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A House With All The Windows Lit

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TIN CAN – directed by Seth A Smith – SPOILERS

At the start of things we hear a newscaster (voiced by Shelley Thompson) saying: “Since its May discovery, the fungal infection has quickly swept across the Maritime provinces and Quebec. Although no related deaths have been confirmed, researchers are racing to assess the full risks associated with the pathogen. Now, one in twenty-five Canadians is living with the untreatable disease.” Later it is explained that the pathogen is called Coral and, like a slime mould, can live as a single cell or combine to form more complex structures. Its spores are heavy, so it spreads mostly through direct contact, and eventually forms a casing over the entire body. After that, Coral begins to change its host. (We are not told into what.) Continue reading →

Weakness, War, and a Different Drummer

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THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 4 – SPOILERS

Vanessa Smythe Samer Salem, and Cara Gee

Josep (Samer Salem) has his left arm amputated by Michio (Vanessa Smythe). | Salem is also Rafi in Rose Troche‘s 2022 romantic comedy MY FAKE BOYFRIEND.

Camina Drummer (Cara Gee) and her crew board one of the Free Navy‘s supply depots and find it unexpectedly guarded. After a battle to capture the place, there is an intense scene in which Michio (Vanessa Smythe) is forced to amputate Josep‘s arm after it is pinned under a crate. (She uses a knife, and one wonders why a laser cutter is not available, but Michio is clearly much better as a field medic than she is as a weapons control officer.) Drummer decides enough is enough and broadcasts a challenge: “This message is for the traitor, the coward, Marco Inaros. You hunted me and mine, and still we are here, unbent, unbroken, unbowed. And you, you are nothing.” Continue reading →

Cara’s Dogs, Owain’s Cat, and RSR-G6

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THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 3 – SPOILERS

Vieslav Krystyan

Owain and his cat, Tumang Shenyon, who seems to be the only feline ever to appear on THE EXPANSE.

The Free Navy has ceded control of Ceres to UN forces, but left the place with food for only three weeks, forcing the UN to come up with a way to feed its million residents. Monica Stuart (Anna Hopkins) is embedded with the UN forces there but manages to break away from her chaperones long enough to start a conversation (she speaks Belter fluently) with an old man named Owain (Vieslav Krystyan) and his cat. “Her name is Lucky Earther,” he tells Stuart. “She is fat and lazy, and I give her whatever she wants.” Just then a series of explosive devices, doubless planted by Inaros and company, detonate. Stuart’s next report might be delayed, but will almost certainly include input from Owain (who might have been named after Owain Glyndŵr, the last native Welshman to be Prince of Wales. Glyndŵr waged a long war of rebellion against England’s King Henry IV.) Continue reading →