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Doctor Who – The Magician’s Apprentice

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  • Title: Doctor Who – The Magician’s Apprentice
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“If someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives could you then kill that child?”

 

Doctor Who - The Magician's Apprentice

Time travel is tricky. One of most commonly discussed issues with the ability to travel backwards it time and alter the future is the Hitler Paradox which debates both the morality and ability of killing someone before they grow into a fascist dictator with genocidal tendencies. The crux of that argument is at the heart of “The Magician’s Apprentice” opening with The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) naturally reaching out to help a scared child lost in the middle of a battlefield. However, learning the child’s name will force The Doctor to make an uncharacteristic decision which will bring the series full circle and cause The Doctor to return to face the creator of his most deadly adversaries one last time.

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Usagi Yojimbo #148

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Usagi Yojimbo #148One lazy autumn day Miyamoto Usagi‘s travels lead him to a small town where he encounters a one-armed ronin Mizuna Takashi. Saving the talented swordsman from an ambush on the road by a group of thieves, the two spend a short time together as Usagi learns the fellow’s tragic tale before they part as friends. Months later another choice encounter brings him upon both Takashi and the villainous Te, the samurai responsible for the loss of Takashi’s sword hand.

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Longmire – War Eagle

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  • Title: Longmire – War Eagle
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“Extremists tend to be made, not born.”

Longmire - War Eagle

While continuing to investigate Nighthorse’s (A Martinez) possible involvement in Branch‘s (Bailey Chase) death, Walt (Robert Taylor), Vic (Katee Sackhoff) and Ferg (Adam Bartley) look into the murder of a local history buff who obsessed with reopening a WWII Japanese Internment Camp as a national monument. The investigation in the CB enthusiast and history buff’s life yields an unexpected family connection and eventually the man’s murderer (Michelle Krusiec). It also leads to a revelation about Ferg who makes several leads in the case thanks to his familiarity with short-range radio.

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Castle – The Complete Seventh Season

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  • Title: Castle – Season Seven
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Castle - The Complete Seventh Season

Although the weakest of the show’s seven seasons so far, opening with a convoluted storyline to explain Castle (Nathan Fillion) missing his own wedding (a storyline which would rear its ugly head later in the season as well), Season Seven is not without its share of memorable moments. There are that cases that involve an invisible man, a crash test dummy, murder at 30,000 feet, and a mission to Mars, Castle lives out his fantasy as an 80s action star, Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle head into the Old West to solve a murder, Jerry Tyson (Michael Mosley) returns and abducts Beckett, Castle begins life as a private eye, Linda Park guest-stars as a Hong Kong version of Beckett, and the season finale explains Richard Castle’s life-long obsession with death and murder.

The five-disc set includes audio commentary for two episodes by cast and crew, Castle’s “Raging Heat” webmercial, a Ryan (Seamus Dever), and Esposito (Jon Huertas) music video, bloopers, and deleted scenes.

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Wander Over Yonder – The Axe

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  • Title: Wander Over Yonder – The Axe
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Wander Over Yonder - The Axe

Blaming Commander Peepers‘ (Tom Kenny) for his declining ranking among galactic villains, which is punctuated when one of Hater’s conquered planets is taken over by the ridiculous Sourdough, Lord Hater (Keith Ferguson) fires his right-hand man. After discovering villainy is more complicated than simply showing up with an evil cackle, Hater keeps asking Peeper for advice over the course of the episode while refusing to admit he might have made a mistake.

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