Killjoys – Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye

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Killjoys - Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye

“Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye” marks a turning point in the show’s First Season, the true fallout of which may take several episodes to be resolved. Just as the search for Khlyen (Rob Stewart) hits a dead end, the search for D’Avin‘s (Luke Macfarlane) doctor picks up with the discovery of a mental patient suffering similar symptoms who was treated by Doctor Yeager’s (Amanda Tapping) former assistant (Sarain Boylan) who has turned the military programming into a lucrative cash source in the middle of the exclusive drug and sex market known as Utopia. And it’s on Utopia where D’Avin and Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) give finally into their mutual attraction leaving John (Aaron Ashmore) in an uncomfortable position of third wheel.

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Mission: Impossible

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  • Title: Mission: Impossible
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Mission: ImpossibleAlthough it began a series of increasingly good summer blockbuster over the course of two decades, 1996’s relaunch of the television series of the same name as a theatrical film (which introduced the world to Tom Cruise‘s most successful ongoing character in IMF Agent Ethan Hunt) is problematic at best. Poorly plotted, including a huge fuck you to fans of the original series by turning the television show’s central hero (Peter Graves) into a greedy villain (Jon Voight) selling CIA secrets to the highest bidder, the film hasn’t aged well. Turning Jim Phelps into a villain would be like rebooting Superman into a coldblooded killer. What kind of an asshole would do that?

Opening with the death of an IMF team (Kristin Scott Thomas, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Emilio Estevez) and Ethan on the run from his former bosses who believe he is responsible, the film climaxes early on with a break-in at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It’s this sequence, and really only this sequence, that’s worth noting from the otherwise forgettable tale.

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Atomic Robo and The Ring of Fire #1

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Atomic Robo and The Ring of Fire #1Released first as a webcomic and later picked up by IDW for print publication, the first issue of Atomic Robo and The Ring of Fire deals with the present-day fallout of Tesladyne being branded a terrorist organization (see Atomic Robo and The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur) and Atomic Robo‘s Old West adventures (Atomic Robo: The Knights of the Golden Circle) after being lost in middle of Dr. Dinosuar‘s timebomb and presumed dead by all but a handful of his most trusted scientists.

Sadly, our title character only makes the briefest of appearances here (and he’s certainly seen better days) as the first issue picks up events two years after the disappearance of Atomic Robo with the small band of Tesladyne scientists searching for their missing boss.

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