The Writer's Block

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John Stevenson
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  • How Star Wars Went Right: The Prequels vs The Clone Wars

    How Star Wars Went Right: The Prequels vs The Clone Wars

    So I lied earlier, I’ll be doing the comparison between the Prequel trilogy and the Clone Wars now, since it’s taking longer to choose the episode arcs I want to write about than I thought (currently it would take a book to cover all the things I want to cover.) The Plan The Prequel Version:… Read more

  • The Clone Wars: Star Wars Made Right

    So Netflix recently added Star Wars: The Clone Wars to their catalog of streaming shows, and I decided to give it a try. As much as I hated the prequel trilogies, I still love Star Wars and I wanted to see if the Clone Wars could do anything worthwhile with the Clone War setting. Not… Read more

  • Titanfall: Story Failure

    I was so excited by Titanfall’s amazing gameplay and the small details that brought the backstory to life that I, perhaps, had unrealistic expectations for the campaign. I was hoping for a campaign as innovative as the gameplay and with the same attention to detail that they gave to the in-game visual and audio elements.The… Read more

  • Standby to Fall into Titanfall’s Story

    When I first heard of Titanfall, I was filled with doubt. I enjoy playing multiplayer games occasionally, but for the most part I can’t get into them and for anyone who knows me, you know why. No, it’s not because I’m an introverted, antisocial hermit…well okay, not just because. It’s because I love stories, and that’s the… Read more

  • The Big Blacklist of Clichés

    I don’t watch much TV anymore, probably because 90% of it is reality shows that interest me about as much as the slime trail left by a fat slug while the other 9% is terrible cop shows that interest me only slightly more. The TV I do watch is the 1% that manages to either… Read more

  • Burial at Sea: An Infinite Loop

    Burial at Sea is the latest DLC for Bioshock Infinite and continues the story of Elizabeth, though how it connects with the main story isn’t revealed until the final moments of Part 1. It was kind of refreshing to return to Rapture after all these years and the DLC shows us something we never got… Read more