Into the Longbox

Let me start off by saying that I hate myself a little for putting the full working title in this post. We get it Marvel, it's your show! Sorry, where was I? Oh right, I was going to talk about Jessica Jones, the latest Marvel TV show created exclusively for Netflix. This means I felt anticipation and an equal obligation to watch this show. Would it be a labor of love? Or would it be a drag like Agents of Shield. Sorry, I had to say it. Anyways, I'm not going to tell you right off the bat! I'm going to make you read my possibly long post. You have to earn it. ... Okay, Okay. Don't click away. I really liked this show. I didn't like it as much as Daredevil, but it's still really good. I just finished the series a few minutes ago, so I'm coming into this fresh without letting it marinate. I'll try to keep from going too stream of conscious on this. As I was watching I did have a few major points in my head. I will start with this. If you thou...

I realized we are a few months into the new season of TV shows and I have yet to talk about all the comic book based shows out there. I don't want to make this a long post, so I will just give some quick thoughts about the deep well of shows that are out there. Flash  - Continuing the fun of the first season.  They keep bringing in more villains from the DC Universe and are now already touching on Earth-2 stuff. Also, the core team is still very likeable. It remains one of my favorite shows. Arrow  - This show has already having a much stronger showing than what we saw in Season 3. The team is now a fully costumed, functioning unit. This show has already brought in other DC characters. We just had an episode with Constantine! There has also been a teasing of Mr. Terrific. I still do not like the Felicity/Oliver relationship. I never would have shipped that, but there's nothing I can do about it. Supergirl  - I covered my thoughts on this in a previous post . I ...

I know this is really late and I really don't want to turn this blog into my personal soap box, but sometimes things happen that I have to talk about. Surely by now, everyone has heard about the ridiculous movement to boycott Star Wars Episode VII. This is due to some labeling the movie as "anti-white genocide". Now I could go after the short mindedness of such a movement, but I'd rather go in another, more positive direction. I wanted to talk about why I love what this movie is doing and what we're seeing in Sci-Fi as a whole. When I was a kid, I would have loved to have an abundance of black sci-fi characters like I have seen over the past few years. The reason I hold on to Lando Calrissian so badly is because that was all I had. (And Billy Dee Williams is so cool). There are very few movies where a black character has an impact outside of being killed quickly or a walking stereotype. Although sparingly used, Lando is the good side of what we can see. Wi...