Category: TV
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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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What Makes a Good Sportscaster? Does Anyone Know?
by William Moon Let’s face it – everyone hates every sports announcer. No matter how famous or experienced or well-paid an announcer is, there are legions of detractors out there, clogging up message boards and social media sites with complaints about how this guy’s dumb or obnoxious or – as all announcers and media entities…
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The Best of Futurama: Why We Keep Coming Back to the World of Tomorrow
by William Moon It can be easy to forget since we still don’t have any firm release date, but Hulu has revived Futurama from its cryonic stasis once again. The first half of the series’ 20-episode order is slated to drop sometime this summer, and after an initial delay, all of the show’s original regular…
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Barry: For the Hitman Who Has Everything
by William Moon Spoilers included for the current most recent episode of Barry, “tricky legacies”, the fifth episode of season four As Barry draws to its conclusion, each episode is likely to generate more and more online discourse, as is so often the case when a show like this nears its end. (And here I…
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A Dream Given Form – 25 Episodes That Show Why ’90s Throwback Babylon 5 Is Worth Your Time
NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in June 2022 by William Moon We’re not quite to its 30-year anniversary (the pilot TV movie Babylon 5: The Gathering first aired on February 22, 1993), but having recently completed a rewatch of the entire series (which was also a first watch for my wife), I think…
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Keep Circulating the Tapes: The Evolution of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Continues
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in April 2021. There’s been a flurry of articles discussing Mystery Science Theater 3000 lately. Like this one…or this one. (Both of those are definitely worth reading.) Maybe I don’t have a tremendous amount to add here. MST3K is an institution, something that began airing…
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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 Post-Script to a Classic – Three Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation at Its Peak
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in September 2017 For this 30th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a series that’s as important to the development of science fiction on television and in popular culture as its famed predecessor, let’s take a look at the show’s most famous episode(s), the two-part season-spanning…
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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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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part V
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 So now it’s all down to this…We’ve tromped through 138 episodes of this series in the previous four installments (links below), and now we’re staring down the disruptor barrel at the top 35 entries in the show’s catalogue. It’s been…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part IV
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 Welcome back, everyone. This is gonna be the best Part IV since Rocky IV. We’ve traipsed through 103 of the show’s 173 episodes, so that means we have…hmmm…carry the one…um…70 episodes left…that’s right…70. So, hows about we press on? Once again,…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part III
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 The endurance test continues. Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed reading the first two parts of this five-part series. I imagine if you haven’t, you probably won’t be reading this. We’re continuing to rank the episodes of the underrated 90’s sci-fi series Star Trek:…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part II
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 …And we’re back. I hope you enjoyed Part I, because Part II’s gonna be more of the same, just extra awesome. The episodes get better and better, and I don’t know about of some of our international customers/readers, but we…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes, Part I
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 Hello all, I’m the new guy here at Atlanta Classic Comics. I like lists. This is a list. All right, now that that’s settled, let’s get started. In my opinion, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the overall strongest Trek series, and I don’t…
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