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Merlin

The Darkest Hour Part 1&2 : Season 4, Episode 1,Written by: Julian Jones

    This two-part episode of Merlin is the first episode of what I call the darker seasons. While the first three seasons definitely had a lighter tone, with this “two-parter,” it is apparent the show is taking a darker turn, and not just because the title has the word darkest in it.

    The episode begins with us seeing a lone traveller.  The traveller is revealed to be Morgana, Arthur's half-sister and the show’s main antagonist; and with her is her sickly half-sister, Morgause.  It is because of Morgause that Morgana turned as evil as she did -- Morgause revealed to Morgana the true extent of her power, and in the process fueled her hatred toward Uther and Arthur. Morgause shares with Morgana her final plan to open a portal to another dimension, and asks for her help. To open the portal, the two must travel to an abandoned temple and make a sacrifice.  The sacrifice will be Morgause. To be honest, I hate Morgana -- but I full-on hate Morgause, so when I heard this I was elated. Meanwhile in Camelot, Uther is a shadow of his old self, grief-stricken because he believes he turned Morgana evil. With Uther in this state, Arthur is running the kingdom with the help of his uncle, Sir Agravaine. When Morgana opens the portal, she and Merlin go unconscious and they both witness the portal opening. The gatekeeper tells Morgana that her enemy is also watching, but because she cannot see that enemy, she doesn’t realize the gatekeeper is referring to Merlin. After Merlin regains consciousness, a village girl tells Arthur and Merlin of a ghost-like creature she has seen, and Gaius, the court physician, assumes the portal has been open. Arthur, Merlin, and the knights go to the village and Merlin discovers his magic does not work on the ghost-like creature. Magic is his only defense, so I just felt so sad seeing Merlin so vulnerable. Gaius then tells Arthur, Agravaine, and Merlin that the only way to close the portal is to travel to the temple and make another sacrifice. When they hear this, Arthur automatically offers to be the sacrifice, and I'm just thinking, "No your not, you’re the main character!" Then it's revealed that Merlin plans to be the sacrifice in place Arthur, and again I'm thinking, "No, you’re also the main character!" Agravaine then betrays Arthur and tells Morgana of his plan. Part 1 then ends with Merlin and Arthur being attacked by a ghost-like creature.  Just when the creature charges for Arthur, Merlin shoves Arthur out of the way, taking the attack, and appears to be dead.

    Part two begins with Arthur insisting on taking Merlin back to Camelot. Arthur is told he cannot abandon his quest, so Sir Lancelot takes care of Merlin. Lancelot then stumbles upon river spirits who promise to shelter his group for the night and heal Merlin. The next morning Merlin has recovered and he and Lancelot hurry to catch up with Arthur. The following night, the creatures attack them, and not having any defense, Merlin calls on his dragon. Meanwhile, knowing Arthur is out of the kingdom, Morgana attacks Guinevere, knowing that if she marries Arthur, Morgana cannot become queen. I find this really cold of Morgana because Morgana and Guinevere used to be best friends, and now Morgana wants to kill Guinevere. This is the reason I hate Morgana so much by the end of this episode. Meanwhile, Lancelot and Merlin finally catch up with Arthur and, when they arrive at the temple, monsters ambush them. Arthur then finds the portal, but the gatekeeper tells him she cannot close it, only a sacrifice can do that.  When Arthur is about to sacrifice himself, Merlin runs to stop him. But suddenly Lancelot comes up and stops Merlin, knowing his plan, and jumps into the portal, sacrificing himself. This episode was so intense that, after I watched it, I literally needed to take ten minutes to process everything that happened.

Merlin

The Dragon's Call:  Season 1, Episode 1, written by: Julian Jones

     This is the first episode in the wonderful and magnificent series, Merlin. It all starts with a young Merlin traveling to Camelot.  When Merlin first arrives, he sees a witch being persecuted by King Uther, who tells everyone that magic has been outlawed. Uh-Oh, this is terrible news for Merlin! The witch being persecuted suddenly escapes, promising to take her revenge. Merlin then finds his mother's friend, Gaius, who he will be living with, and Merlin accidentally reveals to Gaius that he has magic. This is very bad because Gaius is the king's physician and Merlin is now his assistant. While Merlin is running an errand for Gaius, he sees a knight picking on a peasant. Merlin threatens this knight, which makes me embarrassed for him because I know he can't use magic and he is a thin stick of a boy. Obviously, this knight turns out to be Prince Arthur. Merlin is put in the stocks for threatening Arthur and there he meets Guinevere. A few days later, the witch, disguised as a queen, comes to Camelot, bent on destroying Uther by killing Arthur. Meanwhile, Merlin hears someone calling his name.  He sets out to find the voice, and soon discovers that the voice belongs to a dragon. The dragon reveals to Merlin his destiny – that he is bound to Arthur and that he must keep Arthur safe. Merlin hates Arthur, so this may be a problem. In the meantime, Merlin becomes very suspicious of this "queen" and closely monitors Arthur at a banquet. When Uther invites the "queen" to sing, she rises but instead of singing, she casts a spell that makes everyone but Merlin sleep. Merlin stops the witch mid-spell and everyone wakes up. In one last desperate attempt at murder the queen hurls her dagger at Arthur, but Merlin pulls him out of the way at the last second. King Uther, thrilled that Merlin has saved his son, gives Merlin a job in the castle as Arthur's servant. This is awesome because even thought, at first Merlin and Arthur hate each other, they become best friends -- and it's adorable!

