Today was supposed to be the premiere of Season Two of my XOXO, Puppet Girl Farscape reviews, but unfortunately my evil hand took the wheel instead. Look for Puppet Girl to return this Thursday. Fuck you to fuck me, Markiplier On Sunday my friend persuaded me to see Markiplier’s
Mwaaah the cinema! It gets knocked down, but it gets up again. They’re never going to keep it down, though not for lack of trying. Did I see a lot of good movies this year? Yes. Were many of them new release American movies? No. Biggest Ws 2025 had
Some people understand things best when it’s presented to them as cool fact. Other people prefer pondering the world through the wiggly lens of fiction. Still others are bored right now and want to read several articles consecutively. For all three of you I have two stories, one location,
It has been another hideous year for the game industry, and tech in general. And the world. It’s difficult to muster much enthusiasm for a shambling zombie industry, its priority product the sludge dribbling from its rotting, slackened lips. Did I Play Any Games This Year? I spent too
Back in the day, I believed in television as a breakthrough medium. During my youth, it shed its goo-goo ga-ga machine reputation to become the unifying fascination of the very online cultural critics of my formative years. I wrote my undergraduate thesis about television. One could say it was something
2025 was a great reading year for me. I read over sixty books (though that number is inflated by ten or more comic book trade paperback collections, which take about two hours to read end-to-end). A great deal of them were good, more than I can list here coherently. I
What Was Farscape Season One? It was 22 episodes of science fiction television, each about 48 minutes long. It was not that remarkable. If Farscape had been cancelled at the end of season one, we would have no cause to discourse here, because Farscape would be another Earth-2 or Space:
Farscape 1x21 & 22 Bone to Be Wild We have a light episode now. Moya and her baby hide together in an asteroid field, trying to avoid detection by Crais’ Command Carrier. Stark’s fucked off somewhere (though he’ll be back) so we’ve returned to Moya crew equilibrium.
Farscape 1x19 & 1x20 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! It’s like Christmas, but better: Scorpius is finally here. Nerve Aeryn is training hardcore, and John points out that maybe she shouldn’t be training so hard with a recent abdominal wound. She aggros him, then she vomits blood. Then she collapses. John tries
Farscape 1x17 & 1x18 Through the Looking Glass The crew gathers in the dining room for dinnertime discourse (triggering to the recent Thanksgiving attendees among us): Zhaan, Rygel, and D’Argo want to abandon Moya because her pregnancy continues to interfere with her ability to starburst and thus escape pursuers.
Farscape 1x15 & 1x16 Now we’re through the doldrums, the show can get good again. We’re going to immerse ourselves in puppet trauma and human drama. Durka Returns Moya has a minor traffic accident as her starburst malfunctions due to her pregnancy. When she allows the ship she
One difference between British fantasy author Philip Pullman and American film director George Lucas is that Philip Pullman is a good writer. One similarity between Pullman and Lucas is that they both decided, many years after concluding their respective groundbreaking, critically-hailed, widely-beloved, and highly lucrative three-part works of fantastical entertainment