How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Star Wars Archive

I almost didn’t watch the fourth season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The third season was, for me, a big disappointment — an attempt to try to reclaim the “good old days” of Star Wars by doing a lot of prequels and sequels to...

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The Buffy franchise had a big problem after the Season 8 comics ended: the ending had grown out of control and alienated some of the fans.  Even Joss Whedon came out and said that the end of Season 8 didn’t quite work because it tried...

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It’s that time of year again, when gifts are opened, snow falls on the ground, and year-end lists take up bandwidth.  I’m sure you’re sick of seeing lists all over the Internet, so I’m going to keep this one short.  Feel free to tell me...

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What makes a good reboot? That’s the big question for comic book fans right now.  DC’s New 52 is in full swing, doing a (mostly) full reboot of all of their books.  A reboot is intended to distill a comic book to its essence, its...

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The seminal gaming experience that shaped me as a young nerd was receiving Myst as a birthday gift when I was 12.  The artistic style, the veneer of interactivity, the emphasis on thinking through complex ideas and puzzles was a huge influence on my approach...

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So what do you do AFTER you change the world? If we analogize every season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to a phase in a young person’s life (high school, college, etc.), Season 8 is that time when you step out of the protective world...

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