Ponderings of science, philosophy, history, society, and many other topics
The season finale for The Wheel of Time was last week. As I've mentioned before, I read two or three of the early books decades ago, but remember very little: Rand, Moraine, portals to alternate realms, and a few other things. So the show mostly feels like fresh material. In the early episodes, it was … Continue reading The Silent Sea, Boba Fett, and other TV notes
When the first season of The Witcher showed up a couple of years ago on Netflix, I was slow to watch it. From a distance, it looked too much like a Game of Thrones ripoff. But numerous recommendations eventually drove me to check it out, and I discovered a rich world with compelling characters, all … Continue reading The Witcher season 2
Usually new TV shows I'm interested in are few and far between, which makes the last few weeks unusual, as there's been an avalanche of stuff that caught my interest. Apparently everyone wants to release their stuff in or near the holiday season. I wonder why they don't think we need entertainment throughout the rest … Continue reading Cowboy Bebop and other TV notes
Okay, this is a bit different. Bryce is a very talkative assassin hired by a Japanese crime boss to kill a reform minded candidate for prime minister. Bryce succeeds in that assassination, to the horror of the country. But he's then betrayed by the crime boss. He escapes, but find himself badly wounded and alone … Continue reading Hit-Monkey
It's been a long time since I've been much of a game player, so I'm not familiar with the League of Legends game, or its overall story universe. But apparently the game developers have put together a rich lore and history behind it, and some of that is starting to come out in various franchised … Continue reading Arcane: League of Legends
If you've ever perused the anime section of your streaming services, you'll recognize this one. Even more than Fullmetal Alchemist, it's one of the most popular series in the world. It's billed as dark fantasy, and they're not kidding about the dark part, but I found it to more often have a science fictional attitude. … Continue reading Attack on Titan
When I mentioned to friends that I was on an anime binge, the most common question was, "Have you watched Fullmetal Alchemist yet?" This series is on everyone's list of anime series to watch, so it was only a matter of time. There are actually two series. The earlier one is called just Fullmetal Alchemist. … Continue reading Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
The second season (err, volume) of Love Death & Robots was released yesterday, so naturally I ended up binging it last night. Not that it took long. Each episode is less than 20 minutes (one is less than 10) and there are only eight of them this time around. One of the episodes was written … Continue reading Love Death and Robots, Volume 2
The director's cut of the 2017 movie Justice League was released for streaming last week, all four hours of it. I watched it over several evenings, grateful that Snyder chose to have labeled acts that made it easy to pause. I don't often bother with director cuts of movies I've already seen. Historically they usually … Continue reading Zack Snyder’s Justice League
First, I like this model where movies are released for streaming concurrently with the theater release. As someone who rarely goes to the theater anymore, and usually just waits for the movie to come out on streaming anyway, it's a very cool change. I know Warner Brothers is taking a lot of heat from people … Continue reading Wonder Woman 1984
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