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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Fumbles Its Finale “The Real Good Guys”

Jan 15, 2025 | reactormag.com | Emmet Asher-Perrin

We’ve made it to the, uh, man, behind the curtain. Sort of. RecapJod tells the families that reuniting is what he does and disengages his lightsabers. When Fara asks if the children are in trouble, he claims that they were difficult throughout the journey and in a great deal of trouble. He has security droids monitor the families at home. Wim tries to tell his dad the truth, but they’re being watched, and his father only wants to talk about him taking his Assessment.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Makes It Home in “We’re Gonna Be In So Much Trouble”

Jan 8, 2025 | reactormag.com | Emmet Asher-Perrin

So what’s a Great Barrier look like anyway? The kids’ parents are working in the woods at night on their communications device to contact the kids. They are discovered by security droids and form a relay race to pass off the device to each other as each of them is stunned in turn. Once the device is passed to Fara, it is powered up and ready to be released, and she gets it to launch.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Is Getting Pretty Vulnerable in “Zero Friends Again”

Jan 1, 2025 | reactormag.com | Emmet Asher-Perrin

Was not expecting to have such personal cyborg feelings this week…RecapThe kids fall through the trap door in Rennod’s treasure room, down a tube, and out onto land. KB is unresponsive and Fern explains that sometimes her augmentations go bad and she isn’t able to move. She resets KB’s occipital link to aid the problem, insisting to the others that everything will be fine. Meanwhile, Jod emerges from the treasure room to find the hotel staff… and the rest of the pirate crew.
Doctor Who Celebrates Christmas With a Fizzle in “Joy to the World”

Dec 31, 2024 | reactormag.com | Emmet Asher-Perrin

We open on the London Blitz, and like Dr. Sam Beckett at the start of every Quantum Leap episode, I mutter “Oh boy…”RecapIt’s the London Blitz and the Doctor enters in on a couple, asking if they need a ham and cheese toastie and a pumpkin latte. They don’t appear to, so he moves on, arriving on the Orient Express in 1962, a Mount Everest basecamp in 1953, and the Sandringham Hotel on Christmas 2024.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Finds Its Feet in “You Have a Lot to Learn About Pirates”

Dec 25, 2024 | reactormag.com | Emmet Asher-Perrin

Okay, now we’re getting somewhere. RecapWendle is working at his station on At Attin when Neel’s mom gets his attention; she has an item that can help them bypass the Barrier and get a message out. He tries to do this work at his terminal, but is immediately halted by a security droid for a “surge” at his terminal. He’s brought to Fara, who demands the droid delete the incident from his memory.
Dune: Prophecy’s First Season Ends With Operatic Highs in “The High-Handed Enemy”

Dec 23, 2024 | reactormag.com | Emmet Asher-Perrin

Hell hath no fury like a… well, you know. RecapThe opening shows the aftermath of Dorotea’s death from Tula’s perspective. She, Francesca (Charithra Chandan), and Kasha (Yerin Ha) see Valya use the Voice against Dorotea, and they agree to say that she took her own life out of grief. Tula runs away, and Valya learns that she’s pregnant from Orry Atreides and that there was some manner of affection there.
The Final Season of The Dragon Prince Is More Beginning Than End

Dec 19, 2024 | reactormag.com | Emmet Asher-Perrin

One of the only exciting announcements to come out of 2020 was word from Netflix that The Dragon Prince would get to produce all seven of the seasons its creators had planned. As any fan can tell you, there are few greater disappointments than a story not told in its entirety, and television is infamous for cutting beloved tales short. Knowing that the series would be completed as the creators intended was a relief.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Tries Soldiering in “Can’t Say I Remember No At Attin”

Dec 18, 2024 | reactormag.com | Emmet Asher-Perrin

If you say something often enough that it becomes a catch phrase, you might have been memory-wiped. The ship comes out of hyperspace orbiting a planet with satellites. As they move closer, the planet starts up an auto-landing sequence, but SM-33 pulls them out of it and lands the ship. The kids exit the ship and find a great deal of destruction and fog: This isn’t home.
Are We Gonna Talk About the Deeply Dystopian World of Hot Frosty?

Dec 18, 2024 | reactormag.com | Emmet Asher-Perrin

When the trailers for Hot Frosty—a film about a snowman coming to life at Christmas to romance a struggling widow—dropped prior to the holiday season, the brief seemed clear enough: Let’s take something wholesome (a vague sense of the Frosty the Snowman tale) and make it horny. No, much hornier than that. Keep going. This isn’t for Hallmark, we don’t have to be coy about it. He’s a snowman with a sixpack, created from a sculpture at the center of town, and he comes to life naked. With a scarf.
Dune: Prophecy (Almost) Reveals All in “In Blood, Truth”

Dec 16, 2024 | reactormag.com | Emmet Asher-Perrin

“In Blood, DNA Samples” would be more accurate. But sure, let’s go with truth. Desmond Hart presents in front of the royal family at the head of a new fighting force that will protect the Imperium, which he will lead as Bashar; the Emperor has decried it. Hart suggests that the Emperor leave the fleet over the planet a while longer as a show of strength. Sister Francesca (Tabu) arrives on Salusa Secundus due to a message she received from Constantine, her son.