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April 15th Weekend Predictions & Predilections
15 Friday Apr 2016
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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Fear the Walking Dead – Monster recap
11 Monday Apr 2016
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by Thom Yee
Why I’m Watching… Fear the Walking Dead season 2
There was a time long ago (last fall) that I dared to call Fear the Walking Dead a show I enjoyed more than The Walking Dead. It was a time before the great herding of zombie gulch, the Wolves’ attack on Alexandria, Carol setting everybody on fire, and the solidification of The Walking Dead as less a show but a legend, and thus, in retrospect… it may have been a foolish statement to make. Continue reading
Legends of Tomorrow – Progeny recap
08 Friday Apr 2016
Posted in Television
by Thom Yee
Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution
1×10: “Progeny”
Time travel’s always an intriguing concept for any story, but it’s also a tricky-wicky thing to stick the landing on, and the more it plays a central role in the story, the more the whole thing tends to fall apart under the stress of underlying logic. Even putting aside some of the basic, cause-and-effect and what-happens-to-that-cause-after-changing-the-effect questions, a lot of time-travel stories just don’t make that much sense when you think about them too much.
April 8th Weekend Predictions & Predilections
08 Friday Apr 2016
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The Walking Dead – Last Day on Earth recap
04 Monday Apr 2016
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by Thom Yee
The Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC
6×16: “Last Day on Earth”
There’s a certain type of dread you might feel when you’ve become invested, a dread of inevitability, when you’re reading something you’ve already read several times before and you know that something bad is coming, but you keep hoping that somehow this time will turn out different. We’ve known for some time now that Jeffrey Dean Morgan was cast as Negan for this season of The Walking Dead, and with that knowledge I was especially terrified as the season progressed to the point we comicbook readers knew it was getting to, both for what Negan represents for the series, and for how far an actor like Jeffrey Dean Morgan would go with Negan. He’s going to change everything. Continue reading
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice review
02 Saturday Apr 2016
Posted in Films
I don’t even know anymore
by Thom Yee
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice images courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
I get a little defensive when it comes to Man of Steel. The 2013 Extended Universe movie designed to kickstart DC’s burgeoning cinematic line has its share of problems, but when people tell me that Pa Kent would never tell his son that he shouldn’t have saved his classmates or that Superman would never kill or when they say the movie’s too dark, I can’t help but feel that they missed a lot of what was going on. In Man of Steel, we had a Superman who didn’t simply spring forth as the fully formed superhero we’re all familiar (and, most of us, board) with, but instead was a man torn between two worlds, having only recently discovered the secrets of an origin that left him isolated for his entire life just before being attacked by the last remnants of his own people. Man of Steel wasn’t dark, it was real, exactly as hateful, cruel, dismissive, uncaring, and dangerous as people can be in a real life where answers aren’t easy. Continue reading
Legends of Tomorrow – Left Behind recap
01 Friday Apr 2016
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by Thom Yee
Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution
1×09: “Left Behind”
It’s been a few weeks since we last saw our heroes, weeks where some of the truly legendary figures of the DC Universe have made their onscreen debuts, and I have to say I’ve enjoyed my time off from this show. It’s not that I had gotten sick of Legends of Tomorrow, but I was certainly growing bored with it. It turns out the time off was good for the show too.
April 1st Weekend Predictions & Predilections
01 Friday Apr 2016
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