Alan Rapp

Olympus – The Temple of Gaia / Daedalus

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  • Title: Olympus – The Temple of Gaia / Daedalus
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Olympus - The Temple of Gaia / Daedalus

Olympus is the latest live-action mythological fantasy to find its way to the Syfy Channel. The show’s first two episodes introduce us to an unnamed Mercenary (Tom York) whose name has the power to kill if spoken aloud, an Oracle (Sonya Cassidy) on the run, and the inner circle of the royal family of Athens to which both characters’ destinies are linked. When we first meet our Mercenary he’s taken a job to return the missing Oracle to the temple. Saving the woman from a cyclops and marauders (who are attempting to save her from him), the Mercenary’s payment is nothing but betrayal as he learns the secret to his parentage and why priests and queens will kill to get the knowledge locked in his genes.

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Backstrom – Love Is a Rose and You Better Not Pick It

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Backstrom - Love Is a Rose and You Better Not Pick It

The murder of a sex surrogate, which Backstrom (Rainn Wilson) has trouble separating from hooker, leads the team on an investigation that will not only nab their killer but also reveal a bit more about Backstrom’s past and his relationship with his mother who it turns out didn’t die in childbirth after all. Backstrom offering little understanding for the death of someone he deems as nothing more than a call girl is hardly surprising, but his discussions with another surrogate, who later becomes a suspect, push Backstrom right out of his cocksure attitude.

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Elementary – One Watson, One Holmes

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  • Title: Elementary – One Watson, One Holmes
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Elementary - One Watson, One Holmes

A civil war within the online community Everyone concerning the future of the hacker community sends Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson (Lucy Liu) on the search for a killer despite the fact the NYPD has a strong suspect in custody with motive, means, and opportunity who attempted to hire Holmes to find the dead man the day before the hacker met his end.

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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #9

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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #9After sending Mystery, Inc. on a journey through time and space visiting The Jetsons and The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #9 returns to its original premise of teaming Scooby and his pals up with heroes from the DC Universe. The latest issue sends Scooby and the gang to Metropolis to help out with the odd appearance of Julius Caesar’s ghost inside the Daily Planet caused by the Prankster.

A fun all-age mystery, Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #9 is also filled with several nods to classic Superman adventures including Red Kryptonite (which here turns Superman into a rampaging monster), an appearance by Krypto, the play on the classic “Great Caesar’s Ghost!” exclamation from the original Superman TV-show, and Scooby and Shaggy unintentionally injesting super-hero formulas giving them the temporary super-powers of Lois Lane and Jimmy from some mostly forgotten Silver Age comics.

After a pair of lackluster issues without any super-heroes to team-up with the comic returns to form here offering the same kind of zany fun delivered in its first five issues. Must-read.

[DC, $2.99]

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The Fortification Implementation

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Fortification Implementation
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The Fortification Implementation

“The Fortification Implementation” is a rare episode of The Big Bang Theory where we are offered three separate stories which all work independently of each other. My favorite of the three brings back Wil Wheaton playing himself, and Penny‘s (Kaley Cuoco) former co-star on Serial Ape-ist 2: Monkey See, Monkey Kill, for a podcast in Penny’s apartment with Penny and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and special guest-caller Kevin Smith (also playing himself and never shown on-screen). Bringing up the old fights about Penny’s failed acting career the scenes also feature some fun back-and-fourth between the four characters with several jokes at Kevin Smith’s expense (who’s not even in the room to defend himself).

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