Kyle XY Season 2 Episode 14 Review

"To C.I.R., With Love"

January 14, 2008

Summary: Kyle comes home and tells his family the whole truth. Unfortunately he is too late to say goodbye to Amanda, she left home early. The Tragers and Kyle decide to take down Madacorp, by Kyle being hooked up to that brain chair and take down Madacorp's mainframe by Stephen hooking the chair to their mainframe. Madacorp is having a convenient "Open House" for all the Tragers to attend. Kyle offers himself to Ballantine, only to find out he already has Jessi giving him the information. Josh's girlfriend Andy uses the 'cancer card' and tries to get Josh to tell her 'the secret.' Declan and Lori reunite, since Lori found out she wasn't responsible for Declan breaking up with her, it wasn't something out of their control. Stephen is found out Emily and he tries to get to her by 'thinking about the family.' She turns him in, saying she is. Kyle and Stephen are detained, while Jessi is hooked up tot he chair and given memories of being the Trager's daughter, instead of Kyle as they get the data they want. Kyle connects with Jessi and intercepts the illusion.

Kyle then gets the information. Brian comes in and tells Kyle he can't take over the computer and he will be fried like charcoal. Emily then lets Jessi go, the guards chase after her. Nicole, worried about he rboys go after them and finds Jessi. Nicole gives a frazzled Jessi a pep talk. In the chair, Kyle goes through all his memories with the Tragers and goes into cardiac arrest. Ballantine goes to maximum power, as Jessi connects with Kyle mentally and they 'end' it together. Stephen is freed from his room, when they make the glass in the room break. He connects the wire to the mainframe. They cause a blackout in the city. Jessi wakes up but faints and ends up in the hospital. Turns out, Ballantine was doing all of this without Madacorp's knowing and they arrest him. Emily takes his job. Kyle then talks to Tom, who tells him he has to be a big boy and be on his own. He then finds Amanda in his tub/bed, that her flight was delayed because the blackout. Jessi then gets a visit from Brian, saying he is her father. He gives her some info on her DNA donor: her name is Sarah and he took the picture of her and Adam.

Stuff I liked:
It was funny when Lori said, "Kyle gave us the 'previously on' recap." It was really strange and heartwarming seeing Declan and Lori shred their old memories and oh god, too inappropriate moment with the condoms. Kyle connects with Jessi and intercepts the illusion, disrupting her perfect world as the Trager's daughter. In this awesome scene, she reminded of who she really is. The TV talks about the murder on the news. Lori doesn't appear for a while, when she does, she has the mark she caused and then Declan's necklace appears in her hands. Awesome episode.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Pilot Review

My friends have given up to the franchise since T3, but I haven't. If anything "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" will rejuvenate the series. As fans know, this series is set after T2 and I see it more like a sequel to it. Appropriately enough, it begins with the car on the road. The series brings up many feelings from the movies and rings true to T2. The first episode starts out with a standard Terminator scenario in a dream and to reveal it has been two years since the events of T2 occurred (it is now 1999, but T2 occurred in 1991). Sarah finds true love, a perfect guy in Dixon (the sexy Dean Winters from "Rescue Me") but she leaves him after he proposes to her. Lena Headey does very well as Sarah, and evokes what one would expect in a movie portraying the caring and determined warrior of mom. What other mom would say, "Get the guns packed. We are having pancakes."

James Ellis plays Richard T. Jones, a FBI agent follow Sarah, believing she killed that Skynet guy Myles from the second movie. Quickly, Cameron (Summer Glau) comes into the scene as John's classmate in High School. She is an awesome pick for a Terminator. In the movies, no Terminator, neither the female Terminator was at the same level as Cameron. She is what we don't expect.. a sweet teenage girl to be a killer. I just love it when she says, "Come with me if you want to live." Joss Whedon, who direct Glau before in "Serenity" and Firefly, must be thrilled about this. It is true to John Cameron's vision as well. Glau being a dancer, it is funny she is doing fighting roles and crazy chick ones too ("The 4400"). Some fans believe Thomas Dekker's John is a mix between Eddie Furlong's and Nick Stahl's John, I tend to agree. He is rough around the edges but a total delinquent, he doesn't hesitate to jump out a window. The Terminators are deadly as ever, still evoking fear at every turn with their chilling expressions and incredible strength.

Oh, and the Terminators have a less roboty programmed into them. Enough for them to fool mostly anyone. Also, they have the same powers as before, like mimicking voices. Owain Yeoman ("Kitchen Confidential," and "The Nine") plays the first Terminator to bug them. He is British and plays Cromartie with a flawless American accent. Heady is half-half on the accent bent. Nick Wechsler from the show "Roswell" funny enough played the son of a Sheriff is now playing a Deputy. The original movie said the original Terminator came from 2029, Cameron says she is from 2021.Cut enough, she opened a safety deposit box in 1963. It is not boring at all.

