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My wife and I have now watched all of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, along with every episode currently available for Star Trek: Discovery. On my own, I'd already seen all of Star Trek before we met, but it's been really cool to revisit the franchise with her. This … Continue reading So far, Star Trek: Voyager is better than I remembered!
My first impression when I saw the first trailer for Annihilation was "dang, that movie looks super pretty", my second was, "is this an all-female cast in a sci-fi flick!?", and my third was "I think I'm going to love this movie." Last weekend my wife and I finally got around to watching it, and … Continue reading Annihilation is a super weird movie that I either really liked or maybe hated
This week I've been way deep into ruined worlds. I'm not really sure why it turned out that all of these came up for me at the same time, but boy I've been having fun with media that looks at awful, broken societies. Chuck and Anthony: Ragnatalk This one is a bit of a stretch … Continue reading It’s the End of the World as We Know It – Ragnatalk, Gone, and Fallout 76
The previews for 2017’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets made it look like a bonkers, over the top, sci-fi spectacle. My wife and I finally got around to watching it a week ago and found out that that was almost exactly what it was, but it’s also just a bit more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNrK7xVG3PM … Continue reading Valerian and the Fantasy Sci-Fi
If you know nothing about The Martian, stop reading this and go listen to the Audiobook! Seriously, I've got a lot of thoughts about it, and the rest of this post is going to be written pretty much specifically to try to convince you to listen to the Audiobook, but if you don't know anything … Continue reading Review: The Martian – Listen to the book, skip the movie
