Media thoughts from someone pseudo trained to have them
I’m about to break any illusion you may have about me being cool by admitting that I was exactly the right age to have Supernatural devour my brain at the ripe old age of twelve and as such I’ve never known peace. And while I might’ve been five when the show first premiered, it was…
Y’know I, like many an MCU enjoyer, have been told that Tony Stark makes his villains and honestly I don’t completely buy it. This one’s mostly Howard’s fault. The Pitch, if like me 2010 feels like hundreds of years ago instead of fifteen: as if the US government and military would be chill with one…
It’s a strange thing being a sequel, especially when you can’t acknowledge it completely. You gotta build upon the ideas set up in the first film while also striding your own new and different path but recognizable in a way that the audience understands how you got from A to B. The Incredible Hulk is…
Look, it took me a minute, but I got there. If we had to psychoanalyze my delay, I’d probably chop it up to me fearing I bit off more than I could chew. But that’s hardly a new development, I do that a lot, hell this whole blog is more than I can chew but…
There’s that common wisdom that we are shaped as artists and critics by the media that we consume when we’re young. It’s why George Lucas and the rest of that OG blockbuster generation have an obsession with the 50s, or why I make more sense when you learn all my favorite characters can be plotted…
I can only really write about my own personal taste, partially because I’m far more entertaining when I’m talking about things I like and partially because… well, it’s my blog and I do what I want, and Torchwood is my most… not quite sacred (I try not to hold anything too sacred these days, my…
Messy does seem to be an understatement considering the, now thankfully resolved strikes, streaming service meltdowns, and the general undervaluation of art. But messy contains multitudes, much like the one season wonder on the docket. For the vast majority of you who passed on this series while it was airing figuring you’d wait for it…
I think at the end of the day, I feel bad for Agents of SHIELD. A show that was partially spawned into existence because the fans got so attached to a minor, pseudo joke, background character killed in the first Avengers movie that they filled out petition after petition to bring him back. Because this…
If it hasn’t become obvious yet, the easiest ways to get a piece of media to be my favorite is to either: To the surprise of no one, Cowboy Bebop has all three. The Pitch: four bounty hunters must try to survive if never thriving in a future where humanity has gone out into the…
White Collar is one of those “of the moment” shows that still feels good to watch fourteen years later. Which is saying something since it’s a procedural at its core. The Pitch: Neal Caffery, art thief and con man, negotiates his way to a work release after breaking himself out of prison to go find…