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Author: Tyler Peterson

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· by Tyler Peterson · May 6, 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 5 of 5)

Previously on Harley Quinn & Friends: All the movie’s colorful mismatched personalities with their own motivations have finally realized that they have to team up and kick ass for womankind against the marauding fuckboi army. The girls engage in…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 29, 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 4 of 5)

Last time on Curds of Whey: An insanely valuable diamond is currently traversing the colon of the school-aged thief Cassandra Cain, and a group of badass babes with improbable personal connections to her are all wanting to get it…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 22, 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 3 of 5)

Previously on Birds of Prey, Yup, Just Birds of Prey, That’s The Whole Title: Harley Quinn broke up with Joker. That’s good! But without Joker’s protection, Harley’s in the crosshairs of Roman Sionis AKA Black Mask, who wants to…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 15, 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 2 of 5)

Previously on BoPatFEoOHQ: Professional bad girl Harley Quinn read enough Tumblr posts to convince her that her relationship with the Joker was abusive and needed to end. She blew up a chemical plant to show how Not Mad she…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 7, 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), a recap (part 1 of 5)

It was perhaps inevitable that the 2020 female-centric superhero movie Birds of Prey: Harley Quinn’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day would become the subject of several rich and pungent threads of Film Discourse. A lot of this discourse…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 26, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2”

Last time on Picard with a Vengeance: Picard watched helplessly as the android woman he saved because her enemies were convinced she was going to usher in the apocalypse ushered in the apocalypse. Dick move there. If I were…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 20, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1”

Last week on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Synths But Were Afraid to Ask: Grizzled, past-his-prime starship captain William Adama Jean-Luc Picard, on the run from a group of genocidal zealots, seeks a lost planet inhabited by…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 14, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Broken Pieces”

Previously on Star Trek Into Oldness: Picard rescued Small Wonder from the Borg Cube, and his heroism inspired Hugh to start a Borg revolution on the cube, which apparently he’d just plain never thought of doing before. Tragically, he…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 6, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Nepenthe”

Previously on Picard 2: Picarder: Picard showed up on the Borg cube to rescue Soji at the exact same moment that Narek finally got the location of the android home planet out of her and tried to kill her.…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 28, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “The Impossible Box”

Previously on Grumpy Old Captains: They finally found Maddox and discovered the location of Soji, but Jurati secretly killed him because of something scary Commodore Oh told her Soji was gonna do. Raffi is depressed after an acrimonious encounter with…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 21, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Stardust City Rag”

Previously on Star Trek: The Previous Generation: The Gang pick up Seven of Nine who rescued them from a warlord they encountered while recruiting a Romulan ninja nun to serve as hired muscle while they pick up Dr. Bruce Maddox…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 14, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Absolute Candor”

Previously on Jean-Luc Picard: An Erotic Life: Picard got attacked by the motorcycle aliens from Under the Skin and had to go on the run in a cherry red space hog piloted by a ruggedly handsome, demographic-friendly Latino named…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 7, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “The End is the Beginning”

Previously on Star Trek: Picard: A whole lot of not-a-lot happened that probably should have just been wrapped into an extra-long pilot. Picard is caught up in the midst of a conspiracy of an ancient Romulan book club…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 1, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Maps and Legends”

Previously on Star Trek: Picard: Romulus is blown up, the Romulan people are scattered, and rather than celebrate the effective end of hostilities with its oldest enemy, the Federation is less chill than ever. After a freak terrorist attack,…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jan 24, 2020

Star Trek: Picard “Remembrance”

Star Trek may take place in the future, but like all science fiction, it’s really about the present. The original Star Trek was suffused with Kennedyan optimism and a very ’60s faith in the power of science, Western-style democracy, and…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jan 11, 2020

Star Trek: Short Treks “Children of Mars”

The run-up to Star Trek: Picard officially kicks into high gear with “Children of Mars”, a new Short Trek directly tying in to the events of the series I just mentioned. The verdict: less than promising. We start off with…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 24, 2019

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Power Play”

Welcome to a surprise bonus edition of… Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to stumble across a great essay by Nicasio Andres Reed talking about a particular detail that sets the Star Trek franchise apart from its peers. He…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 10, 2019

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Time’s Orphan”

Oh gosh, it’s been such fun. Miles is the kind of wholesome, kindhearted lug your inner sadist wants to see kicked until he screams. But today we draw the curtains on our sad bumbling hero with our final installment of……

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· by Tyler Peterson · Nov 21, 2019

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Honor Among Thieves”

Top o’ the mornin’, you cheeky monkey! Welcome back to… Today’s episode, “Honor Among Thieves”, checks off several different Trek boxes. First, there’s the well-worn trope of Chief O’Brien being assigned to a task that’s either well above his pay…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Nov 5, 2019

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “The Assignment”

Hello DSNiners, and welcome to another spot of… In a previous installment of the Trials of Miles, the Star Trek franchise engaged in an all-too-brief bit of self-reflection in the form of a stray line of dialogue from Dr.…