DOA On TV Doc, Best Medicine, Lanterns, Great British Baking Show

 

 

 

 

 

Doc  Ep 2 S3  Ready or Not

A teen driving his family car gets into an accident, crashing the car into a deer and severely injuring his parents and sister.   The father has antlers buried in his chest making surgery difficult.  The sister and mother are barely hanging on.  Everyone on staff works to save the family, yet personal issues and past angers threaten the lives of the patients.

While the medical problems presented each episode remain intriguing, I feel this season is leaning a bit more into soap opera rather than medical drama.

 

 

Best Medicine  Ep2 S2  Breakin’ In Is Hard To Do

There are several storylines this week.  The town pharmacy, Doc’s Office and the Salty Breeze all have thefts, with puzzling items being stolen.  Martin tries to put together what injury might be treated given what has disappeared.

A Pizza Food Truck sets up shop just at the edge of the Salty Breeze parking lot causing chaos.

Townies have Martin rush to the Salty Breeze to help with an incident, only to find a bloody mess that momentarily brings out his blood phobia.   It’s a prank that’s supposed to be hilarious, but it makes Martin question why he is staying in Port Wenn at all.   His friend Eden seizes upon this and encourages him to come back to Boston.

 

Lanterns Finale

It’s a slow episode, oddly.  There’s a bit of tidying up leaving Sinestro behind on the portal world.

John is able to figure out who killed Hal.  Hal was right, it was Kerry, who wanted to protect her son Noah.

Noah is an interesting conundrum.  He wants his current life of family and football, but can also see a path for himself to the halls of power where he could conquer everything and everyone.  

Sinestro made a lantern for Noah who kidnapped him from OA and trapped him on Anton’s world.  Noah wanted revenge for his grandmother’s death, and wanted to be able to kill Guardians if he needed to.

John ends up with the Lanternmade by Sinestro and Hal’s ring.  Once he charges the ring, Halogram, who has been a much better companion than real Hal, will be gone forever.  He’s reluctant to lose him.

Calling in Guy Gardner, John tells him to deliver a message to the Guardians.  John is Earth’s Guardian now and Gardner has the rest of the sector.  Guy’s not happy!  He promises an army of Lanterns coming to confront John (that is, in fact, what should happen).   John is confident he will get his wish.  Did John do this so he could protect his family, Kerry and Noah, and keep Sinestro imprisoned?  Why else?  It doesn’t seem to me to be an appropriate super hero way, using his power to serve his own needs. 

 

Great British Baking Show   Biscuit Week

The first challenge was “American Style Cookies”, though the cookies were much more elaborate than the typical cookie.

Teeny Frosted Iced Gems were the Technical Challenge.

Mosaics created from biscuits were the show stoppers.  The overall Star Baker was Tom, who did not finish his sloppy looking show stopper.  Some weeks the judges just don’t get it right.  Going home was the delightfully daffy Danni.  Danni is a vegan, and didn’t taste her own creations as she made them, so she was somewhat doomed.

The show continues to be a balm.

 

DOA On TV 9/28/26 Lanterns, Doc, Great British Baking Show, Darkwing Duck,Star Trek Strange New Worlds

 

Darkwing Duck Returns!

 

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Lanterns ep 7  The Jordan Boys Legacy   (HBO Max)

This was my favorite episode so far.  We get Hal's background, wherein depression affects the Jordan males historically, and it's something Hal has fought as well.  We get this via flashback, but also, the Hal Jordan hologram seems to have more juice to keep running than is stated. 

 

The Halogram as I see him called, is way more forthright than real Hal.  He pulls no punches.  Interestingly when he finds out about Hal's romance with the sheriff, he insists on meeting her.  She's able to confirm Hal wanted John to succeed, but he just kept letting Hal down.  He kept hoping though.  This is a revelation to John.  It's a revelation to the Halogram that Hal left John behind the wheel of an uncontrolled vehicle twice to die, and Hal never taught John to fly, or anything else.

 

Together they break into Hal's locked vault, finding a portable portal to another planet that they go to explore together.  It turns out to be Anton's home planet, every person dead, having been driven mad by a gas that led them to kill each other and themselves. Hal pulls John from certain madness and death. Between them they make it to a small island with a beacon. Inside, they're attacked by a man that turns out to be Sinestro.

 

One more episode to tie things up. 

Doc E1 S3   Wherefore Art Thou   (Fox)

 

Amy and Sonja begin training new interns as co-leads.  A group of kids from a high school play begin showing signs of seizures, as does the drama coach.  The combination of interns in tricky situations and Amy and Sonja being responsible for training lead to tense moments for all. 

Amy has memory flashbacks of the day of her accident, and how she treated everyone, particularly Sonja.  While her brain appears to be healing, it is also overloading with memories that she can’t be distracted by during work.

New incoming surgeon Ben Grant is being given anything he wants in order to make the hospital shine.  He is dismissive of the current head surgeon, and remembers his short time with Amy well, bringing more than just medical expertise to his new role in the hospital.

I’m liking the new Amy who is trying to do what her mentor Joan asked, that she turn to a life of service to share her gifts.  

 

Star Trek Strange New Worlds S4 Ep 10 Tomorrow’s Enterprise   (Paramount)

 

 

 At a strange concurrence of a black hole and a white hole back to back, the Enterprise is trapped.  They’re trying to find a way to get out of the area, and are considering firing upon some objects they see ahead of them.  Uhura picks up an odd communication ahead of the explosive result of the Enterprise’s attack.  When she has some time to listen more closely, she hears her own voice warning Scotty.   Further attempts to decode the message puts her in contact with herself, one year in the future.

Kirk captains the Enterprise, Pike is an admiral, Scotty is dead.   Uhura works with her future self to save Scotty, resulting in time travel with possible consequences, but they won’t stop until they figure out how to save him.

It was fun to see future Uhura and nurse Chapel (bouffant hair in place, and Uhura has TOS Uhura’s style) just a bit different than their current selves.  I think Paul Wesley’s Kirk is well done, but as always I don’t like him stealing time from Pike, who is the best of all captains, in my opinion.

Next season is the last. Filmed, and everyone has moved on.  Only six episodes in the final season.

I keep thinking it’s 60 years of Star Trek and every Star Trek show will be gone by next year.  Some celebration of a unique anniversary!

 

 

 

The Great British Baking Show (Netflix) 

 

Cake Week!   The show is back on Fridays on Netflix.  Cake week is my favorite, because I love cake.   The technical challenge seemed a bit more cruel than usual, as there was no recipe, just a picture of what the cake should look like.  Everyone knows a recipe for Walnut and Coffee Cake by heart, right?

 

 As usual these are the nicest people on the earth competing for star baker and beyond.  I don't know how they do it, but every person just is warm and fuzzy.