Several storylines continue in the relaunched Fables title including the corpse of my favorite Fable of all, super-spy Cinderella, rising up in the medical examiner’s office and coming back to life in the mix of creepy fun fans of the comic have come to know and love. I’m not sure exactly what role she will play in the story to come, but it’s great to have her back.
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While Iris’ (Candice Patton) time sickness bounces her to the future where struggle to find a way to help, that same condition has affected the negative version of the Forces (Sara Garcia, Ennis Esmer, and Christian Magby) who make a trip to Lian Yu to kill Eobard Thawne (Tom Cavanagh) and then to S.T.A.R. Labs to kill the younger version (Matt Letscher) as well. In need of more speed, Barry‘s (Grant Gustin) training of Fast Track (Kausar Mohammed) takes a turn when he teaches her how to share her speed with Eobard (a really, really, really bad idea the episode races through without a second thought) leading to the apparent death of a major character and rebirth of another in the cliffhanger ending of “Part One.”
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Joey King stars in the title role of a princess who refuses to marry a sociopathic suitor (Dominic Cooper) who then takes control of the kingdom by force and locks her away in the castle’s tower. Not one to wait for Prince Charming, she fights her way out of the tower and battles the invading knights and cutthroats in hopes of freeing her family from the dungeon and killing her would-be husband who will stop at nothing to seize the throne.
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From Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat comes this dark satire featuring a group of people who should never have gotten together to make a film when a businessman (José Luis Gómez) turned producer looks to enhance his reputation despite knowing nothing about film (or the Nobel Prize winning novel he’s bought). Then there’s the eccentric director (Penélope Cruz) who casts the book’s estranged brothers with a method theater actor (Oscar Martínez) and a worldwide movie star (Antonio Banderas) hoping to harness their mutual animosity to fuel the film.
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In the wake of losing the larger artifact to the Covenant, “Solace” works towards Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and Makee (Charlie Murphy) having a combined vision through the Spartan’s use of the smaller artifact offering us the first real look at the Halo ring. Elsewhere, Dr. Halsey (Natascha McElhone) becomes the easy fall guy for the government and is frozen out of the project, although she still retains access thanks to Cortana (Jen Taylor). As to the deeper meaning of John and Makee’s vision, that will have to wait, but at least we don’t get the distraction of Kwan (Yerin Ha) making “Solace” one of the show’s more focused episodes.
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