Monday, December 17, 2007

Battlestar Galactica: 1x13 - Kobol's Last Gleaming (II)

  • On Caprica, Other-Boomer takes Helo to the museum that holds the Arrow of Apollo
    • Other-Boomer tells Helo that she's pregnant
    • Starbuck arrives, finds the Arrow, and gets beat up by a Number Six
      • Starbuck kills the Number Six, just as Helo arrives on the scene
  • Adama terminates Roslin's presidency for asking Starbuck to take the raider to Caprica
    • Apollo, Tigh, and several marines are sent to arrest Roslin
      • Apollo pulls a gun on Tigh in an act of mutiny
        • Roslin surrenders and is put in the brig
  • On Kobol, the crashed mission tries to figure out what they should do next; Gauis has a lot of visions
  • Adama assigns Boomer to take a Raptor equipped with a Cylon transponder and drop a nuke on the Basestar orbiting Kobol so the mission can be rescued
    • The bomb release jams, so Boomer has to dock and drop the nuke manually
    • Boomer finds a cave full of Boomer models in the Basestar
    • The mission is successful as the Basestar is blown up
  • Boomer fracking shoots Adama

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Battlestar Galactica: 1x12 - Kobol's Last Gleaming (I)

  • Boomer and Crashdown stumble upon what is believed to be Kobol
  • Number Six warns Gauis that it's not safe to stay on the BSG
    • Gauis insists on being in the mission to explore Kobol
    • The exploration mission is intercepted by Cylon raiders; The main group crash-lands on Kobol
  • According to myth, bringing the Arrow of Apollo from Caprica to Kobol will help find Earth
    • Adama refuses to authorize a mission to fetch said Arrow
    • Roslin tells Starbuck that she is dying and that Adama has no idea where Earth is
      • Starbuck flies her Cylon raider to Caprica to help fulfill the prophecy against Adama's orders
  • Boomer shoots herself in the face in a failed suicide attempt
  • Starbuck and Gauis have sex; Apollo gets bitchy

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Battlestar Galactica: 1x11 - Colonial Day

  • The first meeting of the Quorum of Twelve is held on Cloud 9
    • Zarek is sent as the Sagittarons' delegate; Gauis is Caprica's delegate
      • Zarek forces the opening of nominations for vice president
        • Gauis wins the election and Roslin's VP, narrowly beating out Zarek
    • Apollo and Starbuck are assigned to security detail
      • Zarek's plot to have Roslin assassinated is uncovered and thwarted
  • On Caprica, Helo ponders whether the other Number Six could have been a Cylon-made human clone
    • Helo sees another Boomer model; Other-Boomer kills her; Helo runs away

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Battlestar Galactica: 1x10 - The Hand of God

  • The fleet faces a severe fuel shortage; Boomer and Crashdown discover Cylon-controlled tylium refinery
    • Adama decides to attack and enlists Starbuck to help plan it, as her knee is still too injured to fly
      • They ask Gauis where to bomb; Number Six tells him that God will tell him; Gauis 'randomly' picks a point; Turns out he was totally right
      • Apollo saves the day by flying into a conveyor tunnel and blowing up the refinery
  • Roslin has a hallucination of snakes during a press conference
    • She blames it on her alternative cancer drugs; The Priestess links it to the Pythian prophecy and infers that perhaps Roslin is dying and will lead the fleet to humanity's new homeland
      • Number Six suggests to Gauis that the prophecy references him
  • On Caprica, Helo and Other-Boomer find a barn to hang out in
    • Helo sees a Number Six leading a large group of toaster Cylons; He is baffled as he saw already Other-Boomer kill what he thought was the only Number Six

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Battlestar Galactica: 1x09 - Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

  • The Cylon detector is officially ready; Testing everyone will take 61 years
    • Roslin wants Adama to be tested first, as he has reportedly been acting strange lately
  • Adama is missing from the BSG during a Cylon raider attack; He returns with Colonel Tigh's wife, Ellen
    • Ellen claims to have been unconscious on the Rising Star for the weeks since the holocaust
      • Adama has Gauis test Ellen; Gauis claims that Ellen is not a Cylon
  • An 'injured' Cylon raider is monitored for outgoing signals for intel purposes
  • On Caprica, Helo and Other-Boomer plan to steal a ship from the Cylon base, but it is too heavily guarded to even make an attempt

