Crashing 1.05

Episode 5

Everyone gets eviction notices. Sam plays a prank on Will after he learns that Will has found a house and wants Fred to move in with him. Melody wants Colin to move to Poland with her but he has questions about some of her paintings he finds while they are packing. Kate acts like she never expressed any doubts abou her relationship with Anthony. Lulu spends the entire episode in pajamas. She even goes to work in them.

UFO Robo Grendizer 2.11

Connect Your Life with Wings

or Bet Everything On The Wings Of Life!

or Une étoile est morte (A Star is Dead)

Daisuke and Hikaru have new clothes. Hikaru's new outfit includes a miniskirt. Danbei, her father, does not approve when he sees it.

Gandal and Zuril are contacted by the Great Vega. The Vegatron Star, the power source of the Vegan Empire, was swallowed by a black hole. The Great Vega needs Gandal and Zuril to find a new energy source. Zuril recommends super uranium which can be found on Earth. They launch Saucer Beast Gan Gan and a fleet of minifos to get the super uranium.

The sensors at the Space Center go haywire. Professor Umon authorizes Kouji to investigate in Double Spazer but orders him not to do anything rash. Kouji finds the source of the disturbance, Saucer Beast Gan Gan which is rapidly approaching the Super Uranium Base.

Professor Umon contacts Daisuke. He comes to the Space Center and takes off in Grendizer headed for the Super Uranium Base. Kouji attacks the saucer beast but Grendizer shows up before the fight gets very far. They destroy the Minifos but Saucer beast Gan Gan escapes. It heads to the Shirakaba ranch.

Grendizer and Double Spazer catch up to the saucer beast just in time to prevent it from kidnapping Hikaru and Goro. Kouji picks up Hikaru and Goro but gets badly injured in the process. Grendizer fights the saucer beast while Kouji is busy rescuing their friends. The saucer beast has Grendizer down on the ground.

Kouji is unable to pilot Double Spazer. He is fading fast. Hikaru takes control of Double Spazer and with some guidance from Kouji she joins the fight. She destroys Saucer Beast Gan Gan but then she passes out. She wakes up in Daisuke's arms.

Doctor Who (1963) 14.02.04

The Hand of Fear - Part 4

Eldrad pulls the bolt from her chest. The Doctor and Sarah help her get on to the elevator. They take it down to level 306. They encounter another trap on the way but the Doctor manages to disarm it. They get Eldrad to the regeneration chamber before she expires.

Eldrad regenerates as a male silicon based lifeform. The Doctor and Sarah learn that Eldrad withheld some information from them. Eldrad wanted to rule Kastria and now with the help he received from the Doctor he will. He quickly learns that all the Kastrians are dead and gone. Eldrad has other ideas but the Doctor puts an end to that and Eldrad falls into an abyss.

Sarah and the Doctor return to the TARDIS. The Doctor receives a telepathic summons from Gallifrey. He can't take Sarah so he drops her off back on Earth.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 4.11

Beast Island

Adora, Bow, and Swift Wind arrive on Beast Island. They are there to find Entrapta. They find something else, trouble. Adora can't transform into She-Ra. They are attacked by lots of large beasts. It doesn't look good for them when someone shows up and saves them, but it isn't Entrapta. It is King Micah, Glimmer's father.

Micah has lost all sense of time since he has been on Beast Island. He thinks Glimmer is still a little girl. He is amazed to learn that Swift Wind can speak. They try to keep from him the fact that Angela is gone but he eventually finds out.

Glimmer goes to the Beacon, to see Light Hope. Glimmer is not authorized to be there. Light Hope sends hordes of robotic spider creatures after her but Glimmer destroys them all. 

Adora, Bow, Swift Wind, and King Micah head to the center of Beast Island. The place is littered with First Ones tech. There is a noise that is overwhelming. The island begins to overpower them. Adora refuses to give in and finally transforms into She-Ra. She saves her friends and then Entrapta shows up.

Light Hope finally appears before Glimmer who tells the hologram that she wants to control the power at the center of Etheria so that she can defeat the Horde. Light hope tells her about the power at the center of Etheria and what must be done in order to tame it. The key to it is a Princess who has never connected with her rune stone, Scorpia.

NewsRadio 4.16

Beep Beep

Mr. James wants Dave and Lisa to get back together. He thinks that their productivity has suffered since they split up. Mr. James puts Bill on the job after he gives it a swing and gets nowhere.

Mr. James gets Matthew a birthday present, an electric car that he can drive around the office.

Thoughts

I wasn't crazy about either of these storylines but I didn't hate them either.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1.06

Mrs. X at the Gaslight

Midge continues to perform at parties. She starts performing with Randall, another comic, at parties. Randall introduces her to his agent from the William Morris Agency. Susie finds out about this and gets a chance to see them perform together.

Abe gets a job offer from Bell Labs. He acts cagey toward the recruiter but secretly he is delighted. He takes the family out for dinner. Noah, Midge's brother, and Astrid, Noah's wife, are just back from Israel and join them for dinner. The meal is ruined when they spot Joel and Penny across the room. They leave but Joel spots them. He talks to Midge for a moment, alone. He notices that she is no longer wearing her wedding ring.

Susie is not taken by Midge and Randall's act. She tries to discourage Midge from performing with him. She goes so far as to confront Randall's agent at the William Morris agency.

The episode ends with a couple of faceless guys listening to a recording of Midge at the Gaslight Cafe. They have no idea who she is but they like what they hear. They label the recording "Mrs. X at the Gaslight".

Animaniacs 1.04

Hooked on a Ceiling - Yakko, Wakko, and Dot help Michelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Goodfeathers: The Beginning - Squit must find some food if he wants to become a Goodfeather. The initiation test proves to be more difficult than it seems at first.

This episode was okay but not really my thing. I should probably just stick to the episodes that have Pinky and the Brain in them.