Cute enoguh, Cameron takes them to bank where they take out pieces of a device from safety deposit boxes. In a awesome scene, Cameron offers Sarah a way to destroy Skynet, by traveling in time from 1999 to 2007, where it starts. In a uncomfortable moment, John, Sarah and Cameron find themselves naked in 2007. What a three-some!

"They're back!!!"
Grade: A

Amas de Casa Desesperadas Review

With the popularity of "Desperate Housewives," it not only has been dubbed in many languages, but in Spanish and also re-done for Spain, Argentina, and now, for some reason for Univision, the American Spanish channel. With a whole new cast and new names, it is completely in Spanish and set in the United States. Instead of Wisteria Lane, they live in Manzanares (Apple?) 'estrit' (Street). The first episode aired last night, it airs at 10pm Thursdays. It doesn't feel like a rerun, even though they follow everything to a tee. The first episode is exactly the same, as if they are stuck in a loop. It is interesting to see a soap opera satire done by telenovela actors. I guess they did this for those stubborn viewers would wouldn't watch any American show, in English or dubbed and will only watch Univision.
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Con el popularidad de "Desperate Housewives," estado doblado en muchas idiomas, en Español también y también se ha hecho de nuevo para España, la Argentina, y ahora, por una razón, para Univision. Con actores nuevos entero y nuevos nombres, basado en los Estados Unidos. En vez de Wisteria Lane, viven en la Calle Manzanares. El primer episodio ayer por la noche, de los Jueves por la noche al las 10pm. No se siente como un capitilo repeatido, se siente neuvo but si se siguen todo exactamente como el original. Es interesante ver una sátira de una telenovela hecha por los actores del telenovela.

Mary Alice, here is called Alicia Arizmendi and played by the famous and legendary actress/singer Lucia Mendez. I used to look up to her as a kid with a song of hers about strawberries and kisses. Unfortunately, I don't think she suited to be the sweet and nice counselor that Mary Alice was. Alicia is exactly the same character but Lucia comes off as fake and bitchy. She looks more like a villain than anything.
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Alicia Arizmendi se basa en el papel de Maria Alicia, hecho por la famosa y legendaria actriz and cantante Lucia Mendez a. Como niño, la admiré. Me gusto su canción sobre besarse y fresas. Desafortunadamente, ella sale más como un antagonista que un narradora dulce.

Teri Hatcher doppleganger Scarlet Otriz portrays Susana Martinez, Susan Mayer in the original. She acts like her exactly, even the nuances and movements. But it is not like she is imitating her. The girl who plays her daughter Julie is exactly the same as our Julie, it is like they were made to watch the original.
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Scarlet Otriz retrata Susana Martinez, que se parase, actúa, y mueve justo como Susan Mayer en el original. Pero no es como ella solo la está imitando. La muchacha hacer como su hija Julia es exactamente igual que la Julia original, él es como le hicieron mirar el original.

Talking about imitators, Julieta Rosen, exactly imitates Marcia Cross' Bree as Regina Sotomayor. She is a carbon copy. She enunciates just like her.
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Julieta Rosen imita Marcia Cross. Ella retrata Regina Sotomayor.

Ana Serradilla protrays Gabriela Solis, which had no name change at all. More of the same, what can I say?
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Protrays Gabriela Solis de Ana Serradilla, que no tenían ningún cambio de nombre. ¿Qué más qu puedo decir?


As for Lynette Scavo, her name here is Leonor Guerrero. Where as Lynette has class and was believable as a working woman, Lorna Paz plays her here is a comical way. She is no stranger to Spanish conversions of American shows. She was in the Colombian version of "Married with Children." She was PEGGY! It shows here. She comes out more ghetto than anything.
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Aqui Lynette Scavo se llama Leonor Guerrero, retratado por Lorna Paz que ha hecho "Casada con Hijos" como Dolores "Lola" de Rocha en Colombia.

Their Edie, Roxana Guzman doesn't look like a 60-year old Botox Barbie. She is portrayed by Gabriela Vergara.
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Gabriela Vergara retrata Roxana Guzman, la rival de Susan. Su nombre era Edie Britt en la original. Ella no pasere como ella tenía cirugía plástica como la original.

As for men.....
Mary Alice's husband is ugly and so is Bree's husband. When Rex looked like a Suburban husband, but yet a bit sexy, here the actor is just plain ugly with gray hair and a thick black mustache. As for the breakout hit hunk in the original, the gardener is not much of a hottie. Maybe at the same level as Jesse Metclafe. The plumber, is eh. But the hottest for me is a surprise, it is Bernie Paz, portraying Gabie's husband Carlos Solis.
Check them all at Caramelitos Baronil.

