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The Six Million Dollar Man: Operation Firefly (1974)
Campy AF
Overal plot of this episode is ridiculous. And unfortunately Austin's female companion is TSTL in that crocodile scene. But Austin himself also got very lucky not to have been shot in the back earlier during the weird Logging attack on the invaders in the camp. He's very lucky that rifle shooting dude decided that the guide who, against all hope, was trying to save his burning boat was a much more important target to shoot then the guy swinging around and hitting his comrades with a big log. So the bad guys were also TSTL.
Deadbeat: The Blowfish Job (2015)
Wonderfully politically incorrect
I just loved the sexism/anti feminist jokes in this episode. So wonderfully politically incorrect. Nowadays you get bored to death by all the woke stuff and jokes about stereotypes or about minorities produce an avalanche of complaints.
House M.D.: Broken (2009)
Too much psycho drivel, not enough diagnostic
While watching this double episode I kept hoping someone in the ward would get sick and house having to diagnose and cure him with the limited means at his disposal there. Or for him to figure out that the silent staring girl was actually suffering from some neurological disease and managing to convince the staff to get her tested/cured. An opportunity missed imho.
House M.D.: The Softer Side (2009)
Uhm, Ok?!?
The story is decent. But the House on Methadon story needed work. He is willing to leave the hospital to remain on methadon first to the point where he leaves his patient in the (rather incompetant) hands of his assistant team. But then when he can stay and continue to use methadon, al of a sudden his small mistake that endangered that same patient he didn't care about earlier makes him stop using the methadon... Doesn't make sense.
FBI: All That Glitters (2021)
Just one remark
It's an ok episode, not very realistic but ok. It's also not very original, but then again what type of story hasn't already been don in formulaic crime/police series.
I have just one other remark for this episode:
"Oh my GOD, they (nearly) killed Kenny!"
XD.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Babes (2008)
Can you say Plot Holes?
This episodes was all over the map trying for clever plot twists that eventualy missed their mark.
After the suicide of the pregnant girl there was no clever ME as ussuall that pointed out that the ligature marks on her neck couldn't have come from the cloth she was hanged with and no notice of a broken hyoid bone, like in so many other episodes with staged hangings, that pointed to manual strangulation instead. Quite the goof by the forensic department wouldn't you say?
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Cage (2006)
Another rebirthing gone bad episode
This episode felt a bit cobbled together with a plot line intermixed that was straight out of an old original Law and Order episode about a rebirthing therapy session gone wrong. Not bad but not very original.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Manipulated (2006)
Contradictory
Overal an enjoyable episode. But I think there is a contradiction in the motive of the killer. She doesn't know how to live without her husband as her nursemaid/attention giver, as she is rambling about at the end when everything has been revealed and her husband turns away from her. But she was OK sending him to prison for a crime he didn't commit??
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Doubt (2004)
Okay, but I miss some detective work
The plot was OK, the ending wasn't great without the info about the voting. But what I found lacking most in this episode was a background check into the alleged rapist. In other episodes other women the rapist knew and family would have been questioned. There would have been an investigation into possible prior acts. Non of these were done or even mentioned in this episode though it was clearly stated he met with a lot of his students at home before. So you would have expected a follow up in which these women would have been looked up and questioned if the rapist ever showed any misconduct with them.
Law & Order: Access Nation (2002)
Interresting plot which becomes more relevant every year
I found the conclusion of this episode pretty interresting and basically the problem that this episode deals with was ahead of it's time. Too Bad that Jack's closing statement that people will trade privacy for safety is still true. Hell people trade privacy for convenience judging from the sales figures of digital assistent devices like Alexa, which are basically always on listening devices, are something to go on.
Stargate SG-1: Tin Man (1998)
Good episode, weird ending
So SG-1 end up on a planet with a higher level of technology then earth itself. So why does the episode end with the real team going back to earth and the gate supposedly to be buried? There is no danger. The systems are falling apart due to a lack of hands to repair the systems. There are a number of things I find weird about this scenario.
1) Why not just make multiple synthetic bodies of the same person to do the maintenance? If they are just copies of the mind, I don't see a reason why this couldn't be done seeing that the facility was originally build to power orders of magnitude more survivors.
2) If for some obscure reason multiple copies is not possible, then why doesn't earth make a deal to supply volunteers to be copied in exchange for studying the more advanced technology? Or even make it a second base of operation? Would it really be so hard to equip the gate with an iris to protect the facility ? (Which has been accessible to the Goa'uld for many thousands of years anyway and apparently hasn't been visited by them in all that time)
Stargate SG-1: The Torment of Tantalus (1997)
Great story, just not so sure about the science
Great episode. But I didn't find old Ernest very believable. For once where did he bade? And it stands to reason that someone who has been in isolation for 50 years would forget how to speak or at least I would expect muscle atrophy of the vocal cords.
But the main thing was the fact that the energy staff wouldn't have enough power for the stargate, but a lightning strike would?
