Category: Television
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Avatar: Seven Havens is taking huge risks; it can’t afford to be mediocre
It is a massive swing on the part of this series to reset the world with an apocalypse instead of advancing the time period and tech level like the last series did. Massive to villainise the previous hero so immediately and fully. The whole artistic vibe is different – painted-looking backgrounds are gone, synth soundtracks…
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Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) Hasn’t Aged a Day
Almost all forms of media and storytelling are the result of the time and culture in which they were created. Whether mainstream or counterculture, they have something to say about the sensibilities and values of their surroundings. As such, when I pursue media from far enough back, say more than a decade before I was…
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What Black Sails took from Treasure Island
This essay was originally posted to Reddit in July 2022. It had been about a decade since I last read the original 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, but after last month finishing for the first time and loving Black Sails, the 2014 – 2017 TV series that positions itself as a prequel to the…
