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The Boys Presents: Diabolical

The Boys Presents: Diabolical: With Grey Griffin, Antony Starr, Ben Schwartz, Chris Diamantopoulos. The Boys animated spin-off.

Eight unrelated episodes about mostly unknown characters in the same universe that “The Boys” takes place in, there’s a couple extremely good episodes, a couple ok episodes, one that’s just dumb, and a few more that are middle of the road. I’m happy they didn’t make them all connected in some way like “What If…” did.

Be warned, there is a significant amount of gore and violence here, though if you’ve seen the live action show, this animated stuff won’t seem out of place at all.

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Rumble

Rumble: Directed by Hamish Grieve. With Geraldine Viswanathan, Will Arnett, Stephen A. Smith, Terry Crews. In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.

Amazing animation, somewhat uninspired music, and a story that’s equal parts Pacific Rim, Real Steel, Blues Brothers, and is completely predictable, but it’s still a fun ride. There’s a few voices that you’ll obviously recognize, but Viswanathan sounds exactly like Tawnie Newsom from Lower Decks, to the point that it’s distracting and I almost think they’re the same lady.

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Gates – Bad Space Comics

Throw the dice often enough and the gates of the universe will open. Stare into the abyss with Bad Space comics.

Books in Motion: Ships Of The Line: Active Duty!

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan Kenobi: With Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Rupert Friend, Kumail Nanjiani. Plot undisclosed. Stand-alone spinoff feature from the Star Wars franchise centering on Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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Cryptozoo

Cryptozoo: Directed by Dash Shaw. With Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Alex Karpovsky, Zoe Kazan. Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.

This is a weird one to review: it’d be super easy to pick apart the animation style and the sheer weirdness of the idea of having a zoo full of cryptoid taken from various parts of the world, which on the face of it seems like something we’d see on a made for TV late night special starring actors that couldn’t get into Sharknado or Sharktopus. While there’s a couple names that would catch your attention, none of them are here for face recognition, nor are they even really here for voice recognition, as I’d like to think I’d be able to pick out Lake Bell or Michael Cera from a normally animated film, I wasn’t able to do this here. From the end credits I see that the animation took nearly four full years to complete, 2016 – 2020, and while it’s not exactly Disney or Dreamworks level, there’s a particular amount of nudity and violence that makes sense in this film that definitely wouldn’t make it to those other studios.

If you’re into the crypto scene (no, not that one) or want to check out something that isn’t like all those other animated films, this would be well worth your time.

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Rumble

Rumble: Directed by Hamish Grieve. With Geraldine Viswanathan, Will Arnett, Stephen A. Smith, Terry Crews. In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.

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‘You’re a Creep Bro’: AOC Puts Tucker Carlson On Blast After ‘Booty Call’ Comment

“This is the type of stuff you say when your name starts with a P and ends with dejo,” AOC tweeted

‘I hate this sport!’: Rage, teen tears and Olympic collapse

BEIJING (AP) — The gold medalist said she felt empty. The silver medalist pledged never to skate again. The favorite left in tears without saying a word. After one of the most dramatic nights in their sport’s history, Russia’s trio of teenage figure skating stars each enter an uncertain future.

Murderville Season 1

Murderville: Created by Krister Johnson. With Will Arnett, Haneefah Wood, Lilan Bowden, Philip Smithey. Eccentric detective Terry Seattle teams up with clueless celebrity guest stars to investigate a series of murders in this improvisational crime comedy.

It’s got a pretty unique concept and it works for the most part, but I do feel there could have been more done with it.

I don’t regret watching it though, it was pretty funny.

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Daredevil Season 1

Daredevil: Created by Drew Goddard. With Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Vincent D’Onofrio. A blind lawyer by day, vigilante by night. Matt Murdock fights the crime of New York as Daredevil.

I started re-watching this after I saw the latest Spider-man film, and forced my wife to sit with me while I was watching it. It’s still the best Marvel content that Netflix put out, followed closely by season 2 of Daredevil, none of the other stuff comes even close.

There’s a rumor going around that all the Marvel stuff is going to be moved from Netflix in the next couple months and will likely be added to Disney plus, but who knows. It’d be great if I could buy all this stuff on 4k Blu-ray, but what’s the likelihood of that happening?

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Happy!

Meet Nick Sax, a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man

I had unfortunately seen the forgettable and not recommendable (even though it inexplicably went for two entire seasons) television show that I repeat, was not very good at all. So, when I got this TPB in a HumbleBundle, it went to the bottom of my ‘to-do’ list, which I just recently found when I started using a new book/comic book management application. The comic itself is pretty good, if pretty much exactly what I would expect from Grant Morrison circa 2012, with all the gratuitous violence and strawmen that normally comes from his work.

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Year Zero

Ben Percy (Wolverine) and Ramon Rosanas (Star Wars: Age of Resistance) team up to present an epic tale that offers a global look at the Zombie Apocalypse. A Jap

A comic book anthology mini series with four issues that have four different stories that all take place in each issue. Does it work as well as having one issue dedicated to each story? For me, who has all four issues, sure, but I know when I was buying single issues that I hated this kind of set up and would much rather have one story per book. It’s good enough though that I’m going to be keeping an eye out for the sequel to see if I can get it for cheap, iirc, I got this one through Humble.

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‘Futurama’ Revived at Hulu

Original creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen will return alongside voice stars Billy West and Katey Sagal, among others. 

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The Dropout

The Dropout: Created by Taylor Dunn, Rebecca Jarvis, Victoria Thompson. With Utkarsh Ambudkar, Amanda Seyfried, Michael Ironside, Michel Gill. TV series that chronicles Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ attempt to revolutionize the healthcare industry after dropping out of college and starting a technology company.

