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What worked (and what didn’t) in ‘The Force Awakens’
It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough.
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Convenient coincidences in ‘The Force Awakens’
Plot holes in Episode VII show where the filmmakers valued nostalgia over good storytelling.
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Huh. That doesn’t feel like ‘Star Trek’.
The trailer for ‘Star Trek Beyond’ has Trekkies worried. Does its action-heavy tone bode ill for the franchise?
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How Disney kept its ‘Force Awakens’ secrets
It’s incredible how little we know about the new ‘Star Wars’ film’s plot.
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‘The hero of a generation’
Why ‘The Force Awakens’ is the first J.J. Abrams movie for which Michael Giacchino didn’t write the score.
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How the new ‘Star Trek’ recast Kirk
By 2009, Shatner-as-Kirk had seeped into the cultural consciousness: the stilted, rambling delivery, the bemused smirk, the paunchy physique.
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Killing Kirk
A single, key change would have proven that the filmmakers at least took Trek seriously: Kirk should have stayed dead.
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Picard’s final mission
Here’s why a Picard-centric miniseries should be Trek’s next foray into television.
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Vicarious wonder
We love watching others—strangers or not—learn to love what we love.
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“It is your destiny.”
Geekdom is abuzz; Star Wars will be reborn. Out of nowhere, Disney snatched up the rights from Lucasfilm, simultaneously announcing sequels to Return of the Jedi. After the disastrous prequel trilogy, a new director and proven screenwriter will attempt to jump-start the stalled franchise. Fans are already speculating wildly about the new trilogy’s likely story. […]
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