‘Echo’ Clip Reveals Daredevil’s Most Controversial Change Has Been Fixed
— Marvel Studios Years after Daredevil was unceremoniously canceled by Netflix, the series has become a surprising guiding light for Marvel television. After appearing in Spider-Man: No Way Home and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Matt Murdock has gone from estranged hero to MCU role model, and his influence doesn’t stop there. With his own Disney+ […]
Did Marvel Just Casually Put an End to Its Messy Multiverse Saga?
— Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe just spent three long years deeply entrenched in the multiverse, and not every attempt has been successful. Now, in 2023, the lasting legacy of the Multiverse Saga basically amounts to a few movies, Loki, and the ongoing animated anthology What If…? Technically, the entire arc could still come […]
Marvel Is Doing Everything Right to Save the MCU in 2024 — But Is It Enough?
— Marvel Studios 2023 has been a year of a few highs and many lows for Marvel Studios. While — along with animated series like Eyes of Wakanda, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Marvel Zombies. But only Echo has a confirmed release date. Meanwhile, Daredevil’s recent setbacks suggest we might not see that series until […]
Marvel Just Quietly Rewrote MCU History For the Better
— Marvel Studios Peggy Carter has become something of a focal point for Marvel’s What If…? She might be the character most affected by the multiverse, often for the better. After all, Hayley Atwell’s super spy was the first character remixed in What If Season 1, going from Steve Rogers’ spunky romantic foil to a […]
Medusa? ‘Percy Jackson’ Changes the Iconic Character in One Controversial Way
— Disney+ With original author Rick Riordan on board, Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians is poised to be one of the most faithful adaptations of a book series in recent history. In some ways, the series can be even more faithful to the original myths than the books could. In Episode 3 of […]
22 Years Later, A Major Sci-Fi Reboot Confirms an Exciting Trend for 2024
— 20th Century Fox Television It’s been a rough few years for television, but in the wake of the ), a prequel to the It films called Welcome to Derry, and multiple DC Universe shows. Nostalgia has long been an effective tool for film, and it’s become a key to success on the small screen […]
‘Percy Jackson’ Nails a Technical Challenge that Star Wars and Marvel Both Failed
— Disney+ A good franchise needs to be built on good source material. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has Marvel Comics, contemporary Star Wars has the original films and non-canon books and comics… and Percy Jackson and the Olympians has the books by Rick Riordan. The series, about an alternate America populated with creatures and characters […]
2023’s Wildest Sci-Fi Show is Bringing Back Its Most Underrated Secret Weapon
— BBC Studios Doctor Who is getting back into the groove of things. After three different 60th anniversary specials, there’s now a new Doctor in Ncuti Gatwa (though his predecessor is still sticking around) and he’s set to begin his adventures in the Christmas special, “The Church on Ruby Road.” A new trailer for the […]
60 Years Later, Sci-Fi’s Longest Running Show Just Reaffirmed Its Most Paradoxical Idea
— BBC With “The Giggle” finally hitting Disney+, the three David Tennant-centric Doctor Who specials have come to a close, with surprising and spoilerific results. We’ve known for ages that Neil Patrick Harris was playing a new incarnation of a 1966 1st Doctor villain, The Celestial Toymaker, but until now, nobody knew how that was […]
2 Years Later, ‘Doctor Who’ Just Confirmed Its Most Controversial Canon Reboot
— BBC The Timeless Child: It was the retcon that shook one of the oldest sci-fi fandoms in history. And, per the latest 60th-anniversary episode of Doctor Who, it’s here to stay. But by reckoning with its recent past, Doctor Who might be finally allowing itself to evolve in a really exciting and unexpected way. […]