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SpaceX loses 40 satellites to geomagnetic storm a day after launch

A powerful magnetic storm takes out most of a batch of Starlink satellites the day after launch.

Photons Incoming: Webb Team Begins Aligning the Telescope – James Webb Space Telescope

This week, the three-month process of aligning the telescope began – and over the last day, Webb team members saw the first photons of starlight that traveled through the entire telescope and were detected by the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument. This milestone marks the first of many steps to capture images that are at first unfocused and use them to slowly fine-tune the telescope. This is the very beginning of the process, but so far the initial results match expectations and simulations.

Bewitched

Bewitched: Directed by Nora Ephron. With Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine. Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic sitcom Bewitched (1964).

A movie about a universe in which “Bewitched” is being remade, and actual witch gets roped into starring as the lead role in the remake of the classic television show.

It’s meta within meta! I was sent a MoviesAnywhere code of this for free from the studio with a note apologizing about something that went wrong that I honestly have no memory of, I’m happy to have had the opportunity to revisit the film though, as I remembered seeing it back when it was released in 2005 in the olden days when I wasn’t logging every minute of screen time I was consuming, and true to my memory, this is still an enjoyable film with a fun premise and fun story. It doesn’t hurt that Kidman and Ferrell were at the absolute best for the movie, but at the same time they didn’t take it too crazy serious.

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Jason Momoa Joins the ‘Fast and Furious 10’ Cast

“Aquaman” star Jason Momoa has officially been initiated into the “Fast” family. Variety has learned that Momoa will star opposite Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and the…

No word on exactly what role he’s going to be playing, but odds are good he’s a distant cousin related to Dom and they’re going to fight to the death until Dom makes a speech about family, convincing Momoa’s character to come back to the light side of the force.

It will end with a family picnic.

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The High Republic Anniversary Special!

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Murderville

Murderville: With Will Arnett, Lilan Bowden, Haneefah Wood, Philip Smithey. Eccentric detective Terry Seattle teams up with clueless celebrity guest stars to investigate a series of murders in this improvisational crime comedy.

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Predestination

Predestination: Directed by Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig. With Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby, Christopher Sommers. For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos.

Time cop has his face melted off, so he’s given a new face and a new voice, then put back on the time cop job, where he’s now a bartender who’s checking his scifi watch when a mysterious stranger walks in.

The mysterious stranger turns out to be a mas that was born a girl, as well as an orphan, then recruited to join a space program, ostensibly to be a space companion for future astronauts, but it turns out that it’s for a secretive program that’s recruiting people for secretive missions. As a side point to all this, the recruit is impregnated and during the birth, the doctors noticed that she had two full sets of reproductive organs and they took the opportunity to switch her gender. Why not leave them as they were living? “reasons”, but they’re bullshit of course.

The bartender listens to the orphan’s story, all while drinking a fair bit of alcohol with the stranger. At the end of the tale, the bartender offers to bring the orphan in on a time traveling operation that turns out to be the same secretive organization that was recruiting people for secretive missions. They time travel back to the day that the orphan was still a woman and met the man that would eventually impregnate her.

Turns out that future man is the man that past woman met and had a baby with, they meet and the wheels are set in motion for a time loop baby to be born. While those wheels are in motion, the bartender / time cop gets off on his own secretive mission, this time to go to the room where his face was caught up in an explosion. He’s a witness to his own vicious assault again, and not able to save his past self from being turned into a time traveling open wound.

The story progresses to the point of inevitable absurdity, but thanks to both Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook, it stays on the rails long enough to be entertaining. It’s yet another time travel movie that thinks it’s all so smart, but if you’ve seen more than a couple time travel stories on film before you’ll know exactly where they’re going the moment that the time cop starts signing “I’m my own gram-pa”.

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Revelation Space

900,000 years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it’s of little more than academic inter

The first of the “Inhibitor” series, I’ve read books by Reynolds before, but I don’t think any of them were in this main series. As a start to the series, this is a great book, though the ended with the neutron star was bonkers and I think I only slightly understood exactly why they were turning into atom thin pancakes.

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Xanadu

Xanadu: Directed by Robert Greenwald. With Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan. A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.

opening universal logo thing had an airplane, another airplane, a ufo

Opens with an artist doing art while the beginning credits happen, he rips up his art and throws it out his window, and it hits a wall, bringing wall art to life, it’s our first song! I’m alife! ONJ is there to drance for us! Then they turn into color beams that fly around Hollywood, one of them turns back to a human, (it’s ONJ) and she’s rollar skating, runs into a guy (it’s the artist!, then kisses him. he stares at her is erotic shock, then she leaves him.

Turns out the artist is a down on his luck artist who quit his job to do his art as a professional artist, but his art isn’t popular enough, so he’s back to working for The Man. He is not happy about this fact. But then he’s given a job to enlarge an album cover and wouldn’t you know it, it’s the girl! Turns out that no one knows who she is and he’s on the hunt to find her. The album producer has no clue, the photographer has no clue, so now he’s just wandering the streets asking random people who she is.

As he’s wandering, he runs into an old buddy playing the clarinet on the beach, it’s Gene Kelly! There’s several more transitional scenes, and we get back to the buddy’s house, which is a damn mansion, where the artist and his buddy listen to a single track on a record, then the artist out, and the buddy is listening to the next track, where he dreams he’s dancing with ONJ.

Turns out that buddy’s looking for a new venue for a club, and the artist mentions it to his muse, who suggests they use the warehouse / auditorium that she lives in. The artist and buddy go check it out and start having some dreams about what they’re going to do with the property which involve another musical bit with a “rock band” and a 50’s style band, all with an appropriate amount of body jiggling and bondage. When the dream sequence ends, buddy declares that he’s going to do it, and with ONJ’s help, they name it “Xanadu”. Buddy then tells the artist that he’s going to be his partner!

