Archive for July, 2011

This whole post will have spoilers for the Matt Smith run of Doctor Who, in case you haven’t watched it. Off and on for the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to unbox my feelings on the latest season of Doctor Who. Now that the show is on hiatus, it seems like it’s appropriate to […]


It may seem a bit silly to say, but this episode’s title is pretty descriptive of its quality. It’s not a bad outing, really. But almost everything here is a bit off. Not so much that you can’t enjoy it, but enough is wrong that it’s hard to just sit back and let the plot […]


This will be a fine improvement over “What is Reality!” This is a classic! This is a bravura performance on every level! A triumph of the animation form that dwarfs all other things! Except….not quite. “I Am The Night” is a very good episode of the animated series, and rightly deserves to be remembered fondly, […]


It’s the second Riddler episode. Boy, is it ever. My memories of this episode were pretty clear. I thought it had a great gimmick in its virtual reality threat to Commissioner Gordon’s life, and the color scheme was visually distinctive in a good way. And Riddler episodes are always good, if few and far between. […]