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by Rick Norwood
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Ther is lots to watch in May: the first season finale of Enterprise, and the series
finale of The X-Files and Roswell, plus new episodes of Jeremiah
by J. Michael Straczinski, and James Cameron's first directing job since Titanic on
Dark Angel. Will any of it be any good? Hope springs eternal.
I have not watched much of Roswell, but I'm assuming the conclusion will be written by Ronald D. Moore, and therefore worth watching.
And Jeremiah keeps getting better and better.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
Wednesday, May 1
Last week's TV Guide magazine had 35 different Star Trek covers -- nice try, guys. I've
bought every Star Trek TV Guide since the first one, but I have to draw the line somewhere. Anyone
willing to pay some serious money for a really great TV Guide collection should contact me. It's time to
sell. On the other hand, their choice of the 35 greatest moments in 35 years of Star Trek television was
admirable -- except for the fact that they mention the actors but not the writers. Like it's the actors who make those
great moments happen. Still, they didn't leave out any of the must-see moments I thought of before I opened the
issue. I only fault them for including Voyager and Enterprise moments, none of which are really among the best.
James Cameron is one of the three best action directors, and so even though Dark Angel has been rather a
dud, the episode he directed may be worth watching. Or not. Spielberg directed four episodes of Amazing Stories,
none of which are anything special. On the plus side for Dark Angel are the writers, including two of the people
who helped make Deep Space Nine so memorable. This is the first time Ira Steven Behr has written
for Dark Angel, but Cameron and Charles H. Eglee wrote the pilot, and Rene Echevarria and Eglee wrote five first season
episodes, including the first season finale, "...and Jesus Brought a Casserole".
I find myself looking forward to the series finale of The X-Files with some excitement, but I'm not sure why. How
long has it been since Chris Carter wrote a really first rate script? About two years? I liked the sixth season
conclusion, "Biogenesis" and the seventh season premiere, "The Sixth Extinction," and thought "Fight Club" was funny, but none
of them were really great. The last really great X-Files was the sixth season two-part episode "Two Fathers"/"One Son".
 
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