Babylon 5 5-18: The Fall of Centauri Prime

Episode:

106

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Douglas E. Wise

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Air Date:

28-Oct-1998

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm watching Babylon 5 episode 106, The Fall of Centauri Prime. I suppose lots of planets have an autumn.

Babylon 5 originally took a bit of a break after the last episode, Movements of Fire and Shadow, and even more of a break in the UK. In fact viewers had to wait over four months for this episode! That's way more than the month I've kept you waiting, so I'm not even feeling guilty. There were no more breaks after this though. They aired this final stretch of stories over five weeks, with the movie River of Souls thrown in as a bonus. In the UK, Channel 4 did one better by airing them over five days. Unfortunately it was scheduled a little earlier than usual... at 11:30 AM as part of The Bigger Breakfast block.

The episode was directed by Douglas E. Wise, nephew of Robert Wise (director of The Sound of Music, The Andromeda Strain and Star Trek: The Motion Picture). It was the only episode of the series he directed, but he'd been on the series for a while at this point working as a the first assistant director so I'm sure he knew the difference between a Centauri and a Minbari.

I'll be going through the entire episode writing my comments under screencaps, so there will be massive SPOILERS below. I'll also be spoiling the hell out of anything relevant that led up to it, though I'll not say a word about the episodes that come after.

Doctor Who (2005): The Power of the Doctor - Part 3

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, it's the final part of my The Power of the Doctor review. I'm sorry I had to split this into three parts, it's just that my screencaps tend to get out of hand when I cover something that lasts longer than an hour. Especially when it's as frantic as this. The episode's all over the place!

You can find the previous two parts HERE and HERE.

SPOILER WARNING: This will contain extreme Doctor Who spoilers up to and including this episode.

Doctor Who (2005): The Power of the Doctor - Part 2

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm still racing to get my thoughts on The Power of the Doctor typed up. You can find part 1 HERE and there'll be a link to part 3 at the end just as soon as I get it written and published.

SPOILER WARNING: I'm spoiling everything. Every Doctor Who episode up to this point is fair game.

Doctor Who (2005): The Power of the Doctor - Part 1

Episode:

871

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Writer:

Chris Chibnall

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Director:

Jamie Magnus Stone

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Air Date:

23-Oct-2022

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures I'm watching all 90 minutes of the Doctor Who BBC Centenary special, The Power of the Doctor!

It's the last episode of the Jodie Whittaker/Chris Chibnall era, which means it's also a regeneration story! Oh damn, I should've covered all the modern regeneration episodes first! Why is that only occurring to me now? Never mind, I wouldn't have had the time to do it anyway.

I have to be honest, if I'd known that this was going to be 90 minutes I wouldn't have been so quick to tell everyone it was going to be my next review. For whatever reason I can cover a 45 minute episode in a normal-sized review just fine, but a 90 minute story usually means three times the work. So if this seems a bit more rushed, scruffy and downright inaccurate than usual, that's because I'm racing to get it finished. It's going to have some real first draft energy.

Oh right, the SPOILER WARNING. Can't forget that. I'll be going through the whole episode scene by scene so if you want to experience its surprises properly I'd strongly recommend watching it first. This is an anniversary special so I'll probably be talking about stuff from a bunch of other episodes too.

Star Trek: Prodigy - Season 1 Review, Part 3

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I've reached the halfway point of Star Trek Prodigy's first season! Every other current Star Trek series is getting just 10 episodes a season now but Prodigy is going crazy with massive 20 episode seasons... that are split down the middle, giving us 10 episodes a year. In fact I'm just going to call this its own season and write a little season review thing at the end.

I'll be writing about these three episodes:

• 1-08 - Time Amok
  
• 1-09 - A Moral Star, Part 1
  
• 1-10 - A Moral Star, Part 2
  

There will be SPOILERS here for Prodigy and other Star Trek series, but only up to the point in time these episodes were released. So if you haven't seen anything after episode 10 you've got nothing to worry about here. Not that there is anything after episode 10 right now.

Star Trek: Prodigy - Season 1 Review, Part 2

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm writing about Star Trek: Prodigy! Or Nickelodeon: Star Trek - Prodigy, according to the logo up there. I'm going to be covering four episodes this time, which I have listed in a convenient list below for your convenience:

• 1-04 - Dreamcatcher
  
• 1-05 - Terror Firma
  
• 1-06 - Kobayashi
  
• 1-07 - First Con-tact
  

There will be SPOILERS, for these episodes and earlier ones, but nothing that comes after them. Partly because I wrote about each episode right after watching them and I didn't actually know anything else at the time, partly because I don't want to ruin anything for other people who are watching it for the first time.

Babylon 5: Thirdspace - Part 3

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm finally going to shut up talking about the Babylon 5 movie Thirdspace. I just have to write about what happens in the ending and then I'm done. Though if you want more words you can check out PART ONE and PART TWO and read how the story got to this point.

This review will contain SPOILERS for the movie and the first half of season 4, but I don't intend to give away any more than that, for the sake of people watching the series for the first time. There should always be people watching this series for the first time.