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REVIEW: Star Wars Resistance – Season 1, Episode 21 “No Escape, Part 2”
*SPOILERS* “No Escape, Part 2” opens where part 1 left off, with Kaz seeing his home planet destroyed. His entire family, all his friends from home, and the Galactic Senate are killed in the First Order’s attack. Torra pulls him away so they don’t get caught. They find Yeager and Cap...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Orville – Season 2, Episode 10 “Blood of Patriots”
The Orville wasted no time exploring some of the new threads opened by last week’s incredible episode with “Blood of Patriots,” a mystery that sheds some light on Gordon’s past and puts a potential peace between warring systems in a new light. It’s also funny, exciting, and the most import...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Orville – Season 2, Episode 7 “Deflectors”
After taking a week off (during sweeps!), The Orville returns this week with “Deflectors,” which begins as another relationship episode – which, despite the excellent “A Happy Refrain,” gave me some consternation – but becomes something much more interesting. Talla takes center stage, li...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Orville – Season 2, Episode 6 “A Happy Refrain”
One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can encompass virtually any other genre. Star Wars, for example, incorporates classic fantasy elements in its galaxy far, far away; Blade Runner is a hardboiled detective noir involving androids; Alien is a horror movie in space. The Orville, like S...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Orville – Season 2, Episode 5 “All the World is Birthday Cake”
After its first few slower episodes, The Orville is back in the zone, following up last week’s excellent “Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes” with “All the World is Birthday Cake,” another Trekian morality play that stretches the Union edict to respect all cultures to its limits. The c...
Read MoreREVIEW: Star Wars Resistance – Episodes 12 and 13 “Bibo” and “Dangerous Business”
*Spoilers* In “Bibo,” Synara brings in a scavenged ship. On it, they find an aquatic creature that Neeku decides to adopt and name Bibo. Within the Colossus, Bibo soon begins trying to eat everything, as well as stinking the place up. Synara asks Kaz to go on a salvaging run with her; there, she...
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