Interior Chinatown 1.05

Chinatown Express

Willis and Lana decided that they need to break in to Uncle Wong's office at the Golden Palace. They try to grab his keys to the restaurant, first from Uncle Wong and then from Faty. They both have too much to drink and don't get the keys.

Turner starts to go through an existential crisis. Lana notices that something is wrong with him. Lana suggests that he try talking to Green about it but he doesn't. He has to defuse a bomb at police headquarters. The bomb doesn't explode but Turner didn't do anything to prevent it from exploding and he knows it.

Willis breaks into Uncle Wong's office. Faty sees him doing it but is too busy to do anything about it. Uncle Wong returns. Willis escapes through the trap door and into the maze of tunnels beneath Chinatown. Uncle Wong eventually catches up to him. He throws Willis in his van and tells him that he needs to be careful.

Bleach 1.06

Fight to the Death! Ichigo vs. Ichigo

Rukia goes to Kisuke Urahara’s magical shop. There she buys a number of things, one of which is a candy dispenser that is loaded with powerful pellets. She gives it to Ichigo and explains that the candies will allow his soul self to leave his body without her assistance. It also fills his physical body with a substitute soul. 

Ichigo gives the candy a try. It seems to work as Rukia said it would but something seems off to Ichigo. Before he can ask any more questions Rukia has them take off on a mission. Ichigo’s physical form wrecks havoc while he is gone. Ichigo comes back and finds the substitute soul hitting on Orihime and Tatsuki. Ichigo gets into a fight with his physical body but the substitute soul takes off before Ichigo can subdue him. 

Doctor Who (1963) 8.02.02

The Mind of Evil - Part Two

Jo comes in and finds the Doctor writhing in pain. The Doctor slowly recovers and explains what happened to him. Captain Yates arrives soon afterwards. He takes the Doctor to see the Brigadier. Jo stays at Stangmoor. The Doctor gives her instructions to make sure that the warden has the room with the device locked up.

Sergeant Benton follows Captain Chin Lee but loses her when he suddenly gets a throbbing headache. He reports back in to the Brigadier who is very disappointed. The Doctor arrives at the Brigadier’s office. He tries to tell the Brigadier about the problems at Stangmoor with the device. The Brigadier is more concerned about the World Peace Conference and the death of the Chinese general.

Waves (2024)

Waves (2024)

starring Vojtěch Vodochodský, Táňa Pauhofová, Stanislav Majer

directed by Jiří Mádl

131 minutes

in Czech with English subtitles

Tomáš Havlík (Vojtěch Vodochodský), takes a job as an engineer at a radio station in Prague in 1968.  Milan Weiner (Stanislav Majer) runs the section of the radio station for which Tomáš works. Tomáš and the others in that section go to great efforts to broadcast the truth despite pushback from the station's general manager and the national government of Czechoslovakia. They are really put to the test when Russia invades Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1968.

Neon Genesis Evangelion 1.19

A Man's Battle

Shinji decides that he's had enough of Nerv and being a pilot. His father allows him to leave the program. He has left Nerv HQ and is waiting for a train when an Angel attacks.

Shinji watches the fight between Asuka in Unit 02 and the Angel. Asuka is no match for the Angel. Nerv attempts to send Rei in Unit 01 but it rejects her. Nerv attempts to send Unit 01 with the dummy plug inserted but it rejects the dummy plug.

Shinji watches Asuka get badly beaten and decides that he must return and pilot Unit 01. He returns, has another confrontation with his father and takes off in Unit 01. Shinji is filled with rage and expresses it in how he pilots Unit 01.

Unit 01 runs out of power in the middle of the fight. Shinji begs and pleads until miraculously Unit 01 comes back online. It does more than beat the Angel, it eats part of the Angel.

The Orville 2.05

All the World is Birthday Cake

The Orville is contacted by the people of Regor 2, a planet that has never been visited by aliens before. Captain Mercer leads a team of five to the planet's surface. Everything goes beautifully until Kelly mentions that her birthday is just a few days away and that Bortus' birthday is a few days after that. 

Kelly and Bortus are thrown in a prison camp with other people, all of whom were born under the sign of Giliac. Ed tries to negotiate for their release but the leader of Regor 2 refuses to budge on the matter. 

Inuyasha 1.13

The Mystery of the New Moon and the Black Haired Inuyasha

A boy asks Kagome out on a date. She says yes but soon after that she and Inuyasha go through the well and return to the feudal era. They meet a Nazuna, a teenage girl whose parents were killed by Spider Demons. Nazuna lives with a priest who seems to be friendly.

The new moon rises that night. Inuyasha turns human. His hair turns black and he loses all vestiges of his demonic ancestry. He explains to Kagome that this happens on a regular basis.