Hi, folks! It's me, Maryland J. Koba here again for the start of the "May Sweeps" week. Which means that I'm going to be one busy Koba this week.
Anyway, starting off our E2 actors week with a bang was a stealth entry - our favorite cyborg tutor, Sullivan Walker, in the UPN show The Sentinel. If you haven't seen it, and you care, stop reading here. I mean it! (taps his claw...)
Oh, my. Where to begin? I believe that Commander Ivanova from Babylon 5 put it best when she said, "worst case of testosterone poisoning I've ever seen!" The Sentinel is not for someone who likes to see intelligent drama. It's for people that like to see things blow up. And not very well, either. The premise, as much as I can tell, is that a former Army Ranger had his senses heightened somehow in Vietnam, and is now a cop in an unidentified American city (Seattle?) It's SUPERCOP! Anyway, his partner is some kind of slacker dude who can't do anything except crack wise. Like I said, not much thought here.
Tonight's episode was your basic morality play involving a slumlord, some counterfeit money, and exploding buildings. An armored car crashes in the ghetto, raining money down on the poor people below. The only witness to the accident is a teenage boy, who is the son of Sullivan Walker's character. Of course, SW plays an upstanding, morally superior, single father who is raising his son right amidst the squalor. He's even witholding his rent money until the slumlord fixes the building. Anyway, the Supercop is called in to investigate the circumstances, and finds that (big surprise here), the money being circulated in the ghetto is counterfeit. His "super-sight" was the only thing that figured out that the money was funny. Sure, right. It was blatantly obvious!
To make a long, boring story short, SW's son gets in the middle of this crime ring, lots of buildings blow up, and the Supercop has to rescue the kid. Pretty boring stuff. No wonder it's UPN's highest-rated show.
SW's character was so much like Yale that I was wondering where the cybernetic arm was! He was a moral, hardworking guy who was stuck in a bad situation, and was fighting to better it. It was good to see him back on TV, but I felt sorry for him. It's hard to soar with eagles when you're working with turkeys.
Anyway, Maryland J. Koba gives "The Sentinel" one counterfeit dollar bill out of five, for being a boring, pathetic show that was improved immensely by SW's too-short screen time. Stay tuned to KOBA-TV, when we review the angelic Jessica Steen!
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