The second season of Babylon 5 was a story of a show that found itself, finally flipping the switch on a lot of long-simmering plot threads to allow them to come to fruition, or at least to begin blossoming. In my last write up I talked about perhaps one of the best episodes of the […]
“No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once, we will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand […]
“If you go to Z’ha’dum, you will die.” Never throughout any of the television that I’ve watched in my 35 years has one line taken a really good show and marked it’s departure from just being a really good show to one of the greatest shows of all time. Does that sound like conjecture, because […]
I’m a great deal of things, but somehow remembering to update my site and talk about myself becomes a distant, far off concept that I lose a grasp on when I’m, myself, sort of aimless. Because that’s where I’m at right now: completely aimless as a creative mind and trying to figure out my next […]
Here we are, with one full season of Star Trek: Discovery in the books. Finally, after far too long, Star Trek returned to the smaller (and this time even smaller) screen and the verdict is mixed, at best. Star Trek: Discovery was an attempt to bring Trek into modern times, which meant marketing of really […]
A good plot twist is enough to keep an audience on their toes, to keep them guessing and wanting more, but the thing about plot twists is that they need to be used sparingly. A part of what makes plot twists effective is that they happen when you either least expect it or when you […]
I missed out on writing about last week’s Discovery because life can sometimes get in the way of writing something just for the sake of writing it. Truth-be-told, I sorta enjoyed last week’s episode and felt like the show was really starting to hit its stride. Sure, the show had a really rocky start and […]
The first season of any new Star Trek tends to ebb and flow between god awful and okay, sometimes even unwatchable. I’m not sure what it is about Star Trek, but the franchise as a whole has a difficult time introducing a new crew without fucking a lot of things up. That’s why the initial […]
What does an out-of-work writer who is intentionally not working to care for his toddlers do with the few, fleeting moments of free time that he gets? He watches the latest Star Trek series, Discovery, then complains about it on his personal blog. Makes sense, right? Television is a pretty okay medium for storytelling and, […]
Over the previous few weeks I’ve been documenting my odyssey of spending one hour a week (well, two on the first week) watching CBS’s latest attempt to bring Star Trek back to [sort of] television. At times it is painful, other times it is okay, sometimes it’s obnoxious and rarely it’s sort of fun. There […]