There were a number of science fiction movies released in the 1950s and 1960s. Battle of the Worlds was not one of the better ones. Far from it. Claude Rains stars as a pompous and unlikable scientist predicting an asteroid’s arrival to Earth, and later that it is being controlled by aliens. He happens to be right, although the film is more about his bluster than the events unfolding.
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the unsolved crimes of passion in the wealthy playground of Palm Beach, Florida. “Lady Luck” is notable for offering no opening narration, usually featuring some kind of golf metaphor, to set the stage of the crime either pre or post credits. Chris (Rob Estes) and Rita (Mitzi Kapture) go undercover at a moving underground casino whose owner (John Vargas) just killed on of his clients for not being able to pay his debts. Vargas is adequately menacing as the hot-headed Vargas who isn’t above hitting a woman from time to time including both Rita, who goes undercover as a Blackjack dealer, and the local realtor (Holly Gagnier) he’s strong-arming to help him.
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The end of the year arrives in Once and Future #28. As agreed, Mary resumes the role of Nimue and helps Duncan, Bridgette, and Rose in choosing to bestow Excalibur on the Zombie Arthur (the Arthur that they know best and believe they can most easily manipulate) so that he might thin the herd of the various Arthurs looking to pull the sword from the stone and claim the world as their own. It seems Nimue has come to peace with saving the world over immediate vengeance for her son.
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a Hardy Boys mystery from the late 70s series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. In an opening straight out of Scooby-Doo, Frank (Parker Stevenson), Joe (Shaun Cassidy), Callie (Lisa Eilbacher), and Chet (Gary Springer) drive around some dark and stormy woods in a van while discussing the mysterious legends about a local witch. On their way to visit Callie’s uncle, they find the man missing and the local sheriff (Brad Trumbull) not all that concerned even after finding the missing man’s bloody sleeve in the woods, someone breaks into the house, and an escaped puma on the loose.
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While working out some internal conflict between Tom (Jeremy Shada) and D’Angelo (Marcus Scribner), “The Tangled Web” introduces a new species of Spdierwings to the series whose robust webs nearly prove to be the end of and the arachnophobic Jun (Ashley Liao). While the Tom/D’Angelo tension seems ramp-up and then be diffused a bit too conveniently to fit all in the single episode, it does deal with the more rule-abiding and structured Dragon Rider’s conflict over his actions in the caves.
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