In the year of our lord 2019, there are many, many more hours of Star Wars cartoons than there are stories produced in live action. With a total of 207 episodes between The Clone Wars, Rebels, and Resistance, that’s a little over 100 hours of canonical Star Wars stories before we even touch the ten … Continue reading EWOKS and DROIDS and the End of STAR WARS
This one was surprisingly easy! After the mess that was Iron Man 2, imagine my delight when Thor contained almost no overt references to specific dates. It doesn’t do much good in the way of reinforcing a clear timeline, but it also doesn’t further muck with what we’ve already established. There will be plenty of muck to … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 4 – THOR
I didn’t expect it to be like this. I came into this project with open eyes, knowing that it would get very stupid very quickly. I didn’t realize it would get quite this stupid quite this quickly. To be fair, Iron Man 2 was a mess of a production (and subsequently a mess of a movie), … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 3 – IRON MAN 2
Boy, this is a weird one. On the surface, this seems easy. There are almost no overt references to dates in this film, so you should just be able to rely on other films (namely Iron Man 2) to place its location on the timeline. But then there are three scenes where this movie just vomits … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 2 – THE INCREDIBLE HULK
It is an axiomatic truth that if you try to describe Star Wars as a science fiction story, some nerd is going to crawl out of the woodwork and sneer, “actually, Star Wars is a work of science fantasy.” As insufferable as these dorks may be, they’re not exactly wrong. Star Wars borrows a lot … Continue reading STAR WARS Legends: High Fantasy on Endor in the EWOKS Movies
I love timelines. I’m obsessed with them. I love tracking the ways events fit together in a broader context – how each piece influences and is influenced by every other in an endless chain. I also have a special fondness for fictional timelines that are just complete horseshit. Where the people in charge were just … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 1 – IRON MAN
On Friday, November 17, 1978, at 8 o’clock p.m., The Star Wars Holiday Special was broadcast for the first and only time on CBS. In the forty years since, it has become something of a contemporary myth; a bizarre, misguided, mistake that many knew about but few outside of its initial 13 million viewers had … Continue reading THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL At 40
We must begin with a disclaimer: though I (and my six traveling companions) did purchase tickets to Evermore’s pre-opening party, we received notice after we were already en route that our tickets would be comped because we were traveling from out of town to an event that was not going to be finished to the … Continue reading Fantasy Under Construction: Tales from Evermore’s Pre-Opening Party (A NoPro Adventure)
On more levels than I care to recount, 2017 was a roaring hellfire of a year. A year so bad that a beloved celebrity suddenly dying feels like the preferable alternative to finding out that they are secretly sex fiends. A year so bad that the President of the United States probably colluding with Russia … Continue reading David’s Top 10 Movies of 2017
This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Through nine films over the course of 40 years, every Star Wars movie has been introduced the same way. Blue letters over a black backdrop reading, “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” Its twist on the 600-year-old fairy tale opener, “once … Continue reading THE LAST JEDI and the Existential Horror of an Endless Star War
