Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 16
The entire Resistance remains on the base, it doesn’t even attempt an evacuationSnoke does the obvious thing: tells Hux to destroy the Resistance and tells Kylo to bring Rey to him.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 15
Looking back at this a decade later, it’s amazing how rushed all of this isThe film seems to have a general idea what it wants to do, but it’s so impatient it can’t even be bothered to show Rey learning, let alone struggling, to use her powers.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 12
It’s a philosophical position to assume that a story’s goal should be to portray events as realisticThe fact is genres carry a philosophical worldview; they can’t help it
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Star Wars – The Force Awakens: Review Part 11
Maz is basically saying that the light and the darkness are always rising up in different formsThe Force offers power, and, to maintain that power in a non-destructive manner, one must learn virtues and not give in to temptation.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 10
Flying a ship and fixing a ship are two different skillsFlying a ship and fixing a ship are two different skills. They were able to patch the ship up well enough, but they couldn’t take care of the problem with the hyperdrive by themselves, which is why they went to Lando in the first place.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review, Part 9
Three films’ worth of character development has been undoneHan tells Leia directly that he is in this for the money, not the revolution, which is not something a typical sleazy character would say.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Part 8
The coincidences here are huge and glaringRey’s piloting skills start out rough, but before long she’s weaving through a downed star destroyer with ease.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 7
Rey offers Finn her hand, and he takes itThe TIE fighters would make sense if the pilots knew someone was going to fly off the planet, but they have no way of knowing that.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 5
Science fiction often has various characters describing different social or philosophical positionsThere are plenty of flawless or powerful characters in storytelling. Sherlock Holmes has flaws, but he is powerful in the respect that his intellect is unparalleled, and his character has defined a genre of storytelling.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 4
Finn finds himself alone, so he begins stripping off his armor as he wanders the desertI can’t recall a single time where an entire movie, let alone a trilogy, is completely driven by such choices and coincidences.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 3: Meeting Poe
Once someone watches this film multiple times, questions stack up remarkably fastSeveral ships are descending to this planet, and inside them are stormtroopers waiting to attack.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 2
During the title crawl, the writers’ entire goal was to reset the board so they could essentially tell the same story all over againThe whole reason the sixth movie was called Return of the Jedi was because it was assumed that Luke would train more Jedi, and this is an audience expectation, and the title crawl is surgically destroying such expectations.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 1
The main problem with The Force Awakens is that it’s the most strategic—and by that, I mean cynical—films I’ve ever seen.
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The Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Part 3
This movie isn't the best in the trilogy, but it should be doing better than it is at the box officePreviously, we talked about how Rocket Raccoon was injured during a fight with Adam Warlock, and this event sent the Guardians on a quest to save their friend. They manage to fix Rocket, and along the way, the viewer learns about the raccoon’s past. However, now that Rocket has healed from his injuries, Peter, Gamora, and Groot must save Nebula, Mantis, and Drax from the High Evolutionary, since they snuck onto his ship. The High Evolutionary demands that Peter trade Rocket for the three stowaways and sends Peter his coordinates. Peter hatches a plan with the remaining Guardians and some of his fellow Ravagers from the previous films. Meanwhile, Mantis, Nebula, and Drax discover there are children in cages inside Read More ›
Thomas Furness and the Invention of Virtual Reality
The United States military had a major impact of the development of virtual reality. How did virtual reality even come to be invented? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Thomas Furness discuss tactile displays, sensors, and the history of virtual reality. Show Notes Additional Resources
Sci-fi Culture: There’s Life Here on Planet Covid!
But you have to look hard. Here’s some helpWith major releases postponed, we sci-fi fans tirelessly check our email and bookmarked sci-fi news sites for any good news. If you’re one of those, have no fear! I’ve compiled a short list of what’s been going on in the community over the past few weeks. Expect to see more updates like these as long as needed.
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