Van's Inner Universe

Living For The Future

May 2013

  • Happy Memorial Day!!

    Today we celebrate and pay tribute to the soldiers and veterans of the Armed Forces who have given their lives to ensure America’s freedom of independence and democracy. Read more

  • As last week saw the Autobots splitting into two teams and focused on Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Smokescreen who all work well together, this episode focused on the other half of the group with Ultra Magnus, Bulkhead, Wheeljack, and Miko as this was a contrast where we see tensions within the team mainly between Ultra… Read more

  • Ghost Boy was Beast Boy attempting to pull jokes on his fellow Teen Titans to get the things he wanted, but none of it worked because they know him too well except for Starfire. Beast Boy takes advantage of her naivete by pulling a prank on her by pretending he’s a ghost. However, the other… Read more

  • After a hiatus from last month, we return with a real start to the Beast Hunters season when the Autobots are settled into their new headquarters. Optimus Prime, in his new flying form, gets a new vehicle while Ultra Magnus transforms into his old truck mode. They’ve established what Ultra Magnus is – second-in-command and… Read more

  • The third season marks the first season without the show’s villain, Percy, who died at the end of the second season. The end of that season saw Nikita and Ryan running Division. The third season’s plot was that Division, under the leadership of Ryan and Nikita, would track down rogue agents known as the Dirty… Read more

  • This week has been a week of season finales and Nikita is up there with the latest episode to picks up where last episode, Invisible Hand, left off where Amanda has Nikita doing her mission to either kill the US President or her boyfriend, Michael, dies with the nanites in his new hand. This causes… Read more

  • I’m liking this series more so than the original in that we get to learn more about them than we did in the original, especially when it comes to Robin whom Dude Relax focuses on along with Beast Boy. We found out what makes Robin tick and his encounter with the magical couch shows his… Read more

  • Looking back at the first season of the new show, Arrow, based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow Oliver Queen. The showrunners are basing this version on the Green Arrow Year One storyline from the comics and use it as their launching point where Oliver spends 5 years on the island and returns to… Read more

  • Here we are in the season finale of Arrow’s first season and it was intense, action-packed, and suspenseful than any episode before it, except perhaps the pilot. Oliver gets beaten by Malcolm Merlyn twice last episode and begins the episode by being tied up in chains as Malcolm proceeds with the Undertaking project out of… Read more

  • We’re at the penultimate episode of the third season when Nikita and Michael set out to get Amanda, who turns the tables on Nikita when she gets her to do one mission – to assassinate the President or Michael dies. They are showing why Amanda is one of the top villains alongside Percy and why… Read more