Before we kick off this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase, I was completely bummed out hear that Suzanne Somers died on Sunday at the age of 76.
Somers hit the big time in Three’s Company in the late ’70s and later starred in the blended family sit com Step By Step in the ’90s.
Well, this sucks!
(The wrong people keep dying.)
Today's Tuesday TV Touchbase takes on adventures in SPACE and TIME!
Let's start off with... SPACE!!!
So Andrea and I finished the (first? last?) season of the Star Wars series Ahsoka. We had muddled through the season without the wisdom and knowledge provided by the animated series Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: The Clone Wars that came before.
Look, we were here for David Tennant who provides the voice of the droid Huyang. Tennant is perfectly adorable as the cantankerous old droid who has been building light sabers and training Jedi for centuries.
Backstory? Ha! I scoff in your general direction! Who needs backstory?
Well...
A whole bunch of shit went down in the 8th episode that was targeted to the Star Wars fan base faithful.
In the galaxy farther, farther away....
Morgan Elsbeth is gifted Mother Talzin's sword by the Great Mothers. It's not a light saber but a regular sword that crackles with a green fiery energy. It's kind of sinister and looks cool.
While Huyang hangs back to fix Ahsoka's ship, Ahsoka, Sabine and Ezra Bridger book it back to the Grand Admiral Thrawn's ship to keep him from returning to their home galaxy. (The one that is far, far away and not farther, farther away.)
Thrawn's goons have spent 3 episodes loading his ship with... well, something important. I'm not sure what. Maybe the Rebels and Clone Wars fans have a clue.
Our trio fights against Night Troopers who are storm troopers who have been killed but keep fighting anyway. Yep, zombie troopers!
Ahsoka goes one on one against Elsbeth and after a heated battle of light sabers vs. fiery green magic sword, Elsbeth gets killed.
Sabine stays behind to help Ahsoka while Ezra Bridger makes it on to Thrawn's ship just before it makes the super duper jump to hyperspace back home and Ahsoka has fuck all in the way of trying to follow the bastard.
The one mission made clear repeatedly since episode one was to make sure Thrawn does NOT escape his exile from the galaxy farther, farther away. Well, that did not work out at all as planned.
Thrawn and the Great Mothers park themselves over the planet Dathomir which I gather is a big deal.
Ezra Bridger reunites with General Syndulla and her droid Chopper and this seems to be a really big deal.
I DON'T GET IT!
Back in the galaxy farther, farther away, Ahosoka, Sabine and Huyang are stuck on a planet with these alien dudes I call "turtle bugs".
While Anakin Skywalker's force ghosts stands watch over them and...
What the hell? THIS is where we end this?!?
What kind of Empire Strikes Back bullshit is this?!?! The bad guys win and the good guys are stuck? Really?!?!
Lesson learned: we can't just follow David Tennant to anything he's in without doing the homework first.
Next up is an adventure in TIME with the 2nd season return of Quantum Leap.
How exactly are we getting new episodes of this show when every other scripted program is dead in the water? NBC made a quick renewal of the show early on which gave the cast and crew to put away about a half dozen episodes before the writer and actor strikes began.
Anyway, season two of Quantum Leap begins with a change to the status quo. While for Ben a mere matter of hours has elapsed from his last leap to his next, in his future, things progressed differently. It seems Project Quantum Leap lost track of Ben Song and the government shut down the project, declaring Ben dead.
It's been THREE years before Ian finally finds Ben again. Ian swears they found Ben through dumb luck from a computer program they left running at the project. But it appears Ian may be up to sketchy shit. Mason Alexander Park is still endearingly adorkable as every and I don't want to see Ian get in trouble over this.
Meanwhile Addison has found love with some new guy named Tony who seems like a really nice guy and everything but damn it, she was just engaged to Ben a few minutes ago although for her it's been 3 years but still... DAMN IT!!!
Meanwhile, Ben is still leaping across time, life to life, putting right whatever went wrong. And like Sam Beckett before him, perhaps with no end in sight.
Meanwhile, we play around with TIME in the 2nd season premiere of Loki.
You know I was complaining earlier about how some stuff with Ahsoka didn't quite make sense because I wasn't there for the backstory.
So I was there for the backstory for Loki and so far. what the hell is going on with season 2? Has my brain gotten too old to keep track of a classic "time has fractured" plot?
Take a deep breath, Dave-El. You can do this.
Plot summary for Loki Season 2: Time is fucked.
Well, my work here is done!
OK, one more thing: a big old shout out to Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once) who joins the cast as TVA technician Ouroboros ("O.B."), a wonderfully eccentric science dude enhanced by Quan's perfect comedic timing.
By the way, Loki is looking for Sylvie and finds her working for a McDonald's in 1982.
Side note: I worked for a McDonald's for a few weeks in the summer of 1982. Seeing Sylvia in that god awful brown polyester uniform brought back some PTSD.
To be honest, the bloom is a bit off the rose for me in terms of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but Loki is enough of it's own strange thing to keep me interested. For now.
Next week, Our Flag Means Death.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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