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…
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Top Ten Must See Star Trek: The Original Series
State of the Nerd Union regulars Zach Nichols and Trevor Law discuss the must-see episodes of TOS along side guest commentators, Joanie Brosas and Dan the Man. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KctLKZTCZA&w=560&h=315] As always, you can follow us here facebook.com/stateofthenerdunion twitter.com/nerdunion https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaPf99qzIqI412zeSKEB6MQ
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 Music of Star Trek
By Kenneth Shipp There’s no sound in space….definitely one of the most overused space facts in movie trailers ever. But let’s take a second to think about that shall we? One of the quietest places in existence and we as…
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…
Heroes Reborn….Don’t get excited
By Kenneth Shipp I have a hard time believing that this mini-series will be any good. And to be honest, I have more info telling me it can be bad rather than good. But let’s talk a few things out…
Things are about to get weird on True Detective
More than any other thing I have missed from season one of True Detective, that has been missing thus far in season two, is the sense of existential dread. That dread was made manifest by the philosophical ramblings of Rust Cohle,…
True Detective: You Have My Attention
So, I know I wrote a whole article on the evils of Season 2, but I now have to eat my words. Episode five was a standout and spells out the strengths of this season in a way I could…
What went wrong with True Detective
It’s time to come to terms with it: season two is not as good as season one. It appears that try as hard as they might, season two just can’t recapture that same magic as the first season. This is…
The Shows we most anticipate from Comic-con
A ton of news has been announced at this years Comic-Con, from new trailers, to toys, comics, and even concerts, but the thing that most excites me is the prospect of great new sci-fi and fantasy TV coming this fall.…