Monster of the Day

Yep, snow sucks.

Ahhhhhhhh, now that's the stuff.

It's going to be a short week, and I have a few more snake stills, so we might as well kill these off. Here we get an utterly generic bad CGI snake that could have come from any one of a dozen SyFy 'original' 'movies.' I hope everyone had a good weekend. I did,…

She had been warned: Don't Squeeze the Charmin

And a cottage industry is born.

The gritty reboot of the "It's the Plumber, He's Here to Fix the Sink" sketch left fans of the original vocally dissatisfied.

"...the suspect is swaying and his speech is slurred..."

When I saw the title of this episode--"Monster Plant"--I was wondering if we'd get a taste of Biollante. More than a taste, as you can see from the still of people being attacked by whipping tentacles, and then particularly the image of a monstrous rose. More than that, the film also prefigures Legion from…

OK, now THIS is the stuff. That's a marvelous monster, and it looks fantastic on the show. I never liked monsters that were over-designed (one problem with a lot of CGI monsters), and this one is basic and just incredible. Top notch stuff. For a TV show, the effects are really top notch. Check…

Unsurprisingly for the first two episodes they didn't get too crazy (although it wouldn't take long). Here's a Kong-like chap, who is at least more sympathetic then Gomess. He ends the episode drugged and, we are told, to be taken to live in safety. Notice the tail in the last shot, because he's supposed…