Monday, July 14, 2014

Cleopatra 2525: Quest For Firepower(Episode 1)

Cleopatra 2525 is a sci-fi series!  Hel(Gina Torres) and Sarge(Victoria Pratt)are two badass ladies with cool gadgets. Both of them have wrist worn laser blasters  and  grappling devices that look a lot likes Spider-Man's web shooter.  Hel, Sarge and a bald male dude who looks like a  steroid French Stewart go to the surface to recover some type of weapon from a "Bailey", a giant mechanical robot. Hel is being guided to do this by a voice that only she can hear. The opening credits voice over helpfully tell us that humans were driven underground when these robots appeared and took over the surface.


 Hel, Sarge and baldy successfully knock a laser blaster thingy off the Bailey, but Surprise! Baldy turns out to be an evil robot. He transforms his arms into laser guns and starts blasting away. Sarge is mortally wounded in her(only) kidney, and Hel must get her to a lab for  anew one. They go to the lab by diving down a seemingly endless vertical shaft. This shaft is how the women travel throughout the course of the series.

A few minutes in a chamber and Sarge is good as new. Laser kidney repair! A freaky mutant looking guy shows Hel and Sarge a blonde hottie who is cryogenically frozen. He intends to do bad things with her. Hel awakens hottie from her slumber to rescue her from such a fate. She's Cleopatra(Jennifer Sky)! She is("ahem" was) an exotic dancer who went under the knife for breast implants 500 years ago, but something went wrong causing her to be preserved until later. Cleopatra is understandably freaked out when baldy shows and attacks. The women take Cleo with them to their hideout by diving down that shaft again.

Go, Go Cleo: Cleo is sweet, good hearted and ditzy. She spends a lot of time screaming her head off in terror. She confuses Hel and Sarge with her twentieth century pop culture references. She's attracted to Mauser, Hel and Sarge's hunky companion, but he's a robot too. A bad robot reprogrammed to be good!

Baldy shows up again, this time in a liquid metal form like the T-1000(with frickin' laser beam eyes!)After a brief fight, Hel blasts him to smithereens with that weapon she recovered from the Bailey robot(after Cleo distracts Baldy by mimicking Sarge's voice). Cleo laments everything she's lost, but hey she's got three new friends! Cleo inspires them with the "all for one, and one for all" motto from The Three Musketeers. And that's the end of the episode! They're only about 22 minutes long.

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