the convenient manner with which America at large forgets how easily it fell under the fascist thrall of Steve Rogers’ Hydra

I liked how the overarching story of Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War was all politics and war. None of the typical dualistic “One side is the force of Darkest Darkness seeking to plunge the Universe into Eternal Darkness unless stopped by the Prophesied One” fantasy stuff that came into it with Starcraft II. The…

I mean it’s meant to be a parody, not to mention the Confederacy is portrayed as the villains.

I feel like StarCraft 2 took the series into a more “fantastical” journey than the first game in terms of story and characterization. It focused a lot more on the heroes and villains rather than each race as a whole.

To me, StarCraft, Diablo and WarCraft in the 90s was taken a bit more serious by Blizzard and the…

In the case of Stranger Things, it feels like you see a microcosm for why television is on the rise and movies are on a decline. Studios often see movies as big, expensive gambles, which is why they try to stick to tentpoles, franchises, and films that are as sure-bets as possible. Not to mention there are only a…

“Stephen King book directed by Steven Spielberg”

I want a small story, like Spider-Man Homecoming. Spidey stopped thieves, no Infinity Stones, no Thanos, just some bluecollar thieves. No saving the Galaxy, fulfilling prophecy, destiny, bullshit. Just a small story contained to Tatooine, look no further than spaghetti western, and wandering samurai stories for…

Certainly the business current model is unsustainable. Asking people to spend $4 a pop for twenty-odd pages of story — which, in these post-narration/thought balloon days of “compressed” storytelling probably amounts to about five or six minutes’ worth of entertainment, if that — is not a workable proposition. Today’s…