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Dragons: The Nine Realms – Downpour

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  • Title: Dragons: The Nine Realms – Downpour
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Tom‘s (Jeremy Shada) discovery of some Tidal Dragons comes in handy when an out of control forest fire threatens the area. After chastising him for hiding things from the rest of the riders, Alex (Aimee Garcia) figures out a way to lead the dragons to the fire and help put it out before it reaches ICARIS. The smoke helps hide the dragons for the most part, but although the group manages to stop the fire their activity doesn’t go completely unnoticed. Along with the new dragons, “Downpour” also introduces a potential new adversary for the riders in the irresponsible Buzzsaw (Haley Joel Osment) who started the fire but blames the mysterious lightning bird he sees in the smoky aftermath for his own misfortune.

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The Villains of Valley View – Trust No One

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  • Title: The Villains of Valley View – Trust No One
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Realizing that Hartley (Kayden Muller-Janssen) now knows their secret, various family members all attempt to blackmail the only person they’ve met trustworthy enough to keep their secret before, during, and even after they start screwing with her life. The episode is full of awkward attempts by the family to get, or frame, something bad on their landlady’s daughter only to discover she’s smarter than they are (so is everyone ever born, if the events of the first two episodes are any indication). The show closes with Hartley still agreeing to keep their secret despite the family’s lame shenanigans and continues to tease Jake (Reed Horstmann) as the black sheep for being the least evil of the family, although he’s still far from being a good guy.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Elysian Kingdom

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Elysian Kingdom
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“The Elysian Kingdom” is the first major misstep in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ First Season. In what feels like a holodeck episode (set in a time before the holodeck existed), most of the Starfleet officers on the ship start acting like characters in Rukiya‘s (Sage Arrindell) favorite story. The sets of the Enterprise get marginally redressed to act as locations in the book and only Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) and Hemmer (Bruce Horak) are aware that something odd is happening. The end goal of the series is to write Rukiya off the show in such a bizarre deux machina that you feel disappointed given all the set-up over the course of the season. As for the actors playing out the tale with limited sets and props, the episode has a community theater feel to it that doesn’t fit with anything we’ve seen before (and hopefully won’t see again).

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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #294

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“High Stakes” continues at the not-so-undercover Joes struggle to stay alive on Cobra Island. More than half the issue is set aside for Helix and Dawn‘s fights against the evil Revanche B.A.T.S. disguised as waitresses before doing a bit of snooping underneath the casino and finding many, many more.

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