They’re planning what to do in the building, and the artist and his lady friend leave for the night, he confesses his love for her and she says “yeah, I love you too, which is super weird, that’s not supposed to happen, because I’m a Muse”. I called her that earlier just because it seemed a witty thing to say, but here we are, with her actually being a muse, like a real fantasy creature that’s only on the Earth to inspire men to do great things. All that being said, she’s done her job and Xanadu is being built, so she’s on her way back to her side of the universe, sorry guy! He, of course, doesn’t take this lying down, and with some motivational efforts from his buddy, the artist runs head first into a wall, transporting himself to where ever it is that the Muse lives, convinces her father to let her come back, and she’s there for the opening night of Xanadu!

We then get at least seven different songs, depending on how you split them, all with roller skating and dancing, and some absolutely trippy choreography. This obviously includes a wardrobe change for ONJ in every change!

Now the important question: why do I now own this movie? Why did I buy this? It was literally on a whim, as I dislike purchases odd number of movies when I get them through Vudu, so this got me to $10 even, just because the cover art looked interesting and when I checked on the synopsis it sounded crazy, then I watched the trailer and I noticed that Gene Kelly of all people was in a roller skating musical with Oliva Newton John. Insanity.

My opinion of the film? It’s an insane movie with a bonkers concept that I absolutely love. Everything about this film does it for me, from the acting to the story to the music to the dancing. According to wikipedia, this was Gene Kelly’s last film role, and it absolutely flopped at the theater. The soundtrack did pretty well though with at least 5 of the tracks getting popular attention. Reportedly this film was one of the inspirations for the Razzies, if you could believe that.

If they ever do a 4k/hdr transfer, this is going to go in my physical collection and I’m going to keep an eye open for the vinyl of the soundtrack.

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The House

The House: Directed by Andrew Jay Cohen. With Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Jason Mantzoukas, Ryan Simpkins. After the town takes away their daughter’s college scholarship, a couple start an illegal casino in their friend’s house to make back the money.

Released back in 2017 around the same time as “Daddy’s Home 2”, this has been on my watch list for a while. Every time I had an opportunity to watch it though, I kinda waffled about it. I do love Amy Poehler and I do love Will Ferrell, but they can be, at times, a bit much, and that seemed to be the whole movie’s plot, them being way too much for their college age kid. Turns out that they’re perfectly fine as there’s plenty of other recognizable and enjoyable actors for them to play off. It’s a relatively predictable movie, but I’m not watching Amy Poehler and Will Ferrell for intrigue or mystery.

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Super Pumped

Super Pumped: Created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kyle Chandler, Kerry Bishé, Jon Bass. The roller-coaster ride of the upstart transportation company, embodying the highs and lows of Silicon Valley.

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre. A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

A sea monster is rampaging around the south seas and the US government asks a French scientist and his apprentice to check the situation out and report back. Not so much that they believe that there’s dragons eating ships, but that ships are going missing and someone needs to figure out what’s going on.

They learn though that it’s not sea monster, but a submarine going around destroying various merchant boats, boats of war, or literally any boat they happen to see on the open waters. As it happens, the scientist, his apprentice, and a harpooner are knocked off their boat and later picked up by the submarine and through a series of wacky adventures, they end up setting off a nuclear weapon on an isolated island, killing hundreds of slavers and military personnel.

Something that struck me as funny, was that they visited a slave island to watch the slaves do work, all so the captain could justify his crusade against the rest of the world. The name of the island? Rura Penthe, which apparently is unique to this Disney adaptation, and later used as the name of a prison planet in Star Trek VI.

There’s some extremely unfortunate depiction of some native island people, but other than this, for the most part the movie still holds up.

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Moonbase 8

Moonbase 8: Created by Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker, Jonathan Krisel, John C. Reilly. With John C. Reilly, Tim Heidecker, Fred Armisen, Joshua Davis. Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker and John C. Reilly star in this new comedy series as three astronauts trying to qualify for their first lunar mission. They encounter obstacles along the way including loneliness, self-doubt and incompetence.

Cringe worthy in all the wrong ways, I stayed with the first season because it was weird. Turns out the entire thing is just delightfully and wholesomely weird through and through. It’s more of a “Fred Armisen” weird than a “John C. Reilly” weird, and definitely not “Tim Heidecker” weird at all.

Do I recommend it? maybe if you’re a fan of all three guys, sure. If you’re looking for something hilariously funny, this might not be your cup of tea.

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2021 Best of the Year Results

I somehow didn’t have any kind of calendar reminder to post these, something that i will definitely remember to fix, but here’s the results!

Movie

Bo Burnham’s “Inside”, a tour de force of what it’s like going crazy from having to stay away from people due to the global pandemic, which has killed over 2 million people world wide and is currently spiking like crazy here in the US.

Book

The second of the three Coda novels that wrapped up the Star Trek Literary expanded universe, it was the last time we had any hope they were going to somehow pull off a hail mary and save themselves.

Video Game

Alien: Fireteam Elite, it had a slightly rough launch, but the story was interesting, tied into the larger Alien / Prometheus mythos and didn’t step on any toes doing it’s thing. A new free DLC was just released, so I’ll likely be revisiting this again in the near future.

Television Shows

A seven way tie for #1, 2021 was an embarrassment of riches in the amount of high quality television that was released. We finally got television shows that authentically tied into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we finally got Star Trek that was good, some excellent hard science fiction, and the end of the current Netflix era of Lost In Space.

