Presented with less fanfare than any Pixar movie I can remember, Elemental answers the question of what a Disney version of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner would look like. Similar in many ways to Zootopia, Elemental offers an unusual city of characters, this time elemental beings of fire, water, cloud (air), and tree (earth), attempting to live together in peace with an undercurrent of racism and bigotry bubbling just below the surface.
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to another adventure featuring the fastest man alive and the introduction of a character who would become a cornerstone of his rogues gallery for decades. The story begins with the brainchild of the Wiggins Game Company to start a fad and get kids hooked on boomerangs not realizing the spokesman they hired would use his skills, and the spiffy costume provided by the company, to commit crimes across Central City.
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Kai (Samantha Richelle) enlists the help of Alex (Christian Kane) to go undercover at a self-help retreat in order to investigate the cult in control of the private island and rescue a brainwashed young woman (Sarah Edwards) overwhelmed by their influence. The episode is also notable for the return of a vacationing Lockhart (John Storey) who ends up on the couples retreat alone after being dumped for a masseuse. Given a subplot of his own, involving him getting lost in the jungle, Lockhart doesn’t play much of a role in main story until the end of the episode.
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While I have enjoyed moments in Ahsoka, the series has increasingly felt like world building for the next big Star Wars project rather than a standalone series with its own tale to tell. Glacially moving the plot incrementally forward, in a race to Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) neither side feels all that compelled to win yet, the fourth episode of the series does offer some individual moments of note. We get a lightsaber battle in the woods of Seatos with Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) killing the nameless Inquisitor eliminating all the preposterous fan theories about the character’s identity and importance to the series. We also get Ahsoka pairing off against Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) who reveals he knew Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), without, of course, providing any helpful details to his character or past.
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As with IDW’s other Endless Summer one-shots featuring characters from the Saturday Morning Adventures cartoon line, Endless Summer – Dungeons & Dragons: Saturday Morning Adventures offers a chance at a respite for intrepid adventurers Hank, Diana, Bobby, Eric, Presto, and Sheila who Dungeon Master offers a respite at a lake with a single warning about not attempting to cross to the other side.
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