Category: Destroy All Monsters
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Destroy All Monsters: Nostalgia, Loss, And Purple Rain
Turns out I had a few things to say about losing Prince. And, as usual, writing this made me feel better. Crank “Purple Rain” while you read this and try to get to the bottom in time for the “wooo-hooo-hooo-oooo.” It’s worth it.
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Destroy All Monsters: Scarlett Johansson And Our New, Digital Plasticity
Beyond merely her voice, Johansson was pretty much made for [The Jungle Book], and its seamless blending of performers with digital avatars. She is quickly becoming a one-woman cottage industry in exploring our relationship between our physical and virtual selves.
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Destroy All Monsters: DEEP SPACE NINE And The Challenge Of Community
You owe Star Trek: Deep Space Nine a second look. It might be a good way to drain the time between now and Bryan Fuller’s Star Trek reboot next year. The best aspects of Deep Space Nine set a benchmark that Fuller (who started his writing career with a one-shot on the series) will be…
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Destroy All Monsters: Mindfulness In STAR WARS
This one, obviously, means a lot to me! I’ve been on the mindfulness/meditation journey for a couple of years now, ever since I decided to start taking the fight back to my own anxiety disorder (which isn’t a very mindful notion, is it?). The importance of mindfulness as an anxiety strategy, and its centrality in…
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Destroy All Monsters: My Team’s Better Than Your Team, So There
Kind of proud of this one, mostly because it started as an all-out rant about internet argument culture and somehow metastasized into an appreciation of how the DC Expanded Universe, through its Infinite Earths model, might actually be a better gambit for consumer choice than my beloved MCU.
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Destroy All Monsters: In DAREDEVIL’s Battle Of Fanboy Wet Dreams, Elektra Wins
There are problems with Marvel’s Daredevil. I am an unabashed fan of the show – I have called its first season the best thing Marvel Entertainment has ever done, and its newly-released second season easily lives up to the benchmark – but I won’t deny any of the series’ more problematic aspects. Some of these…
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Destroy All Monsters: INDIANA JONES 5 Should Be About Short Round
Shorty was played by Ke Huy Quan (now Jonathan Ke Quan) in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. An orphan from the streets of Shanghai, caught trying to pick Indy’s pocket, Shorty quickly becomes the Indiana Jones equivalent of a gentleman’s gentleman: sidekick extraordinaire, minder of Indy’s kit, and keeper of Dr. Jones’ conscience.
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Destroy All Monsters: HOUSE OF CARDS In American Upside-Down Land
Like many of you, I spent the weekend turning down the volume on the real-life political soap opera that has overtaken the United States and watched Netflix’s House of Cards instead. You have to feel sorry for House of Cards this year, a little bit: in the 3 years since the series debuted, its TV-as-novel…
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Destroy All Monsters: “Our Lot In Life” – Droid Personhood In STAR WARS
The question of gender as it relates to droids is interesting, if only in how it connects to the other, less-discussed aspect of these characters from the Star Wars saga: the status of their personhood. Gender is one of the great convocations of personhood; or at least, one of the most significant rubrics by which…
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Destroy All Monsters: Winter In The Captain’s America
Institutional paranoia may be the low-hanging fruit of the American blockbuster, but Captain America 2 exploits it well – even ingeniously, when the movie does reality one better by claiming that all of our online presence is being cobbled together, not into a giant database by which to drive ad sales, but rather into a…