Star Trek: Discovery Episode 5

Question: Why do you watch Star Trek? We all have our reasons for watching the various incarnations of Star Trek. My own are based around nostalgia, a shared experience with a father that I don't really remember tied to stories that made me go WOW! as a kid. Star Trek led to Blakes 7, which …

Star Trek: Discovery Episode 4

The following contains spoilers, you have been warned. As I'm sure I've mentioned before, I am in no way a Trekkie. I have nowhere near the amount of background knowledge to consider myself one and have always watched the previous iterations of the Star Trek universe for nothing but enjoyment and relaxation. Which is why there …

Review time! Darkest of Dreams

Originality. Its a strange beast isn't it? A lot of the time we say that we want it, yet when we're confronted by it we shy away. Maybe, and I'm just throwing this out there, that's because originality is too often a case of The Emperors New Clothes. In too many areas of entertainment, there …

Star Trek: Discovery Ep3

Perspective is everything, isn't it? I watched Ep3 and I didn't enjoy it overmuch, and that's okay, not everything has to be made for me. The people making this are clearly going for a different demographic than a soon to be middle-aged white guy, and whereas that might have pissed me off before, today I don't …

Star Trek: Discovery.

Well I'm a big old sucker and I couldn't help myself, I watched the first two episodes of ST:D (Really, no one saw that in production? I know the commonly used term is STI now, but c'mon, seriously?!) and while I didn't hate them, I didn't love them either. They were meh, at best. The …

Wynonna Earp, Series One EP 1-5

During my downtime this week I've started watching Wynonna Earp. I've got some mixed feelings so far if I'm honest. First off though I love the premise, Wyatt Earps great-great-granddaughter inherits a curse and must battle revenants from hell. Said revenants are trapped in a small geographical area and are only 77 in number. What's …

My thoughts on The Fifth Season by N.K.Jemisin

First things first: I'm going to SPOIL the hell out of this. If you don't want to have the book spoiled, read no further. Still here? Well here we are then, all ready for what I took from my reading of The Fifth Season, Jemisin's Hugo winning, Nebula considered fantasy work. I put this on Twitter …

Storyhack 0: The Monster Without by Julie Frost

I struggled with this one. I'm not a fan of Urban Fantasy, werewolves and vampires do nothing for me at all. When said werewolves are depressed war veterans my enjoyment level dips even further. Spoilers ahead! Right then. Julie Frost can write. I got a real Kelley Armstrong vibe off the story, a thought confirmed …

Storyhack 0: Hal Turk and the Lost City of the Maya by David Boop

Admission time; I've had a really hard time concentrating on anything frivolous this week. The terrorist attack in Manchester has obviously been at the front and back of my mind.  Still, life goes on, doesn't it? I read David Boop this morning as Lil Buddy was playing with her favorite aunt and I had a …

Storyhack 0: Dead Last by Jay Barnson

Okay, this is getting embarrassing. Three stories so far and all have been great. It's not like I'm looking for something to hate, or even dislike but you'd think there would be at least one out of the first three that would annoy me. Nope. Warning: SPOILERS!!! We have a secret agency. We have mystical …