Alan Rapp

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Will the Real May Please Stand Up?

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  • Title: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Will the Real May Please Stand Up?
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Will the Real May Please Stand Up?

From the episode’s title, you can probably guess that this is the episode the dives into May’s (Kiersey Clemons) past and explores what she’s been running from. Given the foreshadowing and build-up, the reveal is a bit underwhelming but how events of the episode unfold do have ripples across the MonsterVerse beyond just this series as it relates to Applied Experimental Technologies. Needing help finding the friend they basically already abandoned, Cate (Anna Sawai) and Kentaro (Ren Watabe) team up with Tim (Joe Tippett) eventually leading to Monarch stepping in and helping procure her release, allowing her to rejoin the halfsiblings in their search.

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G.I. JOE – Cobra C.L.A.W.s Are Coming to Town

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  • Title: G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero – Cobra C.L.A.W.s Are Coming to Town
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G.I. JOE - Cobra C.L.A.W.s Are Coming to Town

Wayback Wednesday takes us back to a Christmas episode of G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero which starts with Firefly making use of a Cobra distration and loading a special sack into the Joe’s holiday toy drive which includes a variety of toys (such as a “Trojan rocking horse”) filled with miniaturized Cobra soldiers who emerge inside the Joe’s headquarters only staffed with a skeleton holiday crew managing the base. With the Cobra soldiers enlarged by Firefly, the Joes are quickly overwhelmed falling to Cobra who then plans on attacking the nearby town in the Joe’s own vehicles framing them as terrorists.

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Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder #6

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Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder #6

Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder #6 provides our final three tales of Harley Quinn‘s wacky adventures in black and white (and red). We get Harley helping the Bat-Family and also breaking the fourth wall to talk to the reader discussing her various incarnations over the years and present motivations in a very Deadpool-like “Harleys All the Way Down” before stopping the crazy plot by Dr. De-Extinquisher King whose giant robotic Dodo, with Nightwing and dynamite strapped to it, is running wild over Gotham City.

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Doctor Who – The Church on Ruby Road

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  • Title: Doctor Who – The Church on Ruby Road
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Doctor Who - The Church on Ruby Road

The last of the four holiday specials, “The Church on Ruby Road” marks the first adventure of the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and the introduction of his next companion in Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) and her adopted mother (Michelle Greenidge). Ignoring for now the rather obvious comparisons between Ruby and Rose, Gibson’s story also comes with a mysterious heritage whose foreshadowing looms large over the episode. While I think it’s possible the identity of her parents won’t play a major role in her arc, I don’t think it’s all that likely. While that provides one mystery, another is raised in the identity of the Sunday’s neighbor (Anita Dobson) who knows more than your average person about time travel and the TARDIS.

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The Color Purple

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  • Title: The Color Purple (2023)
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The Color Purple

Taken from the Broadway musical which was itself adapted from Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, we meet Celie (Fantasia Barrino) who, like the other African-American women in the story, is treated rather shabbily over the first two-thirds of the film by men before standing up for herself to her abuser (Colman Domingo) and, at least in this version, having her story turn on a dime (which may or may not give you whiplash) where she receives everything she could ever have wished for over the film’s final act.

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