Al Ewing’s new Guardians of the Galaxy #9 story ‘I Shall Make You a Star-Lord’ reveals that Quill has survived after apparently being killed during an explosion back in issue #2, but has been catapulted into a parallel reality. He then meets two blue-skinned humanoid companions there called Aradia and Mors, and eventually enters into a relationship with both of them that lasts for over a hundred years. Unfortunately, Quill unwittingly stole power from The Gods of New Olympus to survive the aforementioned explosion, and this forces him to return to his own reality, which means saying goodbye to his long-time loves....

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 8 From the very beginning, Star Trek: Discovery has loved putting Michael Burnham in an impossible situation, and making her choose. This isn’t a bad narrative habit, especially for a show as thematically-driven as Star Trek, but some Kobayashi Maru scenarios are more interesting than others and, some, well… some are just plain clunky. This was the case in “The Sanctuary,” which saw not only Michael but the whole Discovery crew sent to Book’s home planet, Kwejian, to strictly observe, Emerald Chain leader Oysraa show up to bully the trance worm-loving planet....

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 9 The Mirror Universe works best when we know the characters and world it warps well. The fascinations of visiting the Mirror Universe often come in observing the characters (and actors) we know and love exhibit wildly different behavior (and looks)—for example, the franchise’s original visit to the Mirror Universe came in Season 2 of The Original Series, only after we had properly gotten use to a Spock without facial hair....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 1 As the Star Trek franchise has expanded in recent years, so has the debate about what these series are supposed to be and do. What makes a show quintessentially Star Trek? What kinds of stories are these properties meant to tell? After all, in the year 2022, the world seems more divided than ever before, reeling from the lingering effects of a global pandemic, rising inflation, and a political environment that seems targeted to anger the worst in us, rather than exhort us to be our best....

Leading the charge back to television for the Star Trek franchise, and paving the way for three further series to follow, Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s seven seasons had some very high points, and a couple of very low ones (that some would simply call “Season 1….”, not that I’m one of them.) These are the top 25 “must-watch” episodes, not necessarily the top 25 for quality, or indeed my 25 favorites, but the 25 stories that give you the best flavor of the series and its relatively unplanned story arcs....

Obi-Wan Kenobi not only brings back two of the most important characters from the Original Trilogy, it’s also an embarrassment of riches for Prequel Trilogy fans who have longed to see the franchise pay tribute to the Star Wars galaxy of the early 2000s. At last, we have Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen sharing the screen once again, this time trading lightsaber blows on opposite sides of the battlefield. In episode 3, the Jedi Master and Sith Lord finally come face to face after 10 years, and the reunion is anything but heartwarming....

In the two-part finale of The Bad Batch, the Kaminoan cloning labs go down in fire and water. With no home left to lose, the clones scramble for survival. Alongside them is Crosshair, formerly eager to turn them over to the Empire. His decision provides the main emotional push of an episode that also shows the wreckage of an era.Take a look at all the Star Wars facts and references we spotted in this episode …...

As well as introducing new stories and characters to the franchise, The High Republic also opens up a new era of the universe for creators to explore. The new initiative will allow the Expanded Universe and the current movie and TV projects to work in harmony without overlapping, according to StarWars.com. A promo for The High Republic also shows that the conception of this new era was very creator-driven, with a story group made up of veteran Star Wars writers, artists (Ian McCaig!...

But there’s one person who isn’t a fan. Speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, legendary director Joe Dante called Baby Yoda “completely stolen and is just out-and-out copied. Shamelessly, I would think.” Specifically, Dante appears to believe that The Mandalorian stole Baby Yoda from Gizmo, the beloved Mogwai at the center of 1984’s Gremlins and its 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch. At first glance, it’s hard to argue with Dante’s assessment....

Amell is now the star of Starz’s Heels, a drama about the ups and downs of an independent professional wrestling company. I spoke to the actor back in September 2021 as that show was preparing to wrap its first season, and the subject of Arrow inevitably came up. And while we’ve yet to officially celebrate ten years of Arrow on TV, we’ve just hit the decade mark since Amell was cast as Oliver Queen....

The book was adapted before, as a 1990 ABC-TV miniseries, and while it hasn’t aged especially well in some ways the four-hour venture still has plenty of intense moments, as well as a fearsome performance by Tim Curry as the malevolent Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The new motion picture, however, is able to push the story cinematically in ways that simply could not be done 27 years ago on a broadcast television network....

Supergirl Season 6 Episode 11 Mr. Mxyzptlk makes his triumphant return, and not a moment too soon. He sings, he dances, he makes Patrick Swayze references, and Supergirl distracts a giant cat the same way you distract a regular cat – with her lazer vision, of course. It’s all good fun on a light and lovely episode of Supergirl that serves as a reminder of why this show was seen as a breath of optimistic fresh air years before Ted Lasso made it cool and Emmy-worthy....

Superman & Lois Season 2 Episode 2 For a show that still manages to do a ton of small town, teen soap, and general family drama in every episode, Superman & Lois still somehow manages to squeeze about two hours worth of Man of Steel lore and DC Comics deep cuts into its one hour timeslot each week. To be clear, this show has been on such a roll that it’s currently doing everything right, with Sarah Cushing’s revelation that she kissed someone while off at summer camp being treated with approximately the same dramatic tension that we’re getting out of the “holy moley, they’re actually doing Doomsday on this show” moments....

Superman and Lois Episode 4 One of the most tired arguments in comics is about whether or not Superman is too powerful to tell good stories with. The plethora of exceptional, meaningful, moving Superman stories out there should put that argument to bed for good, but if they haven’t, feel free to direct anyone making it to “Haywire,” the fourth episode of what’s shaping up to be one of the best Superman arcs ever....

Supernatural Season 15 Episode 16 Four episodes till the end. “Drag Me Away (From You) is split between modern day Sam and Dean and young Sam and Dean, as they explore the scene of an old hunt that doesn’t seem finished. This story happens to feature a hotel room with wallpaper more heinous than any creature from hell — okay maybe a little exaggeration. But think first of the many, many hotel rooms the talented production design folks at Supernatural have designed....

Swamp Thing episode 6, titled “The Price You Pay” sees the coming together of human threats while Swampy moves closer to embracing the Green, the Blue Devil almost arrives, and the Phantom Stranger shows up in a memory – but it is my least favorite ep thus far because of the lack of horror, and writing that underserves Abby. The attack by Avery’s trackers in the opening minutes is an enjoyable action sequence....

Taboo is a Gothic conspiracy thriller about the evil committed by servants of British Empire, and the story of an enigmatic man with otherworldly abilities. It’s an antidote to the bloodless bonnets-and-quadrille vision of Regency England popularised by Jane Austen adaptations, and swaps that sterile environment for a London filled with grime, debauchery and violence. More than anything though, it’s an eight-episode excuse for Tom Hardy to grunt about in a stovepipe hat....

In its first season, Apple TV+ comedy Ted Lasso was regarded as an optimistic breath of fresh air. This tale of a kind American football coach in London politely asked us all to be curious, not judgmental. And in the process, it created a legion of fans excited for more of Ted Lasso’s (Jason Sudeikis) cheerful disposition in season 2. So how does season 2, which premiered this Friday, July 23 on Apple TV+, fulfill those good vibes?...

“No band has had the kind of impact on the world that The Beatles have had, and The Beatles: Get Back is a front-row seat to the inner workings of these genius creators at a seminal moment in music history, with spectacularly restored footage that looks like it was shot yesterday,” Iger said in a statement. Jackson, probably best known for his The Lord of the Rings trilogy, compiled 55 hours of unseen footage from Let It Be director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s cans and turned it over Park Road Post Production of Wellington, New Zealand....

If you are the pernickety, ruin-everyone-else’s-fun kind of science fiction fan, most alien invasion storylines present a bit of a problem: If you can build spaceships capable of carrying a military force large enough to subdue a planet, and transporting that force the vast interstellar distances between habitable worlds, well, you probably don’t really need to invade anywhere. It’s a problem that a lot of alien invasion movies ignore, but some come up with some truly original and exciting answers to that question....