Kevin C. Wong

Spot Reviews 03/20/26

Babylon 5 s1 (1994) [/] I rewatched this on Tubi (important note, Tubi has the pilot The Gathering at the end of the season so watch that first). I remember this was very good tv CGI at the time, a bit revolutionary, but now it does look quite bad. The stories and acting are still fine. Season one builds up the universe and sets up things for future seasons and it's good that J. Michael Straczynski plotted it out so that any character could leave between seasons which happened when Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (Michael O'Hare) had to leave for undisclosed reasons at the time but after his death Straczynski said it was because O'Hare was suffering from mental illness.

Melo Movie (2025) [-] South Korean drama/romance of ten hour-long episodes. Movie lover, bit-part actor, and later film critic Ko Gyeom (Choi Woo-shik) falls for film production crew and later movie director Kim Mu-bee (Park Bo-young; Oh My Ghost, 2015; Doom at Your Service, 2021) and relentlessly pursues her in a way that's quite annoying. They both/will have tragedies in their lives and part of their growth is coming to terms with those tragedies. It's actually kind of a depressing series as even the B-plot between Gyeom's friends -- composer Hong Si-jun (Lee Jun-young) and writer Son Ju-a (Jeon So-nee) -- is about their breakup, meeting again and working together seven years later, and Si-jun finally coming to terms that he and Ju-a are really over... Overall this is a rare K-drama miss.

Junkworld TD (2023) [/] Apple Arcade post-apocalyptic tower defense game. You have towers to place and upgrade. You have a hero with special powers. You have a limited number of minions to place (many maps have multiple routes and your hero can't cover everywhere). Nice graphics and gameplay. Played four levels. Kind of fairly typical for a TD game but a nice theme as so many other TD games are fantasy or less serious.

Project Superpowers Omnibus v1: Dawn of Heroes (2018) [/] Using a lot of Golden Age public domain heroes this series by Jim Krueger and Alex Ross explores a modern day world where all the WW2 heroes disappeared eventually letting the behind-the-scenes shadowy Supremacy essentially take over the world. Now the heroes have returned finding themselves changed and painted as terrorists as they try to free America which has become a rather Fascist state... Really good art. Interesting story. Way too many characters. Some of the more popular characters get their own Dynamite series or interact with the larger Dynamite properties.