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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Dexter: 2x12 - The British Invasion

  • Doakes begs Lila to free him from the cage; He tells her that Dexter is the Butcher
    • Lila blows up the cabin to protect Dexter
      • Doakes is killed in the explosion
  • The Butcher case is closed
    • Dexter embraces his freedom by re-enacting the show's opening credits and having sex with Rita
  • Dexter discovers Lila was responsible for the explosion
    • Lila kidnaps Rita's kids and locks them with Dexter in her loft and sets it on fire; They all escape and Lila finally skips town
      • In order to help find the kids and rescue Dexter, Deb skips her flight to Oregon where she was going to live with Lundy
    • Dexter tracks down Lila in Paris and he kills her
  • Dexter buys a new slide box and hides it in his A/C unit

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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Pushing Daisies: 1x03 - The Fun in Funeral

  • Emerson is called upon to solve the murder of the funeral director that Ned killed by keeping Chuck alive
    • Chuck learns about said consequences of Ned letting her live
    • Emerson wants to find where the funeral director stashed all the stuff he stole from the dead
    • Funeral director guy has an identical twin; He chokes on his dinner and dies
    • Ned sword fights an Asian dude from the Deep South who was trying to frame Ned as the twin's murderer; Ned is victorious and the heirlooms are returned to everyone
  • A travelling salesman tries to sell Olive some emotional health remedy potions
    • Chuck's aunts were about to begin their comeback tour, but called it off when they got a postcard from Chuck and got all depressed
      • Chuck sends her aunts pies via Olive containing the potions to help them feel better

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Friday, December 14, 2007

Battlestar Galactica: 1x08 - Flesh and Bone

  • A "Leoben"-model Cylon is found on the Geminon Traveler; Roslin had a dream about him, so she insists that he be interrogated
    • Adama chooses Starbuck to do the interrogation
      • Leoben claims there is a nuclear warhead on one of the ships and that he can see the future; He later tells Roslin that he lied about the warhead and that Adama is a Cylon
        • Roslin has him thrown out the airlock
      • He also tells Starbuck that she will find Kobol
  • Boomer asks Gauis to test her first using the Cylon detector
    • The detector shows that Boomer is a Cylon but Gauis lies and tells her she's human
  • On Caprica, Other-Boomer tries to run away from the other humanoid Cylons with Helo

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Battlestar Galactica: 1x07 - Six Degrees of Separation

  • Gauis denies Number Six's God; Number Six disappears from Gauis' fantasy world
    • Another "Number Six" model comes to BSG, named Miss Godfrey
      • Godfrey accuses Gauis of being responsible for the holocaust by the Cylons
      • She has a photo from a security camera; Once analysed by computer, it reveals Gauis entering the defense mainframe with a bomb
        • Gauis is locked up in the brig; Number Six returns
          • The photo turns out to be a total fake; Gauis is released, Godfrey mysteriously vanishes from BSG
  • The hangar crew tries to figure out how to fly Starbuck's Cylon raider; Starbuck gets is going, despite her still injured knee
  • Roslin collapses after taking too much medication; The media catches wind of her mishap and has a heyday
  • On Caprica, Helo confesses his love to Other-Boomer and they have hot sex

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30 Rock: 2x09 - Ludachristmas

  • Liz's over-supportive parents and brother, who is stuck in 1985, come to town to for the holidays; Jack's uber-critical mother also comes to visit
    • Jack gets jealous of Liz's family; Jack's mother instigates fighting within the Lemon to prove to Jack that all families are messed up
  • The rest of the gang work on preparations for Ludachristmas
    • Kenneth brings in a pastor to perform an intervention when everyone forgets the true meaning of Christmas
      • They finally succumb to the true Christmas spirit and decide to cut down the Rockefeller Christmas tree; but they don't
    • Tracy has to wear an ankle bracelet to monitor his blood-alcohol level

