Day: February 19, 2007

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Heroes Season 1

Unexpected

HeroesIn his isolated hideout in the Nevada desert, Ted Sprague gets an instant message from someone claiming to know what he’s been through – which is a pretty good trick when he doesn’t have internet access. A woman named Hana Gitelman arrives and introduces herself, demonstrating an ability to generate and receive radio, wi-fi and even satellite signals with her mind. With that ability, she’s learned that almost everyone with extraordinary abilities has two things in common – two small scratches on the back of one shoulder, and a visit to Primatech Paper in Odessa, Texas…Bennet’s plant where Parkman led a futile FBI raid. Now Sprague is planning a return visit to see Bennet, and wants Parkman to go along. In Odessa, Claire reveals to Mr. Bennet that she hasn’t had her memory wiped, and blames him for her adoptive mother’s precarious health. Suresh, traveling with a man he believes to be Zane Taylor, visits a woman with extraordinary hearing, but before he can run tests on her, she’s murdered. Little does Suresh know, “Zane” is actually Sylar – and he’s systematically killing and absorbing the powers of everyone Suresh is visiting on his list. And in New York, as Peter Petrelli and Isaac Mendez argue over Simone, Mendez makes a horrible mistake.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeph Loeb
directed by Greg Beeman
music by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman / vocals by Shenkar

Guest Cast: Zachary Quinto (Sylar), James Kyson Lee (Ando), Ashley Crow (Sandra Bennet), Matthew John Armstrong (Ted Sprague), Bill Fagerbakke (Gustavson), Lisa Lackey (Janice Parkman), Jimmy Jean-Louis (The Haitian), Rusty Schwimmer (Dale), Stana Katic (Hana Gitelman), Christina Haag (Dr. Lindale), Stan Lee (Bus Driver), Missi Pyle (Hope), Christopher Eccleston (Claude)

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Caprica

Gravedancing

CapricaHaving booked an appearance on a late-night talk show whose host isn’t exactly well-disposed toward Graystone Industries, Daniel Graystone is sickened by the public relations spin his advisers are telling him to put on Zoe’s death (and life). Agent Durham is searching everywhere that Zoe lived that short life in his hunt for the Soldiers of the One, including a surprise raid at her school (but not a total surprise for the other members of Zoe’s STO cell). Still stuck somewhere between grief and rage, Joseph Adama has ordered his brother Sam to make things even with Graystone: since Adama lost his daughter and his wife, Graystone should also lose his wife before the day is out, just to even the score. Sam doubts his brother’s certainty, but prepares for the hit anyway. As Daniel Graystone takes the stage in a TV studio to try to spin away the damage caused by his wife’s admission that Zoe may have been the suicide bomber, he’s unaware that his wife is waiting in the wings to make another surprise appearance – and he’s not sure if he can spin his family name or his company’s reputation out of harm’s way this time.

teleplay by Jane Espenson
story by Michael Angeli & Jane Espenson
directed by Michael Watkins
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Scott Porter (Nestor), Patton Oswalt (Baxter Sarno), Peter Wingfield (Director Gara Singh), Luciana Carro (Pyrah)

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Rebels Season 4 Star Wars

Jedi Night

Star Wars: RebelsAs Hera is questioned and tortured in Lothal’s capitol, Kanan confesses to Ezra that his feelings for Hera may be clouding his judgement, and he asks Ezra to take the lead on Hera’s rescue. Just as Ezra and Sabine prepare to leave on undetectable gliders disguised as Loth-bats, Kanan has a change of heart and joins the rescue mission. As Sabine and Ezra, disguised as Imperial pilots, work to hijack an escape vehicle, Kanan rescues Hera, who is moved to admit her feelings for him are mutual. The reunion is brief: Kanan wants to target the Imperial fuel depot on their way back to base, and Governor McGlynn wants to be rid of the Rebels on Lothal once and for all.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Dave Filoni & Henry Gilroy
directed by Saul Ruiz
music by Kevin Kiner
additional music by David Russell, Sean Kiner, and Dean Kiner
based on original themes and music by John Williams

RebelsCast: Taylor Gray (Ezra Bridger), Vanessa Marshall (Hera Syndulla), Freddie Prinze Jr. (Kanan Jarrus), Tiya Sircar (Sabine Wren), Steve Blum (Zeb Orrelios / Stormtrooper #1 / Stormtrooper Commander), Dave Filoni (AT-AT Driver / Stormtrooper #2), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Governor Pryce), Stephen Stanton (Grand Moff Tarkin / TIE Pilot / Stormtrooper #3), Lars Mikkelsen (Grand Admiral Thrawn), Warwick Davis (Rukh)

Notes: Tarkin informs Thrawn that the TIE Defender program is now competing for Imperial funding with Director Krennic’s “Stardust” project (the code name given to the Death Star in Rogue One). The end credits play over silence rather than the customary theme music.

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Rebels Season 4 Star Wars

DUME

Star Wars: RebelsThe rebel cell on Lothal is demoralized in the wake of Kanan’s death. Hera retreates into grief, Sabine and Zeb set out for Imperial blood without a plan, and Ezra finds that the Loth-Wolves no longer harbor friendly feelings for him, and runs for his life. Though Governor Pryce declares victory and even arranges for a parade to celebrate the death of Kanan Jarrus, Grand Admiral Thrawn knows that this is a cover for her failures: the fuel refinery explosion severely damaged the TIE defender factory, forcing it to shut down. Expecting the rebels to mount a reckless attack in blind fury, Thrawn dispatches Rukh to finish them off. Lost in the wilderness, Ezra is cornered by the Loth-Wolves, one of whom now talks…and introduces itself as Dume, the same name that Kanan himself went by as a Jedi padawan.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Dave Filoni & Christopher Yost
directed by Sergio Paez
music by Kevin Kiner
additional music by David Russell, Sean Kiner, and Dean Kiner
based on original themes and music by John Williams

RebelsCast: Taylor Gray (Ezra Bridger), Vanessa Marshall (Hera Syndulla), Tiya Sircar (Sabine Wren), Steve Blum (Zeb Orrelios / Alton Kastle / Biker Scout #1), Sam Witwer (Biker Scout #2 / Imperial Officer #1 / Imperial Technician), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Governor Pryce), Lars Mikkelsen (Grand Admiral Thrawn), Dave Filoni (Imperial Officer #2), Dante Basco (Jai Kell), Warwick Davis (Rukh), Clancy Brown (Ryder Azadi)

LogBook entry by Earl Green