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Futurama – Parasites Regained

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  • Title: Futurama – Parasites Regained
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After Nibbler (Frank Welker) falls ill to the parasites living in his sandbox, slowly making him stupider, the crew uses Professor Farnsworth‘s (Billy West) shrink ray to go into the sandbox and save Nibbler’s mind. The episode is a callback to Fry‘s (West) infestation of worms which made him smarter back in Season Three, but it’s really just an excuse for Futurama to have fun parodying various aspects of Dune. The episode falls apart when Nibbler’s damaged brain decides he’d rather stay dumb, logic that doesn’t make any sense but does offer the chance of a nice bittersweet moment for Leela (Katey Sagal). This is immediately wiped away with Leela’s last-second discovery of how to save Nibbler’s mind (which will likely be ignored for several more episodes until the plot calls for it to be referenced again).

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Subspace Rhapsody

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Subspace Rhapsody
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Sandwiched between two darker episodes is the far lighter, and immensely enjoyable, “Subspace Rhapsody.” After exposing a subspace fold to music, the crew of the Enterprise (and other ships in the nearby star systems) find themselves trapped in a musical where their emotions feed both big and brash and small and intimate musical numbers around the ship. While working for a solution, and through their own personal problems, through song, the crew need to find a solution before song angry musical Klingons arrive to make matters even worse.

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Ahsoka – Time to Fly

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  • Title: Ahsoka – Part Three: Time to Fly
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As the slow build-up to the search for Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) and Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) begins (that’s right, more than a third through the series it still hasn’t actually started yet for an ongoing story that is already longer than the original Star Wars), “Time to Fly” at least sees Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) and Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) get to the right planet and observe our baddies building a giant hyperspace drive. We do get a little action as they get shot down, but the episode’s bulk is internal discussions and training involving Ahsoka and Sabine and Hera Syndulla‘s (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) inability to get the New Republic leadership to take the threat seriously.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Those Old Scientists

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Those Old Scientists
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Given the fact that’s it the second time travel episode of the season, and the third in the show’s last eight episodes, I nearly skipped over “Those Old Scientists.” Despite not watching Star Trek: Lower Decks, I’m glad to have stuck around for this one which finds Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), and later Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), trapped in the past after traveling back in time through a portal. Nerding out over meeting their heroes, while also struggling with aspects of the past they don’t completely understand, the pair attempt to keep history on the right track while creating more than a few confusing moments for the crew of the Enterprise.

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Ahsoka – Toil and Trouble

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  • Title: Ahsoka – Part Two: Toil and Trouble
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In typical Disney fashion, which we’ve seen playout with the Marvel series especially, the second episode of Ahsoka finishes the preamble allowing the story to actually kick off in the next episode. “Toil and Trouble” ends with Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) and Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) back on the same page and the show finally catching up with the final scene of Star Wars Rebels as fans watched the pair of them sail off into the unknown seeking Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) and Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen). Getting that search finally started seems to have given Sabine back some energy in the final moments of the episode (and got her back into her trademark Mandalorian armor) as sticking her in a hospital bed sidelining her for an entire episode doesn’t do much for either the character or the series at this point.

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