The Walt Disney company acquired Lucasfilm in December of 2012, but the most controversial move didn’t come until more than a year later. On April 25, 2014, every piece of Star Wars media – books, movies, video games, TV shows, comics, you name it – that was not directly overseen by George Lucas was deemed … Continue reading STAR WARS: CLONE WARS and the Failure of the Expanded Universe
This whole exercise of trying to establish a firm timeline for the Marvel Cinematic Universe is more than a little bit silly because precisely when each of these stories takes place doesn’t really matter. The setting is significant inasmuch as figuring out how each movie relates to one another, but the core story of Iron Man doesn’t … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 5 – CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
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)
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