For a long time, I had never seen a single episode of Young Indiana Jones (or perhaps I had only seen a single episode), no matter how I had tried to track them down, since their airing in 1993. When the series was released on DVD in 2007, bought them all, and finally got to watch the complete series. But the DVD set included extensive bonus documentaries, which I didn't watch on my first run through the series. Now, I have just finished going through those documentaries. They were fairly interesting, serving to further educate the audience on the history lesson the the series itself weaves around its stories. The series covers a lot of the period during World War I, which is usually overlooked, perhaps in part due to the overwhelming magnitude of World War II. That history should not be overlooked, as it set up a great deal of the conflicts that plague our society even today. Still, I wonder how much George Lucas knows (or knew) of this history.

This is another show I have been wanting to watch for a while. I have found it to be fascinating. I don't know why, but I have been interested in these post-apocalyptic stories, like the Stand, by Stephen King (the book, less so the mini-series).

One of the reasons I find to to be so interesting is that it is quite well done. Everything up to this point (the point that I am in watching the series) has seemed plausible to me.

One other reason is the series gives tantalizing clues as to what happened and his happening to the United States, which makes me want to know more and keep watching.

So far, the show hasn't really gone over the edge, but it does often end with a new mysterious revelation before the ending of each episode, to try and hook you into watch the next episode. Of course, wanting to know what happens next is a great way to keep your viewers engaged. Actually, the first few Harry Potter books did that very well, too.

I have been planning to watch this show for quite a while, as I watched the original British show on which it was based "Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets".

I had no idea what to expect from this show, as honestly, I didn't really care for some of the elements they added. I read a that the show was originally pitched as "Lost" in space, but seeing how I have never seen Lost, I don't exactly get the comparison, but I think it has something to do with the supernatural elements of the show. It was those elements that I didn't really care for.

At the same time, the back story of the troubles the astronauts faced during training as well the their interpersonal relationships was okay.

Honestly, I thought there was some kind of lesbian aspect to the show before I watched it, because all the posters I saw of the show only showed women.

I would have to say I preferred the original British series, being that it was based on science theory (with no superfluous supernatural elements). Also, being that it was a mini series, it had a clear ending, and went together in a logical way, unlike a lot of series, where it seems like the creator (or writers who have taken over those duties perhaps) has no idea for an ending of the series and just throws in various elements to wrap it up, that creates more questions than it answers. It's easy to throw in some peculiar elements to the plot, but often the creators have no idea for an explanation or resolution to those situations.

Well, I just finished watching season 4 (all two episodes of it) of Danger Man. While those were the only episodes filmed in color and they were set in Japan, they were a bit of a disappointment. Of course, the depiction of Japan was lacking in some ways, as they would show some stock footage of Japan, and then go to a set that had many flaws in it's depiction of Japan. First off, there only seemed to one or two members of the cast who were actually Japanese. Also, some of the ways the rooms and buildings looked did not appear to be Japanese. I was even a bit surprised when Drake walked out of the apartment holding his shoes, as usually the shoes are put on in a small entrance way before leaving the house. The final episodes Shinda Shima (to me it sounds like they wanted the name to mean Death Island, but it was refereed to as something like kill island in the series, but the word kill in Japanese is Korosu. Perhaps they didn't want to use such a similar word at the title of the previous episode Koroshi). But I was impressed with a few details of this episode, in their use of the Japanese language at one point, as they had a Japanese woman translate for Drake, and her Japanese was accurate. As well as showing correctly on a map the most famous region for pearl diving. The next show I will be watching is Defying Gravity. I watched the British series n which it was based, Space Odyssey, which I thought was excellent, mostly in realistic representation of what maybe accomplished with our current understanding of science.

As I am getting near the end of the series, there are a few points that stand out for me.

One is that in the first two seasons, Drake used more of his inventiveness to solve the problems. In the third season, he relies more on gadgets (which I think is due to the influence of the James Bond films on the series).

I am a bit surprised at how smoking and drinking are nearly always present in every episode. I am uncertain if this is due to the times the show was created in, a choice of the director or at the sponsor behest.

Every time anyone enters some one else's place of residence, they are offered a drink, which is always some type of alcoholic beverage and it is nearly always accepted.

And most of the character's smoke, and deny anyone the opportunity to smoke. (Of course Drake has used this in several situations to his advantage). This point stand out to me, as I was reading up on the original Star Trek series, and Gene Roddenberry insisted that no one smoke in his future world,(though he himself was a smoker) and that that caused some irritation with the sponsors. But it seems logical now (no pun intended) but it shows how forward thinking Gene Roddenberry really was.

As I am a huge fan of The Prisoner, I always intended at some point to go back and watch Patrick McGoohan's previous series Dangerman, which I am now doing.

Each episode has excellent plot, with John Drake always coming up with some creative solution to resolve the situation he is faced with. He lacks the reliance on gadgets that most spy shows rely on, as well as not using deadly force nor a womanizer.

