Tag: Science Fiction
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Short Story: “One Last Catch”
Crab season had been over for eight solar days, but the Pequod cracked the asteroid anyway. The thing was sitting right there, all fat and juicy and full of karkinoi, and a catch was a catch. The Pequod’s take had been lousy the back half of the season, and the only cargo kicking around the…
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Quick Thoughts: The Demise of the Halo TV Show
Oh, Master Cheeks, we barely knew ye. The Halo TV show has been cancelled by Paramount after two seasons (although I’ve seen articles saying that the studio intends to shop the show around to other networks). I know that I and pretty much everybody else on the internet were lining up to take steaming dumps…
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Review: Fallout (Prime Video)
I was going to make some half-assed reference to war never changing, but you know it does: the quote is just cool. Fallout (the show) represents a change from Fallout (the games), after all – the forms of media their stories are presented in are inherently different. Does the transition from choice-driven, open ended role-playing…
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Review: Halo, Season 2
This is Going to Hurt… You might be wondering why, exactly, I subjected myself to another eight episodes of this “adaptation” when I so disliked the previous season. Reader, I must confess to feeling the same way myself on more than one occasion…but I soldiered on, because you deserve it, and also because I wanted…
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Review: The Mandalorian, Season 3, Eps. 6-8 (Disney+)
Let’s call a spade a spade: this season of Mando was more uneven than my heart rate, and the last three episodes really exemplified a lot of the problems I had with this season as a whole. I put off writing this review because, honestly, I just didn’t find the end of the season…
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Review: Andor, Episodes 7-10
In my relatively short tenure as proprietor of a reviews-oriented site, I’ve come to realize that it’s much, much easier to write about things that I don’t like than it is to crank out ~1000 words on something I actually enjoyed. The episodes comprising Andor’s last arc make for a hard review in the best…
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Review: Andor, Episodes 4-6
[Oh, yeah, there’s some spoilers in here, but I tried to avoid anything too specific…apart from the ending of Rogue One.] Something about these three episodes rubbed me the wrong way…but, much like the clitoris, I’m having a hard time putting my finger on it. Oh, well. Let’s give it the old college try. Andor’s…
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Review: Love, Death & Robots (Season 3)
Mild spoilers below. Three Robots: Exit Strategies My overall feelings about LDR’s second season were lukewarm…so seeing the three ‘bots from the very first episode of the series return for more darkly humorous adventures was a good sign. A bit of the intrinsic humor of the situation naturally wears off in a second installment, but…
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Review (kind of): Sable
[Played on Xbox Series S.] I really wanted to like this. I did! And I feel bad about the way it ended, like a relationship with a sweet girl who you ultimately just don’t match up that well with, if that girl also asked you to do annoying fetch quests for beetles. But I’m…