In theaters. Pixar Films in coordination with Disney June 2008STATS: WALL-E is the only surviving, Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class robot on Earth in the year 2805. His objective; to clean up an Earth left uninhabitable by the humans who abandoned it. WALL-E’s main function is to gather garbage compressing it into a cube, then stacking it into enormous piles. While alone for over 700 years, he develops a personality, learning about emotions from a Hello Dolly video. He grows a small surviving plant in a boot. With those growing emotions, he also grows lonely, since the inhabitants of the planet fled the pollution.THE LOOK:  WALL-E is short, square, with claw like hands, and big adorable eyes, one can not resist.LEADING LADY: EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) was sent from the planet Axiom, to find plant life on Earth. WALL-E observes EVE at first, out of uncertainty. Soon he finds he’s curious about her. His curiosity soon turns into love. EVE is sleek, fast and deadly. But WALL-E can’t resist her, nor her him. After numerous misunderstandings, they hold hands, (something he learned from the video) he also shows her his plant in a boot. She stores the plant inside her compartment area, and shuts down.  WALL-E goes into chivalry mode, ready to protect her at any cost. Eventually EVE’s spaceship returns to get her, at which time WALL-E stows-away on the ship to follow EVE.BOTTOM LINE: This story is not only a love story between robots, but it is a story about what can happen to humans who insist on living in gluttony and excess. The humans of the story, have spent so much time in artificial gravity, they have grown lazy and morbidly obese. They literately rely on robots for everything.  As much as this is an animated feature, (and a brilliant one) it tells a lot of truths about the direction mankind is headed. The planet earth is essentially dead from pollution, and the human race has escaped into space, where they’ve continued their abuse of the themselves, and everything around them, eliminating almost the very need to exist.Question of the Day:  Do you think we’re headed in that direction? Or do you have faith we’ll see the light before it’s too late?

Syndication, SciFi channel 3p.m  STATS:  Jack O’Neil (In the film version, played by Kirk Russell, in the series played by Richard Dean Anderson) is a United States Air Force Colonel with experience in Special Ops. Col. O’Neil lead the first team through the Stargate to Abydos on a reconnaissance mission. He had been recalled to duty after retiring when his young son accidentally killed himself with his Barretta 92FS. O’Neil considered it a suicide mission. Surviving the mission, and with the creation of Stargate Command (SGC), he was given command of the primary SG team, SG-1. At which time, he had many adventures on other planets through the Stargate for 8 seasons.THE LOOK:  Slender built, with an athletic edge, 6′2″ tall, sandy blond hair and soft brown eyes. Often complains about his bum knee.LEADING LADY: Throughout the series, O’Neil’s relationship with Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) has been subjected to a great deal of interest and speculation. On two separate occasions, he came in contact with alternate realities in which O’Neill and Carter were either engaged or married. In another episode, both O’Neil and Carter had to officially admit their feelings for each other during a intense investigation of a incident. There are several events throughout the series, that suggest their close emotional association interrupted any opportunity for either of them to settle into any outside relationships. What kept them from consummating their relationship, was their devotion to the mission of SG-1. O’Neil was Carter’s superior, and for either of them to act on their feelings would mean, transfer from the unit and loss of their command. In order to stay together, they stayed apart.BOTTOM LINE:  In many ways O’Neil was a typical hero, self-sacrificing, caring about the innocent, with a dark past that haunts him throughout the series. His wise cracking comments were always entertaining. But his arrogance tends to get him in trouble. He has a very strong attitude towards his own moral superiority, and will force his own beliefs upon alien cultures discovered by SG-1. His behaviour often produced serious consequences. What it comes down to, O’Neil does what he believes is the right thing to do, but if he’s wrong, he’ll admit it, grudgingly.Question of the Day:  I love this type of hero. Strong, self-sacrificing even in love. He is a “Warrior” in every sense of the word. What is your favorite hero? Is he a charmer, the boy next door, warrior, etc. Lets take a poll. What is the best loved hero archetype?

