Reviews
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Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 1 Review
Spoilers for Peacemaker and Superman The new season of Peacemaker is underway, and it’s great. Was there any doubt it would be? The DCU takes shape The new season comes on the heels of James Gunn’s Superman movie and serves as a continuation of the story. I’m fairly happy about that; normally, we have to…
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Alien: Earth Review. Episodes 1-3
Spoilers for Alien: Earth Episodes 1-3 I really want to like Alien: Earth, but I’ll admit, I’m struggling to get it. I might be going against the grain here. Its score on Rotten Tomatoes is currently very high, and some of those reviewers will, I assume, have seen the whole show. Perhaps it improves, but…
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Superman Review. The Future of Superhero Movies?
Spoilers for Superman It’s taken me a while to write about this, but ah well. The new DC film universe is officially underway, and I’m endlessly excited. James Gunn’s Superman was released in July, and it’s a lot of fun. I’ll confess my expectations were impossibly high and did leave me slightly disappointed at first.…
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Andor Ends On A High Note. Season 2 Final Arc Review (episodes 10-12)
Major Spoilers for Andor Season 2 Phenomenal. Andor has released its last batch of episodes, and it went out on a high. In some ways, the finale arc was cleaning shop. The second season has been primarily focused on the Ghormans. But that story reached its culmination in the previous arc, with the Ghorman massacre.…
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Star Wars: A Bunch of Thoughts on Andor Season 2’s Second Arc (episodes 4-5)
Spoilers for Andor season 2 The second arc of Andor season 2 is out, and it’s another home run. It’s an improvement on the excellent previous arc as well. Prior Criticisms Addressed As great as the first arc was, I did have some nitpicking criticisms. Chiefly, the previous arc didn’t have quite enough story to…
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Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Kicks Off with a Bang.
Spoilers for Season 2 Episodes 1-3 Andor is back! ‘Star Wars for grown-ups,’ as Stellan Skarsgård calls it. Fair play to him, I guess. Andor is probably the best piece of Star Wars media since the Original Trilogy, and season 2 has kicked off with a bang. A New Episode Structure They’ve changed the formula…
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Lower Decks is coming to an end
(Mini Post) Star Trek Lower Decks had its penultimate episode a few days ago, and since the show is coming to a premature end, I want to briefly talk about it. I really enjoyed this show, and I’m a little sad that it’s over. This will be quite a short post. The episode followed William…
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The Penguin Mid-Season Discussion
The Penguin episode 5 is out, and I want to talk about it: both the episode and the show more generally. Spoilers Ahead (though I’ll try to keep them light) The Penguin episode 5, in summary, is very good. It’s not the best episode and had, I thought, some minor pacing issues. Oz/Penguin’s confrontation with…
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Animated Batman (Shows) Return
A new animated Batman show, The Caped Crusader, was released a few days ago, and while I’ve only had the chance to see the first episode (life and university work are getting in the way again), I do want to talk about it—very briefly—because I have a lot of thoughts! Though, mostly, I’m just happy…
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The Acolyte Finale
Spoiler Alert for Star Wars: The Acolyte The final episode of The Acolyte was released last week and was the definite high point of the series. My previous critiques of the show do, I think, still stand. It still has some creaky dialogue and awkward plotting. Erasing Mae’s memory, for instance, so that she can’t…
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Mad Respect for The Acolyte Episode 5
After The Acolyte episode 5, I have a lot of respect for this show. Spoiler Alert In my previous post about Star Wars: The Acolyte, I essentially said that it was flawed but had potential. I was critical of the sometimes awkward dialogue and generally thought that the plotting/episode structures weren’t great. After another 2…
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Star Wars: The Acolyte So Far
It has interesting ideas but the execution could be better. There’s room to grow. Spoilers for episodes 1-3. I feel like we’ve been hearing about The Acolyte for years. I could swear I first heard about it during the Mandalorian season 1. Or around then, anyway. Sure enough, a quick Wikipedia search reveals that work…
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A Smallville for Batman.
(It recently occurred to me that my blog posts constantly cycle through Zelda, Mario, and Star Wars. So now I’m also going to talk about Batman.) Spoiler alert for Gotham (2014) Batman’s origin has been done to death. But there is a reason that people keep coming back to it. It’s an interesting story (if…
Thoughts and Fiction 