Science Fiction

The Lazarus Project – Episode 5 / Episode 6

  • Title: The Lazarus Project – Episode 5 / Episode 6
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All-in on his plan to force the Lazarus Project to reboot time, the fifth and sixth episodes of The Lazarus Project deal  with George (Paapa Essiedu) getting his hands on the nuclear bomb and the aftermath. Securing and detonating the bomb becomes tricky when another terrorist group is in control hoping to steal the detonator from him. More trouble involves a broken down truck, getting shot in the middle of nowhere, and eventually having to detonate the bomb far from any major cities. While all this is going on, George begins the process of framing Shiv (Rudi Dharmalingam) for events.

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Futurama – The Impossible Stream

  • Title: Futurama – The Impossible Stream
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After a decade Futurama returns with Fry (Billy West) attempting to binge watch every episode of television ever. Despite the idiocy of the idea, the others are supportive even putting Fry into a suit to help facilitate his impossible goal. However, as he becomes addicted to the stream, but runs out of new content to watch, his friends will be forced to take drastic measures to create new episodes of All My Circuits for him.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” offers the usual pairing of Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) and an alternate timeline version of Captain James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) who end up in the 21st Century searching for someone or something that has altered the timeline to prevent Starfleet from ever being formed and led to a darker future for humankind. We get the usual Star Trek bits of working to fit into the time period and making use of current technology, and the episode helps explain the addition of Pelia (Carol Kane) to the crew earlier this season as her long life allows La’an to go to a younger version of the character for help (and leaves someone other than La’an with some knowledge of what happened).

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Smallville – Pilot

  • Title: Smallville – Pilot
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This Saturday we take a look back the beginnings of The CW’s two-plus decades love affair with super-heroes with the Pilot episode of Smallville. The opening episode introduce to most of the key characters and the basic set up which will be used throughout the season and beyond. We start with a meteor shower crashing into Smallville, Kansas, and the arrival of toddler Kal-El to Earth who is found by Martha (Annette O’Toole) and Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) and adopted keeping close to the classical origin story for Clark Kent (Tom Welling). Jumping forward more than a decade, the show picks up with Clark now in high school aware of some of his base powers, such as invulnerability and speed, but others will be introduced over the show’s ten year run.

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Darth Vader #36

This is a damn goofy story. After loosing control of his Force abilities, Vader enlisted the help of Dr. Aphra to find a magic shield which he hopes will somehow restore them. News of his condition has resulted in droids from the Dark Lord of the Sith’s past forming a sort of unofficial union and plotting his demise. As others have learned before them, attempting to take on Darth Vader doesn’t go well for them.

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