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Lois & Clark – The Source

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  • Title: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman – The Source
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Lois & Clark - The Source

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to Metropolis for another episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Journalism, more than spandex-clad heroics, is the driving force behind “The Source.” Exposing the corruption of a local tech company knowingly shipping out faulty switches backfires for Lois (Teri Hatcher) when the company pressures her source (Peter Scolari) into retracting his statement and then attempts to silence him for good. Facing lawsuits and pressure from The Daily Planet’s board of directors, Perry (Lane Smith) has no choice but to suspend Lois when her whistleblower appears to have been killed, taking any possible evidence to his grave. Scolari is fun as the neurotic Stuart, who manages to have a couple of tricks up his sleeve (such as the safety inspector covertly passing a note to the reporter).

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Young Justice #20

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Young Justice #20 comic reviewIt’s sad to see that Young Justice is folding up shop just as the comic had completed a lengthy process of setting up the team, it’s affiliations, and it’s place within the DCU. Young Justice #20 honors the original Young Justice cartoon by introducing Mount Justice as the former (and future) base of operations for the team along with Red Tornado as the group’s former babysitter (who apparently has no knowledge of them in this version of reality and doesn’t take kindly to unannounced visitors).

The series finale focuses on Teen Lantern, a character whose power source (alien tech hacking into the source of Green Lanterns’ power) has still yet to be explained, with the return of John Stewart whose attempts to wrest control of the power are met with unified resistance by the team.

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Carmen Sandiego – The Masks of Venice Caper

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  • Title: Carmen Sandiego – The Masks of Venice Caper
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Carmen Sandiego - The Masks of Venice Caper television review

Devineaux (Rafael Petardi) gets a new partner in Agent Zari (Sharon Muthu) as A.C.M.E. sends the pair to Venice in search of Carmen Sandiego (Gina Rodriguez) who is in town to steal all the masks at an exhibit before they can fall into the hands of V.I.L.E.. “The Masks of Venice Caper” offers some fun misdirection as the episode leaves larger concerns alone in favor of a heist episode centered around staying one step ahead of both V.I.L.E. and A.C.M.E. A confused Devineaux, for the first time, suspects that there might be more going on with his quarry than he previously considered. The episode offers the return of Hideo (Michael Hagiwara) who gets a better understanding of the life his brother is now leading. Tired of Carmen’s interference, V.I.L.E. decides to lay a trap for the thief in the show’s season finale.

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The Mandalorian – The Marshal

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  • Title: The Mandalorian – The Marshal (Chapter 9)
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The Mandalorian - The Marshal television review

The Second Season premiere of The Mandalorian sends the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and Baby Yoda back to the planet farthest from the bright center of the galaxy. The return to Mos Eisley also means the return of Peli Motto (Amy Sedaris) and Tusken Raiders as our protagonist searches for rumors of another Mandalorian somewhere in the deserts of Tatooine. Of course, this is all after the season opening action scene in a din of sin where the Mandalorian’s attempt to buy information about the location of others ends in several dead bodies and a rumor sending him back to the desert world. While mostly disconnected from the larger story, other than offering the Mandalorian a starting point on his wild goose chase across the galaxy, it does offer one of two big action sequences for the episode.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Bad Batch

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Bad Batch
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Bad Batch television review

“The Bad Batch” catches up with Mace Windu (TC Carson) and Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) on the planet Anaxes where Clone forces are slowly being overtaken by the Droid Army. Believing the Droids have learned to counter Republic’s battlefield strategies, Commander Cody (Dee Bradley Baker) and Captain Rex (Baker) lead a commando unit of genetic mutated clones known as Clone Force 99 to learn more. Action is fast and furious here, and the mutated clones (each with certain advantages over “Regs”) offer a fun twist to the usual proceedings. Hoping to find and destroy an algorithm, what the troopers actually discover seems to point to Rex’s fears being true that Echo is alive and prisoner on Skako Minor where his knowledge is being used against the Clone army.

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