(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated)

Lost in Space Season 3

(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated)

Stargirl Season 2: Summer School

(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated)

Foundation Season 1

(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated)

Star Trek Lower Decks Season 2

(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated)

What If… Season 1 Episode 1

(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated)

The Nevers

2021 TGIOKDI Year In Review

Looking back at my 2020 post, wow I seemed so absolutely optimistic about the future, though in my defense, I posted that only 7 days before the assault on the US Capitol that somehow only resulted in a single death, not one of the politicians that were targeted, thank god, but one of the insurrectionists that had broken through a window, made it to the secure area where the USVP was being secured, then broke through one of the interior security windows, was warned several times by an on duty police officer that had a gun on her, but she continued to advance.  Her death should have served as a public warning, but instead, she’s somehow inevitably turned into some martyr, but I need to be clear, she was told she was going to be shot and continued to advance, so she got what she deserved.

Whew.  that was just in the first week!  We’ve been struggling to recover from that ever since, with investigations, arrests, convictions, and all sorts of otherwise news worthy things related to it, the most recent of which was news that Trump took nearly an hour to make a comment on the situation because 1 – he was really hoping that Pence would leave the Capitol, and 2 – he kept screwing up his video.

We got a couple more checks from the feds, which helped out a ton, then in April I got my first of three covid-19 vaccine shots and boosters.  That first shot was just in time for me to go to my first jury duty, in which a guy was being charged with possession of half a fingernail’s worth of crack and two possible meth pills that were found at his girlfriend’s house, in her closet, in a purse, at the bottom of her closet underneath a ton of other random bullshit that eventually gets thrown into everyone’s closet.  I think we deliberated for about 20 minutes, and it was only that long because we had one juror that wanted to believe the cops over her own damn logic, and it took us a minute to convince her that we could only convict if there were evidence, which there wasn’t.

Some time after this I finished Halo 5’s multiplayer collectables, which was fantastic.  Happy to be done with the game, but there’s are a few story related achievements to get, I may try to get those sometime in 2030.  Around this same time, we got yet another foster cat, who in turn had 6 kittens, which we raised with the intentions of adopting out all but one, at the end of the day, we kept two of the kittens.  We now have 3 more cats than my house and realistically support, and I’d love to move to a house 3x larger, but with my pay being so low and the housing market being what it is, that plan is going to be a long time coming.

My parent company was purchased by a much larger publicly trade company, they then fired a ton of people saying they were redundant, which makes it obvious they just didn’t care one fucking bit about their employees, either current or future.  It hurts to see that happen, and it hurts to now work for a parent company that feels that soulless.

I started a Twitch channel!  I’ve made absolutely nothing off of it in the 3 months it’s been running, and I haven’t even played any games on it since thanksgiving due to an absolutely horribly respiratory infection, a general depression of the Twitch situation, and the 100+ hours I spent playing Horizon Zero Dawn in November / December.  That’s a game that I started back in November of 2020, started streaming it on Twitch, yelled at one of the cats, became horribly embarrassed by the situation and just gave up on the whole thing.  That is until I was gaming with a buddy and said “wouldn’t it be a laugh if I was streaming a game to Twitch, but instead of me, you saw my gold fish.”  I looked around my home office and noticed that I had nearly all the equipment I needed to start it up, so it’s been nearly 24/7 streaming since early October 2021, with a couple brief downtimes because Windows Update does not behave the way I feel it should.

With my continued blessing of Working From Home, I’ve gotten a ton of work done around my house, due to me being here to see it during the day, as well as having a ton more energy to get it done in the time I have to do it in.  I raked my front yard for the first time in the entire time that I’ve owned the house, and now I want to seed it with actual grass instead of the patches of grass in well fertilized soil that used to be just a bed of tree leaves.  I have an exterior projects list now, so maybe one day I’ll have a couple new walkways, one in my front yard and one in my back yard.

Back in August I got a CPAP machine to help with my snoring, but it had a side effect of helping me sleep all the way through the night.  About 10 years ago I started having to get up to pee every night about 4 hours after I went to bed, but I haven’t had to do that since I started using the mask regularly.  Other than these two fantastic things (no snoring, full nights sleep) I hate everything about it, from needing to put it on, to being woken up by it every morning, but it’s helping my wife sleep better, so that was the goal and it’s doing it’s job at that.  Now I do wonder why I don’t feel as rested as I’m assuming I should.

I got my third covid shot in December.  Is this the last one? Doubtful.  But maybe.

By The Numbers: 

• 48 Books, half of what I read in 2020
• 12 video games, again half of the previous year
• 346 movies, way up from 2020’s 232
• 35 seasons of television shows,

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Slugfest

Slugfest: With Nick Finch, Matthew Jackson, Vanessa Papa. The pitched rivalry between Marvel and DC Comics.

Originally commissioned by the blink and you missed it Quibi streaming service, I think I first heard of this about a year ago on one of Kevin Smith’s podcasts. IIRC, he said something to the effect of “If this thing ever sees the light of day, you guys are going to love it” which is a pretty accurate description of how I feel about it. Much like most of the other items in the Quibi, this is a short episode format miniseries with 10 total episodes that last anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes and only briefly touch on many topics in the industry. I think there could be an ongoing hour long weekly show with 52 episodes a year that could go into the detail that I want, so it’s amazing that they were able to trim it down to just these select things. If you’re even slightly interested in the history of the DC/Marvel situation, this is a great starting point.

