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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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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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Percy Jackson and the Olympians – I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher

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  • Title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians – I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians - I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher

Much like the 2010 movie that preceded it, and its equally disappointing sequel 3 years later, this new adaptation of Percy Jackson feels every bit the YA novel it sprang from. Where the first movie attempted to cram a novel into a under two-hour movie, Disney+ goes a bit overboard the other direction in choosing to stretch the first book of the young adult fantasy series across 8 hours. As a result, there’s not a whole lot of interest in this first episode which boils down to the origin story without yet providing any details or explanation for the magical world which helped sire its main character.

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Reacher – What Happens in Atlantic City

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  • Title: Reacher – What Happens in Atlantic City
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Reacher - What Happens in Atlantic City

As Reacher (Alan Ritchson) continues to look into the death of an old friend, he gets the band back together by tracking down those members of the 110th Special Investigators Unit he can find before heading off to Las Vegas in search of two more old friends who have gone missing. “What Happens in Atlantic City” is most notable for the addition of Dixon (Serinda Swann) to Reacher’s posse and for Reacher taking strong measures towards the man, and his car, who has been tailing them not realizing it’s a cop (a thread which will be picked up in the next episode). Considering what Reacher and Dixon do to the other men they catch following them later in the episode, the cop got off easy.

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Terrifying Miracles

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  • Title: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Terrifying Miracles
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Terrifying Miracles

After more of a concentration on current events and flashbacks into the pasts of Cate (Anna Sawai) and Kentaro (Ren Watabe), “Terrifying Miracles” brings back the 50s storyline with flashbacks that run through several import moments in Monarch history. We get a holiday party flashback to party in the 50s party which teases the romantic undercurrent between Keiko (Mari Yamamoto) and Lee (Wyatt Russell) which plays into a later flashback when Lee chooses Keiko over Monarch pushing control of the organization into the bigoted military officer played by Matthew MacCaull who doubts every aspect of it. The flashbacks also show the return of Godzilla, a secret Lee chooses to keep from the military given the shake-up within the organization.

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