Also, it gives great insight into John Drake. There has been speculation as to whether John Drake and the Prisoner are the same character. If John Drake is not The Prisoner, then the Prisoner is just some unknown agent with a background we know nothing about, and anyone's speculation is just as likely as anyone else's, as we have nothing to base it on or confirm it with.

If you cast aside the fact that John Drake and the Prisoner look identical (as a justification for the characters being one in the same), both characters still share the same morality and integrity, two quite rare characteristics, that are not present in any other agent characters (James Bond, etc) making it seem that the two are the same character.

I've always hoped to see Michael Pare do well, after seeing him in the Greatest American Hero. I was glad that he got staring film roles in the 80s, most notably Eddie and the Cruisers, but since the 80s he career has petered out a bit.

Quite a while ago I had heard that he stared in a TV series called Starhunter. When I first started searching for this show, only a few episodes were released on a single DVD, which I bought with plans to buy subsequent DVDs when they were released and once I had collected he whole season, to watch the show. Subsequent DVDs were never released, so I waited several years in vain. Eventually they released the entire first season on DVD.

I enjoyed the series, though a lot of the episodes had plots that were lacking a bit and occasionally unclear. I liked that the series had two story arcs throughout the series, one about Dante (the captain) trying to find his son and another about the Divinity Cluster.

The characters were okay, with Percy stealing the show many times with her personality and performance.

Unfortunately, I never got a feeling for the ship, as it was always dark and never offered much to make you feel like it was a ship and not a set. I couldn't get a feel for the layout of the ship and while it was constantly referred to as being very large, I was never given that impression from what we were shown of it and a crew of only three.

In a strange way, I feel like the series is kind of a precursor to Firefly, with a captain, the female engineer Percy resembling Kaylee, in looks and her role and Luc resembling Zoe, as a female mercenary type. The only people missing from the core crew (of Firefly, as the rest were pretty much passengers) were Wash, the pilot and Jayne (who was not part of the original crew, in the Firefly history (if you recall from the flashback shown in Out of Gas)

I've been continuing to play my game of catch up with Smallville.

Perhaps I should go back in rate the individual episodes, as I attempt to catch up with Smallville for the season finale, but if I really decide to do that, I need to watch 22 episodes in a week.

One thing that really bothers me is that the show is 30 minutes of superhero antics, followed by 10 of 66684 (the zip code for Smallville, alluding to the fact that the show goes in to a 90210 mode, who is sleeping with who soap opera) and 5 minutes of advancing the season story arch, regarding the super villain of the season.

With a limited number of cast members, it seems by the end of season 9, everyone has pretty much slept with everyone else, with Oliver getting around the most. I guess they will have to introduce Tiffany Amber Thissen (nothing wrong with her!!) so he will have some one new to sleep with.

After giving up on the show several years ago, I have started once again to watch Smallville While I didn't consciously decided to stop watching the show, at the time I had given up, 6 of the 10 stars of the show had left, including the guy who played Lex Luthor which was by far the most interesting character in the show.

I think I was motivated by hearing the series will be coming to an end this year, and a long time ago I had my vision of what final episode should be like, so I want to watch it knowing the full "back story" as reimagined in Smallville.

I started back right where I left off, going back to the first few episodes of season 8. The show is a bit better off without Lana's weekly life and death trips to the hospital and her tearful drama laden discourse that each episode seemed to end in. The story still does not represent Superman, nor does it fill out his back story or add any depth to the mythos, but it is watchable and at time entertaining.

I just watched the final episode of Battle of the Planet, but it was somewhat disappointing, as it wasn't actually a series finale, just the last episode that Sandy Frank entertainment choose to edit and dub in English for the American version. There was no conclusvie end to Spectra or Zoltar. I still have half a dozen episode of Gatchaman to watch, and I am hoping that that series will present some resolution to the conflict between Galactor (Spectra) and Gatchaman (G-Force).

Battle of the Planets is a fine series, as it was based on the already excellent Gatchaman. Also the voice acting was excellent, in that the voice actors all had approreate voices for their characters, and gave excellent performances. Still, since they only used six actors, all the additional characters just sounded like the main cast doing voices. Some voice actors are able to do multiple voices that you cannot identify as the same person (Billy West comes to mind).

Also, while some people disliked the character of 7-Zark-7, I think thanks to the wonderful tone of Alan Young's voice the character was likable and appealing to the target audience of children.

When I first watched the series as a child, I was didn't comprehend all the naration that explained about how all the vehicles destroyed were robot controled, and that no people were harmed. I really think the producers attempts at limited children's exposure to violence went over the heads of children who watched the show. Then again, I realize that at that time, network excutives expected that cartoons be free of violence, and it was necessary to make those changes to allow the show to be aired.

It's too bad that there still hasn't been an American release of the full series on DVD. It seems that Britian get more and better releases of American TV shows on DVD than America does.