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Battlestar Galactica: 1x06 - Litmus

  • A "Doral"-model Cylon sneaks on the BSG and blows himself up, killing 3 others
    • Boomer presumably left a hatch open and helped "Doral" with the code to the weapons locker
    • A tribunal is set up to investigate how the breach occurred
      • Tyrol and Boomer were secretly making out during the attack
        • The hangar crew covers for Tyrol to the point that one of them falsely admits guilt before the tribunal and gets sent to the brig
          • Tyrol breaks up with Boomer
    • Adama closes the inquiry as he believes it is a witch-hunt
  • Helo goes looking for Other-Boomer, while being tracked by a trio of humanoid Cylons
    • The Cylons set-up a scenario that allows Helo to rescue Other-Boomer from toaster Cylons

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Battlestar Galactica: 1x05 - You Can't Go Home Again

  • Starbuck finds herself stranded on a hostile moon with a badly injured leg and a limited oxygen supply
    • Adama sends out a massive search party despite objections from Roslin and Tigh
      • The search is both leaving the BSG rather defenseless and is using a great deal of fuel
    • Starbuck finds a Cylon Raider and figures out how to fly it
      • She gets back into BSG by flying the Raider in formation with Apollo
  • Helo survives being attacked by Cylons in the restaurant; Other-Boomer goes missing

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Dexter: 2x11 - Left Turn Ahead

  • Doakes escapes the cabin, but is re-captured by drug dealers
    • Dexter saves Doakes' life by rescuing him from the dealers, but re-locks him up in the cabin
  • Dexter decides to turn himself in once he settles his affairs
    • However, after a heart-to-heart with Deb, he decides to ride it out
  • Lila threatens charging Angel with rape; Angel is arrested
    • Deb discovers that Lila is in the country on an expired visa; She tells Lila to leave Miami forever
      • Lila steals Dexter's GPS from his van and follows its directions to the cabin where Doakes is still locked up
  • A new FBI guy takes over, as Lundy let Doakes get away
    • They find the kill tools that Dexter planted and Doakes' rental car
  • Maria travels to Haiti; She discovers that Doakes was trying to have blood slides analysed

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Grey's Anatomy: 4x10 - Crash Into Me (Part II)

  • Bailey's white supremacist has complications, keeping her from lunch with Tucker to talk about their issues
    • George tries to stall Tucker, but he eventually says it's over and leaves
    • Bailey sews up the supremacist's so that the swastika is no longer recognizable
  • Lexie stops Seth Green's bleeding, but he has a stroke and dies anyways
    • Cristina brings Lexie to Meredith's to drink and dance with the gang
  • Rose fixes McDreamy's computer and they kiss
    • Meredith asks McDreamy not to date anyone but her
  • Gizzie gives up on Gizzie, at least for now
  • Meredith shoves a needle in ambulance guy's heart and saves him
  • Alex gets suspended for a week for allowing Ava in the gallery; They make-out, argue, and then make-out some more
  • Hahn feels bad after screwing up a heart surgery, even though the guy made it

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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Battlestar Galactica: 1x04 - Act of Contrition

  • Flat Top celebrates his 1,000th landing with the rest of the BSG crew
    • During the celebration, a drone accidentally goes off on the hangar deck and kills 13 fighter pilots and injures 7
      • Starbuck, Apollo, Adama remember Zak's death
        • Starbuck admits to Adama that Zak should have failed Basic Flight and that she passed him because they were engaged
  • Adama assigns Starbuck to training a new squad of fighter pilots
    • Starbuck washes out the entire class on the first day, but Adama makes her take them back
      • During flight training, 8 Cylons raiders attack; Hot Dog refuses to return to base and helps fight them off
        • Starbuck is hit hard, ejects from her Viper, and hurtles towards a planet
  • Helo and Other-Boomer find the source of the signal they were picking up
    • It was being emitted by a disaster beacon in a fall-out shelter in the back of a restaurant
  • Roslin convinces her doctor to try an alternative medicine to treat her inoperable cancer

