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Review of Outlander 3.5
Outlander 3.5 finally got Claire and Jamie back together — 20 years after they last were together, in the 1700s, with Jamie now in Edinburgh. There were lots of nice touches, including Jamie being located by a literary device — literally — I first noticed in Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity (still my all-time favorite time travel story) back in the 1950s. The person in the past wanting to let someone in the future know where to find him or her puts an ad in a newspaper with some reference to some event that hasn't happened yet (Asimov's method) or a poem from the future (Jamie's method) as a marker for the future to see. It's a nice, soft touch, and usually does the trick.
Paul LevinsonPublished 7 years ago in FuturismReview of Outlander 3.4
A surprisingly tender and altogether superb episode 3.4 of Outlander on Sunday night — in fact, the best of this season and among the best of all three seasons so far, I'd say.
Paul LevinsonPublished 7 years ago in FuturismRewatching... 'Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen' - Episode One
Saturday 30 September 1967 Something nasty attacks a small expedition camping in a snowy mountainous region. Another expedition! Last week it was archaeologists, I don't know what these chaps are looking for. Perhaps they're just climbers. It's not going well for them though and looks as though it might be a Tent Under Siege story...
Nick BrownPublished 7 years ago in FuturismReview of Outlander 3.3
A powerful and powerfully sad episode 3.3 of Outlander last night, with both Claire and Jamie gaining freedom from each of their own prisons, separated by some 200 years in time.
Paul LevinsonPublished 7 years ago in FuturismWhy Is There No Love for 'The Orville?'
The suns has made several rotations since the third episode, "About a Girl" was released, and the reviews I have been reading have been less than favorable. With a 20% score on Rotten Tomatoes and only a slight improvement 36% on Metacritic, it seems everyone has a bone to pick. IMDB has given it a 7.5.
Spencer BarrettPublished 7 years ago in FuturismReview of 'Salvation'
Salvation was shown on CBS this summer — finale just this past week — but binge-junkie that I am, I binge-watched the whole 13-episode run over the past few days on Amazon Prime. And this series is binge-watchable and excellent indeed.
Paul LevinsonPublished 7 years ago in FuturismReview of Somewhere Between Finale
Well, Somewhere Between concluded last night with a photograph. I'm tempted to hum Ringo's song "Photograph" — I've heard it a few times in the past few weeks on the Beatles Channel, and it sounded good, but no, it wasn't that kind of photograph at the end of Somewhere Between. It was a snapshot of a happy family at a wedding, and I won't say anything more, because no point in trafficking in spoilers.
Paul LevinsonPublished 7 years ago in FuturismReview of Outlander 3.2
Outlander 3.2 put on a good show last night, with Claire and Frank making love in the late 1940s, and Jaime doing the same (mostly off camera) back in those 1750s...
Paul LevinsonPublished 7 years ago in FuturismRewatching... Doctor Who: Tomb of the Cybermen – Episode 2
"I think perhaps your logic is wearing a little thin." Saturday 9 September 1967 I knew there was something odd about that Cyberman: it was a dummy! The dummy didn't even do the shooting — it was a target for a hidden weapon.
Nick BrownPublished 7 years ago in FuturismReview of Somewhere Between 1.9
And in this next-to-last episode of the season (series? who knows) of Somewhere Between -- 1.9, to be precise -- we get lots of important developments, including [spoilers abound below]
Paul LevinsonPublished 7 years ago in FuturismReview of Outlander Season 3 Debut
A strong, sensitive season 3 debut for Outlander last night, with two parallel stories, excellent in different ways, as befits the splitting in time and space of Jamie and Claire that we saw at the end of the second season.
Paul LevinsonPublished 7 years ago in FuturismReview of Somewhere Between 1.8
Somewhere Between ratcheted up the life-and-death tension in 1.8 this week, pitting Laura's daughter Serena vs. Nico's brother Danny as the one-or-the-other victim to be saved by Laura and Nico, who have the advantage of knowing what will happen any day now, at the end of this, but little else going for them in terms of power over events.
Paul LevinsonPublished 7 years ago in Futurism