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News One Piece One Piece Season Two Footage Offers First Look at Four Major Characters All aboard for the Grand Line! By Molly Templeton | Published on August 11, 2025 Image: Netflix © 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Netflix © 2025 Netflix’s One Piece, adapted from Eiichiro Oda’s manga series of the same name, has been a smash hit for the streamer—so much so that it’s been renewed for a third season before the second is anywhere near your screen. Season two won’t arrive until 2026, but for One Piece Day, Netflix released a first look at what’s to come—including peeks at a handful of new characters. The video below introduces Callum Kerr as Captain Smoker, Charithra Chandran as Miss Wednesday (also known as Nefertari Vivi), Brendan Sean Murray as Brogy, and Lera Abova as Miss All Sunday (also known as Nico Robin). That means a considerable number of characters are yet to be revealed, including David Dastmalchian as Mr. 3, Joe Manganiello as Crocodile, Sendhil Ramamurthy as Nefertari Cobra, and Mikaela Hoover as the voice of Tony Tony Chopper. According to Netflix, season two includes “fiercer adversaries and the most perilous quests yet.” The synopsis doesn’t say much more than that: Luffy and the Straw Hats set sail for the extraordinary Grand Line — a legendary stretch of sea where danger and wonder await at every turn. As they journey through this unpredictable realm in search of the world’s greatest treasure, they’ll encounter bizarre islands and a host of formidable new enemies. One Piece stars Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy, Mackenyu as Roronoa Zoro, Emily Rudd as Nami, Jacob Romero as Usopp, and Taz Skylar as Sanji. It shouldn’t be a terribly long wait between seasons two and three, as the third season is scheduled to begin production this fall (with a new co-showrunner, Ian Stokes, joining Joe Tracz).[end-mark] The post <i>One Piece</i> Season Two Footage Offers First Look at Four Major Characters appeared first on Reactor.

Column Babylon 5 Rewatch Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Shadow Dancing” With the Shadows next target known, a massive counterattack is prepared… By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on August 11, 2025 Credit: Warner Bros. Television Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Warner Bros. Television “Shadow Dancing”Written by J. Michael StraczynskiDirected by Kim FriedmanSeason 3, Episode 21Production episode 321Original air date: October 21, 1996 It was the dawn of the third age… The opening caption reads, “Z Minus 7 Days.” It’s like it’s one week to the finale or something… Delenn and Lennier plead with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds for help with a joint strike against the Shadows. However, the two Minbari are parsimonious with specifics, not saying where this strike will be and only hinting at the huge-ass White Star fleet they now have. It’s necessary for security reasons to keep those details under wraps, but that also makes it hard for the League representatives to agree. Meanwhile, Sheridan sends Ivanova and Cole with a White Star to Sector 83 as a scout. As soon as the Shadows strike, they’re to send a signal, but not engage unless fired upon. Sheridan is up-front that there’s only about a 50-50 chance of survival if they engage the enemy. Delenn returns to the meeting room to find only the Drazi ambassador present. At first, she’s crestfallen, thinking that this is bad news, but the ambassador says he’s been asked to speak for everyone: they’re in, the others are all back talking to their governments. Delenn is visibly relieved. Allan and Garibaldi have a conversation whose sole purpose is to remind viewers that Franklin is on walkabout after admitting that he has a stim addiction. Garibaldi is worried that he didn’t do enough to help the doctor. We then cut to the doctor in downbelow, seeing a family of tourists who are exploring the area for some stupid reason. When their daughter runs over to say hi to Franklin, her mother makes her get away from him, because they don’t know where he’s been. Credit: Warner Bros. Television “Z Minus 6 Days.” Sheridan thinks the League is holding back, not sending all the ships they possibly can. Delenn agrees, but there is little they can do—they need to defend their own worlds, after all. Sheridan is also not sure Delenn should join the fleet, since so much of the war council is going on this mission, but Delenn insists. She also informs Sheridan that, after the battle, they will spend the night together—but not that way. Minbari tradition is that when a couple gets close, the man sleeps and the woman watches him to see his true face. If she likes what she sees, the relationship deepens. If she doesn’t, they go their separate ways, no hard feelings. Franklin comes across two thugs beating up some dude. Franklin moves