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Doctor Who – The Pilot

Alan Rapp / April 28, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Doctor Who – The Pilot
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After hiding out as an university professor on Earth for five decades, while also protecting a mysterious vault from an unknown threat, The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) is thrown back into action by a cafeteria worker at the school who has been attending his lectures and has encountered something she can’t explain. Along with Nardole (Matt Lucas), The Doctor and Bill (Pearl Mackie) investigate this odd puddle which has swallowed up another student (Stephanie Hyam) Bill had a crush on and has now taken her watery form while chasing her across campus, the universe, and through time.

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Pretty Little Liars – These Boots Were Made for Stalking

Alan Rapp / April 27, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Pretty Little Liars – These Boots Were Made for Stalking
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It seems pretty late in the game to introduce a new adversary, but that’s what nearly half of “These Boots Were Made for Stalking” is devoted to when a bitchy student named Addison (Ava Allan) turns the teachers against each other and accuses Emily (Shay Mitchell) of inappropriate conduct with the girls swim team. Events are enough to force Emily to play the game, but the entire sordid affair is dealt with in a single episode as it hardly stands up to one of A’s more sinister attacks.

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Babylon 5 – Midnight on the Firing Line / Soul Hunter

Alan Rapp / April 27, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Babylon 5 – Midnight on the Firing Line / Soul Hunter
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Our Throwback Thursday post takes us back to the first two episodes of Babylon 5. Developed around the same time as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the show had many similarities to the far more successful Star Trek spin-off (although it lacked both the budget and the rich history DS9 was able to build on). Even die-hard fan debate not if Babylon 5 lost its way, but when. For me the show begins to fall apart relatively early during its Fourth Season, but since that’s quite a ways from its beginning we’ll leave that discussion for another time.

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The Flash – The Once and Future Flash

Alan Rapp / April 26, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: The Flash – The Once and Future Flash
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There are two issues at play in “The Once and Future Flash,” although the show’s writers have not intention of resolving either one. The first involves Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) transformation into Killer Frost, which Barry (Grant Gustin) abandons his friends to deal with on their own as he races into the future to find answers about Savitar. Returning to the present nearly the same moment he left, Team Flash isn’t left on their own for long, but it does prove long enough for Caitlin to escape and further crystallize the timeline the Flash has desperately attempting to prevent.

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Agents of HYDRA – All the Madame’s Men

Alan Rapp / April 26, 2017 / Television Reviews

Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – All the Madame’s Men
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Life in the framework gets a bit easier for Daisy (Chloe Bennet) now that May (Ming-Na Wen) has turned her back on Hydra and used a Terrigen crystal to restore Quake’s powers. Despite Melinda not remembering the real world, her actions help bring the team closer together, although one member has fallen and another is still leading the enemy against them. It’s good to see Daisy and May on the same side again kicking some ass together, and Daisy has her own star moment quaking Aida (Mallory Jansen) through a sky-rise window, but the real stand-out here is Coulson (Clark Gregg) who steps up in a big way to fill the void left with the Patriot‘s death.

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