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Babylon 5: Falling Toward Apotheosis

What a great title, huh?  Apotheosis is the elevation of someone to divine status, which is the goal of Centauri Emperor Cartagia.  But the episode focuses a lot…

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XIII

Roger has been reminding me that it’s been too long since I gave some game reviews and with our Covid lockdown still limiting my driving where I no…

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Star Trek: What Are Little Girls Made Of?

We start this episode, What Are Little Girls Made Of?,  on a mission to reunite nurse Chapel with her former fiancé, Roger Corby.  Ok, maybe the mission was…

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To the Last Man

If Torchwood has a failing as a show, it was that it never settled on a specific genre to work with, dabbling instead with every genre under the…

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My Love Story!!

Some of the best series I have ever watched have been recommendations from friends. This one was suggested to me by Daz, who runs the nicest and happiest…

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Another Episode 0

“The Other” The view from Igirisu: This OVA episode takes places before the main series but it is essential to watch it afterwards, as it gives away information…

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Babylon 5: The Summoning

It’s Delenn’s turn to open the episode with her “captains log”.  I imagine that’s a creative choice now, based on the way the opening credits begin for the…

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Chronoclasm

Series three comes to a conclusion with another time distorting adventure featuring our intrepid adventurers and Leela as they go up against season baddie, Mr. Payne.  But Payne…

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Star Trek: Mudd’s Women

The episode opens with the Enterprise in pursuit of a ship through an asteroid field.  It is not the Millennium Falcon!  I think this is the first time…

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Sleeper

I’m tired of the up and down quality of Torchwood.  We had a really action-packed episode just one story back, packed with silly mistakes, but then episode two…

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Shakugan no Shana: Season One

This is not the kind of series I often go for, but it was a good price in a second hand DVD shop so I thought it was…

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Cthulhu and UFOs at the Nativity

UFOlogists over the years have pored over the finer details of Renaissance art, looking for evidence to support their cause, and recently I have been having fun taking…

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“Stand by Oneself” The view from Igirisu: Watch this episode right to the very end. There’s a little coda after the end credits that shows Teshigawara and Mochizuki…

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Babylon 5: Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?

I often find myself saying “that was one of my favorite episodes” when referring to Babylon 5 and that’s a silly thing to say for two reasons.  Most…

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Swan Song

For those who have been following my ramblings about Jago and Litefoot, a series that has a distinct feel of the Great Detective, I feel the urge to…

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Star Trek: The Enemy Within

There’s a lot to be said about the themes classic Trek tackles, but The Enemy Within is, to my reckoning, one of the first important ones.  It’s not…

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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Torchwood is back for season 2 and we get an exciting opener.  Jack’s old partner (in more ways that one), Captain Hart, dressed for the Beatles Sgt Pepper…

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Haganai

Kodaka Hasegawa has no friends. For reasons that might not come across very clearly to a Western audience, the colour of his hair and his general appearance make…

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Spaceships at the Crucifixion

Once again I am indebted to a good friend for bringing another interesting painting to my attention, one that has fascinated UFO enthusiasts who went looking for historical…

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Robo (Enthiran) (Robot)

If there’s on thing that we can say about having to go to work, it’s that it offers us the opportunity to make friends with wonderful people who…

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“Makeup” The view from Igirisu: Back in Episode 9, Koichi, Mochizuki and Teshigawara were heading into the old school building to look for the hidden cassette tape and…

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Babylon 5: The Hour of the Wolf

Babylon 5 comes back for a 4th season with a strong opener in The Hour of the Wolf.   G’Kar recaps what has gone on over the last seven…

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The Man at the End of the Garden

“Who is the girl at the top of the stairs?”  Sometimes a line or a moment in an audio story can really send shivers down your spine.  I…

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Star Trek: The Naked Time

I want to know who in Starfleet contacted Kirk and said “Hey, Jim, need you to find a planet that’s about to implode, sit there watching it, get…

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End of Days

Lately, that title seems more accurate than normal but for Team Torchwood, it really does seem to be the end of days.  After the events of Captain Jack…

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No-Rin

If you like school-based anime with love triangles you are spoilt for choice nowadays. They seem to get churned out endlessly. I enjoy them, but I try to…

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The Original Foley Artists

Until the late 1920s films were all silent, with musical accompaniment generally provided live by a pianist. You might have seen clips of silent films with some very…

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“Glass Eye” The view from Igirisu: With only a couple of episodes to go we are starting to get some answers to the big questions in Another. We…

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Babylon 5: Z’ha’dum

This was always going to be the hardest episode for me to write about because I don’t think there’s any way to do it justice.  The episode is…

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Dead Men’s Tales

The first thing that caught my attention with the beginning of season 3 of Jago and Litefoot was that the title of this first adventure was very ……

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Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before

Arguably one of the most unnerving episodes of Classic Trek, Where No Man has Gone Before features Captain James R. Kirk’s school friend, Gary Mitchell.  They are so…

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Captain Jack Harkness

The penultimate episode of Torchwood is another character piece, this time focusing on Captain Jack Harkness, in case the title wasn’t helping…  We get an interesting story: ghostly…

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Okko’s Inn

This is one of many films marketed for it’s ex-Studio Ghibli staff member credentials. The director is Kitaro Kosaka, who was a key animator for the studio. It’s…

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Pliny’s UFO

Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia is a fascinating piece of work, displaying an understanding of the world that seems remarkably ahead of its time. The first book concerns…

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1000 Posts in the Junkyard!

Just a quick, self-indulgent note to celebrate that we have hit the milestone of 1000 posts today.  For a blog that only started less than three years ago,…

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The Fanservice Debate: Sankarea Episode 8

Can fanservice ever be justified in anime or is it a disturbing and unnecessary aspect of the genre? In this occasional series we look at the rights and…

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“Body Paint” The view from Igirisu: After a bit of chatter about the cause of Nakao’s death, which doesn’t seem particularly relevant, as running away doesn’t save peo…

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Babylon 5: Shadow Dancing

Z minus 7 days and we are busy Shadow Dancing!  This weeks A plot has Sheridan and the Army of Light going on a Shadow offensive.  In the…

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The Ruthven Inheritance

There have been a lot of Sherlock Holmes references since this series started but color me amazed that it escaped my attention before, Litefoot has a housekeeper named Mrs.…

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Star Trek: Charlie X

When I was a kid, we rented a house in Lavallette NJ.  My cousin and I would stay up late to watch Star Trek at 12 midnight, and…

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Combat

Interestingly, my memory of Combat was of a ridiculous Owen episode about him being more of a jerk than normal.  Interesting because while that is at the heart…

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Photo Kano

Dating sim games are something of a phenomenon in Japan. The way they seem to work is that there are a variety of different characters who the player…

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The UFO Baptism

My article about UFOs in Rome provoked an interesting discussion among my friends, and I am indebted to one of them for sending me this image: It was…

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Another Episode 8

“Hair Stand” The view from Igirisu: That was something a bit different. After a pre-credits splattering of something red, it turns out to be just a watermelon, which…

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Babylon 5: And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place

It’s Dec 7 on Babylon 5 and it’s Z minus 14 days.  Whatever that means, it can’t be good! If last episode felt like a departure from the…

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