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Glee – A Katy or a Gaga

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Glee - A Katy or a Gaga

To try and calm the New Directions nerves after learning about their stiff competition at Nationals in only a few weeks, Mr. Shue‘s (Matthew Morrison) latest assignment puts each member out of their comfort zone as the more conservative members master performances of Lady Gaga while the “edgier” members (or what passes for edgy on Glee) of the group are given songs by Katy Perry. Although the episode makes use of the conceived feud between the singers (which may or may not actually exist in any real form), it has a hard time explaining the differences of the two who are equally extravagant (albeit in different ways). In fact, you could easily argue that the episode’s final song, a Perry number, is more over-the-top than the episode’s earlier Gaga numbers.

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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – The Serpent

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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland - The Serpent

After the Red Queen (Emma Rigby) captures the Knave (Michael Socha), Jafar (Naveen Andrews) demands the man’s public execution to teach all of Wonderland the cost of helping Alice (Sophie Lowe). Alice makes a new acquaintance, a thief named Lizard (Lauren McKnight) who offers to help her free their mutual friend before he looses his head. Although their rescue plan is successful, it doesn’t come without a price for both Alice, who is forced to use the first of her three wishes, and for the Knave who Jafar turns to stone when Alice makes it impossible for the wizard to kill him.

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The Proton Displacement

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The Proton Displacement

Sheldon (Jim Parsons) becomes miffed when his childhood idol Professor Proton (Bob Newhart) enlists the help of Leonard (Johnny Galecki) to look over a scientific paper he was writing. Neither his conversation with Amy (Mayim Bialik), who points out how some people might consider him annoying, nor his attempt to make the former television scientist jealous by publicly hanging out with Bill Nye make the scientist feel any better about the situation.

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Damian: Son of Batman #1

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Damian: Son of Batman #1No matter how you look at it, Damian: Son of Batman #1 is an odd comic. Written and drawn by Andy Kubert, the first issue of the four-issue mini-series is set in a parallel world that seems to have more in common with the pre-New 52 version of the DCU than the current state of things. In this reality it’s Batman, not Damian, who is killed in action, forcing his partner to go on without him.

Kubert makes several interesting choices including choosing to clad Damian in his original Robin costume from Grant Morrison’s run that introduced the character rather than the version he wore as Dick Grayson‘s, and later Bruce Wayne’s, partner. Kubert also takes the opportunity to chip away a bit at Morrison’s clone origin (and embracing Mike Barr’s original story) by suggesting Damian was more of a test-tube baby than a true scientific experiment.

With Batman vanquished, and Ra’s al Ghul and Talia washing their hands of Batman’s son, and no other member of the Bat-Family in sight, Damian is left to his own devices which leads the young man to brutally work his way through his father’s rogues gallery (mostly off-panel).

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – F.Z.Z.T.

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - F.Z.Z.T.

S.H.I.E.L.D. is called in to investigate the mysterious murders of a pair of volunteer firefighters, both of whom were in the city during the Battle of New York, who were killed by an unexplained powerful electromagnetic field that started inside their bodies and left their corpses hovering in mid-air. Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his team track down another member of the squad suffering from the same infection caused by a Chitauri trophy.

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