The Makani: Cooking for the Maiko House 1.07

Illness

Kiyo and Sumire stay in Kyoto during the New Year's holiday. Everyone else goes home. Slowly they return to the house. Kiyo makes some traditional New Year's dishes for the resident's of the house, Sumire comes down with a cold. Kiyo goes to extra lengths to make her best friend homemade udon noodle soup with the freshest ingredients. 

Thoughts

I assume that the New Year celebrated in this episode is the Lunar New Year.

This is another good episode. I know I haven't watched this show faithfully every week, which is probably the most that one could expect from me, but I am enjoying it.

Star Trek: The Next Generation 5.17

The Outcast

The crew of the Enterprise assists the J'Naii in locating a shuttlecraft that seems to have vanished. Commander Riker works closely with Soren a J'Naii scientist. The J'Naii are an androgynous, humanoid race. Soren has lots of questions for Riker about human sexuality, while they are working on locating the missing shuttlecraft. They discover that it is trapped within a null space. Together, in one of the Enterprise's shuttlecraft, Riker and Soren chart what can be perceived of the dimensions of the null space.

Stand by Me (1986)

Stand by Me (1986)

starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland

directed by Rob Reiner

89 minutes

Four friends (all twelve years of age) go on a trip together to see if they can find the body of one of their classmates. Gordie (Wil Wheaton), Chris (River Phoenix), Teddy (Corey Feldman), and Vern (Jerry O'Connell) take off on a Friday afternoon and follow the railroad tracks from their hometown of Castle Rock, OR to the river where the body is supposed to be. It takes them a little over 24 hours to get there. They have a number of minor adventures along the way.

Steven Universe 1.47

Shirt Club

Stevn draws an image to advertise the fact that his father is giving guitar lassons. Buck, Mayor Dewey's son, gets a hold of the image and talks Steven into making t-shirts with the image on them. Steven thinks it's a great idea until after they distribute them. Everyone loves the t-shirts but they aren't interested in getting guitar lessons from his dad. Steven 

Thoughts

Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl are in this episode but they don't play an important role in it.

This was an okay episode but it didn't really do a lot for me.

Adventure Time 5.22

The Party's Over, Isla de Senorita

Ice King sneaks into Princess Bubblegum's bedroom. He tries kidnapping her but she wakes up and calls for her banana guards. Ice King gets the message, she doesn't appreciate him and leaves. He goes home but then he decides to leave there too. He gets in a row boat and takes off, gets caught in a storm, and washes up on the shore of a deserted island.

He hears a voice singing and discovers that the the island is a woman. She tells him about her boyfriend, Party God. Ice King confronts Party God, away from the island, and kind of helps her to break up with Party God. He then returns to see Princess Bubblegum and tells her that it is over between them.

Un Village Français 6.07

Une explosion

or An Explosion

01 Sep 1944

Anselme is ready to order an attack once everything is in place. Antoine objects. He thinks they should wait. Anselme pulls rank and says that he's in charge. Raoul Germain, Marie's son shows up with some other troops that are brought in to support the planned assault on the school. Anselme and Antoine tell him about what happened. 

Doctor Larcher finds out that Kurt has type O blood. Lucienne objects but Kurt agrees to providing a transfusion to help save De Kervern. The transfusion happens. Kurt has a heart attack but Doctor Larcher manages to revive him. 

The Apothecary Diaries 1.01

Maomao

A young apothecary, Maomao, is kidnapped and sold to the Rear Palace where she becomes one of the many serving girls in a structure populated only by women and eunuchs. She remains a lowly servant until she anonymously uses her knowledge to heal the newborn daughter of Gyokuyō, one of the high ranking concubines of the emperor. Jinshi, the manager of the Rear Palace, tricks Maomao into revealing that she knows how to read and write and then takes her to see Gyokuyō who elevates Maomao to be one of her personal servants.

Thoughts

I watched this episode in Japanese with the English subtitles. I wish that the subtitles were closed captioned. I also wish that they didn't flash by as quickly as they do at times. I watched on my computer because it is easier to pause and rewind than it is on my television.