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Price shot me an invite for Bluesky and I joined (fuckos, I had been on that waiting list for months!). All this turned out opportune, timingwise, because Meta’s threads thing launched, I think, a day and a half later or…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “The Star Gazer”
“Cheers, big ears.” Season two, let’s do things in twos. Here goes. A story: I signed up for Paramount+ a couple of weeks ago, because I wanted to watch the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in 4K.…
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ScreenAnarchy on INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
I love how many of us (myself included) mentioned our age, or Indy’s age, or both. Read our thoughts here!
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Phase Four
So, let’s get into it: what happened with Marvel? Let’s start with some obligatory table-setting: following Phase Three (and, specifically, Avengers: Endgame) would have been a monumental creative challenge for any studio, product line, or storyteller; take your pick for…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2”
“Something in my head seemed to just… go away. Like a child’s sandcastle collapsing.” So: what was Picard — season one anyway — about? Let’s start with logistics. Patrick Stewart is roughly 79 when Star Trek: Picard films its first…
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The wizards of speed and time
I. VCR My weird friend Miller got into swap meets and Marie Kondo last year, after moving to the Goo, which I guess is a thing that happens when you move to the Goo. I don’t trade much in swap…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard: Canada Day Special — “Children of Mars”
“We could be heroes… just for one day.” I knew I forgot something! There’s a prequel to Star Trek: Picard, which also serves as the last episode of the two mini-seasons of Star Trek: Short Treks. I used to do…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1”
“It must have taken appalling brutality to turn such a gentle soul to violence.” After the season-high, one-two punch of “Nepenthe” and “Broken Pieces,” I cruised into Star Trek: Picard‘s two-part season finale more bullish on the show than I’d…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Broken Pieces”
“The future is left for us to write. And we have powerful tools!” “Nepenthe” was my favourite episode of season one of Star Trek: Picard and remains the odds-on favourite to keep the crown for the whole series; but, when…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Nepenthe”
“Oh, MAN!” After a furious week or so of writing and scheduling posts for this rebooted Blogging the Next Generation, I took about a month off between “The Impossible Box” and today’s entry. I recall something similar happening when the…
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