Also, there’s a significant amount of actual talent involved in the interviews and retellings, as well as a huge number of easily recognizable actors. It’s great! Good luck finding it though, you’ll need a Roku, go to the Roku Channel, then do a manual search for it.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home: Directed by Jon Watts. With Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon. With Spider-Man’s identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

Spider-man’s finally back on the big screen, and this is the film that I chose to be the one I went to see in the theater again. It’s been a couple years since my list visit to the theaters and this trip was everything I feared it would be. With a theater that was only 1/3 full for the 7pm Dolby Digital showing, I was one of maybe 5 people in a mask, the other 100 or so people decided to not do what they were asked to and were just sitting there stuffing their mouths, chewing loudly, and mouth breathing all over their massive diet cokes that they were loudly slurping down. Half way through the film, I had to use the restroom, so missed about 7 minutes of that due to having to visit one of the most disgusting places in my city: the AMC restrooms. I hated nearly everything about the movie experience itself and I’m really not sure I want to do it again, watching movies at home has absolutely spoiled me, there’s only my wife to interrupt, I can pause the film to talk about things when we need to talk about them, I can pause for bathroom breaks, and I cannot stress this enough, there is no one in my living room that’s going to be playing video games on their phone in an absolutely dark room or taking phone calls just 10 feet from me. Wrap all that up in some slight covid anxiety and I really do no known if I want to continue the A-List program that I signed up for, which is 3 movies a week for $25 a month. It’s a great deal if you’re going to the movies more than once a month, but I’m not sure I even have the motivational energy for all this non-sense.

That was the theater experience. How about the movie? There’s a few reasons that it’s already made over a Billion dollars in just the week or so that it’s been released:

1 – there’s a ton of pent up demand for a quality movie at the theaters
2 – there’s a ton of pent up demand for Tom Holland’s Spider-man as his previous flicks have all delivered exceptional stories
3 – the last Holland spider-man film ended on a cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers
4 – the MCU has been not so quietly building out the Multiverse concept in the background, most notably with the WandaVision and Loki shows on D+
5 – there’s only going to be a few franchises that would pull crowds back to the movie theater again, general MCU movies weren’t enough (black widow, Shang-Chi, and Eternals were all ‘no thank you’ from me personally) and the vague hint that there were going to be multiple spider-men in the film was enough for me to say, sure ok.

Spider-man: No Way Home delivers on all of it’s vague promises, somehow managing to meet or exceed all of my expectations. and was worth the trip out to the sticky floor plague factory. I’ve read that Tom Holland is “done” with the franchise after this, and there’s no concrete plans to bring Spidey back, but I’m relatively sure these are the things that actors say all the time when they’re willing to give up a role to work on other new and exciting projects, much like what Robert Downey Jr was saying before Captain America: Civil War. I’d be extremely shocked if Holland stayed away from the MCU for very long, if at all.

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A Holiday Reading of “A Very Klingon Kristmas”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cJfxcR65ew

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Hull Zero Three

Trapped on a mysterious spaceship, the only way to escape is to survive. A thrilling novel from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Greg Bear. A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination – unknown. Its purpose? A mystery. Its history? Lost. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home, a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms, he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger.

A glorious rip roaring adventure that I loved right up to the penultimate chapter. I hated the last two chapters because the story is essentially over with, and everything else is a flashback to the main story from the future.

Hated it when Star Trek Enterprise did it, hated it here too. The rest of the book is good enough to say that you should give it a try if you enjoy space based horror mysteries, because I’d love to get your take on the ending too.

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Biden-Harris Administration Extends Student Loan Pause Through May 1, 2022 | U.S. Department of Education

Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced a 90-day extension of the pause on student loan repayment, interest, and collections through May 1, 2022. The extension will allow the Administration to assess the impacts of the Omicron variant on student borrowers and provide additional time for borrowers to plan for the resumption of payments and reduce the risk of delinquency and defaults after restart. The Department will continue its work to transition borrowers smoothly back into repayment, including by improving student loan servicing.

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Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition

EARTH IS OURS NO MOREExperience Aloy’s entire legendary quest to unravel the mysteries of a world ruled by deadly Machines.An outcast from her tribe, the young hunter fights to uncover her past, discover her destiny… and stop a catastrophic threat to the future.Unleash devastating, tactical attacks against unique Machines and rival tribes as you explore an open world teeming with wildlife and danger.Horizon Zero Dawn™ is a multi-award-winning action role-playing game – and this Complete Edition for PC includes the huge expansion The Frozen Wilds, featuring new lands, skills, weapons and Machines.INCLUDES:• Horizon Zero Dawn• The Frozen Wilds expansion• Carja Storm Ranger Outfit and Carja Mighty Bow• Carja Trader Pack• Banuk Trailblazer Outfit and Banuk Culling Bow• Banuk Traveller Pack• Nora Keeper Pack• Digital art book

After nearly 100 hours played and a year of my life, I think I’m finally done with Horizon Zero Dawn. I originally started playing in back in 2020 and it was one of the first games I played on Twitch, but the performance was lackluster and I got into an argument with one of my cats while live on Twitch, got embarassed about it, then got distracted by other things in my life.

I returned to the game when they released a performance patch that nearly doubled my frames per second, and the game went from being an ok looking game at 40-50 fps to a fantastically gorgeous game running at 80-100 fps with HDR (though only in 1080p still, I didn’t want to tax my laptop too much). The story is extremely tightly written and the voice actors and facial animators were both at the top of their game. If it weren’t ineligible for 2021’s game of the year, this would be it for me, it’s just that good.

There are however a few things that I hated, namely any of the flying creatures, I could never figure out how to handle them appropriately. Also, those hunting grounds / trials were difficult to figure out exactly what they were wanting from me at times, I did a couple of them upwards of 10 times before I realized what I was supposed to be doing.

