A good plot twist is enough to keep an audience on their toes, to keep them guessing and wanting more,…
Star Trek Discovery Episodes 13 and 14: The Overuse of the Plot Twist and Underuse of Good Characters
Star Trek Discovery Eps 11 and 12: Hail the Emperor and Also I Am Son of None
I missed out on writing about last week’s Discovery because life can sometimes get in the way of writing something…
Star Trek Discovery Episode Ten: The Mirror Universe
The first season of any new Star Trek tends to ebb and flow between god awful and okay, sometimes even…
Star Trek Discovery Episode Nine; or, Is This Finally Not Sucking?
What does an out-of-work writer who is intentionally not working to care for his toddlers do with the few, fleeting…
Star Trek Discovery Episode 8: Okay, I’m Fine With This
Over the previous few weeks I’ve been documenting my odyssey of spending one hour a week (well, two on the…
Star Trek Discovery Episode 7: Harry Mudd, Hardened Killer
At a certain point it’s an exercise in futility talking about why Star Trek: Discovery is disappointing, what it gets…
Prepare to Talk About Everyone’s First Japanese Wrestling Tape: Super J-Cup ’94
For a while now I’ve been making periodic appearances on Aubrey Sitterson’s wrestling podcast, Straight Shoot. It’s mostly to talk…
Star Trek Discovery Episode Six: Bound to the Past, Shackled to Canon
At times it feels like a broken record when it comes to the latest installment of the Star Trek franchise.…
Star Trek Discovery Episode Five: Morality and Peak TV Poison the Well
There’s a lot of weight involved with the history of Star Trek. In part, this is why prequels to what…
Star Trek Discovery: Episode Four, or, Who Really Cares About Anything?
Imagine a place, a comfortable place that you feel safe in. Perhaps it’s somewhere from your childhood, the kind of…