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Father Knows Best: The Big Test Flashbabck (1960)
Projected counsel from little experience
This flashback episode has Bud projecting onto Kathy his personal experience of being mistrusted when exerting to improve a
grade in trade for a boat motor. The mistrust arose because of an incident that gave the appearance of cheating. This was cleared up by allowing Bud to prove his understanding the material in the test. He suggests Kathy may find herself receiving distrust and suspicion by also exerting herself for a better grade in trade for a portable typewriter. The assumption is only misery will be found by trading effort on a good grade for something in return. Kathy decides to go through with her plans despite Buds counsel, prompting him to comment on how the youth of that time doesn't value his sage advice.
Albeit flashbacks in this series may seem to be a cheap option for making more episodes or from a lack of ideas for another episode, Father Knows best was a series of comedy as well as an exemplary model. A positive slant would see these flashbacks as a entertaining reminder of moral points a Father may use in rearing his children.
The Lone Ranger (2013)
A Break for Tonto
The very idea of Tonto was at the time originally a reflection of the European invaders better nature toward the natives as was hoped for. Time has revealed since, that any re-consideration for the offspring of the original natives has been shallow at best. The Tonto of this movie is refreshing as far as depiction of fictional historical characters goes. But to be honest with ourselves, it wasn't truly the "wisdom" of the native Americans that was ignored but rather their freedom and personal rights. Unless you are glutted with movie watching, this is very entertaining with unexpected turns. While the direction of my thumbs has little meaning to the general public when reviewing movies, I do believe that any recommendation taken seriously should be from a source that shares the same diet of movie watching.
Super (2010)
Rainn Wilson's best role
This is absolutely the perfect fit for Rainn Wilson. He is a fine actor so this is NOT an effort to type-cast him at all. He does although have that certain quality in his art that breathes easiest in the role as Frank Darbo AND The Crimson Bolt. I cannot imagine a better interpretation by another's talent.
I voted 7 out of 10 because of other issues not worthy of mention in this review.
I hope this is not his zenith performance by any means but in all his other work i.e., "Galaxy Quest", "The Rocker", etc., that peculiar trait seeps out that makes this performance all it could be.
Earth: Final Conflict (1997)
My apology please
My apology for not voting as it seems superfluous to do so. I am an avid Sci-Fi enthusiast with quite the history in viewing television series with such repetition I dare not divulge. I decided to watch "Earth: The Final Conflict" series from start to finish for the first time after avoiding it for years. Not exposing myself to any reviews or even trailers allowed the experience to be fresh and without influence. After just one episode the hook was set and my apatite grew as I continued. Taking in two a day was easy. I found myself excited about how this first season could cliff-hang my interest to watch perhaps the first two episodes of season 2 immediately following the close of season 1 with "The Joining".
To put it simply; my excitement deflated as I watched a promising Sci-Fi series that could have shared the shelf of popularity with even Star Trek and Stargate crash and burn in such a way that I had to re-watch all five Star Trek series, Stargate SG-1, Atlantis and Universe AND all the relevant movies just to get the taste of what was done to the Earth series out of my eyes and ears! To be fair, "Earth: The Final Conflict" consists only of ONE season with 20 episodes. Perhaps with only those first 20 episodes it can be held up with great mini-series as "Firefly" or "Caprica".
And so I do apologize to the Sci-Fi community that is currently starving for new material to explode on the scene or at least appear from somewhere. I apologize to those who have not yet seen this series and come across it while desperately seeking out worth-while Sci-Fi to satisfy the craving we are all suffering these days. I apologize to those who have seen it in part (past the first 20) or completely and feeling that this is what Sci-Fi has to offer. Please forgive this sad expression of brainless writing and executive deciding where the viewers are treated as rocks in a quarry that need breaking. May the creative minds that once inhabited the airwaves of Sci-Fi past be granted a resurrection for sanity sake!
If you have not yet viewed any of this series, please do so for the first 20 and then allow your imagination to take it from there! Warning! If you even read in passing what was written post the first twenty after viewing them, then your imagination may experience the blue screen of death! Please be advised. Rebooting may only corrupt the Master-Boot-Record of your senses once this is achieved. Intravenously feeding yourself 100's of hours of your favorite Sci-Fi is indicated at this point! Or else you could hire the cast of MST3K to explain it all. Just as one would slam their finger in a car door to offset a snake bite!
Gunsmoke: Marry Me (1961)
Authentic and without cliché.
Of all attempts at this type of storyline I have ever seen, this is by far the most realistic in recreating the American Mountain people or hillbillies as they were known during 20th century references. Without speaking to the plot I have to give Dennis Weaver great praise for his directing in this masterpiece of true Americana. Having had come from a childhood that was exposed to the very people this episode is based on I am taken back with such an accurate interpretation and superb performance. 19th century hill people are an extinct blend of what became of free living Americans before the establishment of necessary social systems that provide education and middle class goal setting.
After viewing this storyline you will no doubt be reminded of other attempts at explaining a logical conclusion but with various situation set-ups provided for humor and entertainment but Dennis Weaver obviously did his homework and maintained an artistic yet documentary feel to this memorable episode.
Horizon: To Infinity and Beyond (2010)
Infinity minus infinity equals what now?
About 59 minutes in to this documentary a white bearded gentleman suggests that infinity minus infinity is either 0 or a slippery slope. The issue I take is in the conditions he provides for this argument. "A hotel with infinite rooms with a person in each are then left empty when the occupants leave, is infinity minus infinity." Is it? Actually the rooms are still there are they not? Infinity in this case is the number description of how many rooms there are in the hotel. Occupants leaving them is not subtracting the rooms from the hotel. If I have an infinite amount of apples and then they all rot to non-existence, that would be infinity minus infinity. But not a slippery slope by any means. Also, the amount of people moving into the hotel rooms in this case does not equate to infinity + infinity unless the infinity was applied only to the occupants for the purpose of the equation. Point here is that finite and infinite are number descriptives of whatever one is applying them too, or else the conditions of what is finite or infinite. Infinite and finite are not the conditions in of themselves. Not wishing to promote dogma, I make this statement in request for a honest quantifying response or at least a better logical explanation.