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Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon

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One of several unusual one-shot pairings, Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon brings Rocket to Latveria to help Doom with a project involving travelling backwards in time to before the Big Bang. It’s a bit of a screwy concept, but it does play on the idea of Doom respecting Rocket’s technological know-how and needing his help to make his latest invention work. I will say, it’s been a bit since I’ve been interested in anything Doom related (see his run as Iron Man) and this does offer some intrigue. The most obvious solution to the set up, which is really just an excuse to have fun putting these two characters together, would be the failure of the experiment. However, that’s not how the comic ends.

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The Question: All Along the Watchtower #3

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After stumbling around trying to figure out who is behind the odd events on the Justice League Watchtower, while another hero continues to do the baddie’s dirty work when a possessed Nightshade takes down both Blue Beetles, laying the groundwork to free the person behind everything, the Question is too late as the villain reveals himself in the final frame having successfully breached the tower and having all the heroes trapped and at his mercy.

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The Irrational – Another Man’s Treasure

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  • Title: The Irrational – Another Man’s Treasure
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The case of the week involves someone with a good understanding of psychology and how to manipulate crowds involved in a series of art thefts under the guise of political activism which also gets played out in specific characters fighting for the return of stolen artifacts back to their home country some of who also get manipulated by the mastermind. There are some interesting layers to the case including the FBI dealing with someone using Alec’s (Jesse L. Martin) kind of knowledge against them. Given how well the mystery perpetrator does at the job, I wish they hadn’t wasted the premise on a one-off episode and perhaps teased the possibility of a more morally flexible version of the professor working for the other side popping up causing problems multiple times over the course of the season.

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Unstoppable

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  • Title: Unstoppable
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Unstoppable is your typical by-the-numbers sports biopic underdog story that succeeds in what it sets out to do. Jharrel Jerome stars as Anthony Robles, a one-legged student athlete who through the first-hour of the movie struggles to make his dream of wrestling for a major college program a reality. If this wasn’t a true story, Disney would likely have made something quite like it (albeit perhaps with less of the family drama).

The film is filled with struggles for Anthony to overcome including an abusive step-father (Bobby Cannavale), money troubles, not being recruited by the big schools, and finally making the team as a walk-on only to see the wrestling program cut because of lack of funding. Strap in, because it’s going to be a Sisyphean struggle for this kid to live his dream.

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Interior Chinatown – Translator

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  • Title: Interior Chinatown – Translator
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While the episode’s title refers to the latest role Willis (Jimmy O. Yang) takes on after his uncle is arrested allowing for some insight into his uncle, the larger theme of the episode is the continued ripples Willis’ actions have had on the world. Lana (Chloe Bennet) uses the tropes of the weekly murder investigation to solve a case in record time allowing for her to grab backup to save Willis from his uncle who it turns out wasn’t out to hurt him at all, despite the glitching of the world we see making him appear more dangerous to the detectives. Turner (Sullivan Jones), still despondent over recent events, is reinvigorated by Lana’s actions and the pleas of Willis at the end of the episode cementing another shift and putting the case of Willis’ brother to the forefront.

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