TrailerWatch: Picard ~ Season 2 Trailer
The trailer for Picard season two dropped last week. Sigh. It features the typical Alex Kurtzman narrative device: mess up what we know on the grandest scale possible because of [REASONS], and deal with the repercussions. Here’s an overview of Kurtzman’s destructive tango through the Star Trek franchise … Star Trek (2009) The Romulan sun spontaneously blows up. Because suns do that, you know? They don’t take millions of years to go. It happens instantaneously. A Romulan ship goes back in time and messes up the timeline. Rather than try save Romulus or convince anybody that the Romulans will need help in about 25 – 30 years, the crew…
A Look Back: The Lord of the Rings
I grew up reading JRR Tolkien. I read The Hobbit (1937) in 1982 (and played the adventure game for the home computer). That summer break, I read The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), The Two Towers (1954), and The Return of the King (1955). I fell in love with Middle-earth and high fantasy to the extent that I then read all the supporting material that came out, such as The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The Book of Lost Tales, etc. Tolkien’s Middle-earth opened up a world of magic, heroic quests, and history that delved into the beginning of time. It also taught me the importance…