Bernie Paz- Carlos Solis
Ezequiel Stremiz- 'Gardener John'
Diego Ramos- 'Plumber Mike'
Diego Bertie- 'Tom Scavo'

Futurama: Bender's Big Score Review

Much like Family Guy returning, Futurama had to make its stabs at Fox as well but in a much elaborate fashion. The movie goes to the trouble of introducing the characters again but it is clearly for fans of the show, more than a mainstream audience. There is a lot of time traveling and Futurama logic to go through, but it is just great. They follow a lot of their rules and serve up so many past episodes, its hard to keep track. The movie's main antagonists the Scammers, three nude aliens, are lack-luster, hit and miss and don't come off as threatening as they should be. The movie is set in 3007. The movie goes through a extremely slow pace in the beginning but it is later learned that it is necessary for the aforementioned confusing plot points and twists. The ending is worth it though, it is touching. The ending also opens up the plot to the next movie.

The basic plot is that the evil nudist aliens Scammers plant a virus on Bender, making him their slave and he steals all the Earth's priceless historic treasures through time travel, they discover on a tattoo on Fry's ass. Nibbler reveals he talks once again to Leela... and most of the gang as well (he wiped their memories before) to try to stop the Scammers but fails. Hermes literally looses his head and his wife in the process and is stuck in a jar for the majority of the film. In the process, Leela meets Lars, a head-cleaner guy and they are so luvey-duvey that it gets on Fry's nerves. Fry then decides to time travel as well to go back home to 2000 and the Scammers send Bender to kill Fry.

There is a lot of butts, nudity (not full frontal), deception, and body chopping off, violence and such. Just warning those prudes. Well, that I haven't seen them like that, it is interesting to see them that way, a little hard to get use to but, they did go nuts with the allowance they got. As for Lars, I first I didn't want to like him, but he is likable, does grow on me. I did get a bit ticked off that the love Leela was feeling for Fry in the first season finale (He learns the holophonor). It isn't even mentioned in this episode. But without spoiling anything, the ending of this movie is worth it and I'll excuse it. The only thing that sucks is the songs. Well, nothing can be 100% perfect.

The DVD is delightful and full of funny gags throughout. Like, above, the chapters menu. It of course includes a commentary by David X. Cohen and Matt Groening and others. Also a live comic book reading by the cast (unfortunately we don't see them. We only see the comic book with the audio. Hilariously, Billy West gets confused doing Fry voice instead of the Professor voice), deleted scene storyboard animatics (there is a reason they are deleted), Al Gore 'You Tube' promo for An Inconvenient Truth with Bender (delightful video commentary with Al Gore, Groening, and Cohen), a math lecture (spotting various mathematical references in past episodes and the letter 'g' for the Alien Language #2.) with Cohen, Groening (who delightfully draws Bender off hand), the writers being kookie, 3-D models, the original first draft of the script, character design sketches, and more. The DVD is worth the bucks, beautiful box and illustrations inside. Even an offer for 1 of 195 works of art. Best Buy offers an extra disc featuring animatics and a un-colored sneak peak to the next movie The Beast With a Billion Backs.


SPOILERSScenes are scattered through. The big time rips from the ending of this one begins this one. The universe or Earth is in trouble, so the Professor and his rival Wormstrom get involved. Out of the rips, come these giant tentacles. Fry meets a girl (Brittany Murphy) and discovers she is a polygamist. The tentacles then control Fry to be some sort of pope and then all the humans leave the robots on Earth. Also Kif and Amy get married, which is more expected. Kif barely appears in Bender's Big Score, he is mentioned by Amy but there is no scene with them together. Zap B. is his best man. The Beast With a Billion Backs looks good.

Desperate Housewives Last New Episode Review

I can see why ABC did not hold off on this episode until after the strike was over, it would have been lackluster if it wasn't for Bree pimping off her son Andrew for a contractor to fix her house. In a hilarious and progressive sequence, Bree tries to hook up the 'great contractor' yet 40-something heartbroken Walter with her son Andrew, Andrew tries flirting with him for the promise of a flat screen television for his apartment, and Susan tried and successfully vier off the May-December romance (because she wanted Bree to stay in her house) by mentioning how young and hot Andrew's ex Justin was. It was also hilarious to hear Bree's husband try to lure Walter by saying Andrew has a great mesh-top.

Día de los Tres Reyes Magos

Today is Three Kings Day. What does that mean? El Dia de los Tres Reyes Magos is a Commonwealth of Puerto Rico official holiday, as well as a religious holiday. It celebrates the Three Wise Men's visit to see the newborn Christ by exchanging gifts. Traditionally, children stack bundles of hay in boxes and glasses of water for each King's camel, to then find their boxes exchanged for gifts. (Sounds familiar? Milk and cookies for Santa?) This is also done in Cuba and several other Latin American countries. In the Eastern church a variety of different names are given for the three, but in the West the names have been settled since the 8th century as Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. Also, Latinos don't take off their Christmas decorations until after January 6th, when some believe the three kings have arrived to Jesus, hence ending the celebration. In Miami, Florida; there is a parade called the Tres Reyes Magos parade on Calle Ocho (8th street) in Little Havana. Floats and activity has decrease through the years, due to lack of funds and interest. Sometimes certain aunts and uncles, neighbors and other family members that forgotten children in Christmas give presents to kids on this day.

United Press Internaitonal talks about how retailers are embracing it.
(Why would they have a problem with it? More money!)