A Lightning strike has 1 to 10 billion joules of energy. That sounds like a lot, but if you convert it to kWh it's only 1150kWh which isn't a stellar amount.
Lightning is powerful and destructive, but only because an average lightning strike lasts only a about 60 microseconds and channeling that amount of energy in such a short amount of time heats materials up to enormous temperatures. But a stargate has to have enough power to keep the wormhole open for at least 30 seconds to be useful in traveling home. In my mind it just doesn't add up. Either the Energy staff would have been plenty to power it, or the lightning strike wouldn't have had enough.
Also apparently, according to an SG-1 forum, in a future episode they will manage to activate a Stargate and go through it using two truck batteries. So seems to me that the energy source in the energy staff should have been able to do the trick just fine... o.O
Stargate SG-1: Thor's Hammer (1997)
Great episode, but was the ending really wise or ethical?
Great episode, but was it really wise or ethical to destroy the worlds main defense? O'neill kindof waved it away saying that the Goa'uld didn't know the hammer had been destroyed, but judging from the fact that Uran has managed to keep himself alive for who knows how long seems to indicate that once in a while some Goa'uld, like Kendra herself did, still come through. And once one has come through the game is basically up. Blocking the exit wouldn't really help much against the energy staffs blast imho.
And with the staff working it seems to me that they could have just blasted a hole in the rock around the hammer gate that could have been blocked after. Without being able to go through the hammer gate an energy staff wouldn't work in reopening that hole.
The Mentalist: The Silver Briefcase (2014)
Great epsiode, just left me with one question
I enjoyed the episode, it was a reasonably solid plot (If you overlook the fact that the timing for the place where the clothes were tossed out of the car was a little arbitrary and could easily have been a few miles further along that road)
However the sub plot of Jane discussing leaving the FBI with Lisbon kinda left me confused. Cause he can't leave until he has fullfilled the 5 years working for the FBI as was stated in the deal he made. If he leaves before those 5 years are up he's going to jail for murder afaik. Did the writers forget about that or something???
The Mentalist: Red Herring (2010)
Enjoyable mandatory chef/poisoning plot episode
Enjoyable episode. Just one thing had me wondering. Wouldn't dosing Julia's pepper with the liquid ricin made the powdered pepper all lumpy and sticky? Imho it would so it would have been impossible to sprinkle pepper from that shaker in a normal way and it would have given away to Julia that something was amiss with that pepper.
Columbo: Now You See Him (1976)
Enjoyable but imho Columbo jumps to a conclusion about how the door was opened
I found it rather odd that Columbo jumps to the conclusion that the murderer must have opened the door instead of Jerome from the position of Jerome's body.
Imho most people would have assumed that after Jerome opened the door and saw the murderer pointing his gun at him, that he would have taken slow steps backwards while holding his hands in the air. Trying to dissuade the murderer from shooting him, which would have explained why the body wasn't right behind the door perfectly fine without the need to assume that the lock was picked.
Star Trek: Discovery: Project Daedalus (2019)
Plot holes?
The episode was enjoyable enough. However the whole sacrificing of Ariam felt forced. For one I feel that in the classic star trek series (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager) they would have never sacrificed a fellow shipmate in this way. But apart from that, why didn't discovery beam her to a holding cell once she was blown out of the airlock? They did something similar before in season one with Tyler? So the whole "tragic" death scene seemed ridiculous to me.
Also why is no one asking about the status of Commander Nanh? In normal Star Trek the captain would have been concerned about every member of the away team and would have requested a status report at some point once the immidiate threat was over. But it seems in Discovery all the high ranking officers ever care about is Durnham.
Saving Hope: The Law of Contagion (2012)
Kinda freaky watching this episode in juli 2020
They seem to have a better handle on containing a corona virus then they did in Real life.
But there are also some things you see that makes you facepalm. Like when a patient dies from it, the doctor and nurses immediate response is taking of their protective face mask, like the patient is suddenly no longer contagious after he died....
The Rookie: Free Fall (2019)
Entertaining but also a lot of nonsensical things
While the episode was entertaining a lot of things in this episode were also inaccurate or didn't make sense.
The first outbreak was because a passenger on the bus took the wrong bag and ended up with the bag containing the vials with the virus. So how is it possible that the terrorist later reaches into the other bag, which must have belonged to that passenger, and gets the aerosolizer with the virus from it???
Also afaik a vaccine only prevents someone from contracting the disease, ussually by infecting them with a weakened version or close relative of a virus or bacteria so the body can learn to make antibodies against it. It doesn't help if someone is already infected.
Elementary: Bella (2014)
Weak episode with several plot holes and inconsistencies.
1) Could you even call sending someone a CD with a program that flashes images a murder? Especially seeing as the recipient would have had to willingly run the program himself in the first place.
2) Bella is running on what appears to be a mainframe computer. It's very unlikely that that server would run a windows operating system like the computer they tried the program on when they found it on the CD. It's much more likely that that computer ran either a custom OS, a UNIX variant or an IBM mainframe OS.
