First Look – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Here’s the official teaser trailer for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Continuing the adventures of Cal Kestis, the game is set for a 2023 release.
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Science Fiction
Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part I
- Title: Obi-Wan Kenobi – Part I
- IMDb: link
Set a decade after the events of The Revenge of the Sith, the opening episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi picks up with the Jedi in hiding on Tatooine keeping an eye on young Luke, much to the dismay of Owen Lars (Joel Edgerton). Meanwhile, a galaxy away, the other child of Anakin Skywalker is kidnapped in a move designed to flush Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) out of hiding. The villains of the series, brought in from Star Wars Rebels, are the Inquisitors (Force-wielding Jedi hunters). We get the Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend) who sadly has neither the look nor menacing voice of the original cartoon character, the largely superfluous Fifth Brother (Sung Kang) , and the Third Sister (Moses Ingram) whose actions in kidnapping the adopted daughter of Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits) are a means to feed her obsession in locating Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Star Trek: Discovery – Kobayashi Maru
- Title: Star Trek: Discovery – Kobayashi Maru
- wiki: link
Our first look at Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the captain’s chair offers a pair of risky adventures for the U.S.S. Discovery as well as introducing a new looming threat for the season arc. In the shorter opening segment, diplomacy gets a bit tricky for Michael and Book (David Ajala) with the butterfly people of Alshain IV which Michael solves with a risky proposition that ultimately pans out. Later she’ll need to make similar calls when Discovery is sent on a rescue mission from a Federation Space Station spinning out of control after its encounter with some kind of spatial anomaly. Along for the longer mission is the new Federation President (Chelah Horsdal) who tags along to evaluate the ship’s captain.
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Halo – Contact
- Title: Halo – Contact
- IMDb: link
I’ll be honest, my only real connection with the first-person shooter video game series the new TV-series is based on comes from the popular multi-player mode where I tried my best not to get shot in the back of the head by players who put in far more hours to the game than I ever would. The larger story about super-elite military soldiers versus invading aliens wasn’t really applicable to those scenarios. The series takes the basic mythology of the game and expands on it by adding a layer of class divide all too familiar to fans of dystopian science fiction. The opening episode is really only notable for recreating the look of the video game hero along with its high special effects and high body count of the various Covenant aliens Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and the others of Silver Team will put down.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Strange New Worlds
- Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Strange New Worlds
- wiki: link
The most interesting aspect of Star Trek: Discovery was the reintroduction of the Christopher Pike-led Starship Enterprise which kept a classic feel of the original design of the ship with an upgrade here or there. Featuring the a version of the crew Gene Roddenberry originally intended, these are the voyages of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the years before James Kirk would take command. Spinning out of the Enterprise crew’s experiences in Discovery, the new series picks up sometime after the U.S.S. Discovery’s disappearance with Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) still haunted by visions of a future and unsure about whether or not to resume the captain’s chair. A refit offers a reason for the ship’s sets to get a bit of a makeover taking it a little further from the classic look in some aspects while still retaining the feel of the Enterprise.
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