Recent content by tizl

Just finished the Halo: Forerunner trilogy. It's sort of a prequel to the Halo video game series. I don't think it's necessary to have played the games and/or know the story of Halo, but it definitely makes the series more impactful if you have. It's written by Greg Bear so of course it's...

It's definitely a "slow burn", and it builds everything up, but it does flawlessly IMO, and the payoff is great. And, just to update on Bly Manor, I thought it was terrible. Here's a little review I wrote up for another site: My main problems with it: 1. Didn't care about the characters -...

Just wanted to give these a shout-out. Watched Hill House last year around this time, and re-watched it this year with my kids since my youngest is finally a teenager. It's one of the best seasons of television that I've ever seen. It's not only a great ghost story, it's also a great family...

I'm actually a very casual gamer as well, it's one of the things I've liked about WoW, there are many that are hard core raiders or PVPers, but I've always just played solo and for the story, which I like a lot. I've even read of lot of the books. And actually, right now is a great time to get...

I've played some Outer Worlds, and enjoyed it so far. I tend to skip around from game to game before finishing, it usually takes me years to finish a game lol. I've re-subbed to WoW to get ready for the next expansion. That'll keep me busy through the holiday season until I get sick of it and...

While there are some good shows on there, and a few great ones, some of them don't belong at all IMO, and any list of this sort that does not include Firefly is garbage. The newer BSG, The Expanse, MSTK 3000, The Madalorian, Stranger Things S1 and Doctor Who up through the Matt Smith years are...

Very interesting topic! I would think most authors, whether sci-fi or not, tend to write about what they know about culturally, or at least show their biases that way. The same goes for directors, for example M. Night Shyamalan almost always bases his movies in Philadelphia, where's he from...

Maybe Firefly, seems like that would be a fun crew to fly with!

Yeah I agree with this take. Especially when it comes to sci-fi, I can't stand to see politics of our day and time, shoe-horned into a story about the future where it doesn't make sense. I would prefer no political agenda at all. I can understand if there are characters who are political, or...

100% agree with you. To be fair, I've never read any of the authors on this particular list (well technically I've read Ken Liu, but only as translator for Cixin Liu for one of his Three Body Problem series), and I've never even heard of half of them, but only a few of the summaries are even...

Wife and I are planning on getting to season 3 or Ozark, I like Bateman a lot and the first two seasons were really interesting. We are currently watching the sixth and final season of Bosch on Amazon. That's a great detective show, the main protagonist is portrayed really well by Titus...

LOVE that one. We've watched that a few times and the kids love it too. They really don't make movies like that anymore.

Absolutely, I've already got a few ideas for some things to watch this week, thanks for all the effort in putting that together!

OMG that is quite the list... funny thing is, I think I've actually seen most of them. Just showed my kids The Fifth Element tonight, love that movie. Last week I showed them the whole season of Firefly, then watched Serenity. Those are WELL worth multiple watchings, it's been some years...

I couldn't finish this. The whiny little sister annoyed me so much I just stopped halfway through, and I have no desire to go back and see how it ends.