June 2014

Continuum – 3 Minutes to Midnight

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  • Title: Continuum – 3 Minutes to Midnight
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Continuum - 3 Minutes to Midnight

“3 Minutes to Midnight” offers answers and revelations to several characters but no one likes what they learn. Discovering Brad (Ryan Robbins) is missing, Kiera (Rachel Nichols) beings searching for her John Doe time traveler whose memories of his past are slowly returning. By the end of the episode both Kiera and Liber8 will know the truth about Brad and his alternate dystopian future of what Liber8’s “winning” truly looks like. Captured and tortured by Liber8 alongside Kiera, the truth of Brad’s story does far more damage to the terrorists’ movement than any action the Protector has taken over the past three seasons.

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Wander Over Yonder – The Tourist

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  • Title: Wander Over Yonder – The Tourist
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Wander Over Yonder - The Tourist

Wander‘s (Jack McBrayer) joy over meeting another tourist who has visited as just as many worlds soon turns to jealousy when he discovers the old woman named Trudy has seen sights he and Sylvia (April Winchell) have not yet witnessed. Forcing Sylvia to leave the comfort of their relaxing vacation, Wander gets into a competition with Trudy to see catch up on as many sights as possible. Offering a mad dash across the universe, the episode squeezes in short glimpses of several worlds before Wander learns a valuable lesson.

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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  • Title: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
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Jack Ryan: Shadow RecruitPulled from it’s plumb Christmas Day scheduled release date to be dumped in the middle of the graveyard of January and February, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit came and went without much fanfare. Although pulling in more than $135 million worldwide the movie underachieved based on its original planned release and met with mixed reaction from both critics and fans.

Rebooting the long-dominant Jack Ryan series, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit cast Chris Pine in the role of Jack Ryan. I enjoyed the film, and found it more memorable than either of Harrison Ford‘s offerings or the Ben Affleck 2002 attempt to reboot the franchise.

Bringing in Keira Knightley as Ryan’s girlfriend, Kevin Costner as his CIA mentor, and Kenneth Branagh to do double duty both as the film’s villain and director, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit offers a solid cast for an old school thriller.

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Worlds’ Finest #24

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Worlds' Finest #24With Power Girl busy attempting to finish the dimensional device to send the two heroes home (and restore power to the city which her first attempt caused), Huntress is on her own deal with a hostage situation involving a scientist who works for Karen Starr and a Slavic terrorist planning on using the blackout to detonate a dirty bomb.

Keeping the two heroes separate, Huntress carries the main story on her own as we peek in at Power Girl’s attempts to rectify the damage her creation has caused and set up a second attempt in next month’s series finale. As the series is ending I guess it’s settled that the pair will returning to the New 52 version of Earth-2 which disappoints me as I’ve enjoyed the small niche within this world Helena and Kara have managed to carve out for themselves.

Although we don’t get much interaction between the pair, as a penultimate issue Worlds’ Finest #24 works well as the threat to Huntress and the city is far more grave without the safety net of Power Girl swooping in until her bestie already has the situation well in hand. Worth a look.

[DC, $2.99]

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Star Trek – The Enemy Within

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  • Title: Star Trek – The Enemy Within
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Star Trek - The Enemy Within

In the first of what would be several transporter accident episodes (a staple of every Star Trek series) a transport accident creates a duplicate Kirk (William Shatner), a fact which goes unnoticed for most of the episode. When the more savage captain attacks Yeoman Rand (Grace Lee Whitney) suspicion falls on Kirk who pleads innocence. Given the clues, including an evil duplicate alien dog from the planet below and a pair of Kirks strolling around the ship at the same time, it takes the Enterprise crew quite a while to come to terms with what exactly is happening aboard the ship. Kirk’s decision to hide the double’s existence from the crew (informing them that the man is simply an impostor) is problematic as well, although the episode will find away to explain some of the captain’s decision making when the truth about the doppelganger is revealed.

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