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Monthly Archives: November 2016

The Flash is a dirty rat who killed Cisco’s brother and The Walking Dead give the answer to a question nobody asked — Superhero Showdown episode 8

28 Monday Nov 2016

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DC, Marvel, MCU, superhero, Walking Dead, Zombies

The Flash — Killer Frost

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The Flash images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution

This week brings us the long-awaited Kevin-Smith-directed episode of The Flash, by which I mostly mean “who cares who directed what episode of what show, they all feel the same!!” I just thought you might like to know that since I have such a rare and unrivalled level of ambivalence towards so many things and maybe you don’t feel the same way [about life]. He directed one last year [an episode of The Flash] and he’ll be directing an upcoming episode of Supergirl as well. I think it’s a job he got mostly on the basis of crying. Anyway, it might not matter to you who directs the individual episodes of the TV shows we watch, but I think, for whatever role he may have played in it, Kevin Smith’s “Killer Frost” episode was one of the better episodes of the season. Of course, so far it’s also been the worst season of the entire series. Continue reading →

November 25th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

25 Friday Nov 2016

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Opening this Weekend

Moana

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The Flash throws light on the Shade, the Legends of Tomorrow are Hexed by misogyny, and The Walking Dead hail to a new chief — Superhero Showdown episode 7

21 Monday Nov 2016

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The Flash — Shade

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The Flash images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution

So this week the Flash gang faces off against the fearsome new rogue known as the Shade, but really, most of “Shade” was dedicated to catching back up with all of the little subplots that have been building alongside the more major events of the season. Caitlin reveals her Killer Frost powers to the group, or rather Cisco reveals her Killer Frost secret against her wishes, Joe finally goes on a date with Cecilia, Wally’s still having problems with not having any powers, and Barry spills his guts over everything he’s messed up by creating Flashpoint. Also, now Iris wants powers too? And apparently H.R.’s Earth-19 is completely nuts? Continue reading →

Arrival review

19 Saturday Nov 2016

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Aliens, Sci-Fi, Space

The kangaroo did it

by Thom Yee

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Arrival images courtesy of Paramount Pictures

Most people don’t know this about me, but I didn’t grow up speaking English. That might not be a huge, shocking surprise given my Chinese surname and the… let’s go with “inward-looking nature” of my people, nor is it likely a huge stretch of the imagination to then conclude that my first language might have been Chinese. In my  case, it was a dialect of Chinese that you probably wouldn’t even recognize if I specified which (and I’m not going to), and looking back and thinking about my parents, both second-generation Canadians who were more comfortable speaking English (if at all?), it seems like a strange choice for them to have raised me in a Chinese-speaking environment. What I remember most of my first few years speaking Chinese was a great deal of isolation from all of the people I met who spoke English, then a brief a period of transition as I adapted to English and entirely forgot Chinese, followed by a great deal of isolation from the Chinese community of which I was allegedly a part (a feeling that continues to this day). I like to think sometimes that those early experiences with conflicting languages and incompatibilities gave me a unique perspective on grammar and the process with which I put sentences together, but really, I think it was mostly just an experience that made me hate everyone and the world around me. Continue reading →

November 18th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

18 Friday Nov 2016

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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The Legends of Tomorrow [Wave]ride into the danger zone while The Walking Dead… well, they don’t really go anywhere — Superhero Showdown episode 6

14 Monday Nov 2016

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Legends of Tomorrow — Compromised

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Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution

After a first season full (FULL!) of major, foundational missteps, I think Legends of Tomorrow is finally starting to find its level. Which is an entirely different thing than saying Legends of Tomorrow has gotten good, it’s just hasn’t been so strikingly bad lately.

This week, the Legends make their way to the 1980s after their recently developed “time seismograph” warns them of a crisis during the 1987 INF Treaty signing while also explaining why they never travel to a point before the time crises they face in order to preemptively or proactively solve their time-based problems. I think by now most of us who’ve stuck by the show must be far past the point of questioning the internal mechanics of the time travel premise and its seemingly arbitrary rules, but still, it’s nice to see these types of things being addressed every once in a while. Continue reading →

Doctor Strange review

12 Saturday Nov 2016

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Action, comics, magic, Marvel, Marvel Cosmic, MCU, superhero

The real magic is in the places you’re not looking

by Thom Yee

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Doctor Strange images courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Magic is one of those things in life that’s hard to define in concrete terms. That’s kind of what makes it magic actually, that it can do almost anything in a way that surprises and delights. Who knows if magic is a part of real life (or what “real life” even means sometimes), but we feel like it is, and maybe that’s enough to make it real. It’s only when you start to pin it down, when you conjure it with words and spells and gestures and avatars, when you start to give it real weight and meaning, develop it into a system, designate its boundaries, and accept it as simply part of everything else going on that it becomes a bit more of a science, something cold and clinical to be broken down and parsed. That’s when it starts to lose whatever it is that made it special and it can almost become laborious. Continue reading →

November 11th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

11 Friday Nov 2016

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Arrival

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