The Acolyte has turned out to have had a far greater impact in death than it ever had in life. There really wasn't much going on out of the ordinary while the Acolyte was streaming new episodes. New episodes are streamed on Disney+ once a week. The Fandom Menace (myself included would shell it), repeat until the season was over.Although, now that I think about it an outright cancelation is something new. I mean sure there are Star Wars projects...
Harddrive-by is particularly appropriate when discussing this game. It has been shot deadThere has been so much going on in the gaming scene and I’ve had so little time to pay any attention to it. I’d started to write a piece on Dustborn, the Wokest disaster in gaming when Concord, the second Wokest blew up in the wire.Concord AKA Portland-Overwatch was in development for eight tragic years. Which means it started life back when Overwatch was the biggest thing in...
“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be...
REPOST: This is post from September two years ago but it is unusually timely at the moment.But now Ilúvatar sat and hearkened, and for a great while it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws. But as the theme progressed, it came into the heart of Melkor to interweave matters of his own imagining that were not in accord with the theme of Ilúvatar; for he sought therein to increase the power and glory of...
James Gunn is going heavy into the Green Lanterns for some Gunnish reason of his own.“Lanterns” will tackle two intergalactic cops (Hal Jordan and John Stewart) investigating a murder in the American heartland. Nathan Fillion is set to co-star in the series as Guy Gardner. No word yet on whether Gardner or Jordan will be portraying the Green Lantern as both characters have done so in the comics.Damon Lindelof (‘Watchmen”) will be an executive producer on the show. Chris...
Neil Gaiman's second series at Netflix has been axed. For some mysterious reason..."The first season, which dropped on April 25, will now be the final season for the show, which was originally set up at Max.The news is not entirely surprisng..."Yeah, no kidding."Dead Boy Detective spent only three weeks in Netflix’s Top 10 for English-language series, peaking at #2 in Week 1 behind phenom Baby Reindeer. Based on the comics of the same name by Neil Gaiman and part of The...
"I am the Elder King: Melkor, first and mightiest of the Valar, who was before the world, and made it. The shadow of my purpose lies upon Arda, and all that is in it bends slowly and surely to my will. But upon all whom you love my thought shall weigh as a cloud of Doom, and it shall bring them down into darkness and despair. Wherever they go, evil shall arise. Whenever they speak, their words shall bring ill...
Back in 1982, even the movies that flopped became classics. Imagine that for a second, you go to the Googleplex Theater and have to pick between Conan the Barbarian, The Thing, Tron, Blade Runner, or The Dark Crystal, and these were the misses. As for the hits, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was a box office win but E.T. left it so far in the dust that the dust had settled before the Enterprise could reach it. ...
The reviews are in and I'm so relieved to find out that my fears were completely unfounded. and that..."The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power may not be everything we hoped it would be – how could it? But for now, it’s enough." NPRClearly, a stellar production that will vastly outshine the first season. Most of the reviews are like this. Just enough praise to qualify as a good review, while at the same time bringing up everything that's...
The year is 1981, Berlin is the divided capital of a divided country. For decades this has been the place World War III would start once the Cold War turns hot. At any given moment gunfire from the East will snap out into the night air as someone makes a life-or-death dash across the border to escape the socialist workers' paradise of East Germany. The Berlin Brigade is a division-strength US Army garrison permanently stationed on the West side. As...