Star Trek: The Original Series

 

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The Trouble with Tribbles: Season 2 Episode 15 Written by: David Gerrold

    This is just a fun episode, and that why I love it! For those for have not seen Star Trek and only know one episode this would most likely be the episode. So, in this episode the Enterprise docks at a star base for some time off. In a bar one of the ship's officer, Lieutenant Uhura, buys this puff ball called a tribble. These creatures are so adorable that if I saw one in a store right now I would buy it, even with the trouble it causes. Uhura brings it on the ship but notices one tribble has now become seven tribbles, and they keep reproducing very fast. This causes a problem for Kirk because he also is now aware a Klingon spy is lurking about. Soon these tribbles overrun the entire Enterprise. Yay, adorable puff balls everywhere, who would not want that? But soon we notices how annoying these thing can get, they get into machinery, private quarters, people's food, and people's clothes. But in the end we realize something, tribbles hate Klingons. (This makes no sense, but is a great episode.) Kirk then can detect the Klingon spy by using a tribble. He succeeds, and everything works itself out in the end.

Star Trek: The  Original Series

City on the Edge of Forever: Season 1 Episode 28 Written by:Harlan Ellison

     This is a great episode! In this episode the ship's doctor, Doctor McCoy, jumps into a time portal, and Kirk and Spock follow him. Kirk and Spock jump in the portal a few seconds after McCoy so they are transported back weeks before McCoy shows up.  They jump into New York City during the Great Depression, so it is interesting to see the two, who were born centuries in the future, fit in. I find this fun because this episode was only shot thirty years after the Great Depression, so I was thinking "Shatner, Nimoy you two are from this period." In this period Kirk and Spock find a job at a soup kitchen and Kirk falls in love with their boss. (Of course.) Later Spock finds out she is about to die, she will get hit by a bus, but if Kirk saves her history will be altered and she will be president. I understand why Kirk would save the woman but it would never work out because Kirk will eventually go back to the future. So to me it was obvious that he should just let the chips fall where they may. He decides to not interfer but right before she gets hit McCoy shows up and tries to save her. Kirk stops McCoy. McCoy freaks out because Kirk just let her die! But McCoy does not know what would have happened. They then return to their own time, being gone for only seconds.

Star Trek: The Oiginal Series

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                                                            Space...the final frontier 

                                                                

The Menagerie Part 1 & 2 Season 1 Episode 12 & 13 - Written by: Gene Roddenberry 

   This episode is one of my favorite episode of the Original Series. It is more or less the pilot episode, but from the perspective of an older Spock. In this episode Spock is on trail for kidnapping his former captain, and Captain Kirk is the one who is running the trail. This whole situation is impossible for Kirk to believe because Spock is one of his most loyal friends. When it was revealed Spock did go behind the Kirk's back everyone who ever watch this episode was probably thinking Spock is up to something, I know I was. This episode interest me because you get a look at the days before Kirk. You get to see Spock's former captain, Captain Pike, and the differences between him and Kirk. In ways they are very similar, they bother get easily distracted by beautiful women (let's be honest, Kirk is quite the ladies man), they also both seem too eager to beam down and go on dangerous adventures, and they both are devoted to their duties. But one big factor (and this might be us not seeing enough of Pike) but it seems, to me, Kirk is more open about talking about his past, where Pike seems more secretive, that is just the vibe I got from Pike. In the end of the episode the whole trail turns out to be an illusion from the planet they are orbiting. The ending just made me go like, " wait, say again?" which is almost always what all Star Trek: The Orginal Series episodes do.

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Doctor Who

The Wedding of River Song- Season 6 Episode 13- by:  Steven Moffat

Warning: huge spoiler!!!!

     I absolutely love this episode! This episode is probably  one of the most complex episodes of the new series of Doctor Who (so this episode is really hard to explain, so, sorry). I now I might upset some fans, but I love River Song, his companion.

