The extremely fun and more sophisticated than I thought it would be show, Reaper, may have more life in it than I originally expected. There may be up to five additional episodes beyond the original 13. There’s hope yet! In this case I’m glad I was probably wrong.
At last! Guillermo Del Toro expresses interest in doing a Doctor Strange Movie! After forty-five years the good Doctor may finally get his due.
So far, the second season of Torchwood is a great improvement on the first. BBC America is showing the episodes on this side of the pond only a couple of weeks after they air in their homeland. So far it’s been a rockin’ good time, despite a few ill advised ideas.
Episode Four, "Meat" is a pretty standard story and maybe just slighly above mediocre plot about a lumpy looking space whale that gets trapped by some not too intelligent opportunists who cut chunks out of it and sell them to local markets. So, why have I chosen this out of the eight episodes that aired to date? In a word (well five of them): Kai Owen’s "Rhys Williams" character. Up to this episode Rhys has been Gwen’s bumbling, good hearted arm candy that she seems to love like Paris Hilton loves that dog she carries around in her purse. Rhys isn’t overly clever, doesn’t have a sculpted body and isn’t exactly ambitious but radiates a friendly charisma that’s had me enraptured since his first appearance in the premiere episode. It certainly doesn’t hurt that Kai has shown more skin than any other man or woman on the show. In the first season’s finale he came within a well placed coffee cup of a full frontal that was preceeded with some playful ass slapping. Mr. Owen’s six pack may come from a fridge rather than a gym, but I still wanna gets me some of that! (If you haven’t guessed, the title of this post IS a double entendre.)
Physical assets aside, Rhys comes into his own with this episode. After a season and a half of bad treatment by his bug-eyed, crinkle-faced girlfriend/fiance, he finally stands up to Gwen. He finds out about Torchwood through some fairly innovative and quick thinking investigation and calls out his manipulative GF. Apparently she underestimated him along with the rest of us. Heck, Rhys even stands up to Jack. I managed to predict the "This is so homoerotic" line a good ten seconds before Jack smarmily said it. As things progress, we manage to see him plan the infiltration of the meat mens’ warehouse, lead everyone there and even take a bullet for the undeserving love of his life.
In the end, when Jack wants Gwen to wipe out Rhys’ memory, the bitch/fiance stands by her man and refuses to do it. Finally, she shows that she loves Rhys more than something else in her life.
So, we have a new look at Rhys, who’s intelligent, quick thinking, brave, loving and selfless. Oh, and there’s the cute thing too! I hope this new look isn’t the last look.
A series of articles from The New York Times illustrating the unfairly favorable treatment religious orgranizations get from government agencies.
A new term I discovered from this article about some igornant parent complaining about “Farenheit 451″ is Theologically Correct. It’s something I definately don’t want to be!