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20JulJuly 20, 2024

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: The Acolyte (Part III)

(This is absolutely the last one, I… I have to move on) Story. “A story succeeds for fails in the style of its telling.” You’ve heard me say that a thousand times. Less frequently, but just as important I often ask, “Knowing how the story ends, would you want to read it again?” No one wants to hear this story again. This story fails so drastically that I truly hope it gets sent to the Iron Vault of Tax Write-Offs. Supposedly, this cost...

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18JulJuly 18, 2024

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: The Acolyte (Part II)

(I really hadn't planned to make this a three-parter but I had to stop and put together a valedictory for Bob Newhart. The third part should probably be up tomorrow at the usual time.) The Star Wars Lore fifty-car-pile-up. Why make a prequel? There’s rarely a good reason for it. There are exceptions of course. The Silmarillion was a prequel that laid out just how vast the mythology of Middle Earth really was. It worked for the Godfather Part II where you...

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18JulJuly 18, 2024

RIP Bob Newhart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdUWXf8jJk We were totally scammed and we loved it! It was easily the greatest ending to a television comedy in history. I never even heard the lines I was laughing so hard. It was without question a "you had to be there to understand" moment. There had been all kinds of rumors going around about how Newhart would end. Mostly they'd promised something really intolerable. That Bob, who had been a fixture in our lives throughout the 1980s was going to be...

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18JulJuly 18, 2024

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: The Acolyte (Part I)

(I have to break this into two parts, I can’t examine this much bad in only 1500 words) This is the LucasFilm project where the last of the superfans, The Star Wars Advocates finally walked away. The opposite of love is not hatred, it’s indifference. After this, they don’t care anymore. It’s not just that this show took Star Wars canon, rolled it up in a carpet, threw it in a dumpster, poured gasoline on it, and set it on...

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17JulJuly 17, 2024

2015: Disney’s Watershed Year

2015 was the year that Bob Iger made the decisions that set Disney on a course to oblivion. It was the year he made the choices that changed it irrecoverably from Walt Disney's company to Bob Iger's. Several factors converged that year that would turn Disney into the trainwreck it is today. A lot of people blame Covid but truthfully that just accelerated a process that was already in motion. These factors in no particular order were; the...

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14JulJuly 14, 2024

Goodbye Shannen

Shannen Doherty has lost her fight with breast cancer. Given the events of the weekend, it’s all too easy to overlook the passing of one of the great genre actresses of Generation X and that would be a shame. Doherty started out as a child actress in the early 1980s. Her first appearance was in the Chariots of the Gods futureman hippie babble show, The Phoenix, where she played “Little Girl.” Her next three parts were in varied genre projects The...

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13JulJuly 13, 2024

The Acolyte is Officially in Trouble

Shill to the stars Grace Randolph, the most reliably pro-LucasFilm shill channel with almost but not quite a million subs, has suddenly done an about face and absolutely dragged the latest episode of the Acolyte across broken concrete. She could not dredge up enough bile and vitriol. It went from absolutely amazing to a blitheringly incompetent steaming pile of Star Wars. The Neilson's are out now so there is no hiding this disaster any longer. There is no way in...

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12JulJuly 12, 2024

Alec Baldwin Has Walked… Of Course

Oh, come on. You knew he was never going to do any time. Apparently, the prosecution concealed evidence. Mistrial with Prejudice. Clever for a DA who knew what was expected of her. https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1811887473997324589 Discuss on Social Galactic

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12JulJuly 12, 2024

Jon Del Arroz Is the Only One Left Still Covering the Neil Gaiman BDSM Scandal

UPDATE: https://twitter.com/jondelarroz/status/1812126790833643776 **** The suppression algorithms have been fired up. Open up a private browsing window and type in Neil Gainman on YouTube. Take a look at the results, you can see for yourself whats happening. Neil was a pioneer in Wokism, he was writing about mentally ill defectives long before they became a protected class. He is revered by the high lords of Clown World for his trailblazing. Gaiman is into the amazingly disgusting stuff. I mean we're talking the Marquis De...

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11JulJuly 11, 2024

What is Marvel Doing to Captain America this Week?

REPOST: 7/11/24 There is zero interest in Falcon America Brave New World. But it does look like Disney/Marvel thinks they have something that won't look like a total joke if they put it in theaters. Since the Marvel brain trust was fired and replaced with DEI quotas there is very little hope for it. Feige has absolutely not gone back to formula that made Marvel a boxoffice juggernaut. He's hoping that a vaguely anti-Trump Woke-lite plot will put him back on...

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