Here Be Dragons

Star Wars is one of the cinematic staples of all time.  Many have tried and failed to duplicate its success (I'm looking at you Matrix).  I just saw Rogue One and it fits perfectly between episodes 3 and 4, so much so that I would even recommend inserting it into any marathon viewing of the movies.  It got me to thinking about why the movies have worked for so long. Besides its immense popularity, Star Wars is an entity which is built upon itself.  It honors the original story so much that they (Disney and Lucas Films) have been able to integrate more stories and characters into the narrative; while always respecting the time line and original story.  There are a few movie studios which attempt to do the same thing, most notably, Marvel (also Disney) and the Avengers.  They've done a decent job but no one cares about these characters all that much and they just keep introducing more.  I mean how many fist fights can a team have?  Then there's DC,...

I love SciFi...this has been well documented, so naturally I have to share my take on the new netflix series, "The Travelers".  Now, I'm just 2 episodes in and I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, (Stop here if you haven't seen it yet).  I have a real problem with the premise of the show.  They travel back in time to posses the bodies of people just after they naturally die in the past, our present.  Together they attempt to change history by preventing documented destructive events.  So in the first episode, they prevent the explosion of a bomb that would have killed 11000 people.  11000 people who were supposed to be dead are now alive but on the show, this should change the documented time line.  One of the abilities of the Travelers is having a thorough understand of what happens in the past, our present.  But as they do their work, this time line knowledge should become immediately warped because people saved will adjus...

So I like superhero movies and I've watched a lot of the cartoons and stuff like that.  Marvel easily has more established characters but DC has the big 3, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.  They seem to inject those 3 or at least 2 of them in everything they do.  I really love their animated efforts from Under the Red Hood (the best one) to Young Justice.  But I've noticed that they don't seem to know what to do about Superman and Wonder Woman together.  They seem to really want to promote a relationship there which is news to avid fans because they have historically been linked to other people.  With Superman, it's always been Lois Lane and Wonder Woman has been about Steve Trevor.  This is how I've always known it to be from the original TV shows to the Christopher Reeves movies.  But now they seem to jump all over the place, I'll explain it in context: The Justice League  cartoon which later morphed into Justice League Unlimited was ...