Neither of those distracted me from how much I loved this game. The soundtrack, the day/night cycle, the gentle breeze as it passed over the grass fields I was hiding in from a massive T-Rex looking robot, it was all glorious.

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Salvation Day

A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic thriller. They thought the ship would be their salvation.

Per the author info page at the end of the book, this is Kali Wallace’s first non-YA book, but it still has the distinct feel of a YA book, something I started to notice about 2/3 of the way through, then I got to the afore mentioned info page and said “ah, right, that makes sense then”. That’s not to say this isn’t a great story, some of our favorite modern stories have been YA or adapted from YA I’m a huge fan of post-apocalyptic stories, especially ones that happen fairly far in the future. In the “Salvation Day” universe, humanity has been able to send generation ships out to the stars, started mining astroids, and had a generally advanced stage of technology. There was a massive collapse however, and humanity struggled to save society from itself, and it was only after a long period of rebuilding and restructuring that we were able to look to the heaven again. It’s the struggle between those two ages that the dominos are set up for this great story. Kali Wallace is new to me, but I’m going to keep an eye out for new books from her, this one was worth my time reading it, and I’m hoping to see more science fiction from her.

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Coda

Coda: Directed by Claude Lalonde. With Patrick Stewart, Katie Holmes, Giancarlo Esposito, Christoph Gaugler. A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic.

Patrick Stewart’s recent films and television shows have nearly all dealt with coming to terms with aging, dying, and what you leave behind, and Coda is no different in that regard. Much like Logan or Star Trek: Picard, the character that he plays here is at the end of a long and storied career, with all the ups and downs that someone trying to do their very best while living in the spotlight would entail. I was halfway expecting a twist of some sort to come in towards the end of the film, but there’s no twist that distracts from the three main leads doing their very best to give us an amazing story of how self doubts that can creep in, no matter how good you are at your craft.

It’s not lost on me either that I read a completely unrelated to Stewart book trilogy dealing with ending the Trek Lit extended universe that used the same title.

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Anatomy of a Take over

Gratuitously stolen from reddit: 

As of Nov. 3rd the problem Trump had to solve is this: “How do I retain the presidency even though I lost the electoral college?”

Let’s start by reverse engineering the problem…

How do I retain the presidency even though I lost the electoral college?

The only viable path to victory is to force a contingent election whereby congress decides who is the next president. (we’ve already done the math and you have the numbers to win.)

How do I force a contingent election?

At this point the only viable way is to make sure that the conditions required to certify the electoral college are not met.

How do I make sure those conditional requirements are not met?

If you can delay the certification for even 1 day then legally the conditional requirements will not have been met.

How do I delay the certification for even 1 day?

The VP is the lynch pin in to the electoral college process. You have to keep the VP from completing the electoral college certification process on the 6th of January.

How do I keep the VP from completing the electoral college certification process on the 6th ofJanuary?

Get the VP to leave the capitol before the electoral college certification is complete.

How do I get the VP to leave the capitol before the electoral college certification is complete?

The VP has to want to leave the capitol.

How do I get the VP to want to leave the capitol?

If his life and the lives of his family were at risk he would want to leave the capitol.

How could his life and his family’s lives be put at risk?

If he and his family were in the capitol building and it came under attack their lives would be at risk.

How could the capitol building come under attack?

A protest could easily get out of hand and become a riot aimed at the capitol building.

How can I make sure there is a protest on the day of the electoral college certification at the capitol?

Announce a rally to be scheduled on January 6th at the capitol and promote it heavily.

But Pence is my VP he’s been 100% loyal to me. Even if there was a riot, why would the people attacking the capitol turn on Pence?

We would have to give the rioters a reason to turn on Pence.

How do we give the rioters a reason to turn on Pence?

Have a very publicized meeting just before Jan 6th and ask Pence to just overturn the electoral college even though the states already certified the results. All while knowing it’s not within Pences constitutional powers and that he will not agree to do it. Then blame him very publicly when he actually doesn’t do it. Blame him while the riot is happening even.

How do we know the protest will have enough time to turn into a riot that will cause the evacuation of Pence before the certification?

We will call friendly republican senators during the electoral college certification and get them to object as much as possible as to delay the certification as long as possible.

How do we make sure the protest will turn into a riot?

Hold a rally before the protest and really convince the crowd that if the electoral college is successful in certifying the election the country will be destroyed and they will have been cheated out of an election. Tell them it’s time to kick ass and take names. Tell them it’s time for trial by combat. Tell them it’s their last chance to save America.

How do we know the rioters will invade the capitol?

We would need to communicate with protest organizers in the crowd that could lead and incite the rioters.

How would we communicate with both the friendly senators and the protest leaders in the crowd?

We would have people keep in touch with protest organizers on the ground and also set up a command center where calls could be made to senators and others.

How would I keep the national guard from deploying and stopping the riot before Pence evacuates?

You would have to place people in charge at the pentagon who will delay deployment of the national guard.

That sounds like it could actually work.