3) The executable is playing a video. There are video editing programs that will create a standalone executable from video footage. So it could be done without any programming expertise.
4) Playing a data CD in an audio player, and I know from experience having accidentally played the data track on a cheap portable CD player, you either hear absolutely nothing at all, or you just hear a kind of white noise as the raw bit data from the data track is being interpreted by the drive as audio data.
All in all a lackluster episode best forgotten as quickly as possible.
Elementary: Dead Clade Walking (2014)
Enjoyable but with a questionable turn of events
Storyline of this episode was pretty entertaining. I'm just left wondering why breaking the rock with the fossil in it into smaller pieces would be considered as having "destroyed" the fossil. I'm pretty sure paleontologists have reconstructed dinosaur skeletons from smaller fragments then that rock was smashed into.
Bull: Labor Days (2019)
Very weak case
The case in this episode was very weak. I doubt that even in a crazy country like the US this would actually make it to court.
And even if there was any merit to the idea that a bartender could be held responsible for the actions of a person after they left the bar (even with DUI murder/manslaughter cases I've never heard of the bartenders having been sentenced for manslaughter too) the fact that several eyewitness accounts of patrons of the bar proved she was hesitant to pour him another drink instead of cutting him off and she did so under orders, should have been reason enough for an acquittal.
Bones: The Lance to the Heart (2014)
Not the worst arc but far from good...
Okay, so why did Hodgins have to remove the blood from Sweets log papers when last season Angela just scanned them in different wavelengths of light tto make the text visible??? Bit inconsistent imho
Anyway, I'm kinda tired of these multiepisode complot Arcs. This one is not as bad as the Pelant one but I would still have prefered the normal single episode cases.
Also they killed of Sweets. Why do all show writers take that easy way out if they want to get rid of a character/actor it's such an old and tedious overused plot item.
Booth suddenly intending to kill someone in cold blood also raised my hackles. It's completely out of character for him imho and came rather out of the blue.
Later on the idea that the "only" way Booth could get Durants DNA seems flaky to me seeing as he had been drinking from a disposable coffee cup.
Then there is the whole Durant profiling part near the end. Really Brennan profiling someone and deducing that because of one religious sentence the files must be hidden in a to him religious/holy place and that place being the Hoover exibit in the Jeffersonian? Very far fetched. This story couldn't manage to suspend my disbelieve unfortunately.
Bones: The Drama in the Queen (2014)
Did they use data from mythbusters (S3E14)?
The way they are talking about the water in the pool slowing and deforming the bullet and also the mention of 8 feet for a .45 to be stopped correspond with the test results that the Mythbusters found in episode S3E14 in the myth about Bulletproof Water from 2005. So it seems like the writer(s) of this episode did their homework very well.
Apart from that I found the overall story of this episode pretty good, the new intern is properly quirky and still likable (unlike the one introduced in last season who was annoyingly arrogant and didn't have any redeeming features to make him likable at all).
The part with the mother and daughter at the start, who found the body, was pretty satisfying. You'd want to toss the mother into the well yourself with how she wanted to take advantage of the child, and her ending up stuck at the bottom of the well (with the corpse) because the child tossed the ladder into it had that 'serves her right' feeling.
The Blacklist: The Stewmaker (No. 161) (2013)
Too Unbelievable for my Taste
Like mentioned in other comments, all government agencies in this episode are incompetent and have no clue how to do their jobs (But somehow they seem to be able to keep the fact that Reddington cooperates with the FBI regularly a secret). Just as bad is the fact that Lorca's organization seems to be just as stupid. When they bust their boss out (the helicopter blowup scene) they kill every guard and agent around with automatic weapons. But they kidnap agent Keen. Just to have the Stewmaker have her disappear??? Why? If they wanted her dead a few bullets from those automatics would have done the job just as well(And da lot cheaper I imagine). Also other then revenge the Lorca's don't have a valid reason for wanting to kill/disappear her. She's not a witness and only has her profile of the Lorca Boss which is useless without evidence or witnesses. She has no real knowledge so kidnapping to extract information doesn't make sense either. The whole kidnapping was clearly just a plot gimmick and felt forced.
Then there is the premise that the Stewmaker makes bodies disappear with chemicals in a very short time span. This is also completely ridiculous. Even with the most aggressive acid (Hydrofluoric acid) this wouldn't work. (The Mythbusters tried it, testing a Myth based on the Breaking Bad episode where a bathtub filled with Hydrofluoric acid with a body ate through the body, the tub and the floor dropping everything through the ceiling into the hall below. They busted it completely. After over a day the pigs in the tub had partially dissolved but big chunks of bones and meat remained in the bath and didn't really dissolve any further)
Also we are supposed to believe that even though Reddington keeps walking in and out of the FBI office and also meets with FBI operatives in other locations, and none of the criminals he deals with get wind of that???