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Review: Dark Matter, “Nowhere to Go” (Series Finale)
A very inconsistent season of Dark Matter ends with a season finale that is also somewhat inconsistent. (And I finally get to see it; thanks for taking your sweet time, Microsoft.) Ryo receives a stay...
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Review: Arrival + New Article
I’ve always had a soft spot for the Jodie Foster movie Contact. It’s actually kind of a boring film in some ways, but I always find it so thought-provoking. I enjoy where my mind goes after the movie...
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A Fly on the Wall to the Save Dark Matter Campaign
As there so often is when a good sci-fi show is cut down too soon, there is of course a fan campaign to try to save Dark Matter. This has been a bizarre thing for me to watch, stirring up odd and...
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Review: Star Trek: Discovery, “The Vulcan Hello” and “Battle at the Binary...
Well, it’s here. The first new Star Trek TV series in more than ten years. I’ve had pretty significant reservations about Discovery from the outset, due to my complicated relationship with the Star...
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Review: Star Trek: Discovery, “Context Is for Kings”
To watch Discovery streaming in Canada, you have to wait until Monday for CraveTV to put the episode online. That meant that I was already hearing some buzz about “Context Is for Kings” before watching...
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BlizzCon 2017 Wishlist/Predictions
BlizzCon, the Christmas in November for Blizzard fans, is now just a few weeks away, and as always I’m here to make my predictions and list my hopes for what we’ll see there. This year, I think we all...
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Review: Star Trek: Discovery, “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry”
I have this scene in my mind. It’s the Discovery writers room, and they’re pitching episode titles. Someone quips, “Well, we’ll never come up with any titles as over the top as the original series...
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Review: Star Trek: Discovery, “Choose Your Pain”
Man, the quality of this show is so all over the map. I still don’t know what to make of it. I guess the good news is that this time the pendulum has swung back toward “pretty damn good, actually.”...
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Review: Star Trek: Discovery, “Lethe”
A faction of Klingons wants to talk peace (yeah, that’s not suspicious at all). To that end, the Federation dispatches Ambassador Sarek, but his shuttle is sabotaged en route — not by Klingons, but by...
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Review: Star Trek: Discovery, “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”
So far, Discovery has had a fairly different style of story-telling from most of previous Trek, save parts of Enterprise and maybe DS9. That is, this is an arc show. It’s telling a single continuous...
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