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Battlestar Galactica: 1x03 - Bastille Day

  • Adama wants to use prisoners from the prison ship, the Astral Queen, to do the dangerous work of collecting and melting ice from the ice moon
    • Apollo wants to allow the prisoners to earn their freedom by volunteering for the mission
  • Tom Zarek, a controversial 'terrorist', leads the prisoners in taking the visiting group from the BSG as hostages
    • He demands Roslin steps down and for legitimate elections to be held
    • Apollo makes a deal with Zarek: Zarek's men will help with the water, there will be elections in 7 months as per the law, and the prisoners can have the Astral Queen
    • A prisoner attempts to rape Cally; Cally bites his ear off
    • Starbuck leads a team to quell the hostage situation
  • Colonel Tigh tells Boomer to end her relationship with Tyrol
  • With Number Six's help, Gaius comes up with a new idea for the Cylon detector which requires a nuclear warhead

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Friday Night Lights: 2x09 - The Confession

  • Landry struggles with whether to claim he killed the rapist in self-defense
    • The charges are dropped after Landry deposes that he feared for both his and Tyra's lives
  • Jason finds a hot date on a dating website specialising in people who are into the wheelchair thing
    • He bails when she reveals her urine fetish; The waitress gives him a ride home and they kiss
  • Riggins moves into Eric's driveway after Ferret guy pulls a gun on him and offers him meth
  • At the game, the Panthers play poorly until the 2nd half when Santiago comes through with a huge sack that turns it all around; Panthers win
  • Gracie is christened; Julie and Tami fight and make up; Saracen keeps it going with Carlotta; Buddy tries to parent Santiago; Jason moves in with Herc

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30 Rock: 2x08 - Secrets and Lies

  • Tracy feels like a failure, so Liz gives him a fake Pacific Rim Emmy
    • Jenna becomes jealous of the way Liz bends over backwards for Tracy's crazy demands, so she starts acting extra crazy
  • C.C. wants to go public with her relationship with Jack; Jack wants to keep it a secret
    • James Carville convinces Jack to announce their relationship to his big-shot Republican peers - Cajun Style!
  • Frank and Toofer imitate and dress up like each other in a mock-off

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Brothers and Sisters: 2x09 - Holy Matrimony!

  • It's Kitty and McCallister's wedding
  • Justin brings Lena to the wedding; Rebecca realises that Tommy is Lena's 'married man'; Rebecca tells Justin; everyone gets pissed off
  • Questions about McCallister's military 'heroics' resurface
    • Danny Glover, the PR guy, returns to try to fix it
      • The media is going to run the story anyways
    • Kitty stops the wedding, mid-vows, to tell McCallister about how she blackmailed a guy to squelch the scandal earlier
  • The Secret Service 'detain' Kevin for jokingly making a death threat on McCallister, Tommy and Justin for fighting, and Nora's date for smoking pot
    • Nora's date, special guest star Chevy Chase, dumps her
  • Some mysterious dude named David from Holly's past drops by for a visit
  • No one gets drunk!

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Heroes: 2x11 - Powerless

  • Nathan and Parkman join the quest to stop Adam from releasing the virus
    • Nathan talks Peter out of trusting Adam
    • Hiro warps with Adam to Japan, where Hiro buries Adam alive
    • Peter destroys the virus
  • Sylar and Maya pay Mohinder and Molly a surprise visit
    • Sylar is infected with Strain 138, supposedly The Company's doing
    • Molly tells Maya that Alejandro is dead after she is unable to 'find' him
    • Sylar shoots Maya; Mohinder saves Maya with the magic blood
    • Despite Elle's best efforts, Sylar escapes with the rest of the blood
      • Sylar gets his powers back thanks to the magic blood
  • Nathan decides to go public about the existence of Heroes
    • He is shot twice in the chest during the press conference
      • Mrs. Petrelli appears to have been involved in it
  • Claire also decides to go public about the Heroes in order to bring The Company down
    • Mr. Bennet visits Claire and convinces her not to go public; Claire is stunned that he is alive
      • Mr. Bennet made a deal with The Company in order to keep his family safe
  • Micah convices Niki to rescue Monica from the thugs
    • The thugs tie Monica up in an abandoned restaurant and set it on fire
      • Niki rescues Monica, but Niki doesn't get out before the whole place gets blown to pieces