STATS: Nine months after Indiana Jones left Marion Ravenwood at the alter, she gave birth to a son who she named Henry Jones III, or “Mutt” (Shia LaBeolf). Marion went on to marry Colin Williams when her son was just a toddler and let Mutt believe Williams was his biological father. Mutt also befriended Professor Harold Oxley, who became a surrogate father to him when Colin was killed during World War II. Preferring his motorcycle to his classical education, and his switchblade to a school uniform, Mutt Willaims never much cared for prep school life. He rejected every preppy school he’s ever attended, and spends his time fixing motorcycles, combing his hair, and playing with his switchblade. Upon receiving a strange letter from his kidnapped mother, Mutt finds (unbeknownst to him) his real father, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), and convinces him to help him find his kidnapped mother, Mary Williams. The only clue he has is the letter written in an ancient language by Oxley. Both believe the letter can lead them to crystal skulls and Mutt’s mother.THE LOOK: Tall, well-built, about 22 years old, with brown hair and green eyes. He has his father’s quick wit and smarts, enhanced with his mother’s daredevil attitude.LEADING LADY: Stay tuned for what may come in the future. For now his only leading lady is his Harley Davidson Motorcycle, leather jacket and switchblade.BOTTOM LINE: Not to be a spoiler, but the movie left us with hope for the future, with Mutt as the next Indiana Jones, after he finishes school at his parent’s behest. I liked Mutt. He was devoted to his mom, and to Oxely who was like a father figure to him growing up. He literally went to the ends of the earth to find both. Yet, he has the bad boy, wild-one image going on, complete with leathers, hat and motorcycle. This is how he wants to be seen, but in reality he is very smart, with both swashbuckler abilities and lost boy charm. Mutt can really turn out to be a great character if the series continues. As much as I’d love to keep Indiana alive for ever, it realistically won’t happen. But if Mutt follows in dad’s and both his grandfather’s shoes, he’ll have a bright future as the next famous Archaeologist.Question of the Day: What do you think of Mutt as the next Indiana Jones? Did you see him reaching for the dad’s fedora? Is it a symbolic gesture of the future of the Jones legacy?

 Jack Carter, Chief, Boy Next Door and CharmerSCIFI Channel, returning in July. STATS:  Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) is sharp and charming, with a quick wit and a street-smart edge. Dedicated first and foremost to his career, but a recent separation from his wife has left him at odds with his teenage daughter, Zoe, whose brushes with the law keep Carter nearly as busy as his day job as a Marshall. In fact, it is one of Zoe’s escapades that forced Carter to drive her home to Los Angeles from Seattle. When their car crashed outside the town of Eureka, it set in motion a sequence of events that resulted in Jack becoming the town’s new sheriff.THE LOOK:  Tall, blue eyed, with sandy blond short hair and quirky smile, that makes his eyes twinkle.LEADING LADY:  Allison Blake, (Salli Richardson) the government liaison between Eureka and the Pentagon. Allison provides Jack Carter with a steady flow of professional and romantic frustrations. Charged with reporting on the progress of Eureka’s citizens as well as their temperamental innovations, Allison grapples with an endless stream of crises and moral dilemmas, as well as Jack’s obvious crush on her.BOTTOM LINE: Poor Jack, sheriff of a town full of geniuses who are temperamental and weird all at once. What I love best about Jack is he’s a normal guy in a town populated by individuals with I.Q’s off the chart. Not that he’s any slouch, but he is normal, which brings a lot of pity to him from the local residence.  They fell sorry for him, because he is normal, and often make comments about what it must be like for him to be him. Than there is Allison, his love interest, who Jack has a HUGE crush on. The affection isn’t returned, in fact her ex-husband, Nathan Stark, (Ed Quinn) who is still very much in the picture, proves to be a constant aggravation.  Jack in so many ways is like the boy next door, who is both innocent, and yet streetwise. Honorable to a fault, Jack is in constant struggle to provide a ‘normal’ home life for his daughter, in a not-so-normal town. His morals are strong, keeping him steady on a road that often throws a punch of very unexplainable stuff in his path. But yet his strength is his charming naivety in the face of adversity.Question of the Day:   I have always loved the innocent naive, but yet, strong hero. Do you find the boy next door type sexy or not?  If so, why?