Tag: Prometheus
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The Toy Report: 2017
I don’t think I’ve enjoyed collecting this much in over a decade. I may honestly have taken it a bit too far; new job, new outlook on life, living high on the hog and buying every goddamn thing I set my eyes on. I cancelled a few pre-orders; re-sold a few things that showed up…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Chase”
“Graciously, Mister Picard! You could accept it graciously!” I love this episode. I love it on principle: an in-diegesis explanation for why all the aliens we’ve ever met on Star Trek look like human beings with bumps on their foreheads, rather than something (anything) else. That’s the kind of tack-into-the-wind storytelling ballsiness that I can…
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My Week With Alien, Part 5: PROMETHEUS
Originally published at The Substream. Spoilers. Thrilling and dangerous, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is the vigorous work of a mature director, returning with terrifying intelligence to the rigours and riddles of long-ago dreams. The film does as advertised. It is hard sci-fi, thickly woven with ideas. It scours the corners of the Alien taxonomy in order…