Building Three Parts Dead: How Gladstone Writes Magic Law
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Star Trek’s Best Movie Villains
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Frank Herbert is not a guy I would go to for political commentary.
Q&A: Could Kaiju Defeat the Military?
Submitted by Dave,
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What happens when you throw together tropes from popular worlds.
Episode 349: Our Favorite Spells
No critical analysis to be found here, just wholesome magic content.
Six Magic Powers That Writers Had to Ignore
Unused spells can distract the audience during important conflicts.
Five Stories That Break Their World’s Theme
Worlds that feel slapdash make suspension of disbelief harder to achieve.
Five Movies Critics Loved but Audiences Hated
Do audiences have no taste or are critics elitist snobs?
How WandaVision, Falcon, and Loki Score on Engagement
Let's find out which of these three Disney+ hits has the most ANTS.
Q&A: How Could Archer and T’Pol Have Been Better?
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Building Mass Effect: How Bioware Imagines the Future
Whatever the Reapers are working toward, it must be big!
Five Villains With Contrived Wins
When the villain wins, it builds tension - but only if it's a credible win.
Five Stories That Neglect Tension
Without tension, readers get bored fast.
Episode 341: Underused Characters
A dissertation on why trees can absolutely be characters.
Five Characters With the Wrong Skill Set
Characters need to be carefully crafted to fulfill their role in the plot.
Avatar Villains Ranked From Worst To Best
Thanks to Unalaq, we now know that the Avatar setting is divided into a good/evil binary.
Project Hail Mary Shows When Flashbacks Do and Don’t Work
The author of The Martian tries to make flashbacks work and only partially succeeds.
Five Useless Characters and How to Fix Them
Let's find the smallest edit that will get these protagonists contributing to the team.
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