Writings
Prison Break: Theodore Bagwell’s Psychological Portrait
A psychological portrait of Prison Break’s Theodore Bagwell incarnated by Robert Knepper, explaining the character’s… Read More
The Walking Dead: Dead City—Maggie Shouldn’t Be Expected To Forgive Negan or Get Over Glen’s Death
In The Walking Dead and its spin-off Dead City, Maggie’s character should not be expected… Read More
Narrative Tools — Tess’ Death in The Last of Us + Joel & The Nature of Trauma
The Last of Us features prominent uses of Death as a narrative tool (Tess, Henry),… Read More
Cities of the Future – The Big City Archetype | Dystopias vs Utopias
A futuristic city is triumph over smallness, and so cities of the future begin with… Read More
Finding love in an alien world / TV Trope
The other day I was talking about aliens in fiction, which got me thinking about… Read More
Let’s create better aliens / Why the idea we have of aliens doesn’t approximate “reality”
We need more realism in the way we portray, or imagine, aliens. What do I… Read More
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