Christopher Tolkien has set sail for the lands of the kindly West. Christopher Tolkien had long been part of the critical audience for his father’s fiction, first as a child listening to tales of Bilbo Baggins (which were published as The Hobbit), and then as a teenager and young adult offering much feedback on The Lord of the Rings during […]
Read More Rest In Peace…was the name of the bard in the games. In case you were wondering about the name change to Jaskier, it’s Polish for Dandelion. Mystery solved. And Jaskier has come up with the most ferociously tunneling ear-worm of 2020. Toss a Coin to Your Witcher. The actor who played Jaskier swears it’s the most annoying […]
Read More Master Dandelion1. Ice storms suck. 2. Winter without electricity really sucks. Anyway enjoy this video dump. First up. Will this be the new Gravity Falls? NEXT: Critical Drinker has a concise and spot on review of the Witcher. With a lot more fart jokes than usual. NEXT Okay, I read Crisis on Infinite Earths when that […]
Read More Blogs Ends: It’s Great to Have Electricity EditionClass, is the series that Steven Moffat made before Dracula. This project started life because of Moffat’s boredom and disengagement with Doctor Who. It was a spinoff developed during Doctor Who’s tragic downward spiral when Clara Oswald became the defacto star of the show.* The story takes place at the high school that Clara works […]
Read More More Moffat BashingDoctor Who’s season premiere was a nosedive in the ratings for that series. It didn’t even crack 5 million viewers in the UK and it only hauled in about 700,000 of the Whovian faithful in America. These are the lowest numbers yet. Jodie Whittaker’s turn as the Time Lord (Lady?) has been a ratings disaster. […]
Read More Cataline Does Not Recommend: Netflix DraculaI was attracted to The Witcher books after I played the first game. I found myself a bit curious about Eastern European mythology. I am more than familiar with English, Norse, Celtic and French myths, (King Arthur is a completely French myth by the way. Once you know what to look for it’s pretty obvious). […]
Read More Cataline Recommends: The WitcherAs I said in our previous installment, Gammas have had an outsized influence on our popculture for a while. No where is this more evident than in the tropes they’ve created for themselves. Everyone is the hero in their own story and Gammas are no different. If you want a sad laugh, google for Gamma […]
Read More What Tropes Can Teach Us: Part II NEET vs NerdGammas have taken over so much of popculture that their world view is strongly affecting our tropes. A few years ago, I watched the anime series Death Note. Cataline Recommends with Enthusiasm, by the way. It is brilliantly written and meticulously crafted. It keeps you on the edge of your seat right until the last […]
Read More What Tropes Can Teach UsI admit it. I had blinders on. I was looking for SJW upset and outrage over Rose Tico being slighted in the new movie. And there was indeed a bit of that. But what I hadn’t looked for was the psychotic fury of the Reylo shippers at the death of their dark prince. Now for […]
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