“The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.” It has been exactly two years since I last posted on this website, this labor-of-love, this space devoted to fandom…
Since The Force Awakens was released on December 18th, 2015, this review is far overdue. However, I have to write this one before I can share my thoughts about Rogue One, which I thought was even better than The Force Awakens, which is saying something, because this film was, in my opinion, one of the best Star Wars films…
Released on November 20th, 2015, I am far overdue in writing a review about this movie. I almost trashed it from the back burner completely, but I figured I had better write it eventually, because I wrote reviews about the other three films, and I felt I had to “complete the set”. The problem is,…
Happy New Year! Finally, we can put 2016 behind us and hope for a better year. As I sift through the “#worstyearever” hashtag, I feel as though I need to remind myself of the good things that were given us in 2016. Certainly, this doesn’t make up for all those that we’ve lost this year—Alan…
Four days ago, a visitor to this website pointed out that I had a few pages missing in my Pottermore Index. After adding those four, I counted the number of total links on that index page: 92. So far, J.K. Rowling has written 92 articles for Pottermore.com, and it doesn’t seem as though she’s going…
Below is an account of my first-ever Harry Potter midnight release. I wrote it shortly afterwards, but it has been sitting in my drafts for several months, unpublished, because I never actually finished my review of the story itself. Until now. Date: July 30th, 2016. Time: 11 p.m. It’s my first Harry Potter midnight book/story/script…
Halloween. The favorite holiday of witches and wizards, of ghosts and ghouls, of vampires and werewolves. The favorite holiday for anyone who wants to pretend to be someone else for a day. To live in a fictional character’s clothes. To walk in a fictional character’s shoes. As I sit here, periodically getting up to hand…
Back in October, I wrote an article entitled “The Day I Stopped Caring About Harry Potter“. While I recommend reading the article in its entirety, I’ll sum it up before I continue: I was upset that the story was going to continue after the “All was well” finality that Deathly Hallows brought us. Moreover, I was…
When Pottermore announced that the Cursed Child script would be published, I breathed a sigh of relief. I want to go back to London to see it, but I don’t know whether that’s possible right now. I would imagine that there are several Harry Potter fans who are in the same situation: they want to…
Since the announcement trailer and poster were released on December 15th, Fantastic Beasts-related news has been coming at the fandom about a mile a minute. With limited time in my schedule lately, it’s been difficult to even keep up with reading everything, much less share the things that I’ve read on my own website. At this…
Mind the gap! Between the train and the platform? No, between the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy. While George Lucas may have bridged the three-year gap between Episode II and Episode III with two Clone Wars TV shows and a Clone Wars movie, the eighteen-year gap between Episodes III and IV remains relatively untouched. That’s where…
Disappointment hit me hard in October. I found out then that a game I was expecting to be delivered in 2015 wouldn’t be delivered until 2016. That game is called Obduction. That game is produced by Cyan and is the “spiritual successor” to Myst. Riven, the sequel to Myst, was one of my all-time favorite…
The Wizarding World you thought you knew is much larger than you imagined. History has many secrets. The official story is never the whole story. In classic myths and legends, we try to explain the unexplainable. In Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, Greeks explain how Prometheus disobeyed Zeus and gave the human race a way to light…
Severus Snape and the Marauders is the prequel fan film that Harry Potter fans needed. I had always thought, if we were ever to get an official prequel, that it would feature the marauders. But no, instead, we live in a world where the next official prequel features the author of a Hogwarts textbook. Don’t get…
The naysayers said it couldn’t be done. But then again, Peter Jackson has proven everyone wrong before. Remember The Hobbit? Three movies from nineteen chapters. I mean, Jackson really is the expert at making a Misty Mountain from a Hobbit Hole. “I really just make it up as I go along,” Jackson has stated, “I can turn two paragraphs…
