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Intelligent and thought provoking, TNG: Who Watches The Watchers? is one of those episodes that dares to take on a potentially controversial topic and wrap it in a fictional coating for easy digestion. The way the proto-Vulcan race is created has just the right mix of making them primitive enough to see as un-evolved, yet with the intelligence and integrity to make it easy to hold them in high regard. There are lots of interesting discussions one can get into after this episode including: How do we deal with past behavior that we recognize as based on ignorance in a respectful way? How much of our current beliefs are simply a lack of understanding? How do you determine when a society is ready to take the next step and how do you let go of outdated beliefs? Can any observer really be unobtrusive and unbiased?

Www.lordoftherings.net has released a trailer for Return of the King as well as images from the extended DVD of The Two Towers.

Watching TNG: Evolution was in the words of Yogi Bera ‘like deja-vu all over again’. TNG: Home Soil felt like a complete recycling of the original series “The Evil in the Dark” and Evolution felt like they were yet again bringing the old plot out, wipping some of the dust off and recycling it for yet another round of ‘lets see if we can communicate with these creatures that we did not even recognize as sentient and are threatening us, but have just as much right to live as we do’. On the plus side we do get to see Westley, the wonder boy, Crusher fuck up AND loose it, giving him a bit more humanity, and we get the beautiful and talented Gates McFadden back.

It is refreshing to find an action flick that delivers on it’s promise of action and suspense.. Matt Damon does just that with professional delicacy as Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity (2002). While the plot seems at times a touch formulaic, watching Damon slowly regain his identity as a programmed killer was rewarding and quite enjoyable.

The on-again, off-again resurection of Dr. Who is on again according to this daily telegraph article. I have seen this rummor fly by enough times that I am not holding my breath though.

Today Warner Brothers released the theatrical trailer for The Matrix: Revolutions. Let the speculation begin!

Fans have enjoyed the Underworld pictures posted under Film Roar: Underworld Pictures and Film Roar: More Underworld Pictures. There have been requests for image posts of Amelia, of Selene and Erika bearing their fangs, and of more werewolf images. Well, here by popular demand, and thanks to sarafeen, go a set of image captures taken from the Underworld trailers for all to enjoy.

Amelia, a vampire elder:

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