There’s No Deep Issue In Captain Marvel I don’t get the Captain Marvel controversy. The internet’s reaction to this film was just a curiosity before I’d seen it but now is just abjectly confusing. I’m putting a line in the sand here and stating that the movie is fine, not fantastic, but fine, fun, and not…
Danny Phantom: Not A Nostalgia Ghost Danny Phantom is still a good show. My nostalgia for the series was something fierce, even if the finale left much to be desired. I honestly was expecting to be savagely disabused, again, of my childhood memories, but no, Danny Phantom nails its first episode on several layers. Like,…
Jimmy Neutron Is Such A Strange Show My memories of Jimmy Neutron are false. I remember this show being a silly thing that took a similar premise to Dexter’s Lab and made it into something a lot more irreverent and light-hearted. A pleasant series with pretty good meme material all things considered. But, wow, going…
Bandersnatch: Something Old Made New Bandersnatch deserves a lot of slack, simply because it’s a technical achievement on another level and the fact it can function through a television interface is something that might become a game-changer. I’m genuinely excited to see what other creators are going to do with this technique. What sort of creations…
The Lego Movie 2 Is Joyful Pure Brilliance Can we just openly acknowledge that the team behind the Lego Movie franchise is brilliant and understand a modern audience on a level that’s honestly shocking and delightful and only further prove that with The Lego Movie: The Second Part? What had already been a creation that made…
Ben 10 Is A Fine Show But Not That Great Sadly, the old shows cannot all be winners: the first episode of Ben 10, while not terrible or bad by any stretch, was not the masterpiece of fun sci-fi that my nostalgia goggles showed me whenever I thought back. It really had such a good…
“We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.” Borne is a novel about growth, understanding differences, and ultimately – human triumph. The novel begins with a woman, Rachel and her friend, Wick struggling to survive in the dystopian wastes from a multitude of enemies outside the safe…
Strowlers was a good idea, I’m sure. A wholesome idea. Creating a world of urban fantasy that people can contribute to is a cool way to let lesser-known creators and new talents get their feet wet. Conceptually, I really like Strowlers. But you can only get so much goodwill. And, no matter how nice an idea,…
Invader Zim: Something Dark And New In honor of the new movie, it seemed logical to go back and review the first episode of Invader Zim and see what got us to where we are now. To see if the show is as good as we all remember and worthy of the nostalgia. And, put…
The Orville Became The New Star Trek Having not grown up with original Star Trek, nor The Next Generation, The Orville is my first real exposure to the type of storytelling that’s so important to the history of sci-fi. It also leaves me in an odd state as the show has several aspects to it that…
Movie Better Be Better Than This Trailer… The trailer for Men in Black: International does not have enough aliens. A petty complaint, but it’s a major draw of the franchise. And that’s only one complaint. It does not communicate the MIB being a secretive organization well and half of the scenes seem to be an…
A Reason How Many Episodes I Watch The “three-episode rule” is an idea popular in the anime community. They use it because each season so much new anime comes out that they need to eliminate a bunch of them quickly from their “to-watch” list. It’s a system that’s all in the name, where they watch…
