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…
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Shazamily
By G.P. Avants Billy Batson was born into a world where parents were negligent and absent and superheroes were vigilant and very present. As he tries to find his lost long mother he is hounded by uncertain destiny. It keeps him on the run and never finding a place where he truly feels he…
A Bad Ass Princess
By G.P. Avants They all stand at the edge of a precipice. The remains of a broken Jupiter ship falls taking the wild-card-of-a-pilot, Don West, with it. Miraculously he climbs up the edge of the cliff to the shock of the other survivors. Don shakes off the dust and his pride. He comments…
Not So Simply Incredible
By G.P. Avants When we last left Mr. &Mrs. Incredible (5 minutes in their world, but 14 years in the non-animated world) they were coming out of the shadows and bringing “supers” back into the light. For almost two decades being known as a super hero was against the law. So, stepping in the…
Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!
By G.P. Avants I think the old adage, “The third time is the charm”, is true when it comes to the newest incarnation of Irwin Allen’s Lost in Space. Netflix brings us yet another reboot or better yet, reimagined series to propel own personal space voyage. (My only complaint is not having enough time…
Do Our Lives Matter?
By G. P. Avants My brother Ron steered me into a whole new Sci-Fi universe when he told me about the show Dark Matter. Ron said I would find the stories interesting and the characters very relatable He wasn’t wrong. Right from the start I found this show unique in its own way, yet…
Auggie, you are a Wonder!
I want to start off with, yes I know I haven’t written in awhile, but life gets busy and you can’t do anything about it. But in my “hiatus” from writing post on this site, I have been places and seen a few movies here and there. One of those movies is a fantastic…
Howl’s Moving Castle: How to Make a House a Home
G.P. Avants I need to thank my friend and fellow co-founder of God Among Geeks, Rudy for highly encouraging me to sample different genres of comics, movies, TV shows, and animated features. That’s really how we roll with our blog. I love the times when he adds must see features on my to…
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