Halo – Emergence

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  • Title: Halo – Emergence
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The third episode of Halo is primarily focused on introducing the new character of Cortana (Jen Taylor), the artificial intelligence that is implanted inside Master Chief‘s (Pablo Schreiber) mind. Rightfully freaked out, and consistently annoyed by the AI’s attempts to help, eventually the Master Chief does some find some use for the program which helps him experience human emotion for the first time since he was a child, unlock more memories from the artifact, and find the world the needs to return to in order to find more answers and a second artifact he connected to as a child.

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Femme Fatale

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  • Title: Femme Fatale
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Now 20 years-old, I have some definite affection for writer/director Brian De Palma‘s 2002 film even if it relies on a pair of problematic twists for its ultimate payoff, either one of which could easily turn a viewer off. Rebecca Romijn stars as a thief and con-woman who disappears with the loot after double-crossing her partners in the opening scene set during the Cannes Film Festival. She disappears into the life of a random stranger who just happens to look identical to her and whose life suddenly becomes available. The second twist involves life being a dream which is as least as fanciful as the first. Fast-forward seven years and our thief is living the good life as the wife of an American ambassador in Paris. However, a Spanish paparazzo (Antonio Banderas) taking her picture will bring dangers from the past flooding back.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Ghosts of Illyria

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Ghosts of Illyria
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“Ghosts of Illyria” offers a couple of classic Star Trek themes with members of the away mission trapped on the planet and a mysterious illness sweeping through the starship after members of the ship visit the abandoned colony on Hetemit IX. With Pike (Anson Mount) and Spock (Ethan Peck) trapped on the planet during a storm, command of the ship falls to the capable Number One (Rebecca Romijn) who is revealed to be a genetically-altered Illyrian like those who once lived on the colony. Because of her advanced physiology, she is able to burn through the infection quickly but the rest of the crew isn’t nearly as lucky.

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The Phalanx

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Inspired by the original run of Image Comics 30 years ago, writer/artist Jonathan Luna offers this tale of a modern day mercenary on the trail of villain she follows through a portal only to discover herself in 1992 with the chance to work along side the heroes she loved as a child. Even in the early panels which take place today, The Phalanx is so 1990s that it should come with some Ace of Base or TLC to listen to while you read the comic.

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Legacies – By the End of This, You’ll Know Who You Were Meant to Be

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  • Title: Legacies – By the End of This, You’ll Know Who You Were Meant to Be
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Legacies returns from a month’s hiatus to ramp up to the finale beginning with “By the End of This, You’ll Know Who You Were Meant to Be” in which Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) has to make a hard choice about who will get the most dangerous assignment in the upcoming battle and Ken (Luke Mitchell) makes preparations of his own enlisting Aurora de Martel (Rebecca Breeds) to help Jen (Piper Curda) in crafting a weapon capable of killing the tribrid. The god will also turn his attention to the curious Cleo (Omono Okojie) attempting to gain some knowledge of what the god plans only to set a series of events in motion in which one cast member will exit the show a couple of weeks before the finale.

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