Thoughts and Fiction

Thoughts and Fiction

  • an Intermission to the Intermission

    I’ve nothing to post this week either I’m afraid. I’m up to my neck in dissertation writing. But it was bothering me to not post anything – so here we are. A few words to waste everyone’s time! Hopefully be back soon. -Dexter

  • Intermission

    Alas, I’ve no post to make this week. Life has gotten in the way again (dissertations and all that). I’ll hopefully be back soon. -Dexter

  • 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…

  • Realistic Superheroes

    Reflection on The Boys and the Realistic Superhero genre. In recent decades, a number of films, TV shows, and comic books have attempted to depict a Realistic Superhero story. There have been so many now that it could almost be called a genre – or at least a subgenre. Even conventional superhero stories are starting…

  • 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…

  • Warrior-Plumbers: The Mario Timeline Continued.

    A while ago, I wrote a blog post about the Mario Timeline. I didn’t actually make a timeline – I’ve not played enough of the games for that – but I had some thoughts on how to make one. And, now, I’ve had some more thoughts on the matter, so I thought it was worth…

  • 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…

  • 2003 Clone Wars should be re-canonised.

    (A new re-edited version of this article is available here.) In 2003, after Attack of the Clones, Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Samurai Jack) was hired by Lucasfilm to produce an animated mini-series set during the clone wars. The episodes were short, just a few minutes long (though they got longer in the final season) and…

  • Update #2

    I’ve finally started improving this site! It still needs a lot of work (and I still haven’t had a chance to learn many of the Word Press tools due to university commitments). But I have changed the theme. It’s no longer just a blank screen with some text on it. Now it’s a blue screen…

  • Monstrous Hylians Treating Monsters in Monstrous Ways

    (A new, more coherent, version of this post is available here.) The Hylians/‘good guy’ factions in The Legend of Zelda are doing horrifying things to the monsters. When you kill a monster in a Zelda game, it explodes in a puff of evil smoke. Then, depending on the game, it drops an item. Sometimes it’s…

  • The Mushroom Kingdom: A Land of Tyranny and Stockholm Syndrome

    I may have gotten carried away on this one, maybe let my mind wander a little too freely. But Princess Peach is a tyrannical dictator and all the toads/mushroom people have Stockholm Syndrome. I refuse to elaborate! Okay, maybe I will. How did the Mushroom Kingdom survive before Mario showed up? The Mushroom Kingdom’s people,…

  • May the 4th be with you.

    Just a short post for Star Wars Day. I love Star Wars (a crazy and unusual sentiment I know), and I fully believe that it should have a day devoted to it – two days if you count Revenge of the 5th. But I’ve got to be honest with you. Star Wars Day tends to…

  • Fallout Falls In: Season 2 Predictions

    I don’t know what I mean by ‘Fallout falls in’, but I like how it sounds. Spoilers for season 1 of Fallout. The new Fallout show dropped on Amazon Prime a couple of weeks ago. I am a little late in discussing it – I had uni commitments – but I do want to talk…

  • Update

    Hi all, I don’t have anything to post this week I’m afraid. There are a few articles I’m working on but I’m currently focused on university work, which has slowed my usual progress down a bit (I’m writing an essay about an economist named Amartya Sen, for anyone who’s interested). I’ve also been thinking about…

  • The Lost Clone Wars Arcs

    The Clone Wars TV show is amazing. It took a little while to find its feet, I admit, but once it did (and often even before it did), incredible! But that’s hardly a new take, everyone knows and says that it’s great… because it is. I can’t emphasise that point enough! There’s also an added…