tisdag 20 september 2022

In defence of The Rings of Power (though I do get why some people dislike it)

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The battle of the fantasy franchises is on. I initially considered gathering my thoughts on Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power  on Amazon...
torsdag 8 september 2022

Comfort reading – and comfort viewing

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So, there haven't been that many blog posts from me about books lately. That's because I have been very unambitious in my reading of...
tisdag 23 augusti 2022

A perfectly decent sign-off: Downton Abbey: A New Era

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So, I was  going to blog last week, but had my energy sapped by a week-long heatwave. All right, maybe not just the heatwave. Curiously, I...
tisdag 2 augusti 2022

A villain-lover's guide to Marvel, Phase Four – the TV series, part two (from Hawkeye to Ms Marvel)

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Time to push on with my Phase Four overview – there's not much left of it, so I'll probably do a roundup post about Thor: Love and T...
onsdag 20 juli 2022

A villain-lover's guide to Marvel, Phase Four – the TV series, part one (from WandaVision to Loki)

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Phew, there certainly have been a lot of Marvel TV series, haven't there? And I'm not even counting all the ones outside the MCU pha...
onsdag 6 juli 2022

A villain-lover's guide to Marvel, Phase Four – the movies (up to and including Multiverse of Madness)

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It's lucky I decided to catch up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe when I did last year, before their content output exploded. Now, it...
lördag 25 juni 2022

The (side)-villain problem of Obi-Wan Kenobi

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It's difficult to know exactly what the general public thinks of the Disney + miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi . From what I've seen, the r...