This has been a bit in coming. As I’ve noted before there are times when real life gets a little too real and intense. At the same time it can also collide with just simply getting burned out. There were times when I’d watch shows and then do anything I could to get out of reviewing it simply because it just wasn’t fun anymore.

Why keep doing it then? Well I thought to myself…why did I start this? I must have enjoyed writing them at some point.

I think it started when my reviews all got to be the same and I wasn’t having a good time trying to get specifics…so the time has come to this. I think I would still enjoy it if I cut back in some fashion. SO until further notice and I reserve the right to change my mind at any time:

I will still be doing movie reviews as I watch them. As for TV, I will do the shows I’ve been doing but in much smaller format. Simply bullets of what worked, what didn’t and the grade. The only exception will be V. I will maintain that standard as my flagship.

Star Wars (and other book reviews) will also be shorter and more to the point.

Thanks for reading guys and gals. Now you should be able to get the gist of whether a show is watchable or not, without some of the bullshit. With this crazy to keep up with life world, perhaps this is a better system anyways!

“Red Sky”

Wow! What a season finale. The show has really been picking up steam and the final episode kicks into gear for the next season. The high point of the show is the fact that we still don’t know who is on what side. It’s been very vague at times and both sides have people who are switching allegiences.

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Here is the listing of the Top 100 Films that I have reviewed here at SecondViews.  Obviously heavily skewed towards 2008-2010 era, but this will be maintained and updated weekly as I review more.

SECONDVIEWS TOP 100 FILMS

“R2 Come Home”

Hands down one of the best episodes of the series. The whole episode from the music, the tone, the humor, and most importantly the best handling of R2-D2 since the whole shebang began, just felt like Star Wars. Most of the time the show, although spectacular,feels like a spinoff of sorts. This felt like part of one of the films.
After Anakin and Mace search for survivors from the downed Republic ship from last episode, they walk into a trap laid by young Boba Fett and his crew. They are trapped underneath a large pile of metal rubble and can’t move. Ironically after Mace decries Anakin for putting so much trust in the droid, R2 finds them. Anakin instructs him to get back to the fighters and get a communication out to the Temple.
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“Lethal Trackdown”

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Star Wars: Jedi Quest Volume 1: The Way of the Apprentice (27 BBY)

written by: Jude Watson

The younger reader series finally gets Anakin right. After a step in the right direction in the previous Jedi Quest, this particular story finds Anakin at what I consider to be exactly how he should be. He’s young, brash, cocky, well intentioned but very immature in some ways, leaving himself open to dark side moments.
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“Heretic’s Fork”

This was certainly the most briskly paced episode of the series thus far. With a suspense inducing score, the action is fairly non-stop. Ryan collects Val and brings her back to their apartment, not to talk yet but to pack and run. Val is a bit obtrusive, and with good reason. But she is convinced to run when two V guards break in and try to kill them. Ryan takes them out and the two are off.

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“The Zillo Strikes Back”

A highly intriguing episode of the Clone Wars saga given that it combines a great action piece with some highly charged political and personal turmoil all leading to where we open in Episode III.

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“Welcome To the War”

New showrunner, new episodes. Any changes? Yes. While I had no problem with the first four episodes in November, this one took the ball and ran with it. The pace is faster, the world seems a bit more epic. And business is about to pick up.

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The Phatooine forums which SecondViews had been associated with has now merged completely with SecondViews and formed the new…SecondForums.

For those who remember Phatooine, you still can log in with your old id/password and there is plenty to honor the memory of the forums as they were as well as a more streamlined approach dedicated to media/entertainment as a whole! So stop by to visit old Phat friends or to start anew with a pretty cool bunch of people!

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“Lightsaber Lost”

To say this is kiddie fare is certainly damning in most circles, but in this case I say that not with derison, but as a complement. It just is a very simple tale, portrayed in a cartoonish fashion unlike most of the series thus far. But I have to be honest when I say it is a nice change of pace.

is also ongoing. This will take me quite a long time to finish. At the end it is looking to be 400 cds, approximately 240 of them studio and the rest to be filled by various important live gigs. Right now I am listening to every Queen concert bootleg I have which is quite extensive. I began in the year 1973 and am now up to 1979.

The Best of will follow suit.