Science Fiction

Darth Vader #30

Darth Vader #30 takes some unexpected turns as Darth Vader takes the one captured handmaiden at his disposal, Dormé (who can’t believe Sabé is willing serving the Empire), to bring the others out of hiding. Unable to defeat him, the handmaidens attempt to blackmail him with threatening his ship and the lives of all the Imperials aboard. Don’t they know who the are dealing with? Let’s just say it’s not the best plan ever.

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Cleopatra in Space – Rescue

  • Title: Cleopatra in Space – Rescue
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In the First Season finale, Cleopatra (Lilimar), Akila (Katie Crown), Brian (Jorge Diaz), and Khensu (Sendhil Ramamurthy) head out to the planet Hykosis to rescue Zaid‘s (Xolo Maridueña) parents leading to Cleo’s first face-to-face confrontation with Octavian (Jonathan Kite). The comedy from the first-half of the episode centers around Cleo being the team leader (which ends up in half the team being captured). The final-half of the episode involves Cleo’s confrontation with Octavian who is in possession of the tablet which caused her time travel and which she chooses not to use to return home leaving her friends at the villain’s mercy. Her understanding of the tablet, and its twin, sets up further storylines to be explored in the next season of the show as well.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Solitary Clone

  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Solitary Clone
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Feeling more like an episode of The Clone Wars than The Bad Batch, we’re given an episode to catch-up on Crosshair (Dee Bradley Baker) who is sent on a mission with Cody (Baker) and other Clones for the Empire needing to squash a Separtist uprising on Desix. Along with offering a check-in with the black sheep of the Bad Batch, the episode also offers an example of how the Empire put the Clones to work after taking power and how similar their missions were… with a few key differences. It’s a fine episode that just feels out of place as the season is still trying to setting the status quo for characters not even referred to here. The episode ends with Cody apparently deserting after being unable to execute an order, but the more effective outcome would have the Empire killing him offering another lesson to Crosshair of their brutality.

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Star Wars #30

Aboard a stolen alien ship with unusual hyperspace technology, Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, Lando, Lobot, and Amilyn Holdo find themselves off the map in unknown space. Attempts to jump back to hyperspace leave the Rebels exactly where they started unable to leave “No-Space” where they run into some strange locals who inform them there is no way home.

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