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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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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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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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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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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...

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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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Obi-Wan Kenobi: First Impressions

Let’s get something straight from the start.  Leia was the special one. In case you are wondering what the Disney feminist bait and switch is this time that’s it.  She was always the super extra special one.  Luke meant nothing.  He didn’t deserve any of the accolades he received because Leia should have had them.Anyway, the first five minutes were good. We get a quick scene where we see Younglings being trained, just as Order 66 kicks off.  Then we cut to the Inquisitors arriving...

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Yeah, It’s Gonna Suck – Thor: Love and Thunder

The final trailer for Thor: Simp and Blunder dropped.Here it is.Look at it.LOOK AT IT!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go8nTmfrQd8 That. Was. Awful.Thor 4 is what happens if you put a Gamma Male in charge of a barbarian hero.  Kevin Feige’s resentment of the blonde, muscular, popular guy has been on display since Iger stupidly fired Ike Perlmutter and put Kevin Feige in charge of all things Marvel.In Thor, Feige has found the perfect whipping boy for his high school bully frustrations. Ever since Endgame, Thor has become...

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Heroic Archetypes Posts

This is a link library to my series on comic book heroic archetypes. It will have to do until I get something better up and running.The Sons of Silenus – The Sidekick HeroesThe Sons of Theseus – The Detective HeroesThe Sons of Jason – The Explorer HeroesThe Sons of Apollo – The Aspirational HeroesThe Sons of Mercury – The Trickster HeroesThe Sons of Hercules - The Barbarian Heroes

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