I want to delve a little further into a previous article, discussing The Shifting Nature of Documentaries [link], and give an example of...

“Greetings, Astartes”.   The wobbling, reverberating quality of the Titan machine’s speakers, represented in the moving calligraphy style...

Strength comes from high and low places.   Argument is meaningless, often entrenching people further in a contrary belief. I have,...

Love, the acceptance of death, protection and unveiling of mysteries are the constantly reinforced lifeblood of JK Rowling’s seminal...

A diamond in the rough, that looks like a rough diamond.   If you want original science fiction, truly original and not a rehash of what...

Are they reading the paper? One of them is reading something. A couple of voices add something in, that even memory cannot furnish for...

While I really enjoyed Alt Shift X’s look into Tyrion Lannister and don’t have an interest in writing a broad article about the...

Evil or great, they are human beings. That is a ringing theme in Dune  I very much enjoy. Science fiction without presenting aliens as...

Watching There Will Be Blood  for the first time through with my parents and them seeing it for the first time, knowing them to be quite...

Beauty is transient, but it exists. Not in universals, not in something as crude as physical lusts, or what we are conditioned to assume...

A pivotal theme of Bioware’s seminal Star Wars story Knights of The Old Republic, still very influential even many years later for its...

Who someone is depends on who sees them, what they know or think they know. A powerful theme to keep in mind, to show. To write about too...

The impression that wealth is evil and a sense of influence or authority is bad is a myth, perpetuated by people keeping you in the place...

Episodic writing naturally lends itself to difficulty with a series carrying on, especially as television has evolved. Serialisation, the...

Within the universal decay of the 31st, and 41st millennium, the tragedy of the human factions highlights through ultraviolence and...

The critic, especially the pessimistic one can ruin a thing forever. I’m sure we’ve all encountered this phenomenon as we have to embrace...

How do we create art? Much like defining it, observing it. These things are inherently, challenging.   We can see this, quite often in...

I had a spate of buying these books in my very early 20’s, and they hold a particular place in time for me. When I loved reading and...

While it’s fun, easy to poke holes in Disney, I want to get past that and discuss one of its few entirely new ideas. Positives and art, a...

Timothy Zahn possessed, to my knowledge the unique ability outside of comics to create a seminal character and enlarge an attached IP...