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What is Techtite TV?
Far
from a recommendation of "What to Watch," these mini-reviews are all the shows I
personally saw (or will see) in the present
week. Sure, we all watch CNN, the evening news, and one or two of those
"other" news shows, and yet how do we feel about the other shows
we watch weekly? Here are my own mini-reviews, episode-to-episode.
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Best Reason to Turn on
TV This Week:
Buffy the Vampire
Slayer.
Simply a perfect finale for the series.
Biggest Disappointment
This Week:
CSI Miami. In
a week's worth of finales before the summer rut, this episode could've
been better, especially when Horatio is all "I don't want to kill him
that would be mean" when confronted with a murderer of innocent
children. Give me a break.
Quote
of the Week:
"What about
Anya...?"
"[slight pause[ She
risked her life to save mine!"
"That's my
girl...always doing the stupid thing!" ...Xander
to Andrew, in one of the funnier pieces of dark comedy, in the truly well
done series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Encapsulated TV reviews
for:
May 17th-May 23rd, 2003.
The Techtite.com ratings system (icon version):
 Burnout
 Near
Miss  Small
Crater  Large
Crater  Deep
Impact
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more on this web site's "Techtite" rating system, click here.
Saturday
11:30, NBC : Saturday
Night Live was a repeat. Or not. I really don't care anymore
until they hire some new comics.
Sunday
10:00, ABC: Dragnet
It's nice to see the second of the two Dragnet men back (he was forced
to take an absence from the show due to an injury off-set) as they
tackle the latest mystery. A woman who's been missing six years is found
in her car, and it ain't pretty. Neither is the resolution of this
mystery, involving a whistle blower and an intriguing mix of
trust-nobody shenanigans that lead in all directions. Overall, this was
a good episode, though not one you'd want to see all over again if you
knew the final result. Small
Crater
Monday
9:45, CBS: CSI: Miami.
In this, their 75-minute season one finale, Horatio arrives at a
murder scene in a prison, only to witness at the same time several
inmates hijacking a helicopter out of there. The how and why to this
escape is complete cornball, so the real thrills here are in the
aftermath. See, all the inmates just so happen to be criminals that the
CSI Miami team put behind bars, earlier in this very season. Among these
inmates is a man with a personal vendetta against Calleigh (Emily
Procter), who soon has a personal vendetta of her own, when the killer
succeeds in killing her best friend, who was his prosecuting attorney.
The ending is a bit too "If we shoot to kill we'll be no better
than the criminal" --especially when Horatio must save an innocent
girl's life, all without "shooting to kill" her attacker-- yet
the grit of the episode earlier saves the show from a thumbs-down. Small
Crater
Tuesday
8:00, UPN: Buffy
the Vampire Slayer (series
finale!) In a finale whose only flaw was that it was
peculiarly only one hour long (!?!?), Caleb becomes a zombie of sorts
just so Buffy can kick his backside again...this time, as she cooly
jests, "He had to split." Ouch. Angel returns to learn that
Spike has a soul now, only to add a nice dose of dark humor to the
finale, as he mopes about no longer being unique. As fans would've
wanted it, the final battle (for the series, anyway) was full of Lord of
the Rings style FX, so enjoyable that even the most stouthearted fan
will accept the fact that kid sister Dawn gets to have the last line of
the series. I could go on and on with this finale, though I think the
coolest part was that, in the end, Buffy finally showed she'd grown up,
by accepting the fact that she could possibly not be the only
slayer in the world, ergo, Willow uses her magic to give all potentials
the power of the slayer, thereby making the battle even easier to win.
The bad news...? Anya dies --and if that's a spoiler to you, please
shut up, because I'm typing this at the end of the week and it's all
over the news by now-- though actress Emma Caulfield apparently wanted
her departure to be memorable, so...it was. Deep
Impact
9:00, FOX: 24
(season finale!) Some fans are a bit peeved
that few answers have been revealed. However, to be fair, the ending was
a cliffhanger, and a very cool one, leading to the return of the
"one that got away" last season, who could be one of the
bigger targets next season. As for this season, we have that guy on a
boat whose identity is still up in arms, Nina's whereabouts still
unanswered, Jack's romance with Cate left up in the air (well, who
expected them to fall in love in a mere 24 hours, anyway?), and Cate's
freakish kid sister encaged in a clear cell a la Hannibal Lecter. It
looks to be a promising season three. Too bad this was just season two.
However, if only because of that never-saw-it-coming finale, this
episode just barely deserves a Deep
Impact.
Wednesday
8:00, UPN : Enterprise
(season finale) The whole series needs a
revamp to regain fans, and this cliffhanger alludes to one for the next
season. To make a long story short, the Enterprise is now a ship
outfitted for battle, to find a way to defeat a new enemy. This means
photon torpedoes, plus a security crew on the ship who sound a bit like
"red shirts" and may mean tenser missions than just "Hi
how are you we're just visiting." We don't see the red shirts just
yet though we do get a glimpse of the "NX-02" --Enterprise's
upcoming sister ship-- which alludes to fellow ships in the next season.
Meanwhile, Trip is highly emotional due to his family being within the
blast that initially hit Earth. If this means that a Trek series finally
has a character like Dr. McCoy, I'm all for it. Oh, and T'Pol is
officially a renegade from Vulcan High Command. Perfect. Deep
Impact
Thursday
8:00, CBS : Survivor:
Amazon ended last week. Actually, that's a good
thing. Trust me.
8:00, NBC : Friends
ended last week, too. Bummer.
9:00, CBS : CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation Ditto.
10:00, CBS : Without a Trace.
Yep, summer repeat season already...
Friday
After the season finales of Stargate
SG-1 and John Doe, there really isn't anything on
Fridays. Too bad...
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