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Legends of Tomorrow – I, Ava

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The latest episode gets its title from the storyline of Gary (Adam Tsekhman) showing up looking for his missing boss and traveling with Sara (Caity Lotz) and Ray (Brandon Routh) to a forbidden time period where they learn something quite unexpected about Ava (Jes Macallan). Discovering the locked time period includes hundreds of Ava clones, Ava (who follows the group) turns out to be just as baffled by events as the Legends. With clones, actors hired to play Ava’s parents, and single year that doesn’t seem to make much sense blacklisted to all time travelers (did people the very next year simply forget?), there’s plenty of craziness going on. While I don’t doubt there is (at least some) reasoning for all this, the episode raises several questions about why Ava was plucked out the this time period, given fake memories and a fake family, and just why she is needed at the Time Bureau.

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Human Target – Victoria

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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to another episode from the First Season of Human Target. The penultimate episode of the show’s First Season follows the basic formula as Christopher Chance (Mark Valley) is brought in by an old friend (Erick Avari) to protect a woman in danger. The difference here is that the client he is trying to protect is the Princess of Wales and the people who want her killed are her own security. While Chance is keeping Victoria (Christina Cole) away from the assassins, Winston (Chi McBride) and Guerrero (Jackie Earle Haley) protect the woman’s lover (Rey Valentin) who is also in danger.

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Krypton – Pilot

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Created by David Goyer, the SyFy’s new Superman-inspired TV-series cobbles together a version of Krypton from various sources (unfortunately Goyer’s Man of Steel being one of them), to offer a look at the civilization that gave birth to the Man of Steel. Set during the lifetime of Superman’s grandfather, the “Pilot” introduces us to Seg (Cameron Cuffe) whose family is disgraced in the show’s opening scene, ending the House of El. Heroics 14 years later allow for the possibility of Seg regaining honor with another house, although a time-traveler named Adam Strange (Shaun Sipos) has other plans for the rebellious street rat who must fulfill his destiny to continue the El line.

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Beyond – F.G.B. / There’s No Home for You Here

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Beyond - F.G.B. / There's No Home for You Here

“F.G.B.” and “There’s No Home for You Here” wrap up the Diego (Oscar Camacho) storyline while leaving other lingering threads for the show to deal with should the show return for another season. “F.G.B.” allows Holden (Burkely Duffield) to briefly return to the Realm, which (as we’ve seen before) is wildly inconsistent with other flashbacks in the very ordinary looking “strange” realm. We do get a return to the giant room from Holden’s memories and a conversation with an old “friend.” There’s also a personal sacrifice, which comes off both macabre (which I’m sure was planned) and also bizarrely humorous (which I’m sure was not) that allows Holden to seal the breach to the other dimension. Hmm, you didn’t want to return that demon thing to the Realm first? Oh well, thankfully our baddie will help out with that.

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iZombie – Brainless in Seattle

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iZombie - Brainless in Seattle television review

iZombie‘s two-parter “Brainless in Seattle” gets Liv (Rose McIver) high on romcom brain as the search for the person who murdered a woman smuggled into the city becomes a larger look at the city’s isolation from the rest of the country and the underground business of smuggling items and people in and out of the city. Even the subplots delve into this theme as Blaine (David Anders) and Chase Graves (Jason Dohring) both search for one of these human smugglers (Dawnn Lewis) who is turning more people into zombies and disrupting a delicate status quo leading to a possible brain shortage in as soon a six months. Neither the video of a zombie attacking an unarmed teen nor the aggressive murdery cult of Angus McDonough (Robert Knepper) is likely to help keep the peace.

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