Ever since the second season of Andor wrapped up a couple weeks ago the show has been stuck in my head; every now and then I think about it and how just so very good it is. Andor feels like a singular work in the movies and TV of Star Wars. It zeroes in on… Continue reading What’s Next?
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Flavors of Star Wars
The original Star Wars is a weird movie. You’ve got a pair of silly robots bumbling about a desert and a young man finding the charred remains of his caretakers. An old man and a half-robot man fight with laser swords until the old man disappears. A farmboy flying a fighter jet uses space-magic to… Continue reading Flavors of Star Wars
The Answers Change
Severance has a deceptively simple premise: What if you could separate your consciousness between work and your personal life? The 'you' at work would be completely separate from the 'you' not at work, each with no knowledge of the other. The drama of the show comes from teasing out the implications of the setup: Would… Continue reading The Answers Change
The End(?)
I’m not a League of Legends player, not by a long shot. I played a couple rounds of DOTA with some friends several years ago and was very much a liability to my team. Figuring I wasn’t much for it, I never got into MOBAs when they became a big thing, checking out neither DOTA2… Continue reading The End(?)
Fine, But There’s Fan Service
I’ve been watching the second season of Rings of Power here and there. I’m not quite caught up yet, and part of that has been because the second season has been mostly fine. It’s difficult to explain why it’s all just so ‘fine’ without going into long rambles about how and where it diverges from… Continue reading Fine, But There’s Fan Service
Future’s Past
Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic is set four thousand years before the main Star Wars movies. War wages between the Republic and the Sith Empire as the Jedi try to fight back against an unstoppable force millennia before the rise of Palpatine. Released back in 2003, the game was set in a whole… Continue reading Future’s Past
Old Future
On a recommendation, I’ve started watching Futurama over the past couple months. This being me it’ll probably be a year or so before I finish the show (I’m really bad at watching TV). In the meantime, the show’s a fascinating time capsule. Some of that is in the sitcom tropes it uses, what with the… Continue reading Old Future
Nine Things From 2023
It’s the actual end of the year and I have, once again, compiled a list of nine things that I really enjoyed this year. That’s right, like last year I’m not just doing movies, I’m doing things. As usual, there are nine just in case a tenth one pops up. And these aren’t necessarily a… Continue reading Nine Things From 2023
A Complete Season
I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the second season of Loki nearly as much as I am. I feel like after coming out of the gate really strong with Wandavision, most of Marvel’s shows have been somewhere between decent and fine with perhaps their most consistent flaw being their tendency to get oddly muddled. Ms. Marvel… Continue reading A Complete Season
Slightly Less Lower Decks
I really enjoy the animated Star Trek show Lower Decks. It’s pitched as a comedic take on the Star Trek world, mining humor from the life of the people on the lower decks of a Federation starship. What if the epic exploration of Star Trek was a workplace comedy? The humor is broad enough that… Continue reading Slightly Less Lower Decks
Essays, Not Rants! 