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When the world continuously takes away your options and shatters your dreams, what choice do you have but to rebel and make your own path? That is the core question at the center of episodes 3 and 4 of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. The callous disregard of Night City, the setting for both the Cyberpunk TTRPG and … Continue reading Learning to Live on the Edge – Review of “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” Episodes 3 & 4
The 4th episode of Amazon Prime’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, titled “The Great Wave”, is not what I would consider a great episode of television. It’s a good episode, in so much as it moves some of the plots forward, but at the halfway point of the season, I was … Continue reading The Board Continues To Be Set – Review of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Episode 4 “The Great Wave”
There’s a term in storytelling called a “humiliation conga”, where a character has to endure repeated humiliating events. The crux of the 5th episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, titled “Mean, Green, Straight Poured Into These Jeans”, puts that front and center as Jennifer Walters has to battle Titania in court for the right to … Continue reading More Than a Name – Review of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” Episode Five “Mean, Green, and Straight Poured Into These Jeans”
Source: IMDB The essence of Cyberpunk as a genre is fighting against the hopelessness of an utterly crapsack world. The first two episodes of Netflix’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners drives this home in spectacular fashion, with the focus on protagonist David Martinez, a young man living in the thoroughly corrupt and decadent Night City (the default setting … Continue reading Welcome to Night City – Review of “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” Episodes 1 & 2
Chains come in many forms, physical, emotional, or spiritual. The famous phrase “the chains of command” are meant as metaphorical, emphasizing the weight someone who must command others carries with them. In the third episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, titled “Adar”, metaphorical and physical chains are being forged, binding … Continue reading Links Forming a Chain – Review of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Episode 3 “Adar”
When the Sorcerer Supreme seeks you out for legal work, you just know nothing is going to go according to plan. Jennifer Walters finds herself in an odd predicament thanks to the returning Wong (while also trying to find her way through the dating pool) in the fourth episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, titled … Continue reading Put a Spell on You – Review of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” Episode Four “Is This Not Real Magic?”
When I was six or seven years old, my mother handed me a worn paperback copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. After devouring the adventure of Bilbo Baggins and the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain, I asked if there was another book from that author. My mother, proud that she had piqued my interest in … Continue reading Return to Middle-Earth – Review of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Episodes One and Two
For a legal comedy, there hasn’t been much in the way of actual courtroom antics so far in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The third episode of the first season, titled “The People vs. Emil Blonsky” changes that, with two plotlines involving courtroom cases, with Jennifer Walters smack in the middle of both of them. We … Continue reading Court’s in Session – Review of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” Episode Three “The People vs. Emil Blonsky”
Source: IMDB As a child of the 1980s, I have an unabashed love for a good portion of the films released during that decade. One such film that is made up of one-part machismo and two-parts science-fiction horror is the original Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Since that time, the Predator franchise has had some serious … Continue reading A Wise Hunter – Review of “Prey”
It takes a certain amount of creative daring to switch perspectives drastically this deep into the first season of a series. Credit Dave Filoni for the confidence necessary to shift away from Clone Force 99 for the latest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch by focusing on another beloved character from a different Filoni-helmed … Continue reading Something Completely Different – Review of “Star Wars: The Bad Batch” Episode 11 “Devil’s Deal”