    The episode starts out with the Doctor heading to his death, and the one who kills him is, none other than, River Song! I know this sounds like River is evil, but trust me she is awesome. River is being manipulated by an organization called The Silence, who are determined to destroy the Doctor. River decides not to kill him,but in doing this she messes up time. This is where it gets weird, she rewritten permanent moment in time, she was meant to kill him. Time is now all jumble, for example Winston Churchill is the Holy Roman Emperor of a future Britian with the Doctor as his soothsayer. This, to me, did not seem so bad, I mean, the Doctor did not die and the new world they are in seems at peace. Then it is revealed that the world is slowly destroying itself, this is really bad not only because time is collapsing but the Doctor has a very limited time to find River, and try to make River kill  him. River is in a pickle, for one, she loves the Doctor and does not want to be his murderer, but she also knows the world will be destroyed if the Doctor lives. The Doctor finds out a way to get her to kill him, they get married! *Squeal* This is the moment that those who like River died of love. The Doctor does this only partly to convince her, but really he does this because he also loves her and knows this might be the last time in a long time he will see River.  In this moment she realizes that this is not the Doctor physical body, but that the real Doctor is in a robot body of himself. Confusing, I know, but it makes more sense when you wacth it. When he kisses the bride they all go back to the real world, and River knowing that she is not killing him, she kills the Doctor robot. Yay! The Doctor is alive!

Go to this link, or click it to watch the wedding!

http://youtu.be/7Mf82XP_x8Y

     So, now I want to address this hate River Song deal. Everyone has a right to their opinions, but those who hate River only seem to see one side. To understand this,  you have to understand when the Doctor regenerates he has a completely different personality. To those who do not wacth this show and are reading this for fun, regeneration happens when the Doctor is dying, it is basically his genetic structure chancing which makes him almost like a new man. This goes back to Rose and the Tenth regeneration of the Doctor, those to were like soulmates. Suddenly the Doctor meets River, and they also seemed like soulmates. But with River the Doctor was in his Eleventh regeneration, so he was almost completely different from his Tenth regeneration. So, what I believe, and most who feel the way I do, River is not stealing the Doctor from Rose, but yet River is to Eleven as Rose is to Ten. But you are entitled to any option you wish.

Doctor Who

Human Nature/Family of Blood

By: Paul Cornell

     These  episodes are a two episodes, but they kind of blend together into one episode. I love this episode because you get some insight on how the Doctor really feel about himself. The Doctor either has to choose between love and having a family or being a Time Lord and saving worlds.

      In this episode turns human while hiding from aliens. His human self, John Smith, is in the care of Martha, his companion. In this John Smith falls in love with his colleague, Joan Redfern. Human Nature/Family of Blood takes place shortly after Rose leaving, so you can imagine how painful it was to wacth the Doctor (Jonh Smith) fall in love again. I love that he is happy, but, to be honest, whenever the Doctor is in love you know something bad will happen. The aliens have found him and messed everything up. Martha realizes this and struggled to find his Time Lord essence, which is kept in a pocket wacth. You then realize a boy stole it, and at first I hated him! The boy treated it like it was his own! I was furious. The aliens found the Doctor (John Smith) and he totally freaked out. He has a right to, I mean he just found out his whole life is a lie, I would freak out too. The boy then returned and it is revealed he was told to protect the wacth til the right time, which was then. The Doctor then had an gaigactic decision, to make, be the Doctor or John Smith. He remembered what it was like to be the Doctor, painfully alone and in emotional distress, but he would also be the savior of millions of worlds. But if he stayed John Smith all of that would go away, he would not be saving anyone, instead he could live a full and happy life. This is something we never see, the Doctor does not know what to do. We always see the Doctor in distress, but we always know he will try to save people if it is an option. But this is not the Doctor, it is John Smith and he is torn between being a lonely savior or an loved ordinary man. But he finally decided to be the Doctor, the lonely savior, again. This, to me, was heartbreaking; yes, I loved when the Doctor came back, but this was his shot at a second true love after Rose. But in the end I think he obviously made the right choice, and probably most people felt the same way, although some might felt differently, and that's cool.

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

I'm apologizing in advance because Doctor Who is so complicated I wouldn't know where to start explaining backstories. So if you have not seen this episode I would advise you not to read this, unless you want to be very confused.

Doomsday by: Russell T. Davies, season two, episode fourteen

    This is the last episode of season two. This is actually a two parter, but I feel that this episode alone is an emotional roller coaster, with love, hate, anguish, and that unforgettable tear-jerking "nooo!" moment. This is one of my favorite episodes. The Doctor and Rose finally realizes they both have the same feelings for each other. 

     The main subject I want to talk about is the ending of this episode. In this episode the world was ending and to stop it the Doctor had to open a portal, but suddenly Rose, the companion, fell into the portal! This moment made my heart stop because it's most likely she was dead. But surprisingly she was saved and was taken to another dimension, at first I was overjoyed because she was alive, but soon I realized that this was the worse possible thing! The Doctor will never see Rose again! This was devastating to the Doctor, Rose, me, and the whole world. Then the Doctor sends a message to Rose that he was sorry and told her aftermath of the event, finally Rose said what everyone was longing to hear,whic was "I love you." *Simultaneous gasp and heart clenches*  The Doctor then said "Rose Tyler, I..." and then the image failed!!! WHAT, NO, NOT OK!!! This was the worst moment in Doctor Who history, everyone was crying, and hearts all around the world were breaking.