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Foundation – Shadows in the Math

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  • Title: Foundation – Shadows in the Math
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“Shadows in the Math” opens with a narrated montage filling in some of the history of the Second Foundation by showcasing Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) and Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) awoken from cryosleep for a few weeks at a time teaching Psychohistory to the generations of the hidden Foundation, working to help the Foundation grow and weaken the Empire, and preparing them to fight the Mule (making another huge divergence to the original source material where Seldon’s original calculations didn’t account for unpredictable mutations like the Mule pulling the ebb of history so far off his predicted path). Eventually, Seldon chooses to stay awake at longer intervals to keep things on track prior to his death before the show bounces back to the “present” and the time of the Mule (Pilou Asbæk).

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Commando

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  • Title: Commando
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back 40 years to perhaps the most Schwarzenegger movie Arnold Schwarzenegger ever made. More than 20 years before Taken, Schwarzenegger stars as retired Special Forces Colonel John Matrix. After a precredit sequence showing several other former soldiers killed, and a goofy credit montage showing Matrix living it up in the woods as a stay-at-home dad, Matrix’s daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped by an old enemy (Dan Hedaya) and an old friend (Vernon Wells) who plan to blackmail Matrix into committing an assassination. Matrix, however, has other ideas and begins killing his way back to his daughter.

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Fantastic Four #1

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A new volume of Fantastic Four kicks off here with Sue, Reed, Ben, and Johnny (in a ridiculous mustache) in middle battle with the new emperor of the Marvel Universe – Doctor Doom. Tired of dealing with the foursome, Doom sends them hurtling through time with each member of the team landing centuries apart in the past or future where they can no longer cause him grief (but apparently the computer network tied into their suits still works). 

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Foundation – A Song for the End of Everything

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  • Title: Foundation – A Song for the End of Everything
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It doesn’t take long into the first episode of the new season of Foundation to remind me of my problems with the series. “A Song for the End of Everything” isn’t centered around the Foundation, although we do get one scene involving a single character (Alexander Siddig) taking with the Hari Seldon AI (Jared Harris), which ultimately doesn’t add anything to the story (other than get the Star Trek actor on-screen), the focus almost entirely on the decaying Empire which David Goyer has used as a throughline for the series continually returning us to the inbred clones of Trantor. While less involved, other than her narration, the show also brings back the overused crutch of Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) as well who awakes from cryosleep in time to interject herself into events as Goyer’s deus ex machina rather than allow the next generation of the Foundation to fight their own battles.

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Ironheart – Will the Real Natalie Please Stand Up?

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  • Title: Ironheart – Will the Real Natalie Please Stand Up?
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The second episode of Ironheart gives us  Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) freaking out about her successful artificial intelligence which her subconscious crafted off of the memories of her dead best friend Natalie (Lyric Ross). We also get Riri meeting, and blackmailing, a black market tech collector (Alden Ehrenreich) for pieces necessary to patch her armor heading into her first job with the Hood‘s (Anthony Ramos) crew (which is successful, but a bit more complicated than necessary with N.A.T.A.L.I.E.’s continued distractions). It, like the first episode, is largely fine, and Riri’s interaction with a character who is more important than he initially appears gives us some fun moments, but the heist is rather bland and I’m still waiting for things to pick up which we probably won’t get until Riri’s eventual hero turn that seems pretty far off at this point.

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