Television Reviews

Scooby-Doo – Large Dragon at Large

  • Title: What’s New, Scooby-Doo? – Large Dragon at Large
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As part of Dragon Week, Throwback Tuesday takes as back to What’s New Scooby-Doo? for a mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. Mystery, Inc. discovers a dragon terrorizing a renaissance fair in Scotland. While mostly running from the creature, in ways that offer throwbacks to the earlier Scooby series with characters running up stairs or through various doors (here through the use of a maze), eventually a captured Velma (Mindy Cohn) makes the most important discovery to lead her to the secret of the dragon and the person responsible. We aren’t given a trap, and with the dragon revealed to be robot we don’t get the classic unmasking either, but otherwise this dragon-themed episode works well enough.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Tipping Point

  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Tipping Point
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Taking place long enough after the previous episode for all the rebuilding on Pabu to be completed and the Bad Batch to grow comfortable in their new locale, “Tipping Point” begins pulling some threads together from various stories. After rescuing three Clones from the Empire, Echo (Dee Bradley Baker) returns to the squad with intelligence he needs Tech‘s (Baker) help decrypting, intelligence alluding to what the Empire is doing with their former soldiers including Crosshair (Baker) who we see tortured more this episode as well. While not advancing any of these stories all that much, it does bring Echo back into the fold and hold out hope for Crosshair as well (if he can hold out under Imperial torture long enough for his former squad mates to find him).

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The Mandalorian – The Foundling

  • Title: The Mandalorian – Chapter 20: The Foundling
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In an episode that keeps its focus on our main characters (amazing how much better that works!), “The Foundling” spends more time with the Mandalorian cult that have embraced both Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) and Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) after their return from Mandalore. Along with Grogu finally beginning his Mandalorian training, whose abilities shock some members of the tribe, and flashbacks to his escape from the Jedi Temple (which feel a bit unnaturally shoehorned in here to make use of Coruscant sets and visuals used in the previous episode), we also see Bo-Katan lead a group of warriors including Din after one of the children is snatched by a local predator.

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Dragons: The Nine Realms – Dr. Catastrophe

  • Title: Dragons: The Nine Realms – Dr. Catastrophe
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Putting his dragon rider skills to use in the outside world, and getting some approval from his father, goes to D’Angelo (Marcus Scribner) head when the group goes to help a trio of Gronckles from the Fire Realm having trouble digesting the crystals in the Crystal Realm. Although is plan has merits, lure the dragons back to the Fire Realm with more attractive food, he fails to listen to the concerns of his dragon which choosing dragon eggs rather than rocks and pissing off a Catastrophic Quaken not happy with finding her eggs missing.

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