Category: Television
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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…