Doomed Shows

As I've stated elsewhere on this site, I'm not a rabid Doctor Who fan, but I am a fan. I was only nine-years-old when the show's original run ended, and I wasn't a fan of British stuff when I was a kid (everyone talked funny, after all). When I was 25 the show was relaunched and, having long ago given up my prejudice of how Brits talk (though they do still talk funny), I gave the show a chance. I was immediately hooked and watched the show every chance I got. Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor (there have been NINE?!) was phenomenal, and Rose was hot.

So we are four episodes out to the end of Season 4 (4.5?) and the Astraeus mission is getting close to crunch time. But not without a minor hitch or two. The return of Tiny from her Titan prep mission and her rapid demise soon after she reaches Earth starts a series of investigations that culminate in a massive red cloud of doom hovering over the town and threatening to kill everyone. But even worse, a government bureaucrat descends on Eureka to assess the "intimate alliance" of two of Eureka's top personnel. Oh, noes!

I know, I know: with my wildly non-sequential reviews of this show, you were assuming I wouldn’t get to this one until September, and I’d do the series finale before I got to it, and maybe a retrospective, too. Well - tah-dah - wrong. I’m all about surprises. And Fried Foods. And Sarcasm. Really, though, if I’m honest, I’m more about Fried Foods than the other two things. Ok, so, fine, I’m not all about surprises. That’s kinda’ surprising in and of itself, isn’t it? Probably not. You don’t actually know me all that well. Ah well. Screw it, on to the review portion of this review:

Our entirely sporadic coverage of this series continues…sporadically!

Now, I’m still a couple episodes behind in catching up with this thing, and I briefly toyed with the idea of not reviewing tonight’s ep until I was caught up, but ultimately I rejected that since the show is already dead, will not resolve its storyline, and isn’t very good to begin with. It was just too much effort for too little payoff, all things considered. So our coverage continues, but, I apologize, the eps are gonna’ be somewhat out of sequence.

LAST TIME AS YOU RECALL…