Fashion Choices “Scales” The Cape NBC, Mondays, 9/10 PM Written by William Wheeler Directed by Dennie Gordon “What do you want the Cape to be?” – Vince Gee, Vince, if you don’t know, who will? This is the fourth episode of The Cape, and so far the whole is less than the sum of its parts. But those parts are mostly fun, so it’s watchable. There’s a lot about it that I like. I like it that Vince is poor, and scrambles to put together resources the Batman would have paid for out of petty batcash. I like Summer Glau playing…
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Dark Skies: “Pilot”
Dark Skies by Sarah Stegall © copyright 1996 by Sarah Stegall The premiere episode of “Dark Skies” is scary, thrilling, derivative, and predictable all at once. It is “The X-Files: The Early Years”, with more money than the original series from which it derives its raison d’etre. There are several significant differences, primarily of tone and approach, between “Dark Skies” and “The X-Files”, but essentially they take place in the same universe and, one would swear, with the same cast of characters. The premise is pretty simple: aliens really did land at Roswell in 1947, met with Harry Truman, demanded…