Reviews

The pre-Kirk era was exceptionally displayed despite a few flaws. The lack of weapons, tractors and shields was fascinating. The third season encounter with the Xindi was one of the best story lines in the Star Trek universe. The 3 episode series with the Vulcans was also exceptional along with the Augments. Brent Spinners (sp) role merely added to the pleasure. There were also some Emmy winning individual shows, if not, they should have been so acclaimed. First and foremost I must mention the absolute horrible theme song. A whiny ballad that did NOT reflect Star Trek at all. The song itself was fine. It merely was seriously mismatched with this series. If I was unable to fast forward through it, at least I could mute it! Second was the casting of the Security Chief. His aggression toward the military Major in season 3 was as pointless as it was ridiculous. I found it entirely out of place and unbelievable. The engineer, 'Trip' was perfectly cast. However, his inability to positively interact with alien species normally would have caused interstellar hostility. He should have been relegated to engineering when they were aboard and to the ship only, otherwise. I should also mention the 2 episode storyline of the altered WWII, excellent. I have this series a 9 of 10 and I stand by that assessment.

I fell in love with this movie for a number of reasons. It heralds a unique ritual to obtain this eternal vampiric gifts. The movie does not focus upon vampire traits but upon a mother and daughter coping with eternity while remaining incognito. They do not number among the rich nor the affluent. They come in near poverty while the mother relies upon her prostitute originator money. The daughter must cope with the mother's unchanging ways as they both seek blood to survive without detection. As someone states in the movie concerning the mother, 'she is morbidly erotic'. And she is, Gemma Atherton is amazingly beautiful and sexy. The daughter is played magnificently by a Ms Ronan. They do not highlight fangs nor speed nor strength which is greatly refreshing in a vampire flick. Speed and strength are hinted at by action but not detailed nor defined. Fangs are never a pat of this movie, hallelujah! They obtain blood quite uniquely and I thought it innovative and enjoyable. There was not an aspect of this movie I did not like. Saddled with the whitewashed vampires of Twilight and Anne Rice's version, Byzantium was a marvelous escape.

I wanted to like it. The premise is quite ridiculous and without any logic whatsoever. Every issue seems based upon emotion rather than science. They actually have an artificial intelligence on their ship that is swayed by emotional screaming. I could not make it through the first episode. A mutiny based on someone not getting their own way. I fully expected the mutineer to stomp a foot, stiffen his spine, stick out a lip and stomp away in a huff! It would have not only been in character but fit the juvenile level of the program.

The questions asked are marvelous. I enjoy all of it. And yet half of the equation is missing. Would humans be so violently opposed? Obviously some but I think not so wide spread. Human fear was in great evidence, but greed was nowhere to be seen. Do we not believe that corporations, think tanks, governments or military would not seek to profit? To obtain and use for their own benefit? At the least this would ensure survival if not growth of synthetic life. I also noticed that an underlying yet significant truth was never mentioned. That once something discovered, it cannot be undiscovered. Do the writers believe that humans are so stupid they would turn to violence believing never to encounter another synthetic again? At best such monumental discoveries can be studied and hopefully understood. Otherwise, an ignored discovery will return to bite those who put their heads in the sand.

Mr. Reeves, with help, has created an entire mafia controlled world. And it was very well done. The only little flaw was thinking that a fight with a 12 year old boy would prove entertaining. This fight could have only been funnier had Mr. Wick held him by the head at arms length while he failed uselessly. That's right, it was a girl. That just makes it worse. I really do not understand how they missed it.

John Wick, baba yaga, boogieman's nemesis and they thought fighting a kid would be a good idea!

Go figure

I've never been a fan of the original Roseanne show nor its new incarnation. Her humor was mean, funny enough when it's not aimed at you, but horrid for the target. However, there had to be so much going on behind the scenes as they basically butchered the Roseanne character with a self induced overdose. That was someone's way of payback to Me Bare. I thought it was in very, very bad taste. Needless to say I'll not be viewing any more episodes. (Sorry John Goodman)