The Town of Odyssey

To be fair, they really didn't. If you mean *literally* taking down: Jellyfish was, at best, a two-bit thug. He's even described as a "young man" by the police, and the implication is that Maxwell is both older and more dangerous than him. Even Rodney Rathbone lights into Jellyfish, so the...

Well, each to his own. Maybe the "epic" factor has to do with the "OH NOES, Novacom is gonna taek over the world with mind control" thing...which is cool, I guess, except I find the whole mind control plot to be pretty unrealistic. I mean, it's logical, I guess, when you consider...

Personally, if we're looking for peaks, or "top albums", I'd rank #25, Darkness Before Dawn, above anything Novacom, any day. I also prefer the post-DBD albums; they showcase people moving on, getting married, etc. There's no doubt in my mind that they followed up DBD, which was, at least ...

By the way, I looked back through the last ten or twenty albums, to see if I could figure out exactly when things became too different for me. I know now, and it kinda surprises me: Album 38, up to its last episode, #499, or "Exit" is the last episode that I unreservedly consider to be &qu...

A while ago, I began to wonder at the possibility that, except for a few certain cases, most of the Imagination Station adventures really don't help tell the story that much. Note that I'm not talking about the ones where the purpose was specifically to get the child character to experience the envi...

Well, to be fair, it didn't feel like the show was written by the same writing staff a while ago, either, back after album 32 -- which I think was because it wasn't. ;-) I have to say that when I listened to album 50, I wasn't impressed. The basic gimmick of that album was, "let's reintroduce e...

I assume everyone here has heard "The War Hero", which reveals that that Joe Finneman deserted his troop, and then nearly deserted a group of children to the Japanese army, before he did the right thing and saved them from near-certain death. What's also relatively well-known now is that t...

I got the impression that the romance with Mitch is over, for good. Kelly summed up the situation as "he loved Budapest more than he loved me", and Connie has no problem with this statement. You don't usually hear people speak about their relationships with such candor if there's a chance ...

"A is for Attitude".

They don't have to change her, but if they don't, I honestly don't see what the point is in having her. From the first time she first appeared on the show, as the 15-year-old Californian, up to the Timothy Center, it seemed like there was always some reason to care about her character. She was chang...

I won't lie; when I first tried to listen to Square One, it didn't immediately enrapture me. In fact, I got bored and turned it off, without really concentrating on it, the first few times I played it. That said, though, last night I got around to listening to it for real, and I was mostly pleasantl...

Due to the wonders of technology, I was able to decipher the message. The motor man has a face in the suki of (the?) (k?) neckchow I don't think it severely decreases the humor aspect, though actually having a clue as to what he said decreases the wonder -- we debated over what it was heavily, one o...