That Seems Really Unlike You
That Seems Really Unlike You: AKA – The way Unbowed Unbent Unbroken SHOULD have happened Like many people watching Game of Thrones, I am less Continue Reading
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The Clone Wars
How is it that we’ve gone so long without talking about The Clone Wars? I fell in love with this series in 2008, because it Continue Reading
Tabletop: Game On!
Grab your favorite board game, warm up your dice, and watch out for owlbears in Wil Wheaton’s internet show. There are two things I love Continue Reading
Sailor Moon Crystal Act 1 – Roses, Sparkles & Awesome
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon is not the first anime I ever saw (I think that honor goes to Project Ako) but it is the anime Continue Reading
Orphan Black: An Army of Me
And now, a Zen koan: does a television series pass the Bechdel test when 90 percent of the female characters are played by the same Continue Reading
Lost Girl: Sal-fae-cious
This post will feature many gratuitous images with saucy captions, just because. “The way they pick TV shows is, they make one show. That show’s Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – The Children
This season began with Tywin Lannister, at the height of his powers, melting down the family sword of his enemy. It was easy to imagine, Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – The Watchers On the Wall
The final moments of last week’s Game of Thrones were as bleak and nihilistic as they get, reminding us in no uncertain terms that Westeros Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – The Mountain and the Viper
The task of adapting A Song of Ice and Fire to the small screen brought cast and crew any number of challenges, most of which Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – Mockingbird
There’s a sense of unpredictability hanging over Game of Thrones this season, or an instability underlying the structures of Westeros and the people propping them Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – The Laws of Gods and Men
Game of Thrones, like the books that inspired it, is a series about power and all its trappings. From the get-go, as Eddard Stark spiralled Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – First of His Name
I don’t speak German, so maybe someone who does can enlighten me – is there an enormous compound word for that feeling when a deeply Continue Reading
Attack on Titan – Big action, fast plot, shallow characters
It really seems like Attack on Titan has been one of the hottest new anime properties out there as of late. I stopped counting the Continue Reading
Game of Thrones – Oathkeeper
Well, it’s finally happened. An episode of Game of Thrones to make ASOIAF readers go “Holy shit, what?” the same way their Unsullied* fellows have been Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: Breaker of Chains
There was about an hour of Game of Thrones on Sunday night, and much of it probably deserves discussion. Tywin Lannister’s history lesson, the sudden Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: The Lion and the Rose
It’s not uncommon, when you’re talking about A Song of Ice and Fire or its small-screen sister Game of Thrones, to hear some variation on Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: “Two Swords”
One can only imagine the temptation, in making a series like Game of Thrones, to instill symbolism in every little scene. The characters literally wear Continue Reading
The After
A friend of mine linked on Facebook yesterday that they’d watched the new Chris Carter pilot, The After. I liked X-Files, like everyone else, and Continue Reading
Day of the Doctor
I expected it to be bad. I expected River Song and “Sweetie!” and Rose and fez’s are cool and all of the badness that has Continue Reading
Legend of Korra: Season 2 finale
All four episodes released this weekend of the finale of Season 2 for Legend of Korra, AKA: Legend of she did what now?, so please Continue Reading
Gargoyles: To the wayback machine!
Right around the age where kinds think cartoons aren’t cool anymore, I stumbled across during the after school obligatory channel surfing, the cartoon Gargoyles – Continue Reading