to intervene, and gets stabbed for his trouble. When he asks the dude he helped for assistance, the dude says he’d get arrested and buggers off, leaving Franklin bleeding on the deck. Ivanova and Cole discuss the latter’s fluency in Minbari, then she goes to get some sleep. She struggles to sleep on Minbari beds, and finally finds a way to be comfortable—at which point Cole calls her to the bridge: a Shadow scout ship has arrived. The White Star manages to jam their attempt at a transmission, but they also can’t get their own signal out. There’s a brief firefight, and the White Star manages to destroy the scout, but their jump engines are offline, meaning they’re sitting ducks. Sheridan and the rest of the fleet jump into the fray just as all the Shadow ships show up, and the battle is joined. Sheridan and Delenn stands in a holographic chamber that shows him the entire battlefield and allows him to be in touch with every allied ship. He directs the battle from there. Ivanova and Cole are able to join in once their engines are fixed. Eventually, the Shadows retreat rather than continue. It’s a victory, though it came at significant cost. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Back in downbelow, Franklin is going into shock and delirium and he hallucinates himself in uniform. His imaginary self is snotty and obnoxious, calling him out for his tendency to run away from things. He ran away from his father’s desire for him to enter the military, he ran away from residency, being an itinerant doctor instead, he ran away from his responsibilities during the Earth-Minbari War, destroying his research, and he’s running away now. Franklin drags his bleeding ass through the corridors to where there are people, at which point help is called and he’s admitted to medlab. The fleet returns to B5. Sheridan is grateful when he hears that Franklin got medical attention in time and will survive. Garibaldi is happy about the victory but worried about what the Shadows’ next move will be now that they got spanked. “Z Minus 4 Days.” Franklin, still recovering, is unofficially directing traffic in medlab. Sheridan comes and offers him his old job back. (No mention is made of poor Dr. Hobbs, who is, frankly, a better and more ethical doctor, and also doesn’t have a history of drug use, but hey, Jennifer Balgobin isn’t an opening-credits regular, so screw her.) Sheridan, Ivanova, and Delenn discuss what the Shadows’ next move might be, though they’ve done nothing in the past couple of days. Sheridan discusses the dream Kosh sent him back when he was a prisoner of the Streib. Some of it, he knows what it meant—like Ivanova’s not knowing who she really is, which related to the revelation that she’s a latent telepath. But then there’s the warning about “the man in between.” Delenn speculates that it might be his counterpart among the Shadows. A ship is disgorged from a Shadow vessel in hyperspace and travels to B5. Its passenger disembarks, and her ID sets off a flag. Allan immediately contacts Ivanova: it’s Anna Sheridan. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Anna goes to Sheridan’s quarters, where Delenn is watching Sheridan sleep, as promised. While Delenn is looking at a snowglobe on Sheridan’s desk, Anna comes in. Delenn drops the snowglobe in shock, and it shatters on the deck. “Z Minus 2 Days.” Get the hell out of our galaxy! Sheridan wins a major battle against the Shadows, moves forward in his relationship with Delenn, and then his supposedly dead wife shows up. Quite the eventful episode for him, and this is just a warm-up for next time… Ivanova is God. Unlike her CO, Ivanova cannot sleep on the angled Minbari beds. She finally is able to get comfortable when she takes the pillows off all the beds and arranges them on the deck. Oh, and she also holds her own in command of the White Star, taking on the Shadow scout. The household god of frustration. Garibaldi castigates himself for not doing more to help Franklin. It’s actually very sweet of him to be that concerned about his fuck-up friend, mostly because Garibaldi’s the same kind of fuck-up… If you value your lives, be somewhere else. Delenn and Lennier plead passionately for the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to help out. Her passion and Lennier’s calm do a lot to sell it. The Corps is mother, the Corps is father. Each of the ships in the fleet have telepaths on board, which is a big part of how the Shadows are routed. We live for the one, we die for the one. At one point, when they’re about to join the battle, Ivanova rhetorically asks, “Who wants to live forever?” Cole rather passionately replies, “I do, actually.” Credit: Warner Bros. Television No sex, please, we’re EarthForce. Cole tells Ivanova in Minbari that she’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen, but he chickens out when asked for a translation, just saying that it’s a simple greeting. Also, Sheridan