By James Nelson I’m not kidding either. I’d seen the trailers for Sir Patrick Stewart’s new show, Blunt Talk when they first came out, but at the time I never stopped to think how surreal and unnerving it would be…
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Should We Fear the Walking Dead?
By James Nelson So. Here I am. Reviewing a Walking Dead spin-off. These were the thoughts I had as I fired up the ole cable box to catch the series premiere of Fear the Walking Dead. I’ve abandoned the flagship…
Yes, it’s Okay to Get Excited About The Force Awakens
By James Nelson So, yesterday one of my comrades released a post explaining why we should not be excited about Seventh Star Wars movie. In it he argued a variety of things but at it’s core was a deep seeded…
Who is Max von Sydow in Star Wars?
By James Nelson Update (12/21/15) We now know that Max von Sydow plays a previously unknown character named Lor San Tekka, a leader of a village on Jakku and a member of the “Church of the Force.” Though they didn’t mention…
True Detective finale: The Light’s Not Winning
At the end of season one Rust Cohle looks up to the stars and pronounces, “the light’s winning.” It was a sentence that crystallized Cohle’s experience and catharsis in that season, and that even though they there was still rampant…
The Best Star Trek Video Games on This Side of the Quadrant
By James Nelson I will admit, when I think of great games, the first thing that comes to mind isn’t Star Trek. There have been a ton of Trek games over the years, and many of them have serious flaws,…
Why Enterprise Deserves a Second Look
By James Nelson “Cause I got faith, of the heart/I’m going where my heart will take me/I’ve got faith, to believe/ I can do anything” are the words to my nightmares. The Suliban, the dominant villains of the first two…
The Worst Trek Villains
By James Nelson With a series that’s history spans forty-nine years, with five TV series and twelve movies, there’s bound to be a lot of great antagonists and stories, while at the same time having an equal mix of terrible…
How Gene Roddenberry (nearly) Killed Star Trek
By James Nelson In case you avoided the media blitz on Thursday, William Shatner has released a new documentary about The Great Bird of the Galaxy; the man, the myth, the legend, Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. The…
The Commercial Age of Comics (Part II)
In my last post I discussed how we have entered into a new age of comics, one which is defined by three increasing trends: increasing diversity, simplifying canon, and corporate synergy between print and film. None of these things in themselves…