Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag

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THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS

Christie Burke - The Ark

Acting Captain Sharon Garnet

One hundred years in the future and five years into a voyage to Proxima B, Lieutenant Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke) wakes from cryosleep on the colony ship Ark One because a beam falls on her pod, breaking it open. She hears a siren announcing an impact alert, and awakens the other 150 or so people sleeping in the collapsing bay. (It is a mystery why the impact alert did not automatically wake everyone.) Everyone manages to exit the bay before it collapses except for Susan Ingram (Lisa Brenner), whose pod is pinned under debris. When Garnet decides to wake Captain Lester, who should be in stasis in a separate bay, she discovers that the section of the ship housing command officers and the “mentor class” of scientists is missing. We learn that a “series of malfunctions” occurred while the crew was asleep, and “monitoring cameras went down, so there’s no recording of what happened.” Continue reading →

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright

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WOLF PACK – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS

Bella Shepard and Nevada Jose - Wolf Pack

Blake Navarro, and her brother Danny

For personal reasons, high school student Blake Navarro (Bella Shepard) insists on being without a phone, or a computer, or email. When a forest fire delays her school bus, she asks a girl named Phoebe (Bailey Stender) if she can use her phone to call home. Phoebe (quite unreasonably) refuses, and (curiously) Blake asks no one else. An impatient classmate called Austin (Rio Mangini) tries to bully bus driver Renata (Olivia D Dawson) into letting everyone off the bus, threatening to post a recording of her refusal online. He is prevented from posting by Blake, who tosses his phone out the bus window causing Austin to go after it. It is not clear whether Blake tossed Austin’s phone out the window to help the bus driver, or because she really didn’t want her location to be posted online. One wonders why Blake is such a private person. One also wonders why Phoebe doesn’t want Blake to look at her phone. Continue reading →

There Once Was a Dormouse Who Lived in a Bed

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DOOR MOUSE – A film by Avan Jogia – (limited spoilers)

Hayley Law - Door Mouse

Mouse

After a night of prophetic nightmares, Mouse (Hayley Law), wakes and silently narrates the start of the next issue of her monthly horror porn comic. Titled “Whoreific“, the illustrated stories are not-quite-autobiographical, and they help her work through her “existential dread”. As Mouse begins to draw, the song “Big Mouth” by Necking plays in the background. “I wake up in the afternoon,” thinks Mouse, Phillip Marlowe-style. “I have my coffee and I smoke my morning cigarette. Today the cigarette was better than the coffee.” Continue reading →