Alan Rapp

SEAL Team – Boarding Party

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  • Title: SEAL Team – Boarding Party
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SEAL Team - Boarding Party television review

The SEAL Team is called into action when a research tanker is hijacked in the South Chinese Seas. By the time the team is able to mobilize the pirates have taken the ship to the Philippines where they plan to sell the hostages. Despite getting into a firefight with the pirates’ unexpected back-up, the team is able to retrieve the hostages and make it out without any casualties. As we’ve seen in previous episodes, the highlights of the episode all come from the mission (both planning and execution) while the B-stories continue to suffer in comparison. The return from the mission does offer a nice moment between Davis (Toni Trucks) and Ellis (Jessica Paré) and explain why the CIA agent purposefully remains detached from the unit as much as she can given the situations she’s forced to place them in, sometimes with limited intelligence. Sadly we get less of Paré this episode and more of the soap-opera home-front misadventures.

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Jessica Jones #13

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Jessica Jones #13 comic reviewJessica Jones #13 is all prologue for one hell of a creepy-ass final panel. Don’t get me wrong, it’s damn good prologue. Brian Michael Bendis’ Alias run introduced the connection between Jessica Jones and the Purple Man. The run made such a lasting impression its run became the source of Netflix’s Jessica Jones television series. The only surprise is it took the new comic series this long to bring him back.

Learning at the end of the last issue that Kilgrave had escaped S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, the latest issue of Jessica Jones features our heroine processing that information and taking the steps necessary to protect her child. The comic has no real action and little drama other than the growing anticipation (and Jessica’s dread) of what’s to come. However, this does offer us a humorous interaction with Carol Danvers who earns a new moniker I’m not going to let her live down any time soon.

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Legends of Tomorrow – Aruba-Con

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  • Title: Legends of Tomorrow – Aruba-Con
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Legends of Tomorrow - Aruba-Con television review

After breaking all of time, the Legends find themselves replaced from their roles as time police by Rip Hunter‘s (Arthur Darvill) new Time Bureau. Struggling to fit back into everyday lives, the group is given the chance to jump back into action when Mick (Dominic Purcell) discovers Julius Caesar (Simon Merrells) on a beach in Aruba. While the Legends first attempt to right history, after stealing the Waverider from the Time Bureau, goes horribly wrong, eventually the group does prove their value and grudgingly earn their roles back in helping clean up the mess they caused.

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Coming Soon – Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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Despite all the warnings of possible spoilers, I didn’t see anything all that surprising in the first full trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The film, opening in theaters on December 15th, stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Billie Lourd, Domhnall Gleeson, and Gwendoline Christie.

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The Flash – The Flash Reborn

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  • Title: The Flash – The Flash Reborn
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“This house is bitchin'”

The Flash - The Flash Reborn television review

After showcasing the heroes of Central City fighting without their friend, “The Flash Reborn” mainly deals with Cisco‘s (Carlos Valdes) plan to pull Barry (Grant Gustin) out of the Speed Force and get the show back to something resembling the status quo by the end of the season premiere. It takes most of the episode, but Barry is back in action just in time to save Iris (Candice Patton) from a Samuriod… even if his return isn’t without it’s issues. While I appreciate the idea that Iris putting herself in danger is the shock necessary to push Barry out of his Speed Force fugue state, the episode races through the important moment later in the running time than necessary in order to get Barry back among his friends just in time for the credits to roll.

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