Monster of the Day

Yesterday's monster was evil, this one highly sympathetic. They needed to destroy it, but you really feel sorry for the creature, which as you can see is extremely cute. This is one of those "dangers of SCIENCE!" episodes. Being a Japanese show, though, the main lesson learned is that acting for ones self instead…

This is yet another neat monster from Ultra Q. It's a giant rock that is blown to pieces and reforms as this guy. (The image of him standing is an anomaly, he's trying to shake off the episode's protagonist.) This guy is also really menacing; the show's monsters ranged from evil to sympathetic, but…

As noted yesterday, Turtle Boy goes to the underwater kingdom of a wee girl fairy princess (or something). She has her own magic pet, who looks vaguely familiar somehow. Note the girl provides a sense of scale for the beastie. Neat!

This was the episode of Ultra Q that assured me the series was not going to fall pray to the sort of repetitiveness that afflicted it's follow-up series, Ultraman (and all the zillion Ultraman knock-offs). Tonally, this episode was gonzo, a crazy, kid-oriented chapter featuring berserk kid logic. It has bank robbers, broad slapstick…

  Duh, Gee, Tennessee. Let's make this another Ultra Q week, as inspired by Sandy's review of an episode. I'll write up my thoughts on the show and append them to Sandy's review and repost the whole things as a Nugget later this week. This fellow was one of only a few monsters to…

Sweet!

Doctor Who has unsurprisingly occasionally had Quatermassian overtones (where's that mash-up?!), but this is one of the most obvious. Great stuff, again. Seriously one of the best runs the Doctor ever had. Miss the Brigadier, though. One of the few six-parters that doesn't lag much, either, maybe because the first two parts are a…

A no-brainer.* And still my favorite production of A Man For All Seasons. [*See yesterday's MotD.] Man, this was a great run of Doctor Who. The gothic horror shows were especially tremendous.

Worst Marco Polo player ever.

Back to life!  I hope everyone had a wonderful couple of weeks while I was down in Texas.