To rocket or not to rocket - that is the question.
We revisit some memorable appearances of rocket launchers on the small screen…
The rocket launcher is perhaps the least subtle of all of the ground-based combat weapons.
Like Joss Whedon, Im unapologetically pro-rocket.
I guess being raised on the action films of Arnold Schwarzenegger does things to a man.
Why rock the Kasbah when you might rocket it instead, am I right?
Bully for me, then, that 2016 appears to have been the Year of the Rocket.
Its the age-old tale.
Without any further ado, I bid you welcome to my highly arbitrary, kaboom-based kangaroo court.
We screwed up our eyes in ghastly anticipation as he plucked one from a precariously dangling deado.
This was the foreplay.
Someone somehow and soon was going to get Chekhovs rocket straight between the teeth.
And dont worry about limited resources.
If theres one thing Im sure the zombie apocalypse is absolutely teeming with, its rockets.
Rocket Rating:THREE ROCKETS.
Which fictional version of Gotham City are we in?
The spandex-clad swing-a-long of the sixties or the grey-shaded murk of the noughties?
The show can never seem to make up its mind.
Somehow, its never quite serious enough to be gritty, and never quite camp enough to be fun.
Thats the general thrust of my considered critique, in any case.
Still, hope comes in many forms, and inGothams case it came in the form of a rocket.
Rocket Rating:FOUR ROCKETS.
Thats right, four rockets.
Want to fight about it?
Its perhaps an understatement to say thatGothamisnt exactly a critical darling.
It is, however, immensely popular with the masses.
In summary: this was the rocket that Azrael deserved, and the one that I needed.
In Celtic folklore, a Banshee is a creature whose shriek presages death.
Never has a town, or a series, been so aptly named.
A town of consequences.
Banshees rocket almost, but not quite, caps off its series finale.
It certainly draws a line under the story of one character in particular.
Back at the beginning ofBanshee, the never-named protagonist of the show assumes the mantle of dead-sheriff Lucas Hood.
When Brock learns Hoods long-kept secret, he doesnt burn his former boss: he becomes him.
Lets go straight for the jugular here.
Theres no need for preamble or scene setting when the rocket use is as exquisite as it is inPreacher.
To paraphraseJaws: I think were going to need a bigger scoring system.
Plucky heroine Tulip OHare is being hunted by bad guys across cornfields and dusty farm tracks.
A helicopter is advancing on her location.
Shes inadequately armed, and time is running out.
Rocket Rating:SIX ROCKETS.
You dare question my six-rocket rating?
When a kick-ass character takes down an enemy helicopter with toys and coffee cans?
Well played,Preacher.