So the plan is…

Step 1. Convince a large number of supporters that mass election fraud caused the election to be stolen from them.

apnews.com/article/donald-trump-tweets-he-won-not-conceding-9ce22e9dc90577f7365d150c151a91c7

Step 2.Announce a rally to “Stop the Steal” scheduled on the same day at the same location where the electoral college certification is taking place. Have the rally end right before the certification begins.

www.fox5dc.com/news/trump-promises-wild-protest-in-dc-on-jan-6-the-day-congress-to-count-electoral-votes

Step 3. Place leadership at the pentagon who will delay the deployment of the national guard.

www.npr.org/2021/03/03/973292523/dod-took-hours-to-approve-national-guard-request-during-capitol-riot-commander-s

Step 4. Before the rally, setup a communications command center at the Willard Hotel.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/willard-trump-eastman-giuliani-bannon/2021/10/23/c45bd2d4-3281-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html

Step 5. Right before the rally, have a meeting with Pence and ask him to ignore the electoral college results and send the election to congress. The morning of the certification before the rally send out a tweet again encouraging Pence to hand the election to trump. (knowing full well he wont do it.)

www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-leans-harder-pence-flip-election-results-n1252849

Step 6. At the rally, have speakers use very violent rhetoric to really stir up the crowd and then direct them to march on the capitol.

www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial

Step 7. During the riot tweet that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and Constitution.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pence-tweet-capitol-riot-impeachment-trial_n_6024b281c5b6b295bc045640

Step 8. In the command center where calls are already going out to senators to get them to object to delay certification, begin having people communicate with protest organizers on the ground to lead and incite the crowd to invade the capitol and turn on Pence. (the capitol is breached and “hang mike pence!” chants begin)

www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-left-voicemail-for-tommy-tuberville-on-wrong-number-2021-1

www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/11/capitol-assault-a-more-sinister-attack-than-first-appeared

Step 9. Watch and wait for Pence to evacuate the Capitol to escape the invading rioters calling for his death.

www.businessinsider.com/trump-ignored-plea-stop-capitol-rioters-kept-watching-tv-book-2021-9

Step 10. Once Pence has left the Capitol and the conditional requirements to certify the electoral college are not met, argue that legally the election has no alternative but to be declared a contingent election. Whereby congress would then have to reconvene and vote to elect the next president instead of voting to confirm the outcome of the electoral college.

www.findlaw.com/voting/how-u-s–elections-work/what-is-the-contingent-election-and-voting-process-.html

Trump retains the presidency.

Luckily step 10 didnt happen. It all almost did. If Pence had just evacuated Trump would be president right now. Pence literally got all the way to the car and then refused to get in. That’s how close it came.

www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-refused-car-secret-service-capitol-riot-book-1610326

January 6th was the culmination of a premeditated plot to force the evacuation of the VP from the capitol and stop the certification of the electoral college which would then force a contingent election that would result in Trump retaining the presidency. This scenario did not play out by chance.

The fact that trump made so many moves to ensure his desired outcome within the 64 days between losing the election on Nov 3rd and the electoral college certification on Jan 6th indicates that this was all premeditated. The decision to have the rally at the exact time and place to stop the certification. Ensuring there would be plenty of people to protest and riot. The placement of pentagon leadership to delay the national guard deployment. Giving the rioters time to achieve the desired goal. His very public meeting to ask Pence to deny the electoral college. His tweet during the riot letting everyone know Pence didn’t do it so the rioters had a reason to turn on Pence. The setup of the Willard war room ahead of time for communications. The fact that Trump waited so long to do anything after the violence started.

After Nov 3rd Trump knew there was a very limited number of ways to retain the presidency with any shred of legal legitimacy. One way would be to get the secretaries of state in battleground states to change vote tallies in Trumps favor due to unproven voter fraud and declare Trump the winner of those states. He tried that, it didn’t work. Trump was then left with literally one single path to victory. Stop the certification of the electoral college and force a contingent election.

Trump knew Pence was the lynch pin in the electoral college certification process. All Trump needed was for Pence to evacuate the capitol on Jan 6th and Trump knew that and did everything in his power to make that exact thing happen.

Trump and company put thousands of lives at risk. From civilians that were his own supporters, to law enforcement, to duly elected members of congress, to his own Vice President of the United States, all in a bid to remain in power.

www.justsecurity.org/74622/stopthesteal-timeline-of-social-media-and-extremist-activities-leading-to-1-6-insurrection/

www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/01/06/dc-protests-capitol-riot-trump-supporters-electoral-college-stolen-election/6568305002/

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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre

Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre: Directed by Guy Ritchie. With Cary Elwes, Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett. MI6 agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.

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Breaker! Breaker!

Breaker! Breaker!: Directed by Don Hulette. With Chuck Norris, George Murdock, Terry O’Connor, Don Gentry. Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.

I’ve long known that Chuck Norris was generally not in many films that were good, even when they were released, but he was a working movie star that put out a LOT of films. He’s famous for his martial arts, but with the exception of the “The Way of the Dragon“, I don’t think I’ve actually seen him do much actual legit martial arts in a film. “Breaker! Breaker!” is no exception for either of these points, it’s not a great film, and Norris does more big rig driving than he does karate. I should really give him a break on this, as I think I’ve only seen about 10 of his films, and this one came out right when he was getting started.

At the time it came out, big rig movies like Breaker Breaker, Smokey and the Bandit, or Convoy were all the rage, which is hilarious to me now, it seems like such a random aspect of Americana to idealize, a lone man on the road traveling from town to town with only his CB radio to keep him company (or pet monkey in one case).

One great thing about Breaker! Breaker! is that I finally get to see Chuck Norris’ Action Jeans in action, he’s wearing them for the entire film! From the time he drives into the fake city to the time that he breaks out of the fake city jail, he’s got his Action Jean on, and looks great wearing them.

Wikipedia says that the success of this film helped put Norris on the map, but I can’t imagine it’s worth many people’s time if they’re not either Chuck Norris or big rig movie fans.

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The Woman in the House

The Woman in the House: With Michael Ealy, Appy Pratt, Kristen Bell, Tom Riley. When a handsome neighbor moves in across the street, Anna a heartbroken, for whom, every day is the same, starts to see a light at the end of the tunnel. That is until she witnesses a gruesome murder – Or did she?

