DOA On TV: Paradise, Best Medicine, Doc, Young Sherlock, The Pitt, Starfleet Academy

 

Paradise A Holy Charge

While much happens in the episode, the part that keeps coming to mind is Xavier traveling on horseback to Atlanta with Annie’s baby in a little pack.  Teri has been “taken” says her friend, while an angry Xavier holds a gun in his direction.    That mayday message of Xavier’s where he gives his name, Teri’s name, and the coordinates of the bunker and her last known location have got to be coming back to haunt him.

 

Best Medicine    Doc Martin

Martin Clunes, the original British Doc Martin comes to Port Wenn with his wife.  Martin is mostly cowed by the appearance of his parents, but the time he’s spent in town is beginning to rub off on him and he defends his adopted town from his scathing parents.  As the locals say, now we can see why Martin is the way he is.

 

Doc   The Best We Can Do

Richard Miller has forced his way back to working at the hospital, and he get’s a cold reception from nearly everyone.  Even so, he somehow gets under your skin and rooting for him a little bit.  I wouldn’t have thought that was possible.

 

Young Sherlock   The Case of the Missing Scrolls

I was looking forward to this, as I enjoyed just about every Sherlock incarnation I ‘ve seen.  The music, though! It screams and crashes and shrieks.   It in no way fits the time period, and if this show was set in modern times, I’d still not like it but wouldn’t notice it as much, I think.

I don’t mind Sherlock as a too smart for his own good teen, or having James Moriarty as his new best friend, they are oddly a good match.    

I’m not going to continue watching, though.

 

The Pitt 3 pm

July 4^th escalates as the first firecracker victim is brought in, his hand now missing two fingers.  He’s only 12, and seems awfully brave till we learn he’s legally intoxicated.

An old school nurse is brought in to help run the ER in it’s analog state.  She takes charge right away, and sorts everything out.  Can we keep her?

 

Star Fleet Academy    300^th Night

The first year is done for cadets and they’re graduating, with everyone traveling to Betazed, the new Federation capitol to celebrate.

Everyone but Caleb who, with Sam’s help, unlocks two years worth of encrypted messages from his mom.   Caleb, again  with Sam’s help, steals a shuttle to go find her though Braka is dropping mines at the edge of Federation space, making the trip just outside of it perilous.  Sam rather cruelly, I thought, traps Genesis and a drunken Darem in the shuttle.  

This episode could easily have been a season ender/ cliffhanger but there’s one more episode.