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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Desperate Housewives: 4x09 - Something's Coming

  • A freaking TORNADO hits Wisteria Lane
  • The Scavos and Ida take shelter in Mrs. McCluskey's basement
    • Tom is allergic to Ida's cat; Lynette sneaks the cat upstairs, but it escapes; Lynette and Mrs. McCluskey chase it outside and end up hunkering down in Lynette's bathtub
    • Lynette freaks when she sees that Mrs. McCluskey's house was totally destroyed by the tornado, apparently with the rest of the Scavos inside
  • Sylvia locks herself in Bree's bathroom; Adam, Katherine, and the Hodges take shelter in Bree's closet
    • According to Katherine, Sylvia was a patient who accused Adam of sexual assault after Adam gave her a pity kiss; It was settled out of court
    • Bree accidentally reveals that Adam and Sylvia did have an affair; Katherine is devastated
    • Sylvia gets sucked into the tornado
  • Susan falls down the stairs after a fight with Mike over the pills
    • At the hospital, they find out that the baby is fine
    • Susan gets Mike to enter rehab after Mike punches a doctor and Susan threatens to leave him
  • Edie loses Carlos' papers that give him access to his secret $10 million
    • Edie and Gabby take shelter in Edie's crawlspace and bond
  • Victor hunts down Carlos; they fight
    • Victor is impaled by a white fence picket

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Dexter: 2x10 - There's Something About Harry

  • Doakes urges Dexter to either kill him or free him; Dexter leaves without too much trouble as his leg was only grazed by the bullet; He later has his security detailed pulled
  • Deb discovers Doakes called Maria after the manhunt began; She tries to bitch Maria out over not reporting it
    • Maria finds an old stake-out log of hers that proves Doakes' innocence; Lundy can't use it as evidence due to Maria's earlier transgression
  • Dexter returns to the cabin and drugs Doakes and puts Doakes' fingerprints all over the murder tools; Dexter dumps them where he knows they will be found
    • Before Doakes passes out, he mentions something about Harry
      • Dexter learns Harry committed suicide; Dexter concludes that it was his fault
  • Some guy keeps calling Dexter's mother's murderer's cell phone looking for his cocaine; Dexter kills him in the cabin in front of Doakes
  • Angel helps Lila re-paint her loft and then they have sex; Lila takes a bunch of roofies and passes out in the bathroom
  • Deb and Lundy question the future of their relationship once the case ends

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Friday Night Lights: 2x08 - Seeing Other People

  • Smash visits a prospective college, known for being a party school
    • Smash gets it on with the scariest player's girlfriend and is chased off campus in his underwear
  • The rapist's brother wants to reconcile with Tyra; Tyra chickens out, so Landry meets with him instead
    • Landry turns himself into the cops
  • Saracen breaks up with New Girl because he is really in love with Carlotta; He has sex with Carlotta
  • Tami threatens Noah in front of several students and insinuates he's a pedophile; Julie freaks out
  • Eric gets jealous of Tami's relationship with Glenn
  • At the game, the Panthers loose badly, partially due to lousy defence
  • Riggins misses the team; He apologizes to all the players and Eric lets him back on
    • He finds ferret guy's secret meth lab

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30 Rock - 2x07 - Cougars

  • Liz goes on a date with the coffee guy, who is both very young and very hot; she ends it because she literally looks just like his mom
    • Frank questions his sexuality when he also develops a crush on the coffee guy; he decides he's only gay for the coffee guy
  • Tracy coaches an inner-city baseball team as part of his community service
    • Jack takes over the team and it all turns into a weird parody of the war in Iraq

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