Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks

19 June 2022

This is a bit belated, since the first season of Lower Decks came out in 2020, but I’ve only just recently gotten around to seeing it. To be honest, I wasn’t sure I would like it, between the disappointment that was Discovery’s first and second seasons and my growing distaste for mainstream slapstick/“edgy” cartoon humor. (I never got around to seeing Rick and Morty.)

But it turns out Lower Decks is fun. It’s not unseating Deep Space Nine and Next Generation as my two favorite Treks, but it’s not trying to. It’s just being fun-to-watch, with lots of references to…

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Review: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

11 July 2020

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is a cartoon about Adventure and the Power of Friendship set around a war between magical princesses and a group literally called “The Horde” located in “The Fright Zone”. In the middle of all of this is a supposedly normal girl who gains the power to transform into a mythical hero named She-Ra. Sounds like a good, light thing to watch, right?

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Movie Review: The Fifth Element

20 June 2020

The Fifth Element is a campy sci-fi film that’s half action movie and half comedy of errors. It takes a while to get started and doesn’t really make sense, but if you just go with it it can be pretty fun. The characters are basically Bruce Willis As Han Solo, Ms. Born Sexy Yesterday, Priest Who Always Wanted To Be Obi-Wan Kenobi, and a horny flamboyant TV show host literally named “Ruby Rhod”, with a special appearance by Southern Tony Stark as the villain. (Southern Tony Stark was definitely my favorite part of the movie.)

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