and Delenn take a step forward in their relationship, Minbari-style, which involves the woman watching her partner sleep, which probably isn’t creepy. Looking ahead. Delenn speculates that “the man in between” from Sheridan’s Kosh-induced dream might be Sheridan’s own counterpart among the Shadows. Sheridan will meet that person in the very next episode, “Z’ha’dum.” Welcome aboard. The big guest is the end-of-the-episode appearance of Melissa Gilbert as Anna, taking over the role from Beth Toussaint, who played the part back in “Revelations.” Toussaint wasn’t available for this and the next episode, so they re-cast with Gilbert, who was Bruce Boxleitner’s real-life wife at the time (they divorced in 2011). In addition, Mark Hendrickson and Jonathan Chapman play the Drazi and Brakiri ambassadors, respectively, while Nicholas Ross Oleson, John Grantham, and J. Gordon Noice play the folks fighting each other in downbelow, and Shirley Prestia, Doug Cox, and an uncredited little girl play the family of tourists. Plus, recurring regular Joshua Cox is back from “War Without End, Part 1” as Corwin; he’ll be back next time in “Z’ha’dum.” Trivial matters. Sheridan and Delenn figured out that the Shadows were herding ships and refugees into Sector 83 in “And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place.” Kosh sent a prophetic dream to Sheridan in “All Alone in the Night.” Franklin’s hallucination reminds him of his backstory as established in “And the Sky Full of Stars” and “GROPOS.” The very last scene is what Delenn saw in her “flash forward” in “War Without End, Part 2.” Corwin says that Ivanova is on Channel 4—this is a tip of the cap to the channel in the United Kingdom that aired B5 in that country. This is the only B5 episode directed by Kim Friedman, who directed some truly great episodes of both Deep Space Nine and Voyager. She later was nominated for an Emmy for directing an episode of L.A. Law. The echoes of all of our conversations. “I just hope you found what you were looking for out there.” “I don’t know. I guess I found what I—what I needed, not what I wanted.” “Which was?” “Short, sharp kick to the head.” “Oh well, hell, I could’ve done that for you—all you had to do was ask.” “Yeah, well, you would’ve enjoyed it too much.” —Garibaldi and Franklin bantering. Credit: Warner Bros. Television The name of the place is Babylon 5. “Take responsibility for your actions, for crying out loud.” There’s a serious disconnect going on here. We keep intercutting between a really tense battle between the allies and the Shadows and Franklin having his Superman III moment. J. Michael Straczynski has said that what Franklin went through was him working through a similar incident that happened to him when he was living in San Diego, which he himself didn’t even realize while he was writing it. That, at least, explains why he thought (if even subconsciously) that it was of the same importance as the big-ass battle. However, while watching it, I couldn’t help but feel like I was watching two wildly different episodes being smashed together unconvincingly. It doesn’t help that the “meet yourself” moment (a) is horribly clichéd and stupid (hot tip: don’t remind your audiences of Superman III), and (b) involves Franklin, who’s annoying and uninteresting. Every time I’ve done one of these rewatches here on Reactor, I’ve found myself reexamining something that I felt from the initial viewing. (As an example, I came away from my Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch intensely disliking the character of Geordi La Forge.) For this rewatch, it’s become clear that I really don’t like Franklin at all, which is a surprise, because I have good memories of him from my first watch, though I suspect some of that is colored by my friendly acquaintance with Richard Biggs (and sadness at his too-young death in 2004). But I watched this episode and spent the time with Franklin yelling at himself like the crowd in Monty Python shouting, “GET ON WITH IT!” Plus at the end, when Sheridan offered him his job back, I kept asking why. All the evidence points to Hobbs being way better at the job than her erstwhile boss… I was far more invested in the rest of the episode. Delenn and Lennier’s attempts to get the League on their side was fascinating, because on the one hand, I understand the need for security, given that the Shadows have agents all over the damn place. (We’ve seen that they have people in Garibaldi’s security force, for one thing.) But man, it’s got to be annoying that they keep withholding important information, and I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the League’s governments held back ships just out of spite. I’m always happy to see Ivanova-Cole banter—the on-screen chemistry between Claudia Christian and Jason Carter is superb—plus the tension of their confrontation with the scout ship was beautifully handled by Straczynski’s script, the