Mid-First Season Thoughts on Wolf Pack

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Bella Shepard and Armani Jackson - Wolf Pack

Blake Navarro and Everett Lang

(LIMITED SPOILERS)

It is a story is about two forest fires, both of them werewolf-connected. Eighteen years ago, in the first of the fires, Park Ranger Garrett Briggs (Rodrigo Santoro) found two orphaned wolf cubs which he adopted after the cubs transformed into apparently human babies. In 2023, the “Briggs twins”, having matured into high school seniors Luna (Chloe Rose Robertson) and Harlan (Tyler Lawrence Gray), have their senses amplified by a second fire that also brings more werewolf activity. Might some Van Helsing-like werewolf hunter be flushing out his (or her) quarry by starting fires? And just how many werewolves roam the area around Grey Lakes High School? Continue reading →

Trust and the Residue of Romance

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THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 2 – SPOILERS

Pavle Jerinic - The Ark

Head of Security Felix Strickland and his unnamed assistant.

Self-appointed Acting Captain Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke) is caught poking around the storage closet where Malcolm Perry (Chris Leask) was murdered. This makes Head of Security Felix Strickland (Pavel Jerinic) suspicious, because the access history for that closet was deleted by someone. Only four people have security clearance high enough to access that data, and Garnet is one of them. Garnet later displays excellent brawling skills when she helps Kirkland break up a fistfight in the mess hall, but it is doubtful that makes him any less suspicious of her.

Two things Garnet says in the course of the episode are notable. Alone in her quarters while gazing wistfully at a photograph of herself and an unidentified person, she says: “I really wish you’d taken the cryopod next to mind like I asked, ’cause right about now I could really use some counsel from someone who understands my situation.” Then later in the story she comments: “We need to get the engines back up to near light speed or we won’t reach Prox B before a one year’s journey turns to ten.”

The event that woke everyone from stasis must also have slowed the ship considerably. Continue reading →

The Battle of Baffin Island

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SLASH/BACK – directed by Nyla Innuksuk – (limited spoilers)

Alexis Wolfe, Frankie Vincent-Wolfe, Tasiana Shirley, and Chelsea Prusky - Slash/Back

Uki, Maike, Jesse, and Leena

In the town of Pangnirtung on Baffin Island, on the east side of Cumberland Sound, four girls, Maike (Tasiana Shirley), Uki (Nalajoss Ellsworth), Jesse (Alexis Wolfe), and Leena (Chelsea Prusky), decide to take a boat up the coast to some (presently deserted) hunting cabins. Once there, they exchange scary stories and Uki offers a tale she claims is true. “You know the Kattuk boy that went missing last spring?,” she asks. “Well Brenda was talking to Billy Mike, and Billy Mike was talking to a fisherman from Iqualuit, and he said that he saw the boy playing by the water. And then like a fog rolls in, and out comes a gray head with long black hair…snatches the boy and drags him into the water.” She then suggests the boy might have been taken by the Qualupalik. Of the four, Uki is the only one who enjoys living in Pangnirtung. The others wish they were elsewhere. They are bored with the town, and regard legends such as the Qualupalik as “silly Inuk shit”. Continue reading →