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in EpisodesRick and Morty S4E5, Mid-Season Finale: Rattlestar Ricklactica
Rick and Morty S4E5 was absolutely hysterical, the best episode yet of the season yet by far, and in the top 5 all-time Rick and Morty episodes. This episode pulled everything together and showed none of the seams. Multiple storylines were going on simultaneously, each self-sufficient in its own right, yet they all worked together […] More
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Lost: The Tragic Tale of Eloise Hawking
For me, “Flashes Before Your Eyes” was one of the best episodes of Lost. It was the first time we’d seen the flashback formula used in an entirely different way. This wasn’t just a case of us seeing Desmond’s past; he had somehow traveled back to relive it. He was aware that he was in […] More
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Lost: What the Hell Is The Island Anyway?
Asking what The Island on Lost is would be the same as asking a Star Wars fan to explain The Force. These are complicated questions that require time, some hypothesis, and many examples to properly address. While both Lost and Star Wars are largely character-driven stories, what truly hooks us in both worlds is the […] More
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Which Paradox Will It Be? (Legion: Season 3 Episode 7)
How does time work on Legion? It’s a question I don’t think we’ll be fully able to answer until after the finale next week, and even then I doubt things are going to feel straightforward. But if the claim that time is a jungle from Switch’s time travel tapes struck me as significant before, it […] More
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Time Travel in Dark: Back to the Past
Time travel is all the rage lately. It’s been used in everything from the latest series of Twin Peaks to Avengers: Endgame (spoilers ahead for both of those…you’ve been warned). The Netflix TV show Dark has many good qualities but what impressed me most was the way it utilised time travel. It manages to do […] More
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Daddy Issues Are All Over the Place in Legion S3E5
Sigmund Freud’s notion of the Oedipus complex is well known, but perhaps not well understood. Pulling on the ancient Greek story of Oedipus, wherein our titular hero ends up killing his father and marrying his mother (without knowing that is what he is doing), Freud posited a structure along these lines in terms of the […] More
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It’s a Family Affair in Legion S3E3
There are a lot of things we might debate when it comes to Legion, but one thing no one can deny is the audacity of its narrative structure. I was surprised that after the last episode ended with Cary setting to work to do something in order to enhance Switch’s powers, Episode 3 proceeds immediately […] More
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Sympathy for the David? (On Legion S3E2)
Have you ever wanted to go back in time? To do things over? Do you ever lie awake at night recounting all the moments of shame in your life? Or is that just me? There is a difference between shame and regret. Perhaps it is a fine-grained distinction, but the latter applies more to what […] More
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The Premiere of Legion’s Third Season Offers Something for Your Mind
I worried about how the second season of Legion ended, as David took a heel turn into becoming a villain and the team at Division seemed to side with Amahl Farouk against him. I still have those worries, but the first episode of Season 3 largely assuaged them insofar as they included a concern about […] More
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World and Time Enough for The Time Traveler’s Wife
“Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?” – Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife [Note: Plot spoilers for The Time Traveler’s Wife and Doctor Who] It’s no secret that Steven Moffat loves Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife. The book’s concept of lovers living in out-of-order timelines became […] More