performances, the excellent direction by Kim Friedman, and fine work by the special effects crew. The limitations of B5’s nascent CGI effects are minimized here mostly by keeping everything moving fast, by intercutting with the human action inside the ships, and also by the fact that the ethereal Shadows are better served by the style of effects. (Until around 2010, CGI was always crap at conveying mass, but that’s not an issue in certain cases—like, say, the acrobatics of Spider-Man and Daredevil, or the insect-like Shadows.) I also like the idea of the holographic strategy center from which Sheridan can direct the battle. In the end, though, this episode is mostly setting us up for the big-ass finale next week…. Next week: “Z’ha’dum.”[end-mark] The post <i>Babylon 5</i> Rewatch: “Shadow Dancing” appeared first on Reactor.

I’ve never felt more hopeful for the future of Western civilization than I did mere days ago, standing shoulder to shoulder with over 1 million Gen Zers from every corner of the globe, sandwiched together in the heart of Rome. Over cheers, laughter, and euphoric singing and dancing, I witnessed a sea of young, vibrant souls in Saint Peter’s Square poised to change the world. This wasn’t just another rally—it was the Jubilee of Youth, a weeklong spiritual pilgrimage hosted by the Vatican drawing more than one million teenagers and young adults from some 146 nations. As Pope Leo XIV celebrated the closing Mass, he shared, “You are the sign that a different world is possible,” urging them to live according to Jesus’s example, resolved in solidarity, holiness, and dialogue—not merely conforming to the relative morality of our increasingly secular culture. That spectacle was more than grandeur; it was a declaration: Generation Z is embracing Catholicism with a fervor unlike anything I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. From small town U.S.A. chapels to urban parishes in London, the statistical upsurge is undeniable. In the United States, dioceses like Fort Worth reported a 72% increase in young adult conversions between 2023 and 2024, contributing to the 6% national increase in the number of young Americans identifying as Catholic observed in that single year. Across the pond, young Britons aged 18-24 have more than tripled their belief in God over just a few years—surging church attendance from about 4% to 16% weekly, making Catholicism more popular than Anglicanism in this age group. Across the Western world, we’re watching a grassroots revival of faith crisscrossing class and creed largely for people under the age of 35. Why is this happening now? Why would Gen Z, raised on relativistic ethics, Instagram dopamine, and the superficiality of digital life, turn to traditional Christianity? The reasons are rich and multilayered. First: simplicity and structure. Daily moral chaos, ever-shifting “truths,” and the collapse of authority leave many young people longing for certainty to build a solid foundation upon. The ancient, unchanging moral framework of Catholicism—with its liturgies, sacraments, and clear ethical compass—offers refuge and clarity. Second: transcendence and beauty. In a world full of pixels and highly-edited Instagram feeds characterized by AI-generated images and videos, the Catholic liturgy, especially the Latin Mass, has become countercultural—even rebellious. As one Redditor put it: It offers “transcendence, sense of meaning, and sense of community,” a quality they rarely find online. Unlike our social media feeds, the mass offers a chance to engage in something not about ourselves, but to focus entirely on God in something tangible and real. This yearning for awe and wonder drives pilgrimages, retreats, and event-driven encounters like the Jubilee of Youth itself. Third: community and belonging. Gen Zers are facing unprecedented loneliness, fractured families, and a lack of meaningful connection in the digital age. Catholicism fills that void. It is an inherently relational faith, not transactional. It anchors people to something bigger than themselves, whether that be your local campus ministry group or local parish, or the global community of 1.2 billion Catholics reading the same passages of Scripture at Mass every day. Fourth: a longing for truth. In environments dominated by identity politics and changing moral relativism based on the outrage of the day, many young Catholics are drawn to absolute truth claims. The church’s strong teachings on ethics, human dignity, and purpose feel radically reliable in a time when fanatical relativism is the norm. In the words of another Reddit commentator: “Most men … converted because they truly believed Catholicism to profess the absolute Truth.” Finally, digital influence can’t be forgotten. Catholic converts—apologists, influencers, authors—have embraced platforms like YouTube and TikTok to offer apologetics, catechesis, and testimonies in real, accessible