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The final season of Game of Thrones is starting today (you may have heard something about it) and there are a few things I want to get off my chest.For one thing, I'm wondering if all the death-related magic is connected in some way. Everybody makes a big deal about the Night King and his army of White Walkers because they can raise the dead, but there's a lot of that going … [Read more...] about Getting a Few Things Off My Chest: Game of Thrones Edition

Walking Dead is pissing me off. Again.The problem started with the final episode of Season 6, when Negan finally appears. The show had been building up to this for several episodes, as Rick's group had a series of run-ins with Negan's minions. In this episode, several of Rick's group were captured by Negan's much larger force and hauled into a clearing where they were … [Read more...] about The Walking Authorial Intrusion

I'm tired of television networks doing this: Citing similarities between the show’s finale and today’s tragic shooting at a Virginia TV station, USA Network says it will postpone tonight’s finale of Mr. Robot.“The previously filmed season finale of Mr. Robot contains a graphic scene similar in nature to today’s tragic events in Virginia,” the network said in a statement. … [Read more...] about Postponing Mr. Robot

The fourth season of Game of Thrones begins today, and I have a few predictions. I realize this is a fool's game, since people who've been reading the books already know what happens next, but those of us who've skipped the reading might as well speculate. The story is too large for me to address all of it, but here are a few things I expect to see, in no particular … [Read more...] about Game of Thrones – Season 4

(Spoiler Alert for potentially all 8 Helix episodes to date.)I loved the Andromeda Strain, both the book and the movie, and so I'm always willing to give a good plague story a try, which is why I really wanted to like Helix, the new series on SyFy, about a CDC team sent to investigate a mysterious situation at a biological research complex somewhere in the … [Read more...] about Why Helix Kinda Sucks