The long-running series Supernatural just came to an end and I enjoyed the last couple episodes. Even though I haven't seen the last few seasons and don't plan to, I knew the series fairly well from its first 6 or 7 years. I could say more about this ...
Handwaves, Explanations and Just-Go-With-Its
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 24, 2020A Phoenix Reborn as The Joker
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 16, 2019
Here is the scene:
It is pitch black, sitting in a movie theater, the lights go out and the feature film is only minutes away from beginning. The trailers begin playing and the first one is half way memorable. Then the next trailer comes on and I see a man ...
Knowing when to end
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Aug. 2, 2019
When Stranger Things ended their first season I didn’t feel that there was a need to continue. The character’s had had their arcs come full circle, most loose ends were neatly tied and, despite the ending being left slightly ambiguous, for the most part, it was wrapped up ...
Long Runners
Banes at 12:00AM, June 27, 2019
what? we're over?
The show Supernatural is ending its run at season 15, which starts up sometime this year.
It's a really impressive length of time for a live action TV show - but when I heard about the finale, I had the same sort of vague surprise - the ...
Gag Orders
Banes at 12:00AM, March 7, 2019
With how fast everything is moving now, I'm a week late on this post - but the underlying subject is still relevant and will continue to have effects on movies, fandom, and culture in general.
Last week, the Rotten Tomatoes review site shut down its “Interested/Not Interested” section, where ...
Salvaging the Antihero and the Art House Hero
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 31, 2019
Over the holidays I watched a couple of programs that made me think of “non-traditional heroes”
We've talked about antiheroes multiple times around theduckwebcomics.com of course.
One of the programs was a series called ‘Happy!’ and the other was the movie “Inside Llewyn Davis” by the Coen Brothers ...
QUACKCAST 411 - The Right to Copy!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 29, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
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Copyright is a huge thing! It allows us to make money from our creations and stops other people from stealing them. But culture isn't about a ...
Questioning Rumpelstiltskin's Motives
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2018
As children, we are more open and willing to believe the things that are presented to us as facts. We don't even question the validity of some statements, just take them as truths because that is the way it is.
One example of this was when I was sitting ...
A Trilogy in Reverse
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 16, 2018
I spent the weekend doing something I have wanted to do for quite sometime: having a midnight pizza party while watching the early 1990s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies with the Jim Henson turtle costumes. Yes, the turtles were a thing when Vanilla Ice was still household name, but what ...
CHARACTER ARCS IN SERIES and SEQUELS
Banes at 12:00AM, April 19, 2018
Today we'll talk sequel and series character arcs
Last Week we talked about character arcs. They're an important element of fiction writing…although a lot of the time, there is no arc! But a strong, unpredictable character arc can be a great help in driving a story from ...