Like a Geek God
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Like a Geek God #9: Geeks, Ghouls, and Gore
Like a Geek God #9 by Mark Pursell Geeks, Ghouls, and Gore Fear—being brought face to face with your own mortality and the possibility that you will be somehow damaged or erased in mind, spirit, and/or body—has always been replicated in our cultural objects, from scary stories told ‘round a bonfire in the prehistoric Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #8: The Destiny of Ellen Ripley
Like a Geek God #8 by Mark Pursell The Destiny of Ellen Ripley No franchise escapes the law of decay. With the exception, perhaps, of the Harry Potter novels, franchises—whether in books, movies, television, or video games—tend to flame out rather than finish strong. You can attribute this phenomenon to different factors—an exhaustion of ideas, Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #7: An Unlikely, Unlikeable Heroine
Like a Geek God #7 by Mark Pursell An Unlikely, Unlikeable Heroine Of all the anime properties to make their way to Western shores over the decades, Sailor Moon is undoutedly one of the most beloved and most recognizable even to non-fans. 2012 marked the show’s twentieth anniversary, and this winter we will see a Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #6: These Childish Things
Like a Geek God #6 by Mark Pursell These Childish Things Geeks have it over Muggles in one very important area: we are highly susceptible to wonder. Wonder is something I think we all, geek or not, can remember from moments in our childhood, particularly as they pertain to the pop culture we were being Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #5: Geek is the New Cool
Like a Geek God #5 by Mark Pursell Geek is the New Cool My husband is an elementary school teacher. You can imagine the sort of anecdotes he brings home after spending every day teaching a formative generation born with smartphones in their hands. One thing that particularly struck me, however, happened last year. A Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #4: The Uncomfortable Question of Orson Scott Card
Like a Geek God #4 by Mark Pursell The Uncomfortable Question of Orson Scott Card Separating the art from the artist is a necessary element of art appreciation in any medium, but in the Information Age, it’s easier said than done. The Internet affords a heretofore never-experienced level of accessibility to one’s favorite singers, writers, Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #3: Doctor Who, An Unarmed Hero
Like a Geek God #3 by Mark Purcell Doctor Who: An Unarmed Hero for a World That Won’t Put Down Its Guns Whenever an incident of mass shooting violence strikes flint to the tinder of our national consciousness, many people—both the media and the laity—are quick to scapegoat pop culture as the primary contributing factor. Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #2: The Unavoidable Trepidation of Episode VII
Like a Geek God #2 by Mark Pursell The Unavoidable Trepidation of Episode VII When The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm in October 2012, simultaneously announcing plans to produce a new trilogy of Star Wars films set chronologically sometime after the events of Return of the Jedi, the reaction of fanfolks across the world–myself included–was Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #1: Pacific Rim and the Ballet of Mayhem
Like a Geek God #1 by Mark Pursell Pacific Rim and the Ballet of Mayhem Mayhem is problematic. In recent years, it seems as if action filmmakers have lost the thread of what makes grand-prix melee both engaging and eye-widening. The fight scenes in the Transformers movies are a dark, disorienting blur of flailing metal. Continue reading
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