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07JunJune 7, 2022

Book Discussion: The Missionaries by Owen Staney

Take up the White Man’s burden, The savage wars of peace— Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought, Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to nought. — Rudyard Kipling The Missionaries is both a rollicking rip-roaring old-fashioned great white hunter adventure as well as hilariously stinging modern satire. If L. Rider Haggard, James Clavell, and Keith Laumer had decided to collaborate on a book The Missionaries would...

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06JunJune 6, 2022

The Dark Herald Recommends – The Great War of Archimedes

This one is a little different from the usual pop culture stuff I review. The Great War of Archimedes is of all things a drama about the building of the Yamato. I found the film intriguing because it’s an excellent example of the Japanese school of storytelling, following as it does the structure of Kishōtenketsu. The producers clearly spent a big chunk of their period piece money on the first scene. Which was a pretty decent rendering of the destruction of the Yamato...

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05JunJune 5, 2022

Is Amber Heard Out of Aquaman 2

Maybe. That is the rumor that is flying everywhere at the moment but there is no confirmation from Warner Brothers or more importantly a source that I trust. The rumor that Meera will die in childbirth is idiotic. That started as a throwaway idea by the guy who leaked that Heard is out in the first place. Meera's screen time has been reduced to ten minutes. Given the problems that Heard has caused the studio and Zaslav's desire to...

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03JunJune 3, 2022

RE:View The Black Hole

I recently watched The Black Hole on the same day that I saw Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. When I got home from the theater my kids were watching it and I sat down with them intending to make fun. I couldn’t do it. Having just watched Doctor Strange 2, The Black Hole appeared to be a masterpiece of subtly layered meta contexts and deeply structured storytelling. I decided, wisely, to put off doing a RE:View of it until the trauma...

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02JunJune 2, 2022

USMC Celebrates Pride Month

Do you think I'm joking about this? https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1531994393950953472 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2jLLMdEBw Discuss on Social Galactic

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01JunJune 1, 2022

First Impressions: Stranger Things -Season 4

Well, it’s good. That’s in a nutshell. I’ve finished episode 4. I spent half of the first episode waiting for either the Woke or the Suck to arrive. And it didn’t. Still, I’ve seen single good first episodes before. Moon Knight comes to mind. However, by the time I reached the end of episode 3 of season 4, it was time to accept the reality of the situation. Stranger Things is good again. This is easily the best work this show has done since the first season. The second...

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01JunJune 1, 2022

Joe Quesada Is Out at Marvel Comics

About time. No one in comics will miss you Joe. A while back I had noted that when Geoff Morrell left Disney, and everyone was (for some silly ass reason) declaring that he got fired. Only I and WDWPro were saying that he quit. We were saying that for the same reason. His departing statement didn't look anything like what you would expect to see from someone getting fired from Disney. Getting fired from Disney if you are...

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31MayMay 31, 2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi Is the New Batwoman

https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1531519653951836161 https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1531519656254590976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1531519656254590976%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthatparkplace.com%2Ffans-drop-star-wars-in-droves-star-wars-claims-racism%2F LucasFilm sent out this tweet at 1:00 am this morning. Well done LucasFilm, you just blew the loudest dog whistle you could find telling everyone on Earth that you know Obi-Wan Kenobi is bad. That is what tweets like this are now. Nothing short of a public announcement that this show is just as bad as Batwoman. You don’t see Top Gun, Ghostbusters Afterlife or Stranger Things season 4* sending out announcements like this. That is because they know their show is good enough to...

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31MayMay 31, 2022

RE:View Young Sherlock Holmes

When my wife looked over my piece on Enola Holmes there was something at the end that caught her attention: “But if they (the writers) had let her first love die… If they had allowed Enola to fail. I would have had to have given it a higher rating. It would have made this a much better film. It would have made Enola, alone. This would also have given her character a catalyst moving forward. She had failed once and massively when it really counted at...

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30MayMay 30, 2022

Book Discussion – Servants of War by Larry Correia and Steve Diamond

I don’t have the greatest track record with collaborations. Neither reading nor especially writing. My one attempt at a collaborative work ended in anger, recriminations, an incomprehensible manuscript and writer’s block. Never. Freaking. Again. My luck with reading them has been better, (it would be hard-pressed to be worse). But I have rarely found a collaboration that is better than the individual author’s work. That is not to say that I haven’t found them over the years. Niven and Pournelle's collaborations were mostly better than their individual...

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