going back home. Gail tells him that April will have a home with them as long as she wants one. Eric just walks off.

Robert thinks they got lucky with Ravenswood.

Emily is in the church and hears thunder. Jake comes in and calls her name. They talk about what the day is. They start to talk about Roger, and how he proposed, and how he proposed to her when they were teenagers. Emily asks him why he came back. He goes to her and they hug. He asks her if she is sure that’s what she wanted… The thunder rolls outside and it starts to rain. It was another fantasy, Jake wasn’t there.


Credits…

Well, good episode, not as shocking as Rogue River last week, but set up some good tension, and setup how out of their league the people of Jericho really are. The Ravenswood people could really have crippled them, but they did as Robert said, luck out. Emily really does want Jake, and I think that it’s not that good of a pairing. I think that Heather and Jake would be a much better couple. Eric is out of the Green house, and the marriage is on the rocks. I’m guessing he goes to Mary.




Coming up on Jericho….

Red Flag
First aired: 11/22/2006Writer: Mike Ostrowski Director: Martha Mitchell Guest star: Darby Stanchfield (April Green)
Supplies are dropped by air into Jericho and the Green's and Hawkins think that they know where they came from.

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