In 2020 (and beyond), hold on to anything.
Night In The Woods: A Game For The Plague Year
Channel Zero: Adaptation For The Internet Age
Summary excerpt? Not today. You have…to go…inside.
On Beta-Reading
When you think you’re ready to go to print, it’s the sometimes inglorious job of the beta reader to say, “No, you’re not, and here’s why.”
Doctor Who Series 11 Retrospective
Series 11 is good, because it provides episodes that are good on a blow-for-blow basis – but it strips away the best narrative elements that make Doctor Who a special show.
The Walking Dead’s Most Effective Episode: A Fracture-Point Of Survival Horror
Eeny-meenie-minie-moe…
The Walking Dead season 6 finale analysis: “Hi, I’m Negan.”
(Needless to say, due to the timely nature of this piece, heavy unmarked spoilers are just ahead.) The last time I did a reaction-analysis like this, it was to defend a controversial narrative decision made by a popular series. This
Hollow Bones: The Crossover Nobody Saw Coming
Sometimes crossovers happen because they’re planned from the jump: when the Avengers get together to push back some omega-level threat, it’s because the writers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have carefully cultivated their depictions of the individual heroes to work
Why “That Scene” in The Force Awakens Was Necessary
*SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS* No, really. This is the biggest spoiler in the Star Wars series since No, I Am Your Father, and that’s why I’m typing filler here specifically so that a reader can’t swing by and be spoiled
The Hunger Games and Propaganda: Or, How I Leaned To Stop Worrying And Appreciate These Films
No secret is made of the fact that The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins’ bestselling YA trilogy adapted into the blockbuster film quadrilogy, is an attempt to fuse (if I can be so bold as to make super-specific comparisons) the gladiatorial
Dark Souls II and Time Travel
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing through Dark Souls II: Scholar Of The First Sin on PS4. From Software’s Souls canon – Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls 1 and 2, and Bloodborne – feels like the true natural successor