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Quite true, but House doesn’t even work as a homage to Holmes. Holmes is generally courteous, thoughtful, empathic, and kind, especially...

House is honestly a terrible show about medicine - it takes the worst elements of diagnosis from ER (“when you hear hoofbeats, think...

I mean, was there a time when most SF/F books weren't? After the 1970s anyway. Maybe there was a brief window in the 1990s and early...

Yup, totally agree. Romantasy is a weird and relatively modern label invented by publishers to sell books that have both fantasy and...

That's a bit like saying "dark fantasy is awful" or "epic fantasy is awful" or whatever though, because it's such a broad sweeping claim...

Yes, I had to look that up too. I think I see how that would work (I’ve never played such a game) and I can see it’s close to how FF12...

Filoni frantically taking notes. Good lord that's somehow far less plausible than I anticipated! Even by Star Wars standards that is...

Yes, I remember reading this back in the day (when Maul just popped up in front of Savage in Clone Wars) and thought "surely the writers...

Mānawatia a Matariki! Since we are talking about Māori culture, today (Friday) is a public holiday here in NZ to celebrate Matariki...

I think this is my favorite line from DS9 and encapsulates a large theme of the series well (in relation to other Trek shows). DS9 is...

Yes, I found the whole “is there isn’t there Trek” thing quite annoying and so have bought bits of series I liked (DS9 5-6, SNW 2, LD 4)...

This one is probably not as good as the ones I’ve covered so far, but at least it’s short. Remarriage and Desires (Netflix, 2022)...

I got tired of DS9 a few months ago, but I was recently considering getting back into it only to find that all Star Trek has gone from...

I guess it depends on where you got tired of DS9.. if you got tired in the first season then I'd say "oh dang, it really picks up in s2...

I was in the middle of "Broken Link", the S4 finale, which was a season or two further than I'd made it the first time back in the 90s...