Fear the Walking Dead – Sicut Cervus recap

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by Thom Yee

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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

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Spoiler alert: Cap never once takes his shirt off

by Thom Yee

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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.

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Legends of Tomorrow – Destiny recap

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by Thom Yee

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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.

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Fear the Walking Dead – Captive recap

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by Thom Yee

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2×05: “Captive”

Well… I guess that’s one way from getting from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’.

For a while through watching “Captive”, I kept saying to myself, “This isn’t so bad, it’s okay, it’s okay.” “Oh, this is the part where Alicia stabs Jack, it’s making sense, it’s making sense.”  “Oh, cool, Alex is back? Maybe they did have a plan for her. They’re doing stuff, they’re telling a story.” And then the show ended and the whole thing kind of didn’t go anywhere. Kind of really didn’t go anywhere. Continue reading

Legends of Tomorrow – River of Time recap

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by Thom Yee

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1×14: “River of Time”

I just realized that — in Rip Hunter, Carter Hall, and Kendra Saunders — Vandal Savage has three mortal enemies. That’s kind of a lot, even for an immortal dictator. And it fractures the story.

Like it or lump it, if you’ve stuck with this show this long, you should be able to overlook the flaws in Kendra and Ray’s romance, but with the way they just keep throwing it in our faces, it’s impossible not to keep picking it apart. And that’s a bad thing. The Kendra-Ray relationship is underdeveloped, oversimplified, boring, and unconvincing, and in thinking about it for as long as we’ve had to, I think finally I realized what the writing on Legends of Tomorrow reminds me of: Fanfiction written by an average thirteen year old. If you view “River of Time” through that lens, it doesn’t make the episode good, but it does help to make it slightly more acceptable. Continue reading