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Fallout – The Trap / The Radio

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Fallout - The Trap / The Radio

Setting up the season finale, “The Trap” and “The Radio” look both to the past and to the future. Flashbacks show us more of Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) steering even stronger into his promotions for Vault-Tec, despite his discomfort at being their spokesman, in order to please his wife (Frances Turner). A conversation with a friend, his wife letting comments slip about the “good” vaults and why no dogs will be allowed, and a conversation with the woman who would become Lee Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) force Cooper to begin questioning whether or not Vault-Tec is a good thing and even spying on his wife where he will eventually discover, to his horror, the lengths the company will go to in order to make their product a success.

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Tales of the Empire – Devoted

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Tales of the Empire - Devoted

While the first three episodes of Tales of the Empire deal with the backstory of Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto), the final three turn their attention to former Jedi Barriss Offee (Meredith Salenger) whose fall to the Dark Side was chronicled in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Tales of the Empire picks up that thread with Barriss being approached in prison by after Order 66 and the fall of the Jedi. In “Devoted” former Jedi Lyn Rakish (Rya Kihlstedt) offers Barriss a new path bringing her into the Empire’s new training program for Force wielders which is revealed to be the formation of the Inquisitors.

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Star Wars (Free Comic Book Day 2024)

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Star Wars (Free Comic Book Day 2024)

The Star Wars Free Comic Book Day issue provides two separate stories for fans, one of which ties heavily into recent storylines and one that works as a short standalone adventure, both set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi.

“Return to Echo Base” gives us Luke, Leia, Lando, and Chewbacca taking the Millennium Falcon back to Hoth to rescue a handful of Rebels who they left behind in their retreat from the Rebel base. There’s not much to the issue but it does feature a short shoot-out with Snowtroopers and our heroes loosing their pursuers in a blizzard by hiding in a cave which Luke remembers from his previous trip to the planet.

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Doctor Who – Space Babies

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Doctor Who - Space Babies

After introducing us to the Fifteenth Doctor‘s (Ncuti Gatwa) new companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) on Christmas, the new series of Doctor Who kicks off with “Space Babies” in which The Doctor takes Ruby 150 million years into the past for a quick joke about chaos theory before jumping 19,000 years into the future and landing on a space station baby farm run by space babies who mistake the travelers for their missing parents. The only adult on the station is an accountant (Golda Rosheuvel) who has been hiding behind the scenes pretending to be a robotic nanny after the other crew left when the station was ordered to shut down.

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