Episode Report Card Keckler: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Blue Swayed Crews
By Keckler | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.20.2004
Before I even comment on the episode I'm going to say one more thing that is directed only at Bermaga and not at the actors or writers: WHERE THE HELL IS KELLIE WAYMIRE'S TRIBUTE?! Yeah, yeah, Berman was quoted as saying that they were trying to find a way of paying their respects, blah-blah blow-it-up-our-asses-some-more cakes; yet Everwood -- the show that had her on for ONE SINGLE EPISODE -- still had MORE CLASS than the show that had her on SEVERAL TIMES when they put an "In memory of" at the end of the freakin' episode! What's the matter, Bermaga? You too cool to acknowledge the passing of an actor? Too wrapped up in your fancy suits and pin-striped egos to care? Would it REALLY have taken SO much out of you to slap in an "In memory of" line post-production after the news of her death came out? Screw you. Anything you do now will be pointless and insulting to her memory. You blew it. If it weren't for the fact that I honestly think the actors and the writers deserve more of a chance after this season's improvement, I'd tell you to shove this show so far up your collective ASSES that you'd still be flossing it out of your teeth come Christmas.
God, between those two completely disparate sentiments, I think I'm developing multiple personalities.
Anyway, the episode. It was good.
The previouslies are basically two minutes of "Shipment" recut in a way that makes it look exciting. There's also the cosmic loogies from "Rajiin" when a nest of Bug Houses boarded the ship.
A glass of water. Ooh, you got me! What's going to happen to it? Will it get knocked over? Drunk? Or just sit there with a serene countenance and hope that someone notices its life of quiet desperation? If you introduce a glass of water in the first act, it will certainly have to go off by the end of the play. Excedrin P.M. puts an end to my suspense as he drinks it and makes a face. Maybe it was Benefiber -- the clear stuff that you don't have to chug because it doesn't get gritty like Metamucil does. Excedrin P.M. is called to the bridge. Cool bridge! It's all dark grey bulkheads with blue lights -- very clean and hi-tech. A female Andorian tells Excedrin P.M. that they lost the warp trail. Excedrin P.M. tells Andorianna to continue scanning: "You know what we're looking for, Lieutenant. It shouldn't be that difficult to find!" He starts to walk away, but Andorianna says, "COMMANDER!" Excedrin P.M.'s antennae swivel backwards, and he turns around. I think he looks exactly like John McCain. Andorianna reminds him that they've been searching for weeks, and Shran McCain tells her that they will continue searching until they've found what they're looking for. Them, Bono, and Rumsfeld. Andorianna wonders if "they" can still be alive in "this place." Okay, so they're in The Expanse and they're looking for Quantum and Qrew. "We have our orders," Shran McCain reminds her. Andorianna keeps with the arguing. Shran McCain supposes that Andorianna is afraid of The Expanse, and snarks that he'd expect that from a Vulcan, "not a member of the Imperial Guard." Andorianna looks uncomfortable and tells someone to continue scanning. Shran McCain steps forward and tells her not to underestimate these "pinkskins," because "they're still out there." Something I never noticed with the Andorian makeup before (perhaps because it wasn't there before; I don't know) is that Shran McCain has white highlights on his forehead -- where furrows would be -- and also veins on his temples. It's very interesting.