Van's Inner Universe

Living For The Future

February 2011

  • Fortune is a filler episode that serves as the calm before the storm with the likes of Darkseid, Lex Luthor, Zod, and Lionel Luthor. However, its storyline has nothing to do with the rest of the season like both Isis and Harvest. This was also the final episode for Chloe Sullivan, whom we find is… Read more

  • After last week’s episode that dealt with Cybertronian Scraplets, this week’s episode features an friend of Bulkhead’s named Wheeljack, who arrives on Earth with a ship of his own and he gets intercepted by the Decepticons. The twist to this relating to the episode title is that Decepticon shapeshifter named Makeshift disguises himself as Wheeljack… Read more

  • Echoes continues Alex’s arc from last episode, Alexandra. Here we go deep inside Alex’s mind through the machinations of Amanda. In her mind, we see echoes of her past, present, and possible foreshadowings of her future down the line. This was the most Alex-centric episode than any other and Amanda had a lot more to… Read more

  • Milestone creator, animator, and comics writer Dwayne McDuffie has suddenly passed away after just promoting All-Star Superman due to complications of surgery he had on Monday night. He helped create Milestone Comics that included Static Shock and helped create Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and Ben 10. His final work is the now-released All-Star Superman.… Read more

  • Masquerade addresses the problem with Clark’s secret identity issues and tackles it with he and Lois, along with bringing the Darkseid plot back to the fore since Abandoned. It’s written by Bryan Miller, who usually writes for Clark and Chloe in most of his episodes. Clark sees for himself why there is the need for… Read more

  • Denial focuses mainly on Kid Flash as it addresses his problem of not believing in magic and his denying feelings for Artemis. It turns out that Wally believes in science because his super-speed was of scientific nature. It took wearing the Dr. Fate helmet  and Kent Nelson’s wisdom to get him out of the lack… Read more

  • Scrapheap is the latest episode that deals with the Autobots dealing with Cybertronian deadly bugs called Scrapheaps, who eat anything living machinery. The episode starts with Bumblebee and Bulkhead discovering a pod full of them in the Arctic as this prompts both Optimus Prime and Arcee to investigate there. Unfortunately, this is where things start… Read more

  • In this latest episode of Nikita, Alexandra is an Alex-centric episode that dovetails more deeply in Alex’s past as a lot is revealed about her more than any other episode. We get to learn her full name and what her true backstory was before her parents were killed and before she hooked up with Nikita.… Read more

  • A new Wonder Woman is cast for the new pilot and her name is Adrianne Palicki. I know her from her appearance in Smallville’s 3rd season finale, Covenant, where she played the faux Kara. She has the right height to portray the comic book icon and she’s making history as the second actress to play… Read more

  • Joanne Siegel, widow of late Superman co-creator, Jerry Siegel, has passed away today at the age of 93. She was the original model of Lois Lane in the early Superman stories of the 1930’s and 40’s. After Jerry Siegel’s passing, she and her daughter, Laura, have got their half of the Superman copyrights. The family… Read more