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Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part III & Part IV

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  • Title: Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part III & Part IV
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Obi-Wan‘s (Ewan McGregor) somewhat half-assed rescue attempt continues in both “Part III” and “Part IV” which includes the series providing some stunning visuals and small emotional moments while also throwing in even more of the problematic head-scratching plot issues that can’t be resolved. “Part III” is notable for the reunion between Kenobi and Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) who easily bests his former master in combat. In a theme which which will continue into the next episode, we see Kenobi has pulled back from the Force in the decade since we last saw him, leading to much of his former abilities becoming atrophied. This of course raises the question of how exactly he planned to teach young Luke about the Force?

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Jurassic World Dominion

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  • Title: Jurassic World Dominion
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The corpse of the Jurassic Park franchise drags itself to the finish line in what is being marketed as the final entry to the series. Let’s hope so. Only marginally better than the forgettable last entry, 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World Dominion weaves in the surviving characters of the original Jurassic Park in an attempt to blind viewers with nostalgia while failing to do anything all that interesting with them.

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Halo – Emergence

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  • Title: Halo – Emergence
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The third episode of Halo is primarily focused on introducing the new character of Cortana (Jen Taylor), the artificial intelligence that is implanted inside Master Chief‘s (Pablo Schreiber) mind. Rightfully freaked out, and consistently annoyed by the AI’s attempts to help, eventually the Master Chief does some find some use for the program which helps him experience human emotion for the first time since he was a child, unlock more memories from the artifact, and find the world the needs to return to in order to find more answers and a second artifact he connected to as a child.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Ghosts of Illyria

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  • Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Ghosts of Illyria
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“Ghosts of Illyria” offers a couple of classic Star Trek themes with members of the away mission trapped on the planet and a mysterious illness sweeping through the starship after members of the ship visit the abandoned colony on Hetemit IX. With Pike (Anson Mount) and Spock (Ethan Peck) trapped on the planet during a storm, command of the ship falls to the capable Number One (Rebecca Romijn) who is revealed to be a genetically-altered Illyrian like those who once lived on the colony. Because of her advanced physiology, she is able to burn through the infection quickly but the rest of the crew isn’t nearly as lucky.

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Star Trek: Picard – The Star Gazer

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  • Title: Star Trek: Picard – The Star Gazer
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Despite his enjoyment in the stars last season, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) has returned home to his vineyard and awkward relationships. But not to fret, a new menace (which just coincidentally involves several of the characters from last season) has happened deep in space and Starfleet pulls the admiral back into action once more. “The Star Gazer” is mostly set-up, focusing on Picard’s life back on Earth and teasing just what the threat may be. The reveal turns out to be something as a red herring as the characters aren’t going to fight what come through the hole in space but instead the new lives in which they find themselves trapped in an alternate timeline far different than they remember.

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