Having had read the novels I found the lynch Dune film to be an abomination. The SyFy series was far superior and a better metric for comparison though by no means perfect.  What nice about the SyFy series is that they didn’t even try to waste their resources on making it appear realistic.  They approached the…

My impression of season 3 is that it basically took the same premise as Devs but was too burdened with its own baggage to make it a worthwhile experience. It layered the free will vs determinism motif of Devs on an action plot that meandered through Blade Runner and espionage homages. From my perspective it pounded…

Yep- Definitely something Blade Runner-esque about the first portion of the episode, mostly carried by the theme music.  

I think it’s a bit of retconning to proclaim that this series was always about Ashoka and Rex. It was about Ashoka and Rex when it was necessary for the show to be about them but it was, equally, also about Ashoka and Anakin, Ashoka and the Jedi, Anakin and Obi-Wan, etc. It’s focal point shifted with growing…

I always had difficulty disassociating Jurassic Park the film from its narrative origins in Westworld (the original movie, not the HBO show). I was always too aware of the parallels between the plots and the characters of both efforts, even though Jurassic Park was a far superior production. So for me it wasn’t…

Frankly I thought the dragon had a different significance altogether and unrelated to medieval world. For me, the fact that they were shipping it to Costa Rica was a much bigger meta moment than the medieval nature of the dragon. It so happens that Michael Crichton wrote Westworld, a story line he revisited in a…

While the GoT dragon is getting a lot of attention I wonder if the significance of the destination it is going to be shipped to is being overlooked?

I hope Ashley’s right and we’ll get to see more of Ahsoka in the future. I found it interesting that there was some crossover with Rebels in the last Clone Wars episode with the abundance of Loth cats hanging around.

I enjoyed this episode. While I also felt that the encounter between Ahsoka and Trace was forced and awkward the abundance of Loth cats hints that there may be a Force related twist to the pairing. No doubt Trace will lose her sister and leave Coruscant with Ahsoka on their rebuilt ship and that the Force is still…

It certainly does seem that there is something very Matrix-y about the setting of last nights episode, especially since Caleb has a head injury of some kind. Pom’s character struck me as Agent Smith like and her use of the royal “we” was suspicious to me in that regard.

The primary purpose of imposing travel restrictions on Europe is not to mitigate the spread of this virus. This move has one simple goal in mind and it has Stephen Miller’s treasonous hands all over it. The purpose of this move is to serve as a proof of concept of using a legitimate epidemic as an excuse to seal our…

One of the things that irks me about the Walking Dead and which was highlighted for me in this episode is that zombies, for all the dread they rightly impart, are as a group exceedingly vulnerable. Within the rules of this show walkers are attracted by sound which is why the whisperers are able to infiltrate the…

Or Michonne...

Even though six movies exist that are specifically about Darth Vader, fans never truly saw him at his full power. That is until a group of Rebels stole the Death Star plans and he mowed down their friends with shocking, rollicking ease.

This doesn’t have to make narrative sense. It just needs to be financially viable for Disney.

There was an additional disadvantage relative to the DU that is perhaps more intrinsic to the way studios run their business. This was touched upon in the article in reference to Dracula Untold and the possibility of a “soft landing” should it fail at the box office. But whereas the expectations on the first MCU…

Sadly my Star Wars collection consists of many non-Star Wars movies that have more faithfully captured the story than what the prequels and sequels actually did.

I think the first point here is flawed even though it’s acknowledged that the first trilogy had the upper hand. It’s faulty to say that ROTJ failed to tie up the enemies list because several decades later Abrams and company decided, unimaginatively, to resurrect them in the form of the First Order and later still…

Great episode and wonderful to see Patrick Stewart playing Jean Luc once again. I enjoyed the consistency and attention to detail throughout the episode. It’s also a pleasure to see how comfortably Patrick Stewart inhabits the character.

I agree this is an awful episode. I personally wouldn’t rank it as the worst but it was perplexingly bad (see mandatory Robin Hood episode in reaction to Robin Hood movies/TV shows for comparison).