By G. P. Avants This is a piece that has been marinating for a while. We as a fandom community have been showered with movies and TV productions from many hard-working and creative individuals. When we think of our heroes or villains caught up in their epic struggle or finding their destiny, do we ever…
Category: Positivity in Fandom
We (are Trying Our Hardest, Dude) to Build this City on Rock and Roll
By G. P. Avants Bill & Ted are back! Bill & Ted Face the Music is the third installment of the story of two unlikely heroes who make the future we all dream about. But the fate of the future is uncertain as they try to write the song that unites humanity….
Whoo, Hoo, I’m a Skywalker, Too!
By G. P. Avants Is this really the end of the Skywalker saga? Does this mean the end of Star Wars or just the name Skywalker? With so many changes going on in the Disney Star Wars universe we are not really sure what is coming our of hyperdrive. What we do know is…
Mother, May I?
By G.P. Avants I don’t know who recommended I Am Mother on Netflix, but I took the bait. This show, set in a supposed post-human civilization world, centers around a caretaker robot and her surrogate little girl. The child was selected from a collection of human embryos, that the robot, named Mother raised. In a…
Spiderman Far-From Home: Practically Perfect Peter Parker
Here is a little tribute to Spiderman. With Sony and Disney working out the future of our hero, we can enjoy the reflect on the latest incarnation of our favorite web head. By G.P. Avants Peter Parker is back in high school after the “blip”.What is the blip? This was the Avenger’s reversing…
Fight of the Monarch!
By G.P. Avants In the 1920’s a group of film makers visited one of the last untamed and dangerous places on Earth: Skull Island. There we find a place that the ravages of men’s advancements hasn’t touched. The wild and prehistoric world is managed by a king named Kong. Life has remained wild and dangerous…
In the Time of Micheal Burnham
By G.P.Avants Star Trek Discovery introduced us to Micheal Burnham. She appeared to be an ordinary girl who was born into a relatively normal life…as far as she knew. Her parents were Starfleet scientists who…actually were working undercover with the top secret Section 31. They discovered how to time travel with a stolen Klingon time…
Dark Phoenix: Out of the Dark and Into the Grey
By G. P. Avants Growth is a necessary part of life though it more often than not painful. Ask the X-Men and women. They have struggles to be recognized not just as odd, different, and scary, but intelligent, caring, and heroic individuals. The world has moved from fearing them and trying to extinguish their kind…
Episode #62 The Fandom Universe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dunj5-bbe692 It only took 62 episodes for us to define our multiple fandom podcast. Sometimes it takes a little time to get your traction. If you are a neek who loves more than one fandom and the characters that inhabit them, then this podcast is for you.
Episode #61 Oh, What a Spiderverse We Weave.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-psvjy-b9bfd7 This must be the season of Spiderman. Spiderman into the Spiderverse has introduced us to not one, but multiple versions of the friendly neighborhood web head. In this episode we will talk about this latest superhero installment and how it is connected to the larger Spiderverse.
Verily, A New Hope
“A Fan-Fiction with an Old World Twist: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars. They did say Star Wars was was a space opera. So this is a perfect meshing.” By G. P. Avants Maybe this was an answer to prayer for Star Wars fans. The door for fan-fiction has swung open again allowing faithful fans to ply their…
Is Borg Coexistence Futile?
“Could we have prevented the Borg invasion? Did it have to turn out like this? Most of humankind was assimilated into the Borg collective and now man can’t function without the assistance of technology.” By G.P. Avants If only we rejected the idea that the Borg put into our heads: “We are the…