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Oblivion’s Gate

The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic-level apocalypse-only to find that some fates really are ine

This is it, the end of an era, the final stopping place story of the much loved expanded trek lit universe (ETL). As a final entry in a storyline that’s included dozens of books, dozens of authors, and dozens of years, can it possibly hold up to the expectations and obligations that it has to the fans that have followed along?

This is going to be a spoiler filled review, and will touch on things that happen through the expanded trek lit universe (and nearly every show & movie), so beware and be ready!

In many ways, this is an impossible task: take the characters that we all know and love and wrap up their stories in a way that will please the majority of the minority of Trek fans that have been reading all these books all this time. The ETL started after the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise was aired back on May 13, 2005,  In fact, the ETL is responsible for redeeming Enterprise to many fans, as it took the missteps of that finale, undid the bad ones (Trip!), then continued the story to it’s logical next steps.  The ETL continued to do this for Next Generation, Voyager and even the TOS era, with various marriages, children, deaths, resurrections and brand new franchises being brought to life (Vanguard, Titan, Seekers, DTI, Corp of Engineers, and yes I even count New Frontier in here too).  It was everything a Trek fan that enjoys reading could hope for, with stories that advanced the characters and their universe, there were assassinations, space stations exploding, the Borg were put to a final rest, new technologies were brought forward, and new areas of the universe were opened up.

The Star Trek ETL was much like the Star Wars Expanded universe, albeit Star Wars’ version version was much larger and much more fleshed out than the Trek universe was, they both ultimate faced the same issue of cannon.   Obviously the movies and television series aren’t going to have to hold to the new events that occured on the page, and why should they?  Is a casual fan of either series going to want to know why DS9 looks completely different now, or why Luke Skywalker has three kids and is married to a ninja assassin red head?  Likely not, they’re going to want to watch those events happen in a show or movie, and not have to read 20+ books to be in the loop.  When Star Wars started production of movies and television back up in earnest, they had a decision to me, should they keep everything in cannon, should they wrap up the cannon universe somehow, or should they just turn those older stories into just ‘legends’, effectively saying “well this didn’t actually happen that way, stay tuned for what really DID happen”, as told by a Disney approved author.  Their choice was to just jettison the entire SW-EU into legends, and the book fans were rightfully upset at the situation, but I can honestly see how the decision was made and how they got there, after all, if you want to catch up on the SW movies, you’re looking at maybe a couple weeks of watching TV, but with the books (and even tv to a smaller extent), that’s likely years of just reading.  With a proposal from David Mack, James Swallow, and Dayton Ward CBS decided to go in a different direction, not just wrapping up the universe, but deleting the entire thing from existence, all to save the “Prime” universe from being extinguished by a transdimensional threat that was caused by Time Travel during one of the TNG movies.  What timeline they’re talking about as the “Prime” one is never fully explained, much to their credit I think, because dropping the line on that would surely cause an uproar in the TrekLit circles.  Would it be the TOS timeline? The Mirror Universe? The Kelvinverse? How about the Mirror Kelvinverse? Or the Green Lantern / Kelvinverse?  IMHO, the best would be the Transformers / TOSverse that yes, exists in comic book form.

How how well did the ETL get wrapped up? I’d say it was done as well as possible.  The three books were well written, the story made sense, there were plenty of character moments in which it was obvious all three authors truly understood the character’s voices and motivations, and I have no major complaints.   I mean, I’m still going to complain, because who wants to sit around talking about how nice something is, especially when they have a lolipop stuck on their forehead, and in this case I just can’t get over the behind the scenes decisions to not include some of the universe level characters that were introduced throughout Trek.  No mention of the Squire of Gothos, Douwd, Metrons, Organians, or even the Q Continuum. Yes, the Prophets are a heavy influence in the story, but of all the god-like beings in Trek, they’ve always been the among the most aloof and non-interventional and to my mind, the least interesting. That being said, the Coda trilogy uses them perfectly in terms of how I previously viewed them, they’re about as powerful as I could hope for, all while being about as worthless as they could possibly be.

So final verdict, should you read Star Trek: Coda? Let me answer that question to two different types of people: Are you a casual Trek fan and want a good story? If you’re ok with getting about 30-50 books worth of data dumped on you in a 5 page pre-story timeline with author notes, then absolutely, this is a great page turner and you may find some story elements that will prompt you to read previous books in the series.

The other answer goes to the fervent Trek fan that’s watched every show, every movie, every parody, read every book, and might have even subscribed to the magazine.  If you’re that person, then you’ve likely already read the books, but if you haven’t, you absolutely need to read these before your own personal timeline is wiped out by mischievous Borg from an alternative timeline.

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Red Rocket

Red Rocket: Directed by Sean Baker. With Simon Rex, Bree Elrod, Brenda Deiss, Ethan Darbone. Mikey Saber is a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown, not that anyone really wants him back.

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Hit-Monkey

Hit-Monkey: Created by Josh Gordon, Will Speck. With Olivia Munn, Fred Tatasciore, Jason Sudeikis, Ally Maki. It tells the tale of a wronged Japanese snow monkey, mentored by the ghost of an American assassin, as he cuts a wide swath through the Tokyo underworld.

Did I expect to like this series when I started it? No, I did not, not even remotely. The animation is stuttered, the concept is silly, the character is silly, and it’s the last project of the now defunct wing of the Disney empire that was busy pumping out sub par Marvel content that only just barely connected to the MCU in any way.

While watching the 10 episodes of the first season however, I found myself actually caring about the Hit-Monkey in a way that snuck up on me, and even started to see the ghost haunting him as a kindred spirit. Maybe it’s because I’ve been enjoying Jason Sudeikis in Ted Lasso, or maybe I’m just in a place where a dead hit man permanently attached to a snow monkey makes sense.

I can only hope for a second season!

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