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Killjoys – A Glitch in the System

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Killjoys - A Glitch in the System

The latest episode of Killjoys is your basic haunted house, or in this case haunted spaceship, story. Lucy (voiced by Tamsen McDonough) and the crew decide to do a little treasure hunting when they discover what they believe to be an empty cargo ship in the middle of an asteroid field. What they find isn’t a cargo ship but an old military transport with two surviving members, one of whom uses the opportunity of the other ship’s arrival to jump into space shortly after Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), John (Aaron Ashmore), and D’Avin (Luke Macfarlane) dock.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Malevolence

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Rising Malevolence / Shadow of Malevolence / Destroy Malevolence
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Malevolence

The first multi-episode arc of the series centers around General Grievous‘ (Matthew Wood) ship The Malevolence and its massive ion canon which the Separatist commander has been using to cripple Republic patrols and outposts. “Rising Malevolence” focuses on Jedi Master Plo Koon (James Arnold Taylor) and clone troopers Boost, Sinker, and Wolfe discovering the truth about the new weapon while holding out for survival in the wreckage after its attack in the Abregado system. “Shadow of Malevolence” follows Anakin (Matt Lanter), Shadow Squadron, and a fleet of new Y-Wing bombers of Clone Troopers taking a shortcut through the the Kaliida Nebula in order to sneak up on Grievous and destroy the ship which is preemptively stopped in “Destroy Malevolence” when Palpatine (Tim Curry) leads Senator Amidala (Catherine Taber) into a trap allowing Grievous to temporarily halt the attack.

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Ex Machina

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  • Title: Ex Machina
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Ex Machina

In creating a film about artificial life that is almost entirely driven on emotion rather than logic writer/director Alex Garland has beautifully crafted one of the most memorable movies in recent years. The film begins with a computer programmer winning an exclusive trip to the secluded home of the company’s CEO who has far more going on than anyone associated with the world’s largest search engine could possibly guess.

In the hidden compound Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) comes face-to-face not only with his boss, the alcoholic self-absorbed Nathan (Oscar Isaac), but also Nathan’s creation Ava (Alicia Vikander) who Caleb was handpicked to help Nathan test whether or not she is indeed the world’s first true Artificial Intelligence. Stranded miles from civilization in these odd surroundings, Caleb’s view on sentience and reality will be tested as Ava proves to be everything Nathan promises, and more.

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Killjoys – Vessel

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Killjoys - Vessel

Now an official team of three, Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), John (Aaron Ashmore), and D’Avin (Luke Macfarlane) are hired to transport the surrogate mother of an unborn heir of one of the nine families that rule the galaxy (or something like that) in time for the baby to be born on his home soil and claim his birthright. Although there have been small stumbling blocks in the previous episodes, “Vessel” marks the first time the series gets into trouble for not spending more time world building and explaining the basics of this version of the future, the nine families, and the politics involved. The Nine have never been properly explained which leads to some confusion about surrogate cults, wealth, corporations, division of power, and rule of law that the episode skirts mostly around despite the fact that these issues have never been properly dealt with.

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