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Category: 2017

2017…

Let’s Hope the New Beauty and the Beast Ends with Gaston Killing the Beast

5 Mar 201721 Jun 2023
Update: it didn't end that way. But most of these points still stand. Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast is almost here. And while the majority of the conversation has…
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No More Gritty Reboots: Why Lego Batman and Legion Are the Future of Superheroes

12 Feb 201731 May 2017
Yes, this blog is dedicated to "an ongoing exploration of the dark and gritty reboot." But, as written about in the previous post on this blog, The World Needs Bad…
2016…

The World Needs Bad Men: Bush, Trump, and the Anti-Hero

22 Jan 20174 Oct 2022
How the Bush Era Caused the Anti-Hero Wave that Gave Rise to Trump Toward the finale of the 2016 election, Mike Huckabee took to Fox News to give a defense…
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The True Theme of 2016: Never Meet Your Heroes

28 Dec 201611 Apr 2019
Hating 2016 and wishing for it to end has perhaps been the meme of 2016. It has been called a dumpster fire and was declared to "even sucked for Kim Kardashian." Beginning…
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Let Them Eat Freedom Fries, and Ten Other Headlines to Anticipate in 2017

3 Dec 20163 Dec 2016
It's early December, which means two things: time to start recapping 2016 and predicting 2017. While not as exhaustive as The Economist's The World in 2017 or as doomsday-esque as…

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