How do you like them apples?
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Essence / Existence (8×20 and 8×21)
Scully’s baby is due, but not everyone wants to see it born.
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Aesop’s Fables: The Butcher and His Customers
Symantics are important.
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Bureau’s Breakroom’s Television Table – Week beginning 2020 November 22
This week on the Television Table, we get Discovery and some 32nd century Vulcans, while the Mandalorian gets some Jedi. Meanwhile His Dark Materials shows us what happens when Lyra disbelieves her golden compass. The Dalek’s CGI videos over on YouTube continue as the Strategist and Emperor try to escape the green blob that is after them, and The Good Doctor steps up his relationship.
[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut, except when there really aren’t any. (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click Continue reading →)]
Weekly New Releases – November 24, 2020
Sam, This is You (X Minus One #69)
Original airdate: October 31, 1956
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Star Trek Discovery Review: “Scavengers”
“My sentiments exactly.”
–Saru, in response to Tilly losing her composure and swearing multiple times.
Burnham and Georgiou play action heroes in a serviceable Trek planet story while the rest of the crew adjust to upgrades and future realities.
Aesop’s Fables: The Eagle and the Fox
Yet another happy ending in the style of Aesop.
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John Scalzi Guest Post
John Scalzi’s blog always makes for interesting reading and, while he needs no help from guest-posts, he generously shares his audience with other writers, well-known and not-so-well-known.
For those of you interested, here’s a Bureau42 contribution to The Big Idea at Scalzi’s blog.
Aesop’s Fables: The Farmer and His Dogs
I honestly don’t know if Aesop was trying for comedy or horror with this one.
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