Science Fiction

Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Entombed

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Entombed
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After discovering a compass Omega (Michelle Ang) found in a junk yard might be a map to treasure, she and Phee (Wanda Sykes) convince the Bad Batch to go in search of whatever might at the end of the map. “Entombed” offers the expected moments of the Bad Batch working their way through the quest from finding the hidden tomb, to deciphering riddles, to avoiding boobytraps, and eventually reaching their prize. “Entombed” is one of those episodes that will work find for viewers as long as they don’t start asking some rather obvious questions (particularly in what happens after the twist).

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After Yang

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  • Title: After Yang
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After Yang examines the lives of a family after the robotic nanny (Justin H. Min) to their daughter (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) becomes unresponsive. The parents (Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith) are forced to face some hard truths about how much they relied on Yang who became far more of just a teacher of Chinese traditions to their adopted daughter but a loving older brother whose existence it turns out was more complex than anyone in the family truly understood.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Faster

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Faster
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I’m all for one-off episodes of The Bad Batch. Saying that, they aren’t all going to be winners. “Faster” isn’t a bad episode, but there’s not much more to it than a racing episode as Omega (Michelle Ang), Tech (Dee Bradley Baker), and Wrecker (Baker) head off with Cid (Rhea Perlman) to the races where they are forced to get her out of a tough jam when she makes a bet with an old rival she can’t pay. The episode does allow Tech to get a little more time, becoming the hero of the episode by flying the winning speeder. The episode ends with a warning about Cid from a less-than-reliable source that doesn’t really tell the clones anything they didn’t already know about their partner of convince.

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Darth Vader #30

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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

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  • 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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