Category: Fantasy
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The Only Good Jedi Is a Dead Jedi – A Modest Proposal for the Future of Star Wars
by William Moon The Jedi have to go. Both for real-world reasons (their mystique is long gone, mired in a morass of vaguely defined mythology) and for in-universe ones (one of them inevitably turns evil and starts blowing up planets). I’m not advocating for a Sith takeover either. They only seem to exist in the…
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The Bats**t Chronicles #2: Dune
by William Moon As promised, The Bats**t Chronicles returns with a sophomore outing covering Dune. (See the entry on Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway here.) And where to start with Dune exactly? Well, first off, this won’t focus on any one particular version of Dune and instead will look at the novel and…
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The Bats**t Chronicles #1: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
by William Moon Starting a new feature here with The Bats**t Chronicles, wherein I dig into a project that succeeds or is memorable not in spite of being batshit crazy, but almost entirely because it is batshit crazy. (“Succeeds” is a malleable term here, as many projects in this vein are disasters by any traditional…
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1982: Movie Sci-Fi’s Best Year?
Multiple Classics of the Genre Look at 40 by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in June 2022 June 1982 was a fat month for movie releases. In an era now where studios fight over release date real estate much like jackasses fight over smart TVs on Black Friday, the logjam of…
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Picking at the Scab: Let’s (sigh) Talk About What Went Wrong with Game of Thrones
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in April 2021 This coming Saturday (April 17th), we’ll have somehow reached the ten-year anniversary of the premiere of Game of Thrones‘ pilot episode, “Winter Is Coming”. A friend of mine found out via an ad from HBO pushing people to dive back into the…
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The Journey vs. The Destination: The Silver Age of ‘Game of Thrones’
by William Moon NOTE: This article first ran on scifigangstas.com in August 2017. Spoilers for several seasons of Game of Thrones are present in this article, up to and including the sixth episode of season seven, “Beyond the Wall”. No show spills as much blood as Game of Thrones, and no show causes as much digital ink…
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