Star Wars Rebels: Mostly Tropey Fun
Mar 29, 2023
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Nostalgic But Predictable
Mar 27, 2023
Friday Fiction: Have A Drink…And Then The Same Drink
Mar 24, 2023
Foundation: Almost-Phenomenal Science Fiction
Mar 22, 2023
Andor: A Strong New Era For Star Wars
Mar 20, 2023
Friday Fiction: The Humming At Midnight (Part 2)
Mar 17, 2023
It Came From The Archives! “The Mandalorian: Proper Star Wars Returns”
Mar 15, 2023
Tantalus Depths: Solid Sci-Fi Horror
Mar 13, 2023
Friday Fiction: The Humming at Midnight (Part 1)
Mar 10, 2023
Lockwood & Co. Is One Of The Best Of Its Genre
Mar 8, 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: Marvel Gets Weird
Mar 6, 2023
Friday Fiction: Me On Another Planet
Mar 3, 2023
Thor: Love and Thunder: Not Funny
Mar 1, 2023
It Came From The Archives! “Solitary: Big Story On A Small Budget”
Feb 27, 2023
Friday Fiction: The Land of Fantasy Calls (Part 2 of 2)
Feb 24, 2023
Star Wars Rebels mostly escaped my radar during its 2014-2018 run, but it was a positive surprise to explore now. Despite feeling like this franchise is now racing towards oversaturation (if it has not already reached it), Star Wars television shows have—for apparently a long time—been mostly solid little pieces of media.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is a show hard to review as its own thing. While lately a good chunk of Star Wars is an act of accounting for missing parts in the timeline and universe, Kenobi has especially little space to experiment—its plot is so heavily stuck by continuity that there are practically no surprises to be had. We know who can and cannot die in any scene; even people who don’t know Star Wars well will have a general idea of what will happen in this plot.
You may have read this introduction before. I cannot speak for certain. Time can be strange like that. Sometimes it doesn’t move the way you would expect it to move.
To review Foundation, I must reveal my lack of foreknowledge. I’ve not read the books; I’ve heard amazing things and that they’re a seminal work of science fiction, but never ventured there myself. I probably should now: if they’re better than this show, they’re probably incredible.
Perhaps the most notable thing about Andor is how immediately it establishes itself as different from the usual Star Wars fare. What little I’ve seen of more recent Mandalorian projects suggests this isn’t an isolated affair, but it is to me.
In every tale of rules that must never be broken, someone breaks them. Humans, it seems, are sometimes too curious. And now our protagonist, Jeremy, has stayed up too long. And can hear the humming.
It’s been a long time since the first season of The Mandalorian came out. And, while I finish tackling reviewing some of the newer Disney+ Star Wars entries, let’s look back at what worked in the first three episodes and how much the series has (or hasn’t) changed.
Tantalus Depths is the kind of book that the right audience will love. It’s a solid combination of cosmic horror, somewhat-hard science fiction, and has sprinkles of space epic. And perhaps its biggest triumph is how it balances those three things in an organic, unfolding way that never feels like a hard genre shift.
Today, we have a type of story that’s been with humanity forever. There have always been stories of things children must not do or risk terrible danger.
I dismissed Lockwood & Co. during my first exposure to it. A random segment of the show I walked past didn’t impress me. But now, having seen the first three episodes, I must admit how wrong I was. This is not only one of the best recent paranormal thrillers/horror urban fantasies, but it’s a good show in any context.
I try my best to avoid spoilers or discourse about a piece of media before I review it. But I already know that I’m the odd one out. Because I have no particularly strong issues with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania—and the internet seems to have quite a simmering hatred.
Traveling across space is always dangerous. Space is an extremely hostile environment, and that’s before you account for how technology can fail in it.
