I love Star Trek, and I love the newer additions to the universe: Discovery, Prodigy and Picard. But I have to say that one of my favourite things about new Star Trek is The Ready Room with Wil Wheaton. Wil Read more…
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There are two types of sci-fi — the kind where you are looking at something exploring so far beyond the bounds of what is known that you entirely suspend your disbelief and view it more as a kind of fantasy, Read more…
How many people are out there who can look at a serious issue in the world and wrap it in humor so people can swallow it, without diluting the impact of the message? There are definitely more than there used Read more…
I did not expect this to be such an emotional experience, but it was. It wasn’t really about the show in a lot of ways, it was about the family of actors that came together to create it. I mean, Read more…
I liked the look of the new She-Ra reboot when I first saw it, and I think somewhere at the back of my mind I knew Noelle Richardson was involved with it, and I love her comics work. I think Read more…
Why do you want them to continue old TV shows that you used to love? For me it is not so I can see the same old story rehashed with actors who look like beef jerky versions of their younger Read more…
I like the pace at which this story unpacks. There have been points in the main movies where I have felt that too many disparate threads have led to parts of the story being truncated. I’m not a massive fan Read more…
I am on something of a nostalgia trip with this one. I remember it being for me, one of the first things outside of Only Fools & Horses where I began to see David Jason’s genius. I loved him in Open Read more…
When a story starts to run against the internal logic of a system that it has set up, the narrative really should be a believable account of the success of the dismantling of that system, or of the failure of Read more…
It is a real shame that this series is not continuing. It was interesting to see the opposition of motion versus stillness in this season as an indicator of who was winning. When Kingpin is on top he is calm, Read more…