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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Those Old Scientists (2023)
Boimler & Mariner get to meet their heroes!
I just got done watching "Those Old Scientists". This is easily the best episode of Strange New Worlds I've seen yet. Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome were excellent. Now that I've seen them perform together in live action it's easy to see they really do have excellent chemistry together.
To their credit all the Strange New Worlds regulars played along with the craziness quite nicely. I don't know if that's a credit to their talent or Jonathan Frakes' direction, perhaps it was a little of both.
If you have not seen this episode yet please do so at your earliest convenience. I think you'll be happy you did.
The Big Valley: In Silent Battle (1968)
In praise of Adam West
First of all, let me say that I have never reviewed anything before, but I wanted to voice my opinion on this particular episode.
This is the story of a man (West) that was raised in a brothel while he watched his mother "entertain" scores of men.
Now allow me to digress for a moment. Most people around my age (I'll be 50 in a few days) probably remember Adam West as Batman. I'll be honest, as much as loved that show in my childhood, they weren't exactly doing Shakespeare every week.
West plays Major Eliot, a Civil War Hero. However, being raised as he did left an indelible scar on his psyche. When I first saw this episode on MeTV, I remember thinking to myself, "wow, Adam West can really act". He plays the mentally unstable Eliot quite convincingly.
The rest of "The Big Valley" regulars (Lee Majors is absent from this episode) give solid performances as always. However Mr. West's performance alone is worth the price of admission.