September 2022 - Arkhaven Site

30SepSeptember 30, 2022

Ezra Miller to Be the New James Bond?

That’s who they must want if they follow through on this. Eon Pictures head Barbara Broccoli said as much in an interview with Vanity Fair. “It’s an evolution,” she (Barbara Broccoli) says. “Bond is evolving just as men are evolving. I don’t know who’s evolving at a faster pace.” It's reasonable to assume she avoids any part of America where the men don't wear nail polish. Craig, she adds, “cracked Bond open emotionally,” bringing audiences into the character’s inner life. “The films over his...

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29SepSeptember 29, 2022

Star Wars Update: I’m Low on Material

I haven’t done one of these for a while. Largely because the franchise is so dead that people skip over any article I write about it. Sadly, I’m low on Blog material today. And I can’t do She-Hulk. I just can’t. FIRST Andor Episode 4. It’s back to being very slow. The excitement has left the building until next week at the earliest. Good news, the dialog is tight and well structured. Bad news, it is still in no way a Star Wars show. The Jedi and the Sith...

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28SepSeptember 28, 2022

Blogs and Ends: The Hollywood Questions Edition

Will Alec Baldwin face charges in the shooting death of Halyina Hutchins? I’ll be brutally honest here. I doubt it will be anything substantive. The DA is a Democrat who took office in 2021. She won’t be up for election until 2025. She has also been very soft on the kind of crimes that Democrats have found to be fashionable. I haven’t found out if she took Soros money but would you be surprised if she has? The DA has been granted funds to charge four people...

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27SepSeptember 27, 2022

The Trouble with Orc Souls

The Orcs presented a fundamental conflict for J.R.R. Tolkien one that he never resolved during his life. On the one hand, he envisioned the Orcs as being animals that talk. He wanted them to be soulless abominations. On the other hand, he didn’t want Morgoth to have any power of creation whatsoever. Aulë was allowed to create life. Or to be more exact had the capability since he was never given permission by Ilúvatar to bring the Dwarves into the world. Aulë was forgiven for this...

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27SepSeptember 27, 2022

The Truth of the Harfoots

I have finally discovered the truth of the Harfoots in the Rings of Powers. They are absolutely not the ancestors of the Hobbits. They are clearly and obviously the progenitors of the Boggies. "Although only two hundred invitations had been sent, Frito Bugger should not have been surprised to see several times that number sitting at the huge troughlike tables under the great pavilion in the Bugger meadows. His young eyes widened as he moped about observing legions of ravenous muzzles...

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26SepSeptember 26, 2022

The Rings of Power – Episode V: Morgoth Smiles at His Children’s Fingerpainting

The Rings of Power pitch meeting "I shan't call it the end, till we've cleared up the mess." - Samwise Gamgee I have to watch this thing before anyone else in my house gets up. My family refuses to join me in my suffering. There are times to remind your children that you are the absolute head of the household, and your word is law but when you can’t blame them in the least for avoiding something this horrible, then it sure as hell...

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24SepSeptember 24, 2022

Arktoons Roundup Sept, 23rd, 2022

Welcome to the Arkhaven Roundup, a regular feature at the Arkhaven Blog usually on Mondays but I’ll be moving it to Fridays for the duration of Amazon’s soul-destroying Lord of the Rings pastiche. Anyway, the Arktoons Roundup is where I take a look at stuff that is new and interesting in the world of Arkhaven’s webtoons. If you aren’t familiar with Arktoons, this is meant more for you. I am the Dark Herald; I do the blogging here at Arkhaven. This blog is mostly...

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23SepSeptember 23, 2022

Andor – First Impressions

Please, I don’t want to see any green tits in Star Wars. That was my very first reaction to Andor, the new… Star Wars(?)... show on Disney +. I am very reluctant to call this a Star Wars show. It doesn’t feel anything like the Galaxy Far, Far Away from my childhood. This show isn’t dark and gritty so much as it is dark and grimy. It starts off with Andor walking through an Amsterdam-style redlight district, with various vulgar entertainments being offered in the...

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22SepSeptember 22, 2022

Tears of the Karen-Clowns

D23 was a humiliating experience for Brie Larson. There were people that were in line and out the door for Chris Hemsworth but there were only thirty people in line at Brie Larson’s table. Right before she came out, there was an announcement over the PA that she would be signing autographs. It was a sad, “please clap” moment that didn’t move the needle. Thirty people, that was it. George Takei gets more people than that at his meet and greets. The ridiculous part is that...

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21SepSeptember 21, 2022

RE:Play – Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to Be a Hero

REPOST: What difference a couple of years makes. The opening paragraph is shockingly out of date now. Microsoft has gobbled up two of the big studios in that list and Blizzard couldn't be more of a train wreck without an actual train being involved. Overwatch has been dormant for a year. The last skins offered were nothing but palette swaps of pre-existing skins, that is about as zero effort as you can get. Its biggest...

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