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Yeap, I think thats the issue with Jake, He has motivations, but his agency always seems kneecapped. Sometimes by his father's...

I think that’s definitely the character concept and the team (especially Lofton) delivers it very well, but it becomes a significant...

I think that sets up why Jake has to do the severing, and why its so hard for Ben to live through. Even if Jake never fully matures we...

I really think Jake doesn’t get a fair shake in DS9, and that’s basically because he’s always defined as a child, an adjunct to his...

The dramatic beats felt very dated, quite like war films from the 50s and 60s, which were mostly about WW2. The angry complaining, the...

I mean there's a stark difference between "power corrupts", which is a truth of human nature (the degree to and way in which it corrupts...

So, we're still on Netflix so we can finish DS9. The last two nights were the Nog-focused two-parter (not actually a two-parter since...

“A small regional station with an audience about eight times the size of my country, nothing to write home about.”

I think there definitely was a bit of a reassessment of superheroes and whether there was any "hero" in there really after MoS (he did...

Man of Steel had a lot of good points - especially Henry Cavill - but it really was short on the heroism that’s central to Superman, and...

The cat is a non-evil demon-world being, so yeah neutral essentially. Also everyone loves the poor idiot cat dearly let's be real. The...

I've been thinking about Cultivation and what this means for Species like Kitsune or Vanara. For instance Sun Wukong despite being born...

Jubensha - scripted LARPs are popular in China, with something like 30000 stores across the nation catering to it. Murder Mysteries and...

Every time someone brings up "but what about the PRC, we can't include anything Chinese because of that" I see it as an excuse to...

Christ what a sense of drama! Gotta respect that post-death grift. You could change the letter, but you'd still need a new letter to...