a horse is a horse, of course, of course

"I must have that horse!"

I just finished watching the Syfy Channel's "Pegasus vs Chimera". It wasn't bad, but quite mediocre, with villains chewing on the scenery, and a hero and a heroine whose respective fathers had been killed by said villains, but who alas didn't launch into Inigo Montoya tirades. The character of the witch who conjures Pegasus down to Earth stood out in the whole affair for me, making the most of what she'd been handed, and she turned out to be Rae Dawn Chong, whom I haven't seen in anything in a long time.

the Murdoch Mysteries - eps 11-12-13

"We don't want the Prince to think that Toronto is not a safe place."

I'm slowly making my way thru Canadian TV series "The Murdoch Mysteries". Set in Toronto in the year 1895, it follows the exploits of police detective Wiliam Murdoch, who's quite keen on the latest developments of science and criminology, and who's played by Yannick Bisson - one of us handsome French-Canadians. ("SNORT!") I heard that. His boss has a more traditional approach to getting the truth out of suspects, but he acknowledges that Murdoch gets results, helped as he is by young constable Crabtree and lady coroner Dr. Ogden. That being said, this set's episodes 11 and 12 weren't quite up to par, but episode 13 makes up for it. In spite of its title "The Annoying Red Planet", it doesn't feature any bat-rat-spider creature, but it has one man fallen from the sky into a tree, another man with all his internal organs gone, and crop circles.