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‘Doctor Who’ Season 1 Release Date, Time, Plot, and Trailer for the Sci-Fi Show’s New Era

— Disney+ Doctor Who may be over 60 years old, but it has a whole new look now. With the return of 2005-2010 showrunner Russell T Davies and Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa stepping into the lead role, the time couldn’t be more perfect to get stuck into this show. But with all those changes, […]

Star Wars’ New Show Confirms an Overlooked Truth About the Force

— Lucasfilm Star Wars may seem like it’s about glowing laser swords and spaceship battles, but it also has a philosophical side that draws from Buddhism and other Eastern beliefs. That influence is still visible today, almost 50 years since the franchise began, and the next Star Wars series will use it in a brand […]

48 Years Later, The Oldest Sci-Fi Show Could Finally Explain Its Weirdest Mystery

— BBC We all know that the Time Lords in , Davies also said: “The amount we talk about previous Doctors on set is zero… Doctor Who has moments where it looks back but it’s more exciting to look forward.” Presumably, the context of this quote was connected to whether or not previously established actors […]

Did ‘X-Men ’97’ Just Ruin a Classic Avenger?

— Marvel Studios When it comes to , by R. Jones and Tom Derenick, for the best of Cap’s advocacy). So why is X-Men ’97 pitting Cap against the mutant team, especially after witnessing the Genosha genocide? He’s worried about “sending a message” by going off-book with Rogue, but there’s no better time to send […]

Marvel’s Most Neglected Superhero May Finally Be Getting a Sequel

— Marvel Studios 2021 wasn’t exactly a banner year for Marvel’s cinematic universe, but Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was still something of a highlight. It was the best MCU film of the year, and while that’s not a huge feat when your competition is Eternals and the long-overdue Black Widow, it […]

5 Years Ago, Star Wars Wasted Its Most Important New Character

— Lucasfilm In 2019, The Rise of Skywalker was the last hope for many Star Wars fans. The films that preceded it had divided the fandom, perhaps irrevocably. However you felt about the first installment of Star Wars’ sequel trilogy, The Force Awakens — or The Last Jedi, its polarizing follow-up — the franchise had […]

2 Years Later, Ewan McGregor Reveals the Abandoned Idea That Almost Saved His Star Wars Show

— Lucasfilm Before Obi-Wan Kenobi attempted to offer context to the Jedi’s lost years, Star Wars fans were left with little more than guesswork and speculation. What became of Obi-Wan after the Jedi Purge? How did he survive, hidden from his apprentice-turned-Sith, in the wastes of Tatooine? How does someone like Ewan McGregor turn into […]

44 Years Later, Star Wars Could Finally Explain the Trippiest Part of ‘Empire Strikes Back’

— Lucasfilm No hero’s story is complete without a training sequence, and Star Wars contains one of the greatest ever. When Luke meets Yoda on Dagobah, he gets in shape by toting the Jedi Master around and working on his connection with the Force. Notably, his mental state is also challenged. In a key scene, […]

Star Wars Is Finally Giving ‘The Mandalorian’s Best Villain the Attention She Deserves

— Lucasfilm Before Star Wars started making TV shows, the morality of the saga as a whole was very cut and dry: the rebellion is good and the Empire is bad. In the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy, we saw the fall and the rise of the Empire, but the finer points of the […]

‘X-Men ’97’ Just Nailed an Underrated Character’s Complicated Origin Story

— Marvel Animation Marvel’s Cinematic Universe is not averse to creative liberties, especially in live-action. MCU films tend to fudge or ignore comic book storylines, and it’s rare for the franchise to present a 1:1 adaptation of its source material. That’s not necessarily bad, but it can lead to less-than-satisfactory origin stories for characters that […]