As a fan of the Expanse novels, I’d say they’re much more noir than Western.

I think that’s an extremely limited view of what can be considered a Western, especially if you take films like Yojimbo and Sanjuro into account. Is Yojimbo a Japanese period drama? Yes. It’s also a damned Western.

Maybe relevancy is the wrong question. Is it relevant? That’s a deeply personal question, and I’d guess that the answers vary wildly from person to person. Personally, no. I saw Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star before I ever saw Firefly, and as much as I enjoyed the show it never caught my interest in the same way its…

Questioning the Space Western? Depends how you mean it. I’d argue there have been a large number of space westerns that accomplished what they set out to be. Firefly is just the one that trusted the audience so little that it resorted to visually being a western.

I’d like to lump Dr. Who fans into this category. Not every scifi conversation I have needs to revolve around Firefly or Dr. Who, you zealots.

Do you have access to Cowboy Bebop? Can you get access to Cowboy Bebop?

Watch Cowboy Bebop instead.

You're assuming a crash in a ship fully out of control. This could have been a controlled, forced crash landing.

I think a lot of that hate comes down to 2 issues:

This movie has been one of my favorites for years. It just has everything for me: interesting plot, amazing cinematography, beautiful score, and what I consider to be career-defining performances from the leads. It just kills me how unpopular this movie seems to be. I meet people who don't like it an are absolutely…

Alright- I'm in, but I'm wary. Problems aside, this is one of my favorite Disney movies.

I worked at a major retailer for a few years and gaming with my coworkers was nearly a daily occurrence for most of that time. Shooters were the standard fare, mostly a mix of Halo and CoD. Our management would play sometimes, but after getting smoked too many times against the hourlies in CoD they tried to avoid…

Um...Last I had checked, the Gundam Official channel on youtube had episodes on as they released for Build Fighters.

I love powerless heroes. That said, I do not love Black Widow. I just hate how, especially in the MCU, there seems to be a constant need to remind the viewer that she's a badass. They just try too hard to push it, and I don't buy it. The plot-lines they stick her with are horrible.

Thank you for a very well thought out and presented post about your relationship with religion and video games, Nathan. It's refreshing to read a piece like this that doesn't come off as an anti-religious screed. It's also nice to read about people who have interacted with religion in ways that are similar to my own…

For me, it's the artillery. I love setting up my batteries in clever ways and watching them just waste enemy infantry.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I loved Napoleon. It was a huge departure and I have a hard time considering it a true Total War game, but I had a blast with it. I felt like the AI managed to be okay most of the time, but really it's that time period that made it for me. Plus, the focused campaign was pretty…

It is, indeed.

It isn't terribly common. It's more a nickname than an actual name. "Gret-" comes from Margaret/Margareta, and "-chen" is a suffix used to make a diminuitive as in "Hundchen" (Puppy) or "Bruderchen" (baby/little brother). "Gretchen" is essentially a pet-name, meaning "little Margaret."

I'll agree that the English pronunciation of Gretchen is awful, but it's a beautiful name in the original German pronunciation.

Yeah, native of NC here. Pretty much everybody in the state accepts that the "Lost Colony" is better titled "The Colony That Moved But We Never Looked For It." Some research has been done that points to movement and intermarriage, hence why the colony eventually "disappeared."