Tag: Fantasy
Avatar: The Last Airbender Creators Discuss Series’ Flaws, Avatar Studios Progress
Braving the Elements is an all-things-Avatar podcast for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra co-hosted by Dante Basco (the voice of Zuko in Avatar and General Iroh in Korra) and Janet Varney (the voice of Korra). In this past Tuesday’s episode, Basco interviewed series creat...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 4 “The Nexus Event”
“The Nexus Event” is one of the most glaring examples of manufactured storytelling I can recall. Plot and character developments are so forced as to be misnomers, with each new point inserted at the whim of the “creatives” because they want the show to be something they know it can’t offic...
Read MoreDisney and Marvel Edit Wandavision Months After Its Release
Lyndon Hall | Jun 28, 2021 | 0
Disney and Marvel’s WandaVision series has been available to watch for several months now, and a Twitter post by yelenabelova_ revealed the company had made some alterations to the final scene of the show. uhh what happened to the wandavision post credits scene pic.twitter.com/Bwgenlbsls &md...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 1, Episode 9, “Bounty Lost”
*SPOILERS* “Bounty Lost” finds the Batch searching for Omega and evading Crosshair and his troopers. Unable to detect Cad Bane’s ship, Hunter makes the difficult choice to jump to hyperspace and escape Crosshair. Meanwhile, Cad Bane and the Kaminoans agree to meet up and exchange O...
Read MoreREVIEW: Ponyo (2008)
For one reason or another, the Studio Ghibli movies from 2008 onwards tend to be ones I never saw (The Wind Rises, From Up on Poppy Hill) or that I saw once and didn’t like at all. The latter category pertains to Ponyo (2008), Hayao Miyazaki’s loose adaptation of The Little Mermaid by Hans Chris...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 3 “Lamentis”
With “Lamentis,” Loki takes on another of the characteristics of its eponymous trickster and shapeshifts, becoming a buddy cop action-comedy without breaking stride. The story and mythology behind the Time Variance Authority take a backseat (though an important piece of the puzzle does lock into...
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