Other than a single oblique reference to attending an official Star Trek convention in my last entry, I haven't really posted around here about the fact that I've been doing a bunch of con-related travelling lately--especially to Worldcon, having gone to both Dublin 2019 in Ireland and DisCon III in Washington this past December ( Read more... )

Before its premiere month was over, I wanted to add some relevant details from Terminator: Dark Fate as a supplement to my previous entry about the continuities in that franchise, along with offering some thoughts on the film in general...

Going by my own previous methodology, this is really a variation on what I called T-Cameron (because John ( Read more... )

With the thirtieth anniversary year of the original Highlander having come to a close and the twenty-fifth anniversary of Highlander: The Series now upon us, I wanted to create an outline for the multiple continuities that exist in that franchise similar to the approach I took with The Terminator and its sequels so people will (hopefully) be less ( Read more... )

The most popular request amongst my list of potential posts from way back in January of last year was one about various fictional timelines I've thought of creating and putting online at The History of Things That Never Were (increasingly out-of-date though it is) to join such perennial favourites as my Firefly Timeline, my Kindred: The Embraced ( Read more... )

I realise that the Highlander franchise could be described as having a minor resurgence at the moment. Highlander: The Source and its better-reviewed cousin, Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, are already amassing revenue in the DVD market, there's a Highlander video game on the way, and they're even daring to remake the original movieThat ( Read more... )

From 1998 to 2005, I would periodically invite some of my friends (and sometimes their friends, and even their friends) out to see some new franchise movie in a group, since I thought they'd get more out of that sort of experience if they shared it with a bunch of like-minded people. I'd arrange for all the tickets and coordinate everything by ( Read more... )