by Amy K. Bredemeyer
Falling Skies "What Hides Beneath" (S01E08): Weaver has a dream about a memory of his old life. Ben has been jumping rope for 2 hours and 40 minutes, but lies to Hal about how long he'd been out there. [Ben's odd behaviors are starting to concern me... ] Weaver is spacing out and popping pills. In four days, the fighters are planning to attack the skitters. Pope is apparently a demolition expert of sorts, and knows about the chemical makeup of bombs. [somehow I'm not entirely convinced that this is good news...] Rick draws townhouses and skitters. Weaver questions what made him draw those specific images, and he gives the row of houses sketch to Weaver (which Weaver carries around). Weaver had a construction business after being in the service. Glass checks out Ben's back, and he's missing a lot of feeling. [uh oh...] Some of the kids have no more spikes, but Ben and Rick still do. Ben is concerned for Rick, and Glass says that the kid hardly talks about his father or his death. Meanwhile, Weaver, Hal, and Tom are out scouting and see a new type of creature - a taller, humanoid alien. [I knew this was coming because of what I saw at Comic-Con, but I was still taken aback by yet another creature!] They also come across a woman who has been hiding out on her own, Sonya. Weaver decides to stand guard while the other two speak with her. Back at the lab, Pope explains some of the skitter weaponry to Matt. Ben confronts Rick and offers his ear... and Rick tells him that he believes he and Ben are lucky because the skitters love them and will return for them. [yikes! so much is going to happen next week!] It freaks out Ben. [...and me.] Sonya serves tea to Hal and Tom, and says that the harnessed kids spoke to her (she was in a camp for a while but was let go). Before the guys could learn more, Weaver takes off on a motorcycle and pulls the spark plugs from the other bikes. Hal and Tom go after him, telling Sonya they'll be back.

[next Sunday is a 2-hour season finale!]
Futurama "Mobius Dick" (S06E21): [I question the timing of the airing of this. Encore's Moby Dick miniseries aired last week. And if you look at the production schedule, this was originally supposed to air much earlier. hmmm...] It's been 50 years since the Professor's first delivery crew disappeared. [haha on imagining Zoidberg with hair.] Weeks went by and only Zoidberg returned, but he wouldn't talk about what happened. [haha... Bermuda Tetrahedron!] Leela demands a new statue when she spots a grammatical error (it's instead of its), and it is implied that they're using elephant tusks for ivory to carve the statues! [delighted at the grammatical pick, horrified at the ivory implication!] In order to make it back for the memorial service, the crew flies through the Bermuda Tetrahedron... they see other spaceships, including the original Planet Express ship. They go to investigate [guess they're not in a hurry after all?] and see a giant killer spacewhale. [yeah... and I expected some Twitter jokes afterward, but caught not a one!] The whale eats the old ship as the crew spacewalks back to theirs. Then, they take off with the whale in hot pursuit... but it turns out, the whale is four-dimensional. [eye roll] The whale eats the monument soLeela wants to avenge the loss. The others think that Leela has gone crazy ["like FOXNews" haha. though I enjoyed Bender's line, "things look bad enough without having to look closer at them," regarding being the lookout in the crow's nest.] Leela gives Amy the task of harpooning the spacewhale, and the crew ends up going into the 4th dimension with the whale. [too predictable...] They aren't there long, but Bender ends up being thrown overboard and they have to cut the whale free. The whale eats everyone else as Leela repeatedly stabs it with a knife... until it eats her, too. [not thrilled with where this is going...] Zoidberg is floating along in a rescue capsule while this is going on... he makes it back to the Professor, and says he remembers nothing. In the belly of the whale, Bender is back with the others, and Leela still wants the whale to die. The Captain of the first Planet Express ship is embedded in the whale's bowels and explains to Leela that the whale feeds on obsession. [oh. now it's starting to come together...] At the memorial, Amy's mom talks of the days of "joy" and "luck" being gone, so she'll have to quit "that club." [LoL!!] The spacewhale shows up, and Leela comes out of its mouth, explaining her obsession. The whale spouts out the statue, then the first Captain comes out, then both the members of the original crew and the current crew. The episode ends with an original crew member hitting on Zoidberg while everyone else rallies like a mob toward the whale. [strange episode. very strange.
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