ways. Just before the kickoff to the 2025 Jubilee of Youth, I had the privilege of participating in the church’s first-ever event for content creators—the Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers. For years, there has been an organic movement led by thousands of lay Catholics, priests, and nuns all over the world taking to social media to proclaim the gospel, but now, the Vatican itself is deeply aware of the need for digital missionary work and the role of technology in strong evangelization and catechesis. Just as the apostles were sent to “go and make disciples of all nations,” it seems the call for missionaries today is to “go and make disciples of all platforms!” At the Jubilee of Youth, amid heat waves, chapels in fields, and a million praying voices, Gen Z made their pilgrimage. Waving flags from nearly 150 countries, we witnessed a generation poised to embrace their vocation and proudly stand in faith. For us, this was not a festival; it was a moment of encounter—sacred, communal, purposeful. Gen Z’s growing embrace of Catholicism across the West is not merely a blip but the gathering of a tide. Across Western civilization, the next generation is coming home to the faith in significant numbers, drawn not by nostalgia but by authenticity: ritual, beauty, community, truth. In a fractured, secular age, they seek what cannot be commodified or reduced to ideology. The Jubilee of Youth has signaled something important: A generation is waking up, not to political mobilization or manufactured outrage, but profound spiritual purpose. We are ready to prove that the pursuit of holiness can change the world. Because these young pilgrims don’t just want to belong to pop culture—we are ready to encounter the Divine. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Gen Z’s Journey Back to the Sacred appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In a CNN interview that aired on Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders criticized 2024 Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris for what he said was her prioritizing the interests of the wealthy over the working class during her campaign last year. Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, lambasted the former vice president for being out of touch. “I like her, she’s a friend of mine, but her core consultants, you know, were heavily influenced by very wealthy people. How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crises facing working families? You know, more income and wealth inequality today than we’ve ever had.” Sanders made his remarks in response to CNN anchor Dana Bash playing a clip of the Vermont senator making a similar point during his “Fighting Oligarchy” speaking tour.  “One of the reasons, in my view, that Kamala Harris lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working-class of this country,” Sanders said in a clip from his tour, prompting applause from the crowd he was speaking to.  Sanders campaigned for Harris in 2024 and even made the case for her candidacy to critics of her position on the war in Gaza. Still, he didn’t hold back on where he thought her campaign went wrong.  “There are 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck. You’ve got a health care system which is broken and dysfunctional—and, despite spending so much, we’re the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people. How do you not talk about these issues?” Sanders said. Sanders has personal experience running presidential campaigns having participated in both 2016 and 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. He finished second behind Joe Biden in 2020, garnering about 26% of the vote. He earned about 43% of the vote in his primary bid against Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016. Sanders has been a U.S. senator since 2007 and currently serves as the ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. He was also Vermont’s at-large member of the House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, and the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, from 1981 to 1989.  “I think the clue to Democratic victories is to understand that you’ve got to stand unequivocally with the working class of this country. You need an agenda that speaks to the needs of working people,” the Vermont lawmaker added. For her part, Harris has been discussing her presidential campaign in recent promotions for her forthcoming book “107 Days,” which documents the 2024 presidential race. Harris recently opted against running for governor of California in 2026, citing a desire to help “elect Democrats across the nation who will fight fearlessly.” According to recent polls, Harris’ party faces a record level of unpopularity among American voters and has taken to drafting plans to win back the support of young men. The post Sanders Slams Harris Over Failed Campaign appeared first on The Daily Signal.