Person of Interest (season 4)

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{5/5} “I have only two modes, Jerry. Calm and furious. It’s a rare person that sees the latter and lives to talk about it.” — Finch, pretending to be a tough guy Person of Interest season 4, aired in 2014-15 Shaw doesn’t really like her job as a makeup artist. Finch is a professor teaching […]

Star Trek: Voyager — The Nanotech War

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{4.5/5} “It dawned on Tom that whenever the Chiar underwent an emotional shift, their scent changed as well… Nylo… had also felt something when Zedrel had announced that Tom was going to be Zedrel’s attendant. Was it anger? Jealousy? Relief? Tom didn’t know. But ability to smell his captors’ emotions had to be an advantage. […]

Person of Interest (season 3)

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{5/5} “The Machine only gives us numbers because I would always rather that a human element remain in determining something so critical as someone’s fate. We have free will, and with that comes great responsibility, and sometimes great loss.” Person of Interest season 3, aired in 2013-14 Carter has been reduced in rank because of […]

IF

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{4.5/5} “It wasn’t until much later that I realized that these stories she wanted me to tell had nothing to do with her at all. Then I realized that the most important stories we have to tell are the ones we tell ourselves.” IF, released in 2024 Bea’s mom died and now her dad is […]

The Legend of Ochi

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{4/5} “The ochi took my wife. And for that, I have no son to call my own. But if you give you little hearts to this cause, as true as I live, you are all my sons.” The Legend of Ochi, released in 2025 On the island of Carpathia humans have been fighting ochi forever. […]

Elio

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{4.5/5} “Hi Dad. I’m a bargaining chip.” Elio, released in 2025 Elio’s parents died and he lives with his aunt Olga, who’s always busy with work. Elio goes to the beach and writes a giant “Aliens! abduct me!!!” message. When Voyager’s message is sent back to Earth, Elio, having snuck into a garbage can, manages […]

Shroud

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{5/5} “I suspected that ‘appropriate attitudes’ included extreme expendability. The dregs of the Garveneer’s slumbering human cargo, not woken yet because nobody had any use for them. People desperate enough to earn some basic wage-worth that they’d volunteer for something as mad as going down to Shroud. A monstrous project which, I can only stress, […]

Deja Vu

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{4.5/5} “What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they’d never believe you?” Deja Vu, released in 2006 When a ferry is blown up in New Orleans, ATF agent Doug Carlin heads to the scene. FBI agent Paul Pryzwarra joins him. Carlin is the first one […]

Superman

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{5/5} “‘You trust everyone and think everyone you’ve ever met is, like… beautiful.’ ‘Maybe that’s the real punk rock.’” — Lois & Clark Superman, released in 2025 Unlike other villains he has faced in the past, Superman is having trouble defeating the Hammer of Boravia. Unbeknownst to him, the Hammer is receiving instructions from Lex […]

Not Till We Are Lost

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{4.5/5} “We’d deciphered the texts from the administrative station, which were essentially identical to internet RFCs. A quick test netted us local star maps. Now we would be able to converse via SCUT when we needed to. I did another test, asking the station if there were any biological entities on-site we could talk to. […]