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May 27th Weekend Predictions & Predilections
27 Friday May 2016
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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Fear the Walking Dead – Shiva recap
23 Monday May 2016
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by Thom Yee
Fear the Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC
2×07: “Shiva”
There’s a very specific type of melancholy that I’ve always felt during this time of the year as the days got longer, the darkness waned, and summer continued its inevitable approach. It’s too bright! It’s too damned hot! And most of our favourite TV shows have finished their seasons. In one respect, however, we’ve come very, very far from that place, with summer television programming giving us some of the most acclaimed and most anticipated new series in recent history, as well as a brand new episode of one of our greatest shows only yesterday forever changing our feelings on the words, “Hold the door!”
All of which is another way of saying Fear the Walking Dead sucks. Continue reading
Legends of Tomorrow – Legendary recap
20 Friday May 2016
Posted in Television
by Thom Yee
Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Brothers Television Distribution
1×16: “Legendary”
One of the things that got me most excited about Legends of Tomorrow was seeing all of these different superheroes and villains working together, unfettered, in the series’ first teaser trailer. As a comicbook fan whose introduction to the medium was through big, sprawling, and, frankly, confusing books like Crisis on Infinite Earths (a twelve-issue maxi-series that starred multiple iterations of the same character in a story about the destruction and reformation of the DC Universe’s multiverse into one single Earth), I developed an early appetite for gigantic collections of heroes in massive group shots working together against a common bad guy as drawn by classic artists like George Perez, so scenes involving almost all of the Berlanti-verse heroes that have developed over the years in raids on bad guy compounds or flying at top speed through the sky hit right where I live when it comes to this genre. Continue reading
May 20th Weekend Predictions & Predilections
20 Friday May 2016
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Fear the Walking Dead – Sicut Cervus recap
16 Monday May 2016
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by Thom Yee
Fear the Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC
2×06: “Sicut Cervus”
A lot of sh*t has happened to the fear team in a relatively short amount of time, or rather we’re supposed to feel like a lot has happened. That whole thing with ol’ whatshisname… Connor? I guess that really messed everybody up insofar as most families never have to go through a father-daughter-pirates hostage situation. Beyond that though, it doesn’t feel like a whole lot has happened, at least not much that we could really care about, so all the wild turns some of these people take this episode kind of come out of left field. Continue reading
Captain America: Civil War review
14 Saturday May 2016
Posted in Films
Spoiler alert: Cap never once takes his shirt off
by Thom Yee
Captain America: Civil War images courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
A man, any man, may appear without aggression, at least may seem without aggression at first. Whether a man loses his sense of aggression without proper outlet, whether a man learns that society would sooner reward reasoned thought than barbaric action, whether a man’s natural aggression is sapped from him as he finds that only quiet conduct has been deemed acceptable, a man is told to be calm and collected and apply his other talents to win the day. But deep, deep down, down inside, a man knows that whatever the situation, even if the other man has more money, wields more power, or has reached the adulation that can only come from a celebrated status, a man knows that the only thing that ever mattered and ever will matter was that he would win in a fight against the other man. That’s what makes a man a man. Or an Iron Man. Or a Spider-Man.
Legends of Tomorrow – Destiny recap
13 Friday May 2016
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by Thom Yee
Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Brothers Television Distribution
1×15: “Destiny”
If you look at everything that’s happened on Legends of Tomorrow as the story of Leonard Snart, from cold-hearted thief to reluctant teammate to eventual hero, and you look at it only from that perspective while willfully ignoring most everything else that’s happened (especially anything having to do with Kendra), things look kind of okay from there.
Kind of.
Otherwise, what a f*cking mess. Continue reading
May 13th Weekend Predictions